Cute Profiles : Free Wordpress Plugin To Show Vertically Floating Social Profiles
Cute Profiles : Free Wordpress Plugin To Show Vertically Floating Social Profiles
Cute Profiles is a free Wordpress Plugin which will bring all your Social Profiles at one location i.e. either left or right side of your blog pages in a well decent floating manner, saving your sidebar or footer space for ads or other important data and widgets. Below are the details related to this plugin, by clicking on each tab you can see that particular detail as well.
Version 1.0.1 Released
Index | Changelog | Installation | Upgrade | Usage | Credit
Index
Overview: Cute Profiles is a free and simple Wordpress plugin to consolidate all your social profiles at one non-intervening location i.e. extreme left or right of your wordpress blog. The profiles still will remain visible though the visitor scrolls down to the bottom. Some of the important features of this plugin are as below:
1. Choice for Themes and Sizes for the Icons – so select as per your blog theme.
2. Fully customizable CSS
3. No jQuery or any javascript library. Fully CSS based design and implementation. So no header load.
4. Directly enter the URL of the profile page on the Cute Profiles settings page
5. Setting to change the Profile links to dofollow or nofollow
6. Currently 50 different Social Profiles covered, will definitely increase in the future.
7. And the most important, we try to provide the best of our support!
Wordpress Version – Requires at least: 2.7
Tested up to Wordpress Version: 2.8.4
Author: Tejaswini Deshpande, Sanjeev Mishra
Demo: http://www.clickonf5.org
Download: http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/cute-profiles.zip
Support Forum: http://www.clickonf5.org/phpbb/cute-profiles-f13/
Changelog For Cute Profiles
Version 1.0.1 (10/12/2009) – Check the details about Cute Profiles Version 1.0.1
1. New – 25 new profiles (including most used profile in Europe)
2. New – Option to choose to display the profile only on screen and not other devices or display it on all devices.
3. Easy navigation added to settings page
Installation
This plugin is easy to install like other plug-ins of Wordpress as you need to just follow the below mentioned steps:
1. Copy Folder “cute-profiles” from the downloaded and extracted file.
2. Paste it in “wp-Content/plugins” folder on your Wordpress Installation
3. Activate the plugin from Dashboard / Plugins window.
4. Now Plugin is Activated, Go to the Usage section to see how to use Cute Profiles.
Upgrade
You can upgrade the plugin to latest version from Dashboard / Plugins page of your blog. Go to that page, and scroll down to “Cute Profiles”. If you are getting a message that “There is a New version of Cute Profiles available, View version details or Upgrade Automatically”. Click on “Upgrade Automatically” to get the latest version installed on your Wordpress.
You can also download the latest versions from here and then follow the below mentioned method of manual upgrade,
1. Download the latest version of Cute Profiles from this page
2. Extract and Copy the folder “cute-profiles”
3. Deactivate the Cute Profiles on your blog from Dashboard / Plugins page
4. Replace the Older Folder of Cute Profiles from “wp-content/plugins” folder on your blog installation.
5. Activate the Cute Profiles from Dashboard / Plugins page.
Done! Now you have upgraded the plugin to latest version.
Usage
1. If you have selected “Manual Insertion” from the Cute Profiles settings page, then insert the below code in whichever template file you want to display the Social Profiles. Remember to put the code in the php opening and closing tags, if not there.
<?php if ( function_exists( 'put_cute_profiles' ) ) {
put_cute_profiles();} ?>
2. If you have selected “automatic Insertion”, which is default, then the Social Profiles will be automatically inserted on all the pages which have get_footer in the template file.
3. You can customize the color of the icons normally and on hover. As well as you can customize the size of the icons from the settings panel of the Cute Profiles.
Screenshot: Demo Page
Screenshot: Settings Page
Video : How To Use Cute Profiles
Notes from the developer within
1. After upgrading to this new version, please clear the cache from your plugins like WP-SuperCache or others.
2. Please note there some changes made to navigation on the settings page, to make the page compact and easy to navigate.
3. Some icons are totally designed by us, as they were not available in any of the icon packs (hope you like them!)
4. The plugin package would feel heavy to some of us, due to size of the folder. But believe me, the size is of various sprite options, i.e 16 x 16, 24 x 24 and 32 x 32. When you would select one, only one of the six sprite and the corresponding CSS is going to load on the webpage, all others will only remain in the plugin folder.
Make A Donation
If you liked this plugin, please consider making a kind donation towards our efforts to adding new features to this plugin and developing other new useful resources.
Credits
1. Komodomedia Social Network Icon Pack – for fabulous set of Social Networking icons
2. Wordpress Codex - we are always grateful to Wordpress Codex whose detailed and flawless guidelines always served as best resource to learn wordpress core and develop the base.
We also express our thanks to all the plugin developers whose invaluable plugins and codes helped us learn how to write Wordpress plugins.
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Great plugin! I really don´t understand what the “No follow” “Dofollow” option means? Someone please explain?
Another thing! Why I am having a problem with the position of the toolbar in IE6?
Really nice plugin! Thank you.
But I miss “formspring.me”. ;)
One question: Where are the URLs of the different services listed? I didn’t find it in the plugin-files.
Background: I will add a new service by deleting an olone.
Forget, what I’ve wrote.
Yet another question :)
Any way to make the links to the social bookmarking sites “dynamic”?
Now I add for example under the delicious button or the stumbleupon button – always the MAIN blog page, I mean the root. that would be http://www.caputmundicibus.com
Is there a possibility to fetch the actual “sub-page address” that is currently loaded in the browser and use that to feed to the social bookmarking sites.
E.g. I am reading a blog post “http://www.caputmundicibus.com/2009/09/stuffed-baby-squid-calamaretti-ripieni/” and then I click the Stumbleupon button, I would like that the address fed to Stumbleupon would be “http://www.caputmundicibus.com/2009/09/stuffed-baby-squid-calamaretti-ripieni/”
Sounds crazy?
Very cool. Is there a way to achieve the same effect as this plugin on any site, regardless of whether it’s using Wordpress or not? Thanks.
Extremely great plugin for wordpress. Thanks a lot I will be using it in my site
Hello Tejaswini,
on the 30. October tomoffel asked you, if it’s possible to include the German pendant to facebook (meinVZ, studiVZ, schuelerVZ). Your latest release (1.0.1) is from (10/12/2009) but unfortunately these social network sites are still not included. :-( Are going to implement this soon? Otherwise I will make a quick and dirty patch solution by my own.
Hope to here from you soon :-)
woll-knaeuel
What I am planning is to make a fresh release where users can add their profiles easily by themselves thru the settings interface, so that you would not need to wait for the release to get some very necessary social icon. I am planning to make it by end of this month, will it do? Thanks for your patience.
Hello Tejaswini,
thank you for your quick replay! Sounds perfect so I will wait until you release the new version.
Many greetings!
For some reason, my blog URL is showing up in front of my various social network URLs. Where do I edit the URL for said profiles within CSS?
It seems to be working out there :)
thnx..very nice :)
Great plugin, thank you! :) I was just wondering how I insert the correct Skype code into the profile? I put in my Skype ID but it links back to a page on my website, which isn’t there, obviously :) Many thanks! :)
callto://USERNAME/
As a follow on to my last comment. When I am logged in to my site, I see the Cute Profiles on the right hand side of my blog; however, when I am logged out I do not see it – I have cleared cache, refreshed, rebooted etc… and still can’t see it. Can you please advise? Thank you.
My sincere apologies for bothering you! Amazingly, I got up this morning and all my issues were no longer valid… it is working perfectly. Thank you for a terrific plugin! :)
it doesn’t seem to work on 2.8.6… could you please update the plugin? :-) i’m an really inexpired wp user and i am scared of downgrading! sry i’m stupid!
seems to be a really nice plugin! and yes it would be great if could add meinVZ etc. (german)..!
thx 4 nice work!!
It definitely works on 2.8.6, infact it works on 2.9.1 also. Can you please post the issue with the url in the Forum, I will look into your site, to rectify this specific issue with the plugin on your site. Btw, thanks a lot for the compliments and best wishes.