Title: Tipsy Social Icons
Author: Philip Arthur Moore
Published: <strong>January 11, 2011</strong>
Last modified: January 21, 2017

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# Tipsy Social Icons

 By [Philip Arthur Moore](https://profiles.wordpress.org/philiparthurmoore/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/tipsy-social-icons.4.1.1.zip)

 * [Details](https://pirate.wordpress.org/plugins/tipsy-social-icons/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://pirate.wordpress.org/plugins/tipsy-social-icons/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://pirate.wordpress.org/plugins/tipsy-social-icons/#installation)
 * [Development](https://pirate.wordpress.org/plugins/tipsy-social-icons/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/tipsy-social-icons/)

## Description

Tipsy Social Icons is a WordPress widget that makes it easy to include a variety
of social icons and custom labels into your WordPress blog or site. It includes 
both 16×16 and 32×32 variations of the icons and optional hover effects.

Tipsy Social Icons allows you to:

 * Define a custom URL for each image
 * Easily customize each icons label
 * Modify the placement of the tooltip
 * …and much more!

The plugin includes the following icons:

 * 500px
 * Behance
 * Deviant Art
 * Digg
 * Dribbble
 * Email
 * Evernote
 * Facebook
 * Flickr
 * Forrst
 * FourSquare
 * GitHub
 * Google+
 * Instagram
 * LastFM
 * LinkedIn
 * MixCloud
 * Picasa
 * Pinterest
 * Rdio
 * RSS
 * Skype
 * Soundcloud
 * Stack Overflow
 * StumbleUpon
 * Tumblr
 * Twitter
 * Vimeo
 * Yammer
 * Yelp
 * YouTube
 * ZooTool

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## Screenshots

[⌊Tipsy Social Icons administration panel⌉⌊Tipsy Social Icons administration panel⌉[

Tipsy Social Icons administration panel

[⌊Tipsy Social Icons displayed in the sidebar⌉⌊Tipsy Social Icons displayed in the
sidebar⌉[

Tipsy Social Icons displayed in the sidebar

[⌊Tipsy Social Icons live on a blog⌉⌊Tipsy Social Icons live on a blog⌉[

Tipsy Social Icons live on a blog

## Installation

#### Using The WordPress Dashboard

 1. Navigate to the ‘Add New’ Plugin Dashboard
 2. Select `tipsy-social-icons.zip` from your computer
 3. Upload
 4. Activate the plugin on the WordPress Plugin Dashboard

#### Using FTP

 1. Extract `tipsy-social-icons.zip` to your computer
 2. Upload the `tipsy-social-icons` directory to your `wp-content/plugins` directory
 3. Activate the plugin on the WordPress Plugins dashboard

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“Tipsy Social Icons” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Philip Arthur Moore ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/philiparthurmoore/)
 *   [ Professional Themes ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/professionalthemes/)

[Translate “Tipsy Social Icons” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/tipsy-social-icons)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tipsy-social-icons/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/tipsy-social-icons/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/tipsy-social-icons/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/tipsy-social-icons/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 4.1.1

 * Changing plugin ownership

#### 4.1.0

 * Changing plugin ownership

#### 4.0.0

 * Removing donate link
 * Adding adopt-me tag

#### 3.9.0

 * WordPress 3.8 compatibility

#### 3.8.0

 * Added support for 500px
 * Moved screenshots out of plugin directory for a lighter download
 * Minor improvements to coding conventions

#### 3.7.0

 * Updated icons for Instagram, Yammer, and Behance with improved transparency.
 * Props to @traukainehm for the icon updates.

#### 3.6.0

 * Added support for Yammer
 * Updating the donate URL
 * Updated localization files

#### 3.5.2

 * Continued resolution with the widget dashboard and the public display of the 
   plugin

#### 3.5.1

 * Rolling back changes that broke the plugin in 3.5.

#### 3.5

 * Added a namespace for filters and dried up the code (via [@justnorris](http://twitter.com/justnorris/))
 * Added new filters and actions (via [@justnorris](http://twitter.com/justnorris/))
 * Added the ability to programmatically edit, add, and remove icons from the list(
   via [@justnorris](http://twitter.com/justnorris/))
 * Updating the list of available icons in the README (StumbleUpon)
 * Minor localization update
 * For the technical changes see [this commit](https://github.com/tommcfarlin/tipsy-social-icons/pull/1)
   and [this commit](https://github.com/tommcfarlin/tipsy-social-icons/pull/2).

#### 3.4

 * Thanks to Branco for the Slovak translation ([WebHostingGeeks.com](http://webhostinggeeks.com/user-reviews/))

#### 3.3

 * Added icons for Behance
 * Added icons for Instagram

#### 3.2

 * Improvements to localization
 * Adding icons for MixCloud
 * Updating StumbleUpon icon
 * Confirming support for WordPress 3.5

#### 3.1

 * Updating the donate link
 * Updating a small typo in the README

#### 3.0

 * Adherence to the [WordPress Coding Standards](https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Coding_Standards)
 * Improved admin user interface
 * Fewer imports for JavaScript and CSS to improve load time
 * Added the ability to completely disable tooltips
 * Remove the Posterous icon
 * Added icons for Evernote, GitHub, Picasa, Rdio, Stack Overflow, Stumble Upon,
   Yelp, and ZooTool
 * Updated screenshots
 * Added a new screenshot
 * Added a plugin header image

#### 2.4

 * Resolving a problem that conflicted with some other JavaScript sources
 * Renaming plugin as ‘WP Social Icons Lite’

#### 2.3

 * Adding a new screenshot
 * Updating existing screenshot
 * Adding support for Pinterest
 * Adding a new option for tooltip position
 * Updating localization
 * Minor admin UI improvements

#### 2.2

 * Verifying 3.3.1 compatibility
 * Fixing a class name error

#### 2.0

 * Addition of the Tumblr icon
 * Refresh of the Twitter icon
 * Notices about the premium version, WP Social Icons.

#### 1.8

 * Improving minor problem with Google+ support

#### 1.7

 * Activated support for DeviantArt

#### 1.6

 * Added support for FourSquare

#### 1.5

 * Fixing a problem with invalid headers.

#### 1.4

 * Added support for Google+

#### 1.3

 * Tested WP3.2 compatibility

#### 1.2

 * Added support for SoundCloud
 * Updated the widget admin display to display a proper description

#### 1.1

 * Added icons for Deviant Art, GitHub, and Stack Overflow
 * Removed the fading of the Tipsy tooltips. In some cases, the jQuery event queue
   would back up and cause erroneous results with the tips.

#### 1.0

 * Initial release

## Meta

 *  Version **4.1.0**
 *  Last updated **10 years ago**
 *  Active installations **100+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **3.8.0**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tipsy-social-icons/)
 * Tags
 * [icons](https://pirate.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/icons/)[social](https://pirate.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/social/)
   [widgets](https://pirate.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/widgets/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://pirate.wordpress.org/plugins/tipsy-social-icons/advanced/)

## Ratings

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## Contributors

 *   [ Philip Arthur Moore ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/philiparthurmoore/)
 *   [ Professional Themes ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/professionalthemes/)

## Support

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