readme.txt

=== SocialMediaEnhancer ===
Contributors: macx
Donate link: http://www.amazon.de/registry/wishlist/2NJSSK0DMFEQE
Tags: social, google+, facebook, twitter, linkedin, pinterest, buttons, counts, social media
Requires at least: 3.3
Tested up to: 3.5
Stable tag: 1.8.6
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

Fetches social counts from Google+, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterst and XING and provide beautiful sharing buttons without the use of JavaScript

== Description ==

The SocialMediaEnhancer (SME) provides beautiful styled and static social media sharing buttons for your WordPress blog. It fetches the social counts
(share activities) from Google+, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Pinterst in the background without the use of performance critital JavaScript
from the social networks.

To provide a optimal presentation of your post at the social networks after sharing, the SME is using the Open Graph Protocol (OGP) to include
well formatted meta elements on every post.

Choose a style for the buttons and decide which network do you want to use.

= Feedback =
Please send me feedback if you have questions or new ideas on [Google+](http://macx.de/+) or [Twitter](https://twitter.com/macx).

== Installation ==

For a manual installation using FTP:

1. Download the zip and extract it.
2. Upload the directory `SocialMediaEnhancer` to your WordPress Blog plugin folder at `/wp-content/plugins`.
3. Activate this Plugin in the WordPress-Backend through the 'Plugins' screen.
4. Visit the options page in WordPress to setup it up for your needs.

== Change Log ==

=== 1.8.6 ===

- New: $post->socialInfo['shares'] shows the social shares without the comments on the blog post which is included in $post->socialInfo['shares'] (#30)
- Fixed: Prevent Warnings (#31)
- Fixed: Worked now properly with excerpt text (#24)

=== 1.8.5 ===

- Fixed: Social Counts
- Removed Photoshop files for faster updating

=== 1.8.4 ===

- New: Flat Design Buttons
- New: Default Image if a post has no thumbnail
- New: Optionen to display the Social Network name in a modern button
- New: Debug Mode. Activate it by adding this to your URL: ?smeDebug=true
- New: Using SASS/Compass to build the CSS
- New: Support for Pinterst Image Sharing (using the post thumbnail)
- New: Support for article:publisher (Facebook publisher relation)
- New: Support for link rel="publisher" (Google+ publisher relation)
- New: Support for meta twitter:site (Twitter publisher relation)
- Anhanced: Better Post Image Detection
- Fixed: Post Description is now used correctly

=== 1.8.3 ===

- added XING-Button in Style "button"
- external function to call sme staticly. Use <?php echo smeButtons(get_the_ID()); ?>
- function to disble open graph meta data

=== 1.8.2 ===

- added tracking of XING counts (by MrFloppy)
- added option to turn on XING support
- update icons for Google+, Facebook, Twitter

=== 1.8.1 ===

Initial Tracking of changes

=== Planned updates ===

- full support of LinkedIn, Pinterest and XING with sharing buttons