Frolic

Revision as of 16:29, March 14, 2012

Frolic is available as a stand-alone plugin.

Description

The Frolic plugin adds the ability to integrate various social media features into your site. With support for Twitter, Facebook, and Google+, you integrate useful social media feature such as `Like` buttons, sharing, feeds, and more via shortcodes and widgets. Each social object may be customized and you can have multiple customized instances of each object.

Accounts

The first step in adding Frolic social media features to your site is to add your account in the Frolic settings. Frolic allows you to create multiple accounts with unique settings. Each account has multiple different social media objects you can insert into your site.

Feature Overview

Shortcode & Widget Objects

Twitter

• Display the latest tweets from user(s).
• Tweet button.
• Follow button.
• Hashtag button.
• Mention button.

Facebook

• Like button.
• Comments Block
• Activity Feed
• Send Button
• Recommendations

Google+

• +1 button
• Google+ badge

WordPress Admin

• View Twitter activity from Dashboard
• View Facebook Activity and Comment Feeds from Dashboard

All PluginBuddy plugins also support automatic upgrades and support.

Built in Styling Helpers

• Each object now has a div in the style of -- div class="pb-frolic pb-frolic-{account type} pb-frolic-{object type} pb-frolic-object-{id number}"
• Account types will be facebook, google, or twitter. Object type will be something like 'like-button', and id number is a number generated using the account and object id.
• Example of how to use styling and move all Frolic objects into one line easily with real example code

Additional Resources

1. Frolic Tutorial by Bes Zain
2. Free Plugins by PluginBuddy
3. PluginBuddy Tutorials
4. PluginBuddy.com
5. Tipsy Support Forums