How to Fix “Missing Custom Icons” in Sociable/Blogplay’s 3.5.1 Upgrade for WordPress
Posted on 16. Oct, 2009 by LinkedIQ in Development, How To, WordPress
If you recently downloaded the Sociable v3.5.1 plugin for WordPress and discovered your custom post icons were replaced by ugly text links, here’s a simple 4-step solution.
Sure, I agree the recent update to Blogplay’s v3.5.1 plugin was frustrating, BUT the advantages of the newest version are worth taking a few minutes to tweak the back end of your WordPress site. Here’s what I did to solve the missing custom icons issue:
First, understand this: the update deleted your custom icons folder and all contents, so…
- In the Sociable plugin dashboard, select “Disable sprite usage for images?”
- With your FTP client, create a new sub-folder in plugins/sociable/images called “custom”
- Upload your custom icon images to this new “custom” folder
- This next step is important! Go to the plugin editor and select “Sociable”, then select “sociable/sociable.css”, scroll down until you see this:
.sociable ul li:before { content: “”; }
.sociable img {
float: none;
width: 45px;
height: 55px;
border: 0;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
Make sure you change the “width” and “height” to reflect the actual size of your icon images. Save the .css file and then go to your blog post. It should look just like it did before the upgrade to v3.5.1. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
