How To Setup Share and Follow Plugin for WordPress

Friday, January 14th, 2011 at 17:00

Hi,

I have been asked on a few occasions to teach people how to setup their share and follow plugin the same as mine so I have decided to create this quick video to show you how I have mine setup.

I hope this helps some of you out there struggling with this as it can seem like quite a complicated plugin to setup.

Please leave a comment and let me know if this helps. Also let me know if there are any other plugins you are having problems with and I will try to help you with those as well.

Thanks for reading and watching,

Simon

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Norene says:

January 15, 2011 at 00:18

Hi Simon!
Great video! Your share and follow links are definitely unique and your video is a great idea! I look forward to following your blog to get more useful tips! Thanks! -Norene
- admin says:
  
  January 15, 2011 at 08:22
  
  Hey Norene,
  Thanks for stopping by, I’m glad you liked the video, I am hoping to make a few more in the near future as well so any suggestions would be welcome!
  
  Thanks again
  
  Simon
Mats Loefkvist says:

January 15, 2011 at 07:01

Hi Simon,

Thanks for the suggestion of the plugin “Share and Follow”. That one looks better than mine which is “Follow Me” I will make the change today…

Greetings
Mats
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- admin says:
  
  January 15, 2011 at 08:22
  
  Hey Mats,
  I hope you don’t have any problems getting it setup but if you do then please do get in touch and I will help you as much as I can.
  
  Thanks
  
  Simon
johns online!! says:

January 15, 2011 at 16:22

thank Simon

Just another question what is the url from facebook etc I need to put in

You said from your facebook page?
Is that my profile url or a different one.
Also do i need to do anything in FB to make it work as i still cannot get it to work yet cheers
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- admin says:
  
  January 15, 2011 at 16:50
  
  Hey John,
  I have my facebook button going to my facebook profile page but you could send it to your fan page. You can set this up to be a shorter name e.g. mine is facebook.com/simonsuccess and my fan page is smondoddmarketing I believe! I didn’t have to do anything extra in facebook to get it to work for me. I did have to authorise my facebook like button though so that could have authorised the other icons as well.
  
  Your profile page may only have a URL of facebook.com/profile=?php93849823045 or something like that if I remember correctly. There is an option in your account settings to change this but obviously someone may already have your name as the URL! I couldn’t get simondodd for example so I ended up with simonsuccess, bigdodd and simondoddmarketing!
  
  Please feel free to get in touch with me if you are still having problems and I will try and help you further. I have another site I can use to setup everything from the start, so if it really turns into a problem I can record another little video showing everything from setting up facebook to installing the plugin and getting it all running smoothly.
  
  Hope this helps
  
  Simon
Cheekeong Tan says:

January 16, 2011 at 10:31

Dear Simon,

Thanks you making the video for us. I followed your instructions and tried it out. The side bar follow is still not showing after I enabled it. Only the bookmarks on top and bottom of the post is working. I’m unsure if it has to do with the theme I’m using, which is flexibility 3.

Another plugin i would like to use is All-In-One-Webmaster. Is it useful ? Looks complicated. Do you use any SEO friendly images plugin ?

Cheers
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- admin says:
  
  January 16, 2011 at 17:02
  
  Hmm very strange!
  
  I am using flexibility 3 as well! Have you tried disabling the bookmarks at the top and bottom of the post and then just having the sidebar? There could be a problem with the software not allowing both to be displayed…
  
  I don’t use any SEO plugins for my images but I have the All In One SEO pack for all my posts. I will look into the all in one webmaster for you though and see if I can create a guide for you all!
  
  Thanks again for stopping by.
  
  Simon
Kerry Russell says:

January 18, 2011 at 08:17

Hey Simon,

You have done a great job on the video and your blog is looking great, keep up the good work. The follow me plug-in is a great little tool for WordPress. It has made a difference on my blog.

Take Care

Kerry Russell
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- admin says:
  
  January 18, 2011 at 11:41
  
  Thanks Kerry,
  
  Well done on your first sale as well! Thats great news!
  
  Keep up the good work!
  
  Simon
Adrienne says:

January 19, 2011 at 21:34

Thanks Simon for that very informative video. Always wondered how people got those icons on their site. Knew it had to be a plug-in cause we do love our plug-ins. Now I know for sure and I appreciate you walking us through this.

Enjoyed the post and thanks again.

Adrienne
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- admin says:
  
  January 24, 2011 at 17:24
  
  Thanks for the kind words Adrienne,
  
  Sorry for the slow response as well, I have been working like mad to get this book finished but it is done now! So it is time to get back to the daily running of my business and catch up with everything that has fallen behind!
  
  Thanks again for stopping by,
  
  Simon