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9 years 3 months ago #60934 by joomleb
Hi guys,
we know we can use Easy Tags to insert Social Buttons on our content as we done in this page for example.
Now, we want add Circular Social material design buttons at the top of the page. Please, Do you have any suggestion on doing it ? Is there a way to personalize the icon social button layout ?

Content Plugin, Please:
1 - we want show for each article Facebook like (for the page) and share button / Google follow (for the page) and +1 button / Instagram follow (for the page) / Twitter follow (for the page) and tweet button. Is there any chance to have it ?
2 - How to have buttons in an ordered way (as we want) ?
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9 years 3 months ago #60960 by mel

Now, we want add Circular Social material design buttons at the top of the page. Please, Do you have any suggestion on doing it ? Is there a way to personalize the icon social button layout ?

No, there is not a way to style the buttons like that. The social networks do not give us this control over the button look and feel. The options that we allow you to set in JFBConnect are the ones exposed by the social network providers.

1 - we want show for each article Facebook like (for the page) and share button / Google follow (for the page) and +1 button / Instagram follow (for the page) / Twitter follow (for the page) and tweet button. Is there any chance to have it ?

Not all social networks show the count for the shares. For instance, Twitter has removed that functionality from there button. However, you can still show the count for things like Facebook Like, etc. To do this, please set the 'Layout Style' option to box_count or button_count. JFBConnect will then show the count for the buttons that support that.

2 - How to have buttons in an ordered way (as we want) ?

We currently don't have this as an option exposed in JFBConnect. We have this as an issue in our tracker, but I don't have an estimate on when we would add this functionality yet. In the meantime, you can do a workaround in our code.
* In /components/com_jfbconnect/libraries/utilities.php, the getExtraShareButtons method adds the extra buttons. If you want a different order, you can rearrange the if statements.
* If you want to rearrange Facebook to not be last, you can also edit /plugins/content/jfbccontent/jfbccontent.php around line 240 and swap the two lines to make Facebook first:
$btnHTML .= $likeExtraHTML;
$btnHTML .= $likeHTML;

-Melissa
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9 years 3 months ago #60967 by joomleb
Hi Mel,
thanks for the infos,

1 - there is a missunderstanding. I don't want show the count for the shares.
A - I'm looking for a way to show for each article not only the Social "share" (the article) buttons, but also the Social buttons to like / follow the Social page. Something like
Facebook like (for the page) + FB share button / Google follow (for the page) and + +1 button / Instagram follow (for the page) / Twitter follow (for the page) + tweet button
B - I added also Instagram (that we use) at least as "foloow the page"...

This is why we noted that put a like to the page and/or follow is one of the most important things and we have to repeat it each time...

2 - Many thanks for the suggestment, we take a look into it. But in this way we have to do the changes after each upgrade, isn't it ?
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9 years 3 months ago #61004 by alzander
Included in JFBConnect is a SC Social Find Us module which lets you set the URLs for your company pages on many social networks. You can use that to display links to each network. There are links can be shown in a standard module position of 'floating' like our social share buttons at the bottom right of this page. Since it's a module, you can include it across your whole site or just specific menu items.

I hope that helps explain, but if you need anything else, please let us know.

Thanks,
Alex
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9 years 3 months ago #61026 by joomleb
Hi Alex,
thank you for the "SC Social Find Us" module suggestion. I dodn't find it in the JFBConnect documentation.
I took a look to the module and as far as I understand I can link my "pages" and it open the Social page in a new window.
- But, How to add a button to directly say "I like" / "Follow" ?!?
- We are looking for Circular Social material design buttons at the top of the page. Please, Do you have any suggestion on doing it ? Is there a way to personalize the icon social button layout ?

In any case, please:

1 - A - I'm looking for a way to show for each article not only the Social "share" (the article) buttons, but also the Social buttons to like / follow the Social page. Something like
Facebook like (for the page) + FB share button / Google follow (for the page) and + +1 button / Instagram follow (for the page) / Twitter follow (for the page) + tweet button
1 - B - I added also Instagram (that we use) at least as "foloow the page"...
This is why we noted that put a like to the page and/or follow is one of the most important things and we have to repeat it each time...

2 - @ Mel, Many thanks for the suggestment, we take a look into it. But in this way we have to do the changes after each upgrade, isn't it ?
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9 years 3 months ago #61041 by alzander
Sorry for the confusion. The SC Social Find Us module only links to the social pages you specify. It doesn't have a Like button (or similar) for each of the social channels you use. I don't have a good suggestion on how to add 'follow' type buttons for each of your social pages. It's different for each social network and many of them have their own way to Like a page. Additionally, you'd want more details about what the user is about to "Like" than just a button, since that's usually for the current page only.

The Find Us module is good so a visitor can go to your Facebook Page, Youtube Channel, etc and then decide. If you want a more dedicated area for a Facebook Page, you could use the SCSocial Widget -> Facebook Page Plugin to show the feed from your Page and a Like button. That would be obvious to the user for what they are about to Like, but is only for Facebook Pages.

With the setup you describe for Like / Like, it would be very difficult for the user to understand what each of those buttons actually means.

For customizing the look of each button, we are very limited in that regard. Each social network has limitations on how much you can customize the buttons and they intentionally break the buttons from being completely themed. Their big issue is that bad-admins can try to make a Like button look like something completely different to trick users into clicking it. There is a lot of effort to push users toward using the standard buttons, which all users are already familiar with and that's a benefit.

I hope that helps explain further.

Thanks,
Alex
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