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Subscribe-Widget free and usefull Wordpress plugin

April 11th, 2009

Important: Important: Before plugin install make sure that folders can be created by wordpress in your blog directory (root directory of the blog). Or you can create it yourself. Folders name should be: subscribe-widget; permissions: 0777.

Subscribe-Widget is a free wordpress plugin, which was designed to be used by all bloggers wishing to inform readers about specific information, in a fast and reliable way. This plug-in will create: rss2, comments rss, twitter and feedburner icons on your blog sidebar. These icons will in turn lead readers to your rss, twitter, feedburner and comments rss, accordingly, readers will then be able to find the latest news on your blog. If you want you can disable these icons one by one and only leave those which are needed. To enable the twitter and feedburner icons, one should have acounts on www.twitter.com and www.feedburner.com, as the plugin creates links to these blog accounts.

Subscribe-Widget has been dessogned to be very practical, as the blog admin allows for one to be able to choose your icons‘ width and height, allows for one to be able to write a title (which will appear above the icons), one will also be able to choose hwo to align the icons (left, center, right), as well as beign able to disable these icons one by one.

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Should you be struggling to find the right icon, you can also upload one by yourself. Go to: plugins directory /wp-content/plugins/subscribe-widget/images/. New uploaded icons may vary in size, as the Subscribe-Widget plugin will resize the icon to the needed width or height, however images should be no smaller then 50×50 pixels. So, by choosing to use this plug-in, one can choose how to display your icons, as it is all up to you, the blogger.

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Now you can use subscribe icons anywhere on the theme. Only thing is, you should use this code :

<?php if( function_exists(sw_displayOnTheTheme()) ){ sw_displayOnTheTheme(); } ?> .

Put it on the needed theme file, check the checkbox on “Show ‘Subscribe Icons’ on the theme” and it will show the images on the theme, but will disable images on the widget. In some cases, there should be some styling done on the theme, to show those images correctly; because the themes are different, and styling can’t be made for all of them.

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Inslallation

  1. Download `subscribe-widget` plug-in from www.pclastnews.com and unzip it.
  2. Upload the folder `subscribe-widget` to your WP plug-in folder `/wp-content/plugins/`
  3. Activate the `Subscribe widget` plug-in through the `Plugins` menu in WordPress admin
  4. Go to `Appearance`: `Widgets`, `Add` widget `Subscribe widget` and `Save Changes`
  5. After the page reloads on the widget `Subscribe widget` at right, click `Edit`, set all the information and select images.
  6. Click `Done` and `Save Changes` to the sidebar from the button bellow
  7. You are ready, check the subscribers buttons in the sidebar of your favorite WordPress blog

This is plugin is created by www.pclastnews.com.
Sponsored by www.computersafetytip.com

Important to note: Images will be resized, firstly by width and then by height. If images width will be smaller then selected, then image will be not resized. The same applies to the image height.

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57 Comments

Posted By: user on April 15th, 2009at 10:37 pm

I have installed as you suggested. but when i click edit in widget i do not see any images to select one (not even a single image). i have entered my feedburner id and checked to show it but nothing shows up in the sidebar.

Posted By: Axz on April 15th, 2009at 11:15 pm

Same problem here… installed and working but no images to be selected its empty… any idea?

Posted By: franklin on April 16th, 2009at 1:06 am

same message. no image appears on sidebar just the text.

Posted By: Romeo on April 16th, 2009at 5:10 pm

Same thing here.. it seems that theres a bug :)

Posted By: Joei on April 16th, 2009at 5:59 pm

I installed but plugin does not allow me to choose an icon for any of the feeds. ??

Posted By: slafko on April 16th, 2009at 7:10 pm

I also had the same problem. You have to change a plugin directory name (subscribe-widget instead of subscribe-plugin in /wp-content/plugins).

After that deactivate plugin and active again. Then you should have a functional subscribe plugin.

Posted By: admin on April 16th, 2009at 9:36 pm

Sorry for those bugs. Like slafko said, there is problem with directory name, because wordpress have renamed it. So i made all changes to fix that bug. Now this plugins works like it should. Also i have changed directory name, where all images are saved for display so when you will upgrade this plugin to 1.0.1 version don’t forget to reactivate the plugin and resave widget from the admin panel.
Thanks all for response.

Posted By: Romeo on April 16th, 2009at 10:53 pm

Thanks a lot, now its ok :)

Posted By: baron on April 17th, 2009at 4:28 pm

Works great, thank you

Posted By: Puh on April 17th, 2009at 5:31 pm

I have the same Problem, the Widget was not shown. try to change the Plugin directory name, but than the Images won’t shown. I have a look into the code and there are many many pathes to the Plugin, the half go to plugin directory with the name subscribe-plugin and the other half to subscribe-widget. I try to change all pathes wo only one directory name but this don’t work.

If there more than one man working an that plugin you should agree about a directory name and why you don’t definate the path at one place and work with the definition than with the whole path?

Posted By: admin on April 17th, 2009at 6:18 pm

To user.
there are two path, because one (subscribe-plugin) is plugin folder where are stored original images, other (subscribe-widget) is created for images that are shown in the sidebar (not admin panel) (resized images). before i uploaded to the plugin to the wordpress, all folders had the same name. wordpress changed plugin directory to subscribe-plugin, and i didn’t had chance to change other folder. will make that as soon as possible. also will define path in the config file.

Posted By: Axz on April 18th, 2009at 12:33 am

Hi there again widget rocks… but could you also add facebook into the list?

Thanks in advance!

Posted By: Donadony on April 18th, 2009at 12:59 am

Nice plugin, thanks you

Posted By: Jono on April 18th, 2009at 6:33 pm

This is a great plugin, worked straight away with no bugs. Good job.

Posted By: Duane Johnson on April 19th, 2009at 12:18 am

I’m still seeing the same problem of that the pictures are not showing up. I re-downloaded the version above.

Posted By: Zac on April 19th, 2009at 4:31 am

I have tried the last three versions of this plugin and nothing is showing up on my sidebar. It shows installing fine, and i can add it to the sidebar, and setup all the accounts. but when you lead the actual page there is nothing at all there. any ideas?

Posted By: Puh on April 19th, 2009at 12:00 pm

Now I found the Bug, why the Plugin won’t work with any Blog on any Webspace.

The Plugin try to install a new directory the root of the Webspace, but it is not possible for anyone to install a new directory to the root of my Webspace - this would be a security issue. Don’t know why the author of the Plugin don’t use a directory inside the plugin directory ???

If the Plugin don’t work you have to install a directory named ’subscribe-widget’ at the root of your webspace - don’t know why nobody told this before and hope the Author would change this quickly and use a directory inside the plugin-directory.

Posted By: Puh on April 19th, 2009at 12:19 pm

I change line 114 in subscribe-widget.php from
echo '';
to
echo '';

(hope I can use the code tag here)

Posted By: Puh on April 19th, 2009at 12:23 pm

I change line 114 in subscribe-widget.php from
echo ”;
to
echo ”;

(try using the pre tag, if this dont work than I hope the author would install here the WP-Syntax Plugin from http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-syntax/)

Posted By: Puh on April 19th, 2009at 12:29 pm

Try using Unicode to post code

echo '<div id="subscribe-widget" class="widget widget_subscribe">';

Posted By: admin on April 21st, 2009at 7:29 pm

I have added wp syntax to the plugin, so you cn upgrade it.
To Puh:
Why you suggesting to use unicode for html?

Posted By: Duane Johnson on April 21st, 2009at 10:49 pm

Downloaded the new version. Graphics still do not show up. Is there something wrong with how you are writing the PNG files to the directory? When I try to view them, I get file not found errors.

Posted By: Jackie on April 22nd, 2009at 5:07 am

hi, I just installed your widget but am having trouble getting the twitter icon to show up. What do i put in the account box http://www.twitter.com/pristinepr or just my username pristinepr? A small suggestion would be to add a small help icon next to these text boxes and show a little box with an example of what to enter.

Jackie

Posted By: Yolanda on April 23rd, 2009at 10:30 pm

Hey there. I had your plugin installed yesterday, and it worked just fine on my website. I upgraded to your new version this afternoon, and it does not work on my site anymore. Is there any way you can send me the link to your previous version so that I can re-install it? I really liked it before! Thanks.

Posted By: admin on April 23rd, 2009at 10:33 pm

Upgrade it again. I have fixed bug. New version 1.1.3.1

Sorry for that bug

Posted By: Zac on April 24th, 2009at 2:15 am

haha, i had the same question, thanks for noticing so quickly and patching the bugs! How do i tell WP to look for plugin updates? is there a way or should i delete it and redownload it?

Posted By: ebeg on April 24th, 2009at 10:07 am

after upgrading the plugin m side bar just messed up..i deactivate that and clear the cache and activate again but still the same prblm..side just messed up with text in other plugins and when i browse other page the sidebar come frond and messed up..plz help..

Posted By: pracas upreti on April 25th, 2009at 6:12 pm

thanks for creating the plugin, i came to your site from my wordpress dashboard and your plugin link ,

please see this
“one should have acounts on http://www.twitter.com and http://www.feedburner.com, as the plugin creates links to these blog accounts.”

The hyperlink for feedburner is http://www.twitter.com , please manage it

Posted By: Matt SF on May 11th, 2009at 9:19 pm

Is there any way to make the images larger than 70?

Posted By: NPD on May 13th, 2009at 4:41 pm

Thanks for the plugin, its seems to work ok, the rss picture appears in my right sidebar but all my other side bar items disappear….any ideas. I’m a beginner when it comes to WP blogging so maybe I’m making a silly mistake.

Posted By: tranMR on May 13th, 2009at 8:58 pm

Thank you! This is a great plugin it helped me a lot. Not have to edit the code a hard anymore.

But I have a small question as to how it does in other places is not the spare. for example, in such header.php. You can give me a code type called it as plugin in sidebar-login has called me to use as the template tag: Add to your template.

I write English quite currency but nhuwngc hope you understand what I want to say. I live in Vietnam that

Posted By: Anton on May 18th, 2009at 5:51 am

Hi kestas,

I have installed your plugin on my blog (in the sidebar as widget, but nothing is displayed (((

What could be the reason?

Thanks

P.S. btw, I am surprised the plugin does not ask for feed URL, as usually rss plugins do.

Posted By: Anton on May 18th, 2009at 6:57 pm

I m,anaged to fix it by adding

to appropriate files

Posted By: Emmanuel on May 20th, 2009at 2:00 am

I like the plugin, Really Nice Plugin.
I would like to include the images in a feedburner form, is there anyway I could possibly do this?

Posted By: admin on May 20th, 2009at 9:19 pm

Yes there is. You can do this very easy. Just go to the plugins folder, find subscribe-plugin folder and open it. Then open folder “images” and there will be 4 folders. Open feedburner folder and add images. Its all you need to do. The best type of images is PNG, but plugin can also resize other images too.

Posted By: factshelf.com on May 22nd, 2009at 6:34 am

really a nice plugin. i will give it a try in my blog.

Posted By: Emmanuel on May 23rd, 2009at 3:37 am

Yup, I got it all settled, really nice plugin.

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Posted By: Romeo on June 11th, 2009at 9:49 am

Hi,

i just upgrade to Wordpress 2.8 and i have a problem with the Admin Panel. Wenn i activate the plugin and go to the DASHBOARD not all things are showing, i can’t drop down the menus.
Look at this picture and see what i mean:

http://www.romeolab.com/problem.png

Posted By: reviewazon on June 19th, 2009at 6:16 am

I love your plugin and it works great. I prefer using reviewazon plugin. Reviewazon is the best amazon affiliate product review plugin for wordpress.

Posted By: Darren on July 6th, 2009at 11:57 pm

Hi installed plugin easily and added to my sidebar widget, however it doesnt show on my blog??

Posted By: Vytas on July 7th, 2009at 8:12 pm

I installed your plugin, but i have just 2 icons “subscribe RSS” and “subscribe comments rss” the twitter and feedburner does not shown. How can I solve the problem?

Posted By: John on July 9th, 2009at 9:21 pm

Is there a way to add a FaceBook button like the Twitter button.

Posted By: Jesse on July 11th, 2009at 8:20 pm

First off, great plugin!

Second, is it be possible to add “feedblitz” to this plugin? IF so, how?

Thanks

Posted By: Zettt on July 28th, 2009at 9:22 am

Hi, just to inform you. Nothing really bad, but you got a little typo.

readers will tehn be able to

Posted By: marie on August 17th, 2009at 1:02 am

Great pluggin! Thank you!!

Posted By: Chris on August 18th, 2009at 6:39 am

I am having a problem setting up the feedburner part of it. It tells me that emailing is not enabled but it is. Whats up?

Posted By: Chris on August 18th, 2009at 6:50 am

What do you do if your feedburner account has more than one feed attached to it?

Posted By: parser on August 31st, 2009at 2:02 pm

hello,

i created the folder subscribe-widget (777) in the root if my wp installation ans installed the plugin, but i still get the error message:

Warning: chmod() [function.chmod]: Operation not permitted in /www/htdocs/w00ba3d8/wp-content/plugins/subscribe-plugin/subscribe-widget.php on line 19

what could be the reason?

thanks for supporting,
parser

Posted By: Matt on September 25th, 2009at 8:29 pm

Great plugin. Thank you. I agree with John that adding a facebook link to the mix would be great!
Thanks.
Matt

Posted By: Christian Emil on October 11th, 2009at 11:06 am

Thank you for a great plug-in.

However, I can’t get feedburner to work :(

What exactly is it I’m am supposed to insert in the field?

My feed is http://feeds.feedburner.com/ChristianEmilJohansen

Help would be greatly appreciated.

Christian Emil

Posted By: Christian Emil on October 11th, 2009at 11:40 am

OK - Stupid me!
I had just forgotten to activate it, sorry.

To wishes though:

1) It would be absolutely great if all the images was on transparent background.

2) It would be great if Facebook could be included. From other comments, I can see I’m not the only one asking for that.

Thank you once again, that plug-in is great.

Christian Emil

Posted By: James on December 4th, 2009at 12:03 am

Most Excellent Plugin! (have a cup of coffee on me!)

Only suggestions I can see, is to add Facebook and perhaps Digg and Stumbleupon; and to be able to drag & drop the icons in the order you would like them to appear.

Again, excellent plugin!

Posted By: James on December 4th, 2009at 12:11 am

Oooops! Forgot, LinkedIn and Facebook would be the next best two to add to the plugin. These are better than the rest for building your profile and followers.

Again, thanks for the great plugin!

Posted By: Fab on December 10th, 2009at 5:14 pm

very nice.Thanks!

Posted By: Greg on December 23rd, 2009at 9:09 am

Great Plugin i just love it. It would be perfect if you could add other social networks like Facebook, Digg, YouTube. Anyway Thanks!

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