Twitter and Facebook widgets
February 4, 2011
Jean
An UGAL update to automatically embed Tweet (from Twitter) and Like (from Facebook) widgets on your web pages is now available. The widgets allow your visitors to share your pages with the 2 social networks. An easy way to promote your website!
How to enable the social networks widgets
The widgets are disabled by default. To enable them, go to the "Settings" tab of your website and click the "Social networks widgets" link. From there you will be able to choose which widgets should be added to your pages:
We wanted to keep the configuration easy, and avoid repeating the setting for every page of your website, that is why we made it site wide. We chose as well to not display the widgets on every page of your website and for now they will be displayed only on your home page, news pages (like this one), product pages, project pages and events pages.
Attention custom theme users!
If you are using a custom theme, you need to add a few lines of code to your global.css file so that the widgets display properly:
div#socialWrap {margin:15px 0;}
div.socialWidget {float:left;margin-right:10px;}
You can of course contact us, and we will update your custom CSS for you.
Moving forward
This update is our first step in integrating UGAL with the always more important social networks. We are looking forward to hearing your feedback for more integration ideas.