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Topic: floating social icons (not really an arras problem)

I have tried following a few tutorials on how how to add floating social icons to a wordpress site but none of them are showing up as far as I can tell. The tutorials normally work and all the right files have been edited and I dont receive any errors so i just wondered if it was a possible thatr there was a confliction as I am using classical gamer in conjunction with the arras theme and thought maybe it might be something different due to these circumstances?



Tutorials can be found at

http://vanweerd.com/how-to-add-fixed-ic … ress-site/
http://www.clanthemes.com/article528-fi … -site.html

My site can be found at

mymixvent.com/mysite (only allowed two links per post)

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Re: floating social icons (not really an arras problem)

Looks like you've figured this out on your own.

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Re: floating social icons (not really an arras problem)

dgodfather wrote:

Looks like you've figured this out on your own.

Unfortunatley not I have social icons in a widget in the side bar but on as a fixed floating image like the feedback form on the left....

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Re: floating social icons (not really an arras problem)

How about http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sli … e-buttons/

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Re: floating social icons (not really an arras problem)

I was after something more along the lines of just the logos as ideally I would like to add in a couple of custom ones for direct links to connect to the voip servers we use which is why I thought adding in the coded ones would be best as I am not really after a share or like button but links to pages instead of the social icones using that come with arras.

However i did notice the plugin http://www.designchemical.com/blog/inde … edia-tabs/ from the same authors so am gonna look into that and see about modding that if its what i am after

Thank you though.

Although again nothing is displayed no tabs are visible wether using a plugin or if i manually add in the code it is most confusing


Wowza http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/kn- … reenshots/ works, well it displays now all i have to do is hack away at it so it looks like what I want which means no expanding on mouse hover and then the tabs to be actual links and finally new images. all of which will be a struggle except for the images smile


UPDATE this plugin breaks the top image slider not scrollable gallery guessing its a conflict with the java applications to make the tabs sliding. At least I know its all possible now so gonna look at adding the tutorials listed above into a workable fix

Last edited by skittles (2012-02-09 09:47:22)

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Re: floating social icons (not really an arras problem)

When you want something like what you describe as heavily customized, you usually end up having to figure out your own way of making it happen.

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Re: floating social icons (not really an arras problem)

I found a floating menu plugin and have just customised that instead all I need to do now is update the images to the corresponding program!

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