Latest version: 0.5.6 (Updated 2011-12-29)
Features | Screenshots | Download | Installation | Credits | Feedback

Subscribe / Connect / Follow widget for WordPress displays image links (icon buttons) to various subscription services and social networking sites in the blog’s sidebar (or in any widget holder).

Features and notes

• Upto 30 services supported
• The widget can display upto 5 links at a time, though this number can be extended easily (see below).
• Output format for the links can be one of these five:
  1. 32px images (default)
  2. 24px images
  3. 16px images
  4. text links with image
  5. text links
• Other widget options include
  • Widget title
  • Option to select an alignment for images
  • Option to open the links in new window
• Multiple instances of the widget can be had at the same time
• Uses WP_Widget class

Screenshots

Screenshot 1

Output when the '32px images' output format is selected

Screenshot 2

Output when the 'text links with image' output format is selected

Screenshot 3

Widget options

Download

The latest version of the plugin can be downloaded from the WordPress plugin repository. (changelog)

Released for free under the GPL.

Installation

1. Unzip subscribe-connect-follow-widget.zip and upload subscribe-connect-follow-widget folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
3. Go to ‘Appearance -> Widgets’ menu in WP admin, select the ‘Subscribe / Connect / Follow’ widget and place it in your sidebar (or any widget holder), and choose your options.

Supported services and social sites

1. Blogger Blog
2. Delicious
3. Diaspora
4. Digg
5. deviantART
6. Facebook
7. Feedburner Email Subscription
8. Feedburner Feed
9. Flickr
10. FriendFeed
11. Google Profile
12. Google Buzz
13. Google Plus
14. identi.ca
15. Last.fm
16. LinkedIn
17. Myspace
18. Picasa Web Albums
19. Pinterest
20. Podcast
21. Posterous
22. reddit
23. RSS Feed
24. RSS Feed for Posts
25. RSS Feed for Comments
26. Slashdot
27. SoundCloud
28. StumbleUpon
29. Technorati
30. Tumblr
31. Twitter
32. Vimeo
33. WordPress.com Blog
34. XING
35. YouTube

Hacks

Number of output items: The widget can output upto 5 different links at the same time. However, this number can be easily increased. Just change the value of the variable $num_items in subscribe-connect-follow-widget.php, line 21 (as in version 0.5.5) to any number you want.

Credits

The plugin uses Vector Social Media Icons from IconDock. Diaspora icons by CreativeKaizen. The new red Google Plus icons by Abhash Bikram Thapa.

Feedback

Please post your feedback at the WP support forum. All feedback, suggestions, bug reports, etc., welcome.