Three questions about facebook, pinterest and widgets for now…

[joshua owens]

Can I get the organized theme facebook widget to show my facebook page’s feed and followers without the viewer being logged in to facebook?

Is there a way to add pinterest to the social media footer?

Is there a way to control the size and placement of the widgets? Besides the order I place them in the widget side bar? My initial idea was to have 2 text columns replicating the copy on my current sites homepage, left and center on bottega. Then have maybe the vertical response widget and your facebook widget in the column on the right. I tried a third text box thinking I could make up a third row with vertical response face book and pinterest but thing still weren’t fitting right. The text spills out of the box and onto the grey/silver background if I put in in the right column. And then I was still having problem getting the widgets to match up in size. I do realize you are only responsible for your widgets but any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[Bill Robbins]

Joshua,

Sorry for not getting back to you quicker. I’ve been out sick and I’m running behind with requests. Let me see if I can help you out.

1) Facebook widget: When a user is not logged in, it should display like this:

If you see something different, it might be helpful to send over a link so I can take a closer look for you.

2) It is possible to change out one of the social links or even to add one that isn’t there. Here’s how to add one. The set didn’t come with a Pinterest icon, but I made one that you can use. Just right click the icon below and save it to your computer.

Then follow these steps to add it to your site:

• In your WordPress control panel, select Media then Add New.
• Upload the Pinterest icon you downloaded from above.
• Once the upload finishes, WordPress will give you the URL to the icon. Copy that URL.
• Go to the appearance section and select edit to open up the theme editor.
• From the list of files on your right, choose footer.php
• Look for this spot:

  <a href=”<?php bloginfo(‘rss_url’); ?>”><img src=”<?php echo get_template_directory_uri(); ?>/images/rss.png” alt=”” /></a>

  and paste this right above it:

• You’ll need to replace the http://www.pinterest.com with the URL to your Pinterest profile.
• The next thing you’ll need to change is http://yoursite.com/pinterest.png to the URL to your new Pinterest icon.
• Save your changes.

That should add your icon link.

3) I’d be glad to help with some widget spacing. If you’ll send over a link, I can offer instructions specific to your site.

Thanks,
Bill

[joshua owens]

Thanks Bill

The link is http://www.rent-a-chef-inc.com/wordpress.

You will see I have 2 text box widgets set up in the second row followed by the Facebook widget. ( still doesn’t seem to be displaying correctly for me ) I am not sure I will need help with widget spacing anymore now that you have instructed me on how to incorporate interest with the rest of your social media widgets. My plan now ( and please let me know if this is possible or not ) would be to create 2 featured posts below the text boxes. One would be an image displaying some sort of special or sale. The other would act as larger quick link to our various menus. My vertical response widget would then go beneath the Facebook widget. There is a larger vertical response widget I prefer but the text spills out of the form field. I figure I should be able to contact them to help me fix that if I feel it is still needed. But the smaller one may suffice depending on the final size of the Facebook widget.

[joshua owens]

Earlier the facebook widget looked like it does in your reply. I thought maybe it just needed some time too percolate. I just opened up the site again and I have an empty box. I do have a screen grab but am unsure on how to include it.

[Bill Robbins]

Joshua,

Thanks for the link. I took a look and like you had reported earlier, I can view the like box when logged in, but not when logged out. I did some digging and in some situations, Facebook limits the visibility based on some of the settings. That way they only display the like box for pages that meet certain demographic criteria.

Pages can be marked as age restricted (18+ or 13+) and also can be rated for relating to alcohol which can also keep them from being visible. You might try adjusting your page settings to see if you can then view the likebox while logged out.

I do have a quick code snippet for you to help out with your menu widget on the home page. Go to the styling tab of the theme options page. Scroll down to the bottom and paste this into the box for Custom CSS:

.widget .menu a,
.widget .menu a:visited {
	color: #000;
}

.widget .menu li {
	float: none
}

For adding an image to a widget, you might try the Image Widget plugin. It provides a widget that is set up to make adding an image easy.

I hope that helps out. Let me know what you turn up with the Facebook widget,
Bill

[joshua owens]

Thanks Bill

I think I’ve figured out the FB thing. You are correct about the settings. In my pages profile I had leave the country blank. I also had to switch the age restriction from 13 and older ( this at first appears to be widest range to choose from, there is no option of none or to just leave it blank ) to where the box was at its default which reads ” choose an age restriction “. The trick was to click save after changing the demographic setting to blank and to just logging out after switching the age restriction to default. Every time I clicked save after changing the age restriction it would revert to 13 and older. This is what prevented the box from appearing full.

I’ll let you know how the other stuff turns out.

Stay well.

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