Share Buttons Bar by BOP5 (Facebook Like, Twitter, Google+1, and more share options)
 

This is the VB 3.8 version of my very popular "More Share Options" for VB4.

Since VB4 already had Facebook built in the mod was called "More Share Options." But since VB 3.8 (and earlier) do not have any share options built in the mod is called "Share Buttons Bar." but they do very much the same thing.

This mod will automatically add a bar to your navbar with many popular dedicated share buttons available including:

• Facebook (Like/Recommend/Send)
• Twitter Tweet
• Digg
• Google +1
• Linked In
• Stumble Upon
• Add This (which contains hundreds of more sites!)

There are no other mods available on vBulletin.org with as many share options, nor a simple install-able product with no manual edits needed in most cases.

In the event you want to make manual template edits instructions are included on how to do so.

I am using this mod on my forum, http://www.juot.net/forums/ but only in threads and I have manually included it in my SHOWTHREAD template only. For a better idea of what this mod really looks like see the screenshot.

This mod will allow you to share any page of your forum including forumhome, forumdisplay, threads, social groups, calendars, albums, pictures, arcade games, blogs- any page that has the navbar on it can be shared. In this respect it is actually far more useful than my 4.x version.

All Share Buttons are set to load JavaScript Asynchronously so it will never slow down a page load!

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2011/08/1.gif

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Please "Mark as Installed" if you use this. :)
Donations always appreciated. :up:
Nominate MOTM if you LOVE it! ;)

Reserved.

Joe,

Where can I add a <center> </center> tag? I'm only using a few and would look better if I had those particular ones centered.

Thanks.

In the template more_share_options

Directly under the line: (near the top)
Add the line:
Then near the bottom directly above the line
add the line:
and Please Mark as Installed if you do use this.

Installed.

One issue I often have with these types of mods - especially with vBSEO or something running, is that Twitter shares usually have URLs too long to be much use on Twitter with its 140 character limit. You often get a few characters of the thread title and then a long URL, when what you need is the full thread title and a short URL.

Does or can this mod incorporate URL shortening such as bit.ly or similar?

Twitter will auto shorten any URL... once you tweet it you will see the URL is really a "short URL."

Not quite. Twitter does shorten the URL, but only AFTER it's composed the tweet.

See the following image - this is from the current Tweet mod we have installed after it's gone through to Twitter. As you can see, the thread title is cut off and a long URL is shown. Twitter shortens the URL after this, not before.


So you do end up with a shortened URL, but you still have a cut-off thread title, resulting in this:


Therefore, URL shortening would need to take place BEFORE the info is sent to Twitter.

Installed. But not working :(

Do I have to update any counters in "Maintenance"?

Under vBulletin Options I have enabled the Mod and various Social sites but nothing is appearing. Any ideas?

If you have a customized style the auto-template edit might not work. Check your navbar template.

The mod looks for this exact line of code:
If it's not there the auto-template edit will fail. In that case you should manually add the code:
to your navbar template anywhere you want the button bar to show.

Then in the mod options you can turn off the option for the auto-template edit since it's not needed.

Thanks, this is now displaying on the index but how do I get it to work within thread, for posts etc?

If you put the code in the navbar template it should be showing on every page that has the navbar, including threads and posts. Is it not?

Its showing on every page within navbar but not on each post within a thread

It's not supposed to show on each post. You are sharing the entire thread, not each post.

Thanks for the PM, Downloaded and am checking it out on our board.

:)

Very nice, but as I get more than a bit of traffic from reddit I need this included in the main listing before adding this addon.

This is a neat little mod. Thanks! Instead of putting it below the navbar, I used a conditional to place the bar just below the first post of every thread. Very cool!

is there a way to put this mod in threads?

Yes, you can choose to do manual template edits and just add $more_share_options to wherever you want in your showthread template.

When I tweet, it doesn't update the counter; it stays at zero. Does it only count other peoples' tweets, or is it just not counting?

Do you have VBSEO installed? A link to your forum?

There is a known issue with the twitter counter not working on VB 4.x but it usually works on 3.x. Sometimes it doesn't update right away.

Yup!

Yep - in my sig.

This is the 3.x forum. Is there a known issue with 3.x?

There is with VBSEO installed.

In the mod settings try turning Force Standard URL? to "No" and see if it helps.

Yeah, I already had that set to no.

No worries; I'll just turn of the Twitter count.

Thanxx, this Centering information makes it look good on our forum. Marked INSTALLED!

Hi, I'm having trouble getting this mod working. Iv'e installed it as per the instructions and activated it through Admin CP>options but can't see anything anywhere. I'm running VBSEO and have tried both settings to Forced Standard URL on/off. Any ideas?

If I have to paste $more_share_options into a template please let me know which one and where about to paste the code. I'm clueless about template modification or php. Ideally I would like this to appear in every thread as well as the main navbar.
Thanks,
D

Hello,

If nothing is showing it is likely you need to make the manual template edit.

I recommend putting it in your navbar template.

Find the code:
And put this right after it:
If you can't find the code <!-- / nav buttons bar --> in your navbar template you must have a custom style. I would suggest putting $more_share_options at the very bottom of the template in that case and moving it around as needed, by trial and error if necessary.

Thank you for creating this mod. It's just what I need and it works perfectly.

Would it be possible to add the below Google Search code into the template.

I can't get it to line up with the rest of the icons. Any tip?.

You would add the code to the more_share_options template.

Put it between or after any of the existing blocks... each block start and ends with a comment such as:

Put all of your code between <td> </td> tags, so...

You may need to manually enter a width or alignment setting for the <td> tag.

really loving this but having an issue with liking individual thread pages...I get an error....any advice?

http://www.njstangers.org/forum/new-...post-8786.html

For some reason I also can't change the color of the bar to another color other than white? Am I doing something wrong?

I see you have Facebook Connect installed, probably something conflicting... I need to clean up/update this mod soon anyway, would hold off or disable facebook like for the time being if you keep getting the error.

Thanks I appreciate that.....I'm not sure why But I've had a hard time getting any facebook like button to work. Also is there any right way to change the color of that area? I am only able to change the color of the border display for the widgets as you can see. :)

To change the colors you will need to edit the more_share_options template.

There are several places you may try to make the edit, since you have a custom style I can't tell you for sure which would work.

First I would try looking at the line:

And adding a background color to it:

For example.

You will need to know some basic HTML to get the exact colors of course.

perfect thanks I'll try that. I plugged the color in several parts of that file. I was using the bg code with the color code #s

tried it and didn't work....the only section that seems to influence the color is this section:

In terms of the likes, it works for the home and forum page but not individual threads if that helps you. Thanks

My answer remains it's probably some sort of conflict with your Facebook Connect.

Thanks a lot for this product =)

i have installed in my forum and works awesome, but i have a problem :(

my site is a spanish forum and the facebook button/dialogue is in english.

when i add (independent of this plugin) the "official" facebook frame the button "LIKE" is "ME GUSTA"


even if the plugin is in the same page with the official iframe the bar (your plugin) says "LIKE" and my buttons "ME GUSTA"

hehehe, excuse my bad english.

can you help me, please? :)

You will need to edit the template more_share_options, find the code:

and change it you your language settings.