“Visual Composer - Search Social Stream” Documentation by “Hitesh Khunt” v1.0


“Visual Composer - Search Social Stream”

Created: 16/03/2017
By: Hitesh Khunt
Email: khunthitesh32@gmail.com

Thank you for purchasing my wordpress plugin. If you have any questions that are beyond the scope of this help file, please feel free to email via my user page contact form here. Thanks so much!


Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Main Features
  3. Installation guide
  4. Getting started
  5. Visual Composer Setting
  6. Shortcode and HTML use
  7. Sources and Credits

A) Introduction - top

Search Social Stream for WordPress give you an incredible flexibility to insert whatever you want in posts and pages body

Everyone can use , because it’s fully automatic, and it’s compatible with all recent versions of wordpress!


B) Main Features - top


C) Installation guide - top

This part of the documentation is going to cover, in a step by step instruction the installation of WP Plugins on your WordPress blog in general.

  • Step 1. The most important task is to make certain you have an upto date backup of your blog! This is always a good thing, not necessarily so important for our plugin but in general.
  • Step 2. Log into your WordPress Admin area.
  • Step 3. Look down the left hand column for "Plugins" and then click on the word "Plugins".
  • Step 4. Just to the right of the title “(Manage) Plugins” in the image above, you can see a button marked "Add New", click this button.
Plugin Upload
  • Step 5. The image above shows the option to upload the plugin from your own PC, this is the vc-search-social-stream.zip inside the zip you had previously downloaded from CodeCanyon. Install the zip and click on "Activate Plugin".

Plugin activation

Installibg by FTP

First, you need a tool for uploading plugin files to your site, you can use filemanager from cPanel or any FTP clients. Some good FTP clients :

Also WordPress codex contains instructions on how to do this here.


D) Getting started - top

The simple activation of the plugin is enough to have the desired behavior for all pages.

Search Social Stream for WordPress Settings

First Step of this plugin. please click on social setting on menu. please see below screenshot.

please add social access token and key for related social feed.

Search Social Stream Settings

Setting TitleDescription
Facebook Access TokenAdd Facebook Access Token for get facebook feed. How To Get
Vimeo Access TokenAdd Vimeo Access Token for get Vimeo feed. How To Get
Youtube / Google Plus Access TokenAdd Youtube / Google Plus Access Token for get Youtube / Google Plus feed. How To Get
Twitter API TokenIf you keep seeing the message 'sorry twitter is down and will be right back', it may be a good idea to add your own tokens below. See how to get API Keys and Tokens for Twitter. Leave the fields below empty to use our Default API access tokens.

Social Settings

Setting TitleDescriptionDefaultPossible Values
FacebookFacebook On.OFFON / OFF
Facebook limitSet Limit for facebook feed par page. (This option visible if Facebook "ON")5
Google PlusGoogle Plus On.OFFON / OFF
Google Plus limitSet Limit for Google Plus feed par page. (This option visible if Google Plus "ON")5
TwitterTwitter On.OFFON / OFF
Twitter limitSet Limit for Twitter feed par page. (This option visible if Twitter "ON")5
YouTubeYouTube On.OFFON / OFF
YouTube limitSet Limit for YouTube feed par page. (This option visible if YouTube "ON")5
VimeoVimeo On.OFFON / OFF
Vimeo limitSet Limit for Vimeo feed par page. (This option visible if Vimeo "ON")5

General Settings

Setting TitleDescriptionDefaultPossible Values
Skin typeChoose skin type for social layout.Style1
Load moreadd Load more feed button.ONON / OFF
Show more textadd Show more button text.Default:Load MoreNone
Popup WidthSet Popup Max Width. Default : 425px.425pxNumber Field
Popup HeightSet Popup height. Desktop Default : 570px.Desktop : 570px, Tablet : 500px, Mobile : 450pxNumber Field for responsive.
Extra class nameIf you wish to style particular content element differently, then use this field to add a class name and then refer to it in your css file.Add any class name for custom css

Color / Font Settings

Setting TitleDescriptionDefaultPossible Values
Set Header ImageSet Header ImageOFFON / OFF
Popup Header ImageSet Popup Header Image.any image select on media.
Popup Header Font SizeSet Popup Header Title Font Size. Default : 16px16
Popup Header Title ColorSet Popup Header Title Color. Default : #222222#222222any color select on color picker
Popup Header Background Colorset Popup Header background color. Default : #dfdfdf.#dfdfdfany color select on color picker
Popup Feed Container Background Colorset Popup Feed Container background color.any color select on color picker
Feed Background Colorset Feed background color.any color select on color picker
Title Colorset Title Color.any color select on color picker
Title Font SizeSet Title Font Size. Default : 16px16
Description ColorSet Description Colorany color select on color picker
Description Font SizeSet Description Font Size. Default : 14px14
Load more Loader and Text Colorset Load More Loader and Text color.any color select on color picker
Close Background Colorset Close Background color.any color select on color picker
Text Underline heightSet Text Underline height. Default : 1px1
Select Underline Colorset Text Underline Background color. Default: Red.#ff0000any color select on color picker
Underline SkinChoose Underline skin type.dotted
Cursor Hover StyleChoose Cursor Hover Style.
Social Text Colorset Social Text color.any color select on color picker
Social Text Background Colorset Social Text Background color.any color select on color picker

E) Visual Composer Settings and Addon - top

Visual Composer Settings



Social Setting

Setting TitleDescriptionDefaultPossible Values
Search Titleadd Search Title.add search text.
FacebookFacebook On.OFFON / OFF
Facebook limitSet Limit for facebook feed par page. (This option visible if Facebook "ON")5
Google PlusGoogle Plus On.OFFON / OFF
Google Plus limitSet Limit for Google Plus feed par page. (This option visible if Google Plus "ON")5
TwitterTwitter On.OFFON / OFF
Twitter limitSet Limit for Twitter feed par page. (This option visible if Twitter "ON")5
YouTubeYouTube On.OFFON / OFF
YouTube limitSet Limit for YouTube feed par page. (This option visible if YouTube "ON")5
VimeoVimeo On.OFFON / OFF
Vimeo limitSet Limit for Vimeo feed par page. (This option visible if Vimeo "ON")5

General Setting

Setting TitleDescriptionDefaultPossible Values
Skin typeChoose skin type for social layout.Style1
Load moreadd Load more feed button.ONON / OFF
Show more textadd Show more button text.Default:Load MoreNone
Box WidthSet Box Max Width. Default : 425px.425pxNumber Field
Box Height DesktopSet Box height Desktop Default : 570px.Desktop : 570pxNumber Field for Desktop view Box height.
Box Height TabletSet Box height Tablet Default : 500px.Tablet : 500pxNumber Field for Tablet view Box height.
Box Height MobileSet Box height Mobile Default : 450px.Mobile : 450pxNumber Field for Mobile view Box height.
Bottom Up Down Arrowadd Bottom Up Down Arrow.uncheckON / OFF
Set Up Down Arrow JumpSet Up Down Arrow Jump. Default : 250px250pxBox scroll up down.
Extra class nameIf you wish to style particular content element differently, then use this field to add a class name and then refer to it in your css file.Add any class name for custom css

Color / Font Setting

Setting TitleDescriptionDefaultPossible Values
Set Header ImageSet Header ImageOFFON / OFF
Box Header ImageSet Box Header Image.any image select on media.
Box Header Font SizeSet Box Header Title Font Size. Default : 16px16
Box Header Title ColorSet Box Header Title Color. Default : #222222#222222any color select on color picker
Box Header Background Colorset Box Header background color. Default : #dfdfdf.#dfdfdfany color select on color picker
Box Feed Container Background Colorset Box Feed Container background color.any color select on color picker
Feed Background Colorset Feed background color.any color select on color picker
Title Colorset Title Color.any color select on color picker
Title Font SizeSet Title Font Size. Default : 16px16
Description ColorSet Description Colorany color select on color picker
Description Font SizeSet Description Font Size. Default : 14px14
Load more Loader and Text Colorset Load More Loader and Text color.any color select on color picker
Bottom Up Down Section Background Colorset Bottom Up Down Section Background Color.any color select on color picker
Set Up Down Arrow Background ColorSet Up Down Arrow Background Colorany color select on color picker
Set Up Down Arrow Colorset Set Up Down Arrow Color.any color select on color picker

F) Shortcode and HTML use - top

For Shortcode
[social_news class="custom_class"]Social Text[/social_news]
For HTML use
<span class="sa-social-tag" social-text="Social text">Social text</span>

G) Sources and Credits - top

I've used the following css files as listed.


Once again, thank you so much for purchasing this wordpress plugin. As I said at the beginning, I'd be glad to help you if you have any questions relating to this plugin. No guarantees, but I'll do my best to assist. If you have a more general question relating to the plugin on codecanyon, you might consider visiting the forums and asking your question in the "support" section.

Hitesh Khunt

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