You will see that there are a total of five sub tabs inside the Counter Menu. When you use just the shortcode [aps-counter-pro] with no further parameters passed to it. It will take the settings set in the below tabs.

1. Social Profile:

   This tab here consists of all the social medias that you can use for the counter. You will need to click on the social media you wish to display in the frontend, enable them and then enter all the required details to get the number of followers from the respective social profile.

   

2. Display Settings:

   • Social Profile Order : You can set a order in which the social networking buttons will be displayed in the frontend by dragging them
   • Icon Hover Animations: You can set a hover animations for your social networking buttons
   • Hide Counter: You can enable this option if you want to hide the (fan/followers) counts
   • Counter Format: You can set a number format of your followers count
   • Show Total Count: Enable this option if you want to show the total number of counts at the end of your social profiles in the backend
   • Choose Theme: You can set any one of the templates for your social networking buttons

   

Among the five sub tabs you have in the Social Counter menu, there is a tab named ‘Floating Sidebar Settings’ that you will need to use inorder to enable the floating sidebar in your site. This tab consists of all the options available for the floating sidebar that you can set.

• Enable Floating Sidebar: Check if you want to show floating sidebar in the frontend
• Display Floating Sidebar in:Select where you want your floating buttons to be displayed in the frontend
• Choose Theme: Select any one of the themes for the sidebar
• Hover Background Color: Select your hover background color for the icon here. You can keep it blank if you dont want any.
• Floating Sidebar Position: A total of 6 different positions are available for the sidebar. Select any one of them from here.
• Counter Format:Select any one of the available counter format for your sidebar
• Hide In Mobile Devices: Check if you want to hide floating sidebar in the mobile devices
• Social Profiles: Enter the list of social profiles separated with comma if you want the social networking buttons or their format to be different than one set previously in “Display Settings” tab
• Semi Transparent: Check if you want to make floating sidebar semi transparent

As soon as you install the plugin, you will find a widget named “AccessPress Social Counter Pro” in the widget section which you can place in any widget area and configure as per your requirement. Since the widget has the multi instance, you can add the same widget as much as you want. You can again set the social profiles, theme, animation and counter number format for the AccessPress Social Counter Pro Widget.

Besides all these settings and tabs there are other two tabs inside the Social Counter menu that might be helpful. They are both described below

1. Cache Settings:

This option here enables you to set a cache for the plugin so that the counter APIs are not called everytime your page is loaded and hence saving your load time.

2. Import Export Settings:

This tab here enables you to import/export all the settings you have set in the plugin’s social counter menu. This will help you keep backup of your settings and make changes in the plugin.

3. Shortcode[aps-get-count]

There is an another shortcode in social counter pro that might be helpful for you all. It is [aps-get-count] . It can be used to get the individual folowers count of the social media. The possible parameters that you can set in this shortcode is described below.

1. social_media:

   You can set the social media you want to set in your social counter buttons using the “social_media” parameter.One of the following values can be passed to the ‘profile’ parameter.

   facebook, twitter, instagram, google-plus, soundcloud, dribbble, youtube, steam, vimeo, pinterest, forrst, vk, flickr, behance, github, envato, posts, comments, spotify, twitch, feedly, slideshare, foursquare, delicious, weheartit

2. count_format:

   You can set the number format for the counter using the “count_format” parameter. One of the following values can be passed to the ‘counter_format’ parameter.

   default, short, comma