by telepathy 3.2 (46 reviews)

Flare

Name: Flare
Rating: 3.2 (46 reviews)
Author: telepathy

Flare is a simple yet eye-catching social sharing bar that gets you followed and lets your content get shared via posts, pages, and media types.

Flare ranks #8,370 among WordPress.org plugins with 600+ active installations, is #1,132 of 8,547 in the Customization category, a 3.2/5 rating from 46 reviews, and was last updated Sep 8, 2016. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Tested up to WP 3.7 (Current: 7.1)

vtrunk Current Version vtrunk

Updated 10 years ago Last Update on 08 Sep, 2016

Refreshed 6 hours ago Last Refreshed on

#1,132 of 8,547 in Customization Top 25% by installs No update in over a year

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Active Installs

600+

-9.9%

KW Avg Position

3.3

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Downloads

189.7K

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Rating

64%

Review 3.2 out of 5

3.2 (46 reviews)

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3.2

46 reviews

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Plugin Details

Version: trunk
Last Updated: Sep 08, 2016
Requires WP: 3.0+
Tested Up To: 3.7
PHP Version: N/A
Author: telepathy

Support & Rating

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ 3.2
Reviews: 46
Support Threads: 0
Resolved: 0%

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

Flare is for WordPress site owners who want to add social sharing and follow buttons to their posts, pages, and media. It solves the problem of making content easy to share and helping site owners gain more social media followers.

Follow Me widget
Configurable share icons
Twitter, Facebook, Stumble Upon, Reddit, Google+, Pinterest support
Reorder and customize icons
Control post types displayed
Top, bottom, left, right placement
Vertical Flare follows scrolling

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Flare

Unzip Upload flare directory to your /wp-content/plugins directory Go to the plugin management page and enable the plugin

Not really unfortunately. The Flare JavaScript to make the floating bar appear requires the presence of multiple elements on the page in different locations, so deploying via a shortcode doesn't really work.

You sure can! Just use the the_widget() function to deploy the FlareFollowWidget widget in your template files. For example: <?php the_widget( 'FlareFollowWidget', array( 'title' => "Follow Me", 'iconstyle' => "round", 'iconsize' => 64, 'iconspacing' => 5 ) ); ?> The widget takes four "instance" parameters: title - The title of the widget area iconstyle - The style of the icon. This can be any of the keys found in the Flare->iconstyles array in the main flare.php file iconsize - The size of the icon in pixels as an integer (ex. 64 for 64 pixels) iconspacing - The spacing between the icons in pixels as an integer (ex. 10 for 10 pixels) My Reddit count is wrong Reddit fuzzes their count, so every time a count total is requested or displayed in the widget, its going to be a little different (usually +/- 20). This issue is on Reddit, so unfortunately we can't really do anything about it :( My Flare widgets are in a wierd position on my page When it all boils down to it, Flare is just HTML and CSS. We try to place the Flare widgets in a location that is as un-obtrusive as possible and works in as many layouts as possible. As there are an infinite variety of themes out there though, your website's theme might not work well with where we attempt to place Flare. The good news is, you can fix this by writing some CSS in your theme's style.css file. Use a browser inspector such as Firebug for Firefox or the developer tools for Chrome and Safari to find out what styles need modifying for your Flare layout and write some overrides in your theme's style.css file. My content is not in English and the social widgets are flowing outside the bubble Flare gives it Unfortunately we cannot check the size of the content inside the social widgets themselves as they are in IFRAME tags. We set the IFRAME tag dimensions to work pretty well for most situations, but sometimes, they need to be wider. As mentioned in the previous FAQ though, you can always write a line or two of CSS in your theme's style.css file to change the width of the bubbles.