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Today every bloggers and website developer’s uses social networking sites sharing buttons likes Facebook,Twitter,Google+,linkedin,Stumbleupon,dig,reddit and many more on his or her blogs, but they didn’t aware about some useful plugin which gives better customization on blog. Here I am going to describe top 5 social sharing plug-in for wordpress platform, with the help of these plugins bloggers may put social buttons on different –different location  like top left, top right, top on post, bottom on post with floating and sliding options. Plug-in installation steps : Bloggers who are new on blogging field may see below Installation steps of plugin on wordpress. It is very easy installation; there are two ways to get install plugin on wordpress first through FTP (filezilla) and second by using wordpress admin panel. Procedure for FTP (FileZilla):

1. Download zip file of plugin from plugin site and unzipped on same named folder.
2. After login on FTP upload unzipped folder on wp-content/plugins.
3. Logged in on wordpress admin panel.
4. Activate the plugin through the plugin window in the admin panel on “wp-admin/plugins.php”.
5. Configure the settings through “Settings->plugin” in the admin panel.

Procedure for wordpress admin panel:

1. Logged in on wordpress admin panel.
2.  search new plugin on wordpress admin panel “site-name/wp-admin/plugin-install.php”
3. Activate the plugin through the plugin window in the admin panel on “wp-admin/plugins.php”.
4. Configure the settings through “Settings->plugin” in the admin panel.

1. Twitter Facebook Social Share plug-in for wordpress: Twitter Facebook Social Share plugin gives option to add facebook like,twitter, google +1 (plus one), LinkedIn, stumbleupon and Pinterest in three different position and styles.It displays all social shareing buttons on four positions above the post, below the post, both above and below the post and left side of post with floating on single and static post.Having three border styles flat ,round and no border and default loads java script on footer. 2. Digg Digg: Digg Digg is my favorite social sharing plugin, with amazing floating bar properties having all social buttons such as such as Twitter, Buffer, Facebook Share, Facebook Like, Digg, LinkedIn, Google +1, Reddit, dZone, TweetMeme, Topsy, Yahoo Buzz, StumbleUpon, Del.icio.us, Sphinn, Designbump, WebBlend, BlogEngage and Serpd, Pinterest; Digg Digg support multiple languages and also support email and print services. It supports two display orders horizontal and vertical for home, post, page, category, tag and archive with manual Placement. 3. Slick Social Buttons: Slick social button plugin support both floating and sliding option, you can select the position of button panel manually .you can set the sliding and floating speed according to requirement. For sliding tabs select whether to list the buttons vertically or horizontally. It support to Home Page, Pages, Posts Page (only for static home page), Posts, Category and archive Pages. [caption id="attachment_803" align="aligncenter" width="721" caption="social sharing buttons"][/caption] 4. OnlyWire for WordPress [OFFICIAL]: OnlyWire for wordpress plugin provides bookmark and sharing option to all top social networking sites with the one button named as “Bookmark &share”,it expand only when dragged mouse on it on shows all social buttons which you have selected and on the click you can share blog post on that social networking site.it gives facility to login on only wire website,When you registered on OnlyWire website and configure social networking accounts, OnlyWire automatically share all blog post on connectes social accounts at the same time. When your blog visitors or readers use OnlyWire, blog post can also automatically shared on their social networking sites. 5. O3 Social Share: O3 social share plugin provides only four major social sites sharing buttons Facebook, Twitter,Google+ and Linked in.It supports four position Bottom of Post Content,Top of Post Content,Top and Bottom of Post Content and None. I will insert it manually using echo o3_output_social_plugins(). [caption id="attachment_804" align="aligncenter" width="560" caption="social sharing buttons"][/caption] Read More →

Bloggers who just started their blogging carrier, they are facing some designing and navigation issues in wordpress platform; here I am going to discuss one common issue regarding navigation or menu related problem. How to add navigation bar on Wordpress? After complete installation on wordpress theme create some pages like about us, contact us, privacy policy and some feature pages. Follow below points. [caption id="attachment_790" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="WP navigation menu"][/caption] 1. Go on Appearance ->Menu. 2. Here create new menu name (i.e. Primary Navigation or as you wish). 3. Find theme location block and choose location of navigation bar (Menu region above header or Menu region below header) and select newly created menu name on desired location. 4. Find Page block, click on view all and choose required pages (also select home page), after the selection click on add button and arrange the order of menu through drag and drop option. 5. After the completion save all changes and check navigation bar on your blog. How to add categories on navigation bar? Procedure of adding categories on the navigation bar is almost similar as the procedure of adding page on navigation bar, for adding categories in navigation bar find categories block and choose required categories, if categories have many sub categories enable the mouse over drag and drop option on it. How to add two navigation bars (Primary and Secondary)? In many cases wordpress theme doesn’t have built in function of multi level navigation .In this case blogger may install wordpress plug-in name is “Multi-level Navigation Plug-in”. Read More →