Addthis / Sharethis Bookmark Integration
 

Loved the addition of bookmarks in vbulletin but hated the way they were placed at the bottom of the thread, each time I read a thread I immediately found myself scrolling to the top again. I tried moving the bookmarks to the top but didn't like the way they looked.

I came across http://www.addthis.com which allows you to add a handy piece of code to your website that allows you to bookmark a thread to any of the large bookmark sites, 34 different site's in total with out any mess or cluttering up the postbit area with tons of images. Plus addthis.com track all clicks and pages that have been submitted from your site. sharethis.com is a site that works exactly the same way.

AddThis and Sharethis is already on hundreds of thousands of websites including TIME Magazine, Oracle, TechCrunch, Freewebs, Entertainment Weekly, Topix, Lonely Planet, MySpace, PGA Tour, Tower Records, Squidoo, Zappos, FOX, ABC, CBS just to name a few and could be on your vbulletin forum within minutes!!

Demo click here then a thread to view demo


Quick and easy installation:
register an account at http://www.addthis.com and log in, once logged in click Get your button code! and scroll down to and choose from a number of different buttons and get your code.

in SHOWTHREAD
find:
above add:

done!

il try this one,looks cool

btw,i cant see this code in my SHOWTHREAD template.

Most Excellent. Thanks for sharing this.

Good work, thank you!

Installed

should be mate, try searching for the first instance of:

but go to SHOWTHREAD first and search it in their, if you still can't find it then it may be your customized skin, as a last resort pm me your SHOWTHREAD code.

What showthread do you add this to? In my showtread template there is: bookmarksite, list, quickreply, similarthreads, and similarthreadbits. Or is there someplace else I am to be looking?? Thanks, will mark installed if I can get it working..

its the "SHOWTHREAD" template mate.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2009/03/20.jpg

why is it that my button is added abouve the thread not next to thread tools? It's actually to the left above the bar

i cant pm the code to you

ok, thanks though

Thanks > Nominate

did you add the code ABOVE this


Please click install for further support

I did, and it still is above the thread bar not next to thread tools. Not that bad, but would look nicer, otherwise. Also, the google link does not work.

pm me a link to see this and your SHOWTHREAD code.

sure, one sec. thanks very much

Thanks, wasn't sure :rolleyes:
Installed :)

Please see attached picture. When I installed it, the complete sharethis button does not show. It is cut off.

Also, is there anyway to add this button to any of the two locations highlighted in black in the attached picture instead of where you show.

Thanks,
Maria

I'll look into those other locations and let you know

to sort your other problem

did you add the code ABOVE this

Very nice.......

Great Mod, thanks
Mine is a;so showing above and to the left. Is ther any fix for this? as it would look much neater like your picture

http://www.getthroughguides.co.uk/forum/

you didn't put the ADDTHIS code inbetween here where it states it must go, looking at your source code you have left out <td class="vbmenu_control" id="addthis" nowrap="nowrap"> that goes before the ADDTHIS code and the </td> that goes after it.

aha! That's it...

Installed!

Working now Thanks!

great to hear lads

Hi,

Yes I added the code above that...any other solution?

Thanks.

you haven't done this part right https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....6&postcount=21

if your still stuck then pm me your SHOWTHREAD template code.

This is a great mod. Addthis has the flexibility and is way less obnoxious that twitthis.

Also love that users can print the topic.

5 stars.

Whenever i hover over one of the social network names or images, everything in the box shifts. If you do the right hand side its fine. Try the left hand side and everything sifts. Any idea why?

FYI I'm having this happen in the latest Firefox.

I've never added this mod to my forums, but I do have a few sites with the addthis widget setup, it's a great piece of code :)

Thanks!

no worries lads, please remember to click install

This has a bug within it ..........

If you go to the specific thread and quickly move to the bookmarks explorer (in my case ie7) crashes and closes down with an error "internet explorer cannot open http://yoursite.com/showthread 123456"

this does not seem to happen when the you leave for a 20 seconds or so........

your problem has nothing to do with this hack.

Yep, that's why I'm using ShareThis instead. It appears to be a limitation with AddThis' API.

i have installed ie 8 and the problem has gone so im sorry to say it seems to be a problem with some browsers.

This code hack is not hacking it in 3.8.2...That <td class line does not exist in the SHOWTHREAD! Help...

Nice. I implemented this myself and never thought to release it as a template mod.
Ah well, nice work! ;)

I added ShareThis but here is one problem:

When you share the link the with someone it uses the last post link and not the first post / thread link. Does anyone know how to fix this?

Thank you

Does anyone know how to make this visible to guests? Works great when logged in but not as a guest.

Marked as installed!

Edit: Nevermind, just remembered how to do it. FYI this shows it to the usergroups listed (in this case anyone who visits the site)...