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Free Plugin by kestasm v2.0.4

Subscribe Widget

Sidebar widget to easy customize and display your subscribers buttons. All settings are available from Sidebar Widget Admin.

Subscribe Widget

The facts

Active installs
100+
Price
Free
Last updated
11 Jun 2010
Added
Apr 2009
Requires WP
2.8
Tested up to
WP 2.9.2
Downloads
39,952

Our analysis

AI-assisted

Subscribe Widget is a free WordPress plugin designed to help bloggers display subscription icons on their site. It creates icons for RSS feeds, comments, Twitter, and Feedburner, allowing readers to access the latest updates easily. You can customise the display of these icons, including their size, alignment, and visibility.

To use the plugin, you need to ensure that WordPress can create folders in your blog directory. The plugin allows you to upload custom icons and provides functionality to show these icons anywhere in your theme with a specific code snippet. However, some styling may be required to ensure proper display depending on the theme used.

Best for: This plugin suits bloggers looking to add subscription options to their site.

What it does well

  • Free to use under GPL licence
  • Allows customisation of icon size and alignment
  • Supports multiple subscription services
  • Enables uploading of custom icons
  • Can disable icons individually

Where it falls short

  • Limited support and updates since June 2010
  • Requires manual folder permissions setup
  • May need additional styling for theme compatibility
  • Data on rating and active installs is limited

Verdict

Subscribe Widget offers basic functionality for displaying subscription icons, but its outdated status may pose challenges for modern users.

From the developer

kestasm's own description of Subscribe Widget, lightly tidied.

Important: Before plugin install make sure that folders can be created by wordpress in your blog directory (root directory of the blog). Or you can create it yourself. Folders name should be: subscribe-widget; permissions: 0777.

Subscribe-Widget is a free wordpress plugin, which was designed to be used by all bloggers wishing to inform readers about specific information, in a fast and reliable way. This plug-in will create: rss2, comments rss, twitter and feedburner icons on your blog sidebar. These icons will in turn lead readers to your rss, twitter, feedburner and comments rss, accordingly, readers will tehn be able to find the latest news on your blog. If you want you can disable these icons one by one and only leave those which are needed. To enable the twitter and feedburner icons, one should have acounts on www.twitter.com and www.feedburner.com, as the plugin creates links to these blog accounts.

Subscribe-Widget has been dessogned to be very practical, as the blog admin allows for one to be able to choose your icons‘ width and height, allows for one to be able to write a title (which will appear above the icons), one will also be able to choose hwo to align the icons (left, center, right), as well as beign able to disable these icons one by one. Should you be struggling to find the right icon, you can also upload one by yourself. Go to: plugins directory /wp-content/plugins/subscribe-widget/images/. New uploaded icons may vary in size, as the Subscribe-Widget plugin will resize the icon to the needed width or height, however images should be no smaller then 50×50 pixels. So, by choosing to use this plug-in, one can choose how to display your icons, as it is all up to you, the blogger.

Now you can use subscribe icons anywhere on the theme. Only thing is, you should use this code: <?php if( function_exists(sw_displayOnTheTheme()) ){ sw_displayOnTheTheme(); } ?>. Put it on the needed theme file, check the checkbox on “Show ‘Subscribe Icons’ on the theme” and it will show the images on the theme, but will disable images on the widget. In some cases, there should be some styling done on the theme, to show those images correctly; because the themes are different, and styling can’t be made for all of them.

Important to note: Images will be resized, firstly by width and then by height. If images width will be smaller then selected, then image will be not resized. The same applies to the image height.

Plugins idea author: http://www.computersafetytip.com

Licence

Good news, this plugin is free for everyone! Since it’s released under the GPL, you can use it free of charge on your personal or commercial blog. But if you enjoy this plugin, you can thank me and leave a small donation for the time I’ve spent writing and supporting this plugin. And I really don’t want to know how many hours of my life this plugin has already eaten 😉

Good luck!

P.S. Sorry for my bad english. 🙂

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