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The Social Media Page Wordpress plugin will add a list of links to your social media profiles on a page or post of your choice. This plugin also creates a widget that will display your social media profiles in the side bar of your site.

Rather than getting you to enter all of your social media profiles as URLs the plugin gets you to enter your username, and works out the rest. Some exceptions (like Facebook) require some extra information, which has been accounted for. There are over 100 different social media sites to select from so it should cover anything you happen to be a member of.

When the links are displayed on the page it will use a keyword of your choice as the text for the link.

I have set up a forum to for anyone to report any issues. Note that you need to be a member of the forum to add anything.

Instillation

To install the plugin just drop the folder social-media-page into your Wordpress plugins folder (located at wp-content/plugins/). Log into Wordpress and go to your Plugins section and activate the social media page plugin.

When the plugin is activated for the first time it checks to see if a table exists called wp_socialmediaprofiles. If it doesn’t then it creates it.

Usage

To use the plugin look for the option called SMP at the bottom of the left hand menu. Other plugins might appear below this, so be aware that it might not be the last item.

A major change from the 1.x to the 2.0 version of the plugin is to only display the social media plugins that have been filled in. The upshot of this is that it is now possible to add multiple profiles to the same site.

Embed The List Into A Page/Post

After setting up the needed fields in your administration section you can display the list on any page or post by using the following tag:

<!-- social-media-page -->

It is also possible to print out just a list of the profiles associated with a particular user. For example, to print out the list of profiles for the user with the id of 3 do the following:

<!-- social-media-page3 -->

Please note that this method currently does not work within widgets. It can only be used within the context of a page or post.

Comments?

If you notice any bugs or feel that this plugin can be improved in any way then let me know! Also, the list is far from complete, so if you feel that I have left any sites out then I will create an update and add those sites in.

Note that I have created this plugin in my own time so although I will try to fix any problems quickly, that might not always be the case.

Changes in version 2.0

• Version 2.0 has undergone lots of changes, including a full rewrite of the code and a completely different way of storing the social media profiles. The profiles available will no longer be associated with the plugin and are loaded by a separate csv file.
• Different users can create their own profiles.
• A global keyword is still available, but this can be superseded by a keyword for each link.

Changes in version 1.3

• Added a fix for a typo in the Friendfeed profile.
• Added an option to add rel=”nofollow” to the links created by this plugin.
• Tidied up widget code to incorporate widget options from theme.

Changes to Version 1.2

• This plugin can now be used as a widget.
• Plugin output tweaked to have normal output for pages and smaller output when printing widget.
• Added option to allow blog admin to decide if credit should be given to plugin author.
• Noticed bug when updating plugin causing no images to be displayed. This was due to file permissions. Added a function that sets file permissions properly at install.

Changes to Version 1.1

• Fixed some incorrect information in some of the profile information.

Donate!

If you like this plugin then you can help with development through a donation.