Social plugin and do follow

[andzon]

Hi just wondering if there is any good free wordpress plugin for social liking that follows you even when you scroll down to read the article on the side?

and one silly question which i cant get answer to, are facebook social plugin for commenting on blogs a do follow? can you add anchor text into facebook comment on blogs?

[TomVolpe]

Hi there,

There are many great social sharing plugins that will do what you ask, you could check out http://wordpress.org/plugins/addthis/screenshots/ which has a floating sidebar option.

But if you have a plugin which you like using currently, you could add some simple css styles like:

#socialsidebar ul {
display:block !important; /* display the list vertically if previously set to display inline (horizontal) */
position:fixed;
right:0;
top:50%;
}

You'll have to adapt that little snippet depending on the plugin you're using and whether or not the share buttons are displayed in a list etc, but it shouldn't be too tricky to set your share buttons to a 'fixed' position using something along those lines.

Most comment plugins these days nofollow links in comments, since it is standard practise to reduce comment spam for backlinks. But if you're wanting to modify any plugin you could head to Plugins>Editor in your wordpress dashboard and modify the plugin files to allow followed comments.

Take care to back up any plugin files before you attempt this especially if you are not an advanced user. But it would just be a case of searching for rel="nofollow" and removing it from the comments system that will be rendered on your page.

Do take care when modifying plugin files because a single syntax error in a 'required' (as opposed to 'included') php file will throw an error and not display your site when visitors try to access it.

Hope that helps!