- Social Circles plugin for Genesis
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- Plugin: Brian Gardner, Studiopress
- Price: FREE
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Review Summary:
Pros: A great DIY option for adding sleek social media buttons to any widgetized area of your site (header, footer, sidebar - or even after posts!). Sophisticated design with lots of font choices and any color you want. Easy to install and use. Cons: The icons are all set at 64px and you can't currently change the size. Hopefully in future releases they'll include these options. But this is an amazing plugin for being FREE.
Summary:
It’s no secret that I’m a big fan of the Genesis theme for WordPress (I use it myself!), and one of the reasons is their amazing product support. Brian and his team understand that not everyone is a designer, so they’re always creating add-ons to help you upgrade your blog without having to purchase a whole new theme.
Hot off the press is a brand new FREE plugin for Genesis called “Social Circles.” It’s a new way of adding social media icons to any widgetized area on your site. For example, sidebar social icons are great, but I prefer mine to be in the footer. With the Social Circle plugin, all I have to do is activate the plugin, then drag and drop a widget into place anywhere I want it.
I love the simplicity of the design, and the fact that there aren’t a bunch of clunky icons cluttering up my page. If you’re a Genesis user, this plugin can give you a fresh looking set of social media badges with no design skills and no coding necessary.
Here are your options for this plugin:
Social Media Options:
- Etsy
- Flickr
- Google+
- RSS
- Tumblr
- YouTube
Font Choices:
- Corsiva
- Georgia
- Lobster
- Oswald (which I’m using)
- Playbill
- Sinhala
- Ubuntu
Colors:
Anything you want. Just add the hex code for the main color and the hover color, and you’re set to go! (You can see it in action down in my footer.)
Summary:
Pros: A great DIY option for adding sleek social media buttons to any widgetized area of your site (header, footer, sidebar - or even after posts!). Sophisticated design with lots of font choices and any color you want. Easy to install and use.
Cons: The icons are all set at 64px and you can't currently change the size. Hopefully in future releases they'll include these options. But this is an amazing plugin for being FREE.
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Twitter: wmwebdes
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Hi Jeni
Nice review of a great plugin.
Anything produced by the Genesis team is good with me.
Love your site and your social icons in the footer look brilliant.
I’ll head over to facebook and add you… to my social circles.
Twitter: theblogmaven
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I think they did a great job with this one – and the hex color
Nice to see you here!
pickerinput area is brilliant. I think I’m finally finished tinkering with my site…for awhile.Twitter: wmwebdes
says:
Site looks good Jeni – stop tinkering.
Twitter: wmwebdes
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“the hex color picker is brilliant”
What colour picker – do you mean the ability to input the hex for the colour?
I don’t see a picker!
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Twitter: theblogmaven
says:
Hmn. You’re right. I guess I was trying to use the word “input” or “chooser” and accidentally used a web dev jargon word instead. Will fix that. (thanks!)
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Twitter: wmwebdes
says:
Hi Jeni
Just published a post on Social Media plugins from Studiopress.
Post has a link to your site as a demo of the Social Circles plugin in action.
Hope you find time to visit and say why you are using the plugin.
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