Miscellaneous Hacks - More Share Options TNG by BOP5 (Facebook, Twitter, Google +1, AddThis) Share Buttons

Brought to you by BirdOPrey5
www.Qapla.com

Current Version: 3.2

More Share Options The Next Generation (v 3.0) is a complete rewrite of my "More Share Options" mod. If you are looking for the old version I am keeping it attached (More Share Options for VB4 by BOP5v261.zip) but it will no longer be updated or supported.

The purpose of the mod is to add additional share "buttons" (Besides Facebook Like) to vBulletin.

Demo: Practically every page of Qapla.com has the "Gold" version enabled.

There is GOLD Version with additional features available at:
http://www.qapla.com/mods/showthread...4-by-BOP5-GOLD

The FREE Version allows sharing to the following sites:

• Facebook (Like OR Recommend with Send Button Option, and with old style "Share" option, Dark Option, Show Faces Option)
• Twitter (Specify "Via" Username, Related Account, default hash tags, and language- With or without counts)
• Google +1 (With or without count, option to use built in Facebook language or specify custom language)
• Add This (Option to input publisher ID for analytics tracking, enable/disable printing, disable duplicate sites option)

The FREE Version also has the following Style Vars for basic styling:

• Height of Share Bar (in Pixels)
• Padding
• Margins

The GOLD Version has all of the above PLUS the following additional share options:

• Pinterest (With or without count, option to specify pinned image, better Pin It sharing button in Beta available for testing)
• Digg (With count or icon only)
• Linked In (With or without count)
• StumbleUpon (Several options with/without counts)
• Reddit (Several options with/without "points")
• Custom Buttons (Add as many additional custom buttons as you want!)

The GOLD Version also has additional Style Vars for complete control of Share Bar Styling:

• Background
• Border

(Both FREE and GOLD can be completely customized by CSS as well if you prefer not to use Style Vars.)

Some of the major differences between More Share Options TNG and the Original Version:

• Share Buttons now show on ALL pages, including pages by 3rd party applications like Arcades and Media Galleries.
• Twitter Count Now WORKS
• Table-less design (All formatting done via CSS/Style Vars)
• Additional built-in Facebook and Twitter options
• New options to disable by Usergroup and/or THIS_SCRIPT value (as well as by Forum and by Style)
• Pinterest Now Integrated (Gold version only)

As with the prior version, fast loading Asynchronous JavaScript is used everywhere possible.

IMPORTANT UPGRADE NOTICE!

If you are "upgrading" from an old version (any version less than 3.0) be aware this version (TNG) has been coded as a completely new and separate mod. It will NOT upgrade an old version.

I suggest if you run an old version of "More Share Options" you disable it via Product Manager in Admin CP.

Install and configure this new mod and make sure it works and you like it.

If you do like it then you can uninstall the old mod from Product Manager.

IMPORTANT - Some users have reported the new mod will not run until the old mod is uninstalled. If you have installed 3.0 and it is not running, please try uninstalling the old mod first.

VBSEO Compatibility:

UPDATE: It has been reported working with VBSEO!

Basically I have no idea how compatible this may be with VBSEO as I don't have access to a VBSEO enabled forum. If you use VBSEO be sure it works as designed (you can share pages.)

Test share 3 pages: The Forum Home, a Thread (showthread), and a Forum (forumdisplay) - if all 3 shares work I am confident the mod will work completely for you. I suggest you use Twitter or Facebook for your testing.

If you do run into VBSEO issues please post here and I will do my best to fix.

General Compatibility:
This has been tested as far back a VB 4.0.8 and as recent as VB 4.2.0. It is expected to work on all VB 4.x.x versions however if you have a very old version of VB please try the FREE version before purchasing the Gold to ensure compatibility. This is not compatible with VB 3.x.

As of version 3.2.0 there is a recommended manual file edit for those running VB 4.1.9 or below.

Admin CP Full Screen Shot: http://www.qapla.com/mods/ss/msotng_admincp_free.jpg

VB 3.8 Version Here.

Please Mark as Installed if you use this.
Donations always appreciated. :up:

To be clear the New (TNG) Version is: More Share Options TNG FREE (v 3.2) by BOP5.zip

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Please "Mark as Installed" if you use this.
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[puertoblack2003]

works good with vbseo..nice job

[OlijO]

On my side : vBSuite 4.1.4
Google+ work without problem.
Twitter work but the count of tweet stay to zero, perhaps the action is not instantaneous ?

[zelnik]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

Uploaded new version 1.02 to fix the twitter username issue- sorry.

I don't understand why with VBSEO the original (vBulletin created) URL won't work at the same time as the VBSEO generated URL. That seems like something basic that should be part of VBSEO.

Honestly I don't have VBSEO so I have no way of test this with it. I have however explicitly set the URL for every share option, not just twitter- so if twitter isn't working with VBSEO my guess is none of them will work with VBSEO.

If you're willing to experiment edit the plugin and find and remove all instances of:

'.$href.'

There's a lot of them. That should cause Twitter and all other share options to use the current URL in the web browser as the link to the thread- this will work but it's not ideal since people may visit the same thread via numerous URLs- but the shares should work with VBSEO in this setup- counts might not be true though.



You need to give me some information if you expect help. Some of the basics would be:

What isn't working exactly? Is there an error message? Did it import OK? What version of vBulletin are you using? What browser are you using?

There's not much I can do with "no working vb4 suite " - I designed this on a VB 4 suite so it should be working.



Glad it's working for someone! :up:

Thanks, I think once the hardcoded twitter stuff was removed then vbseo stuff worked with twitter!

[oBEAVISo]

Seems to work ok for me too on 4.1.4 with vbseo installed . One thing i notice , Once tweeted, the tweet carries the full url address and not the shortened url . Any ideas ?

[troyuncucom]

can i use 3.8.x?

[Sage Knight]

Good day sir.

You have just made my day, I needed the exact samething. Cheers!

Edit; Nominated

[lodos0677]

İt ıs facebook connect open.
Later installed. Thank you.

[BirdOPrey5]

First, you're welcome to everyone who has said "thank you."

Originally Posted by OlijO

On my side : vBSuite 4.1.4
Google+ work without problem.
Twitter work but the count of tweet stay to zero, perhaps the action is not instantaneous ?

No it's a conflict with the twitter button and VB4- well known. I noted this 3 times. (In the first post, in the mod instructions, and in the mod setting itself. In all 3 places I said there is a known issue and the count will probably not work with twitter. I recommend disabling the count box for twitter. I included the option to turn it on only in the event t gets fixed by either vBulletin or twitter.)

Originally Posted by zelnik

Thanks, I think once the hardcoded twitter stuff was removed then vbseo stuff worked with twitter!

Glad to hear... I will try to program in a VBSEO Installed Yes/No option in the next version so it works either way out of the box without custom edits.

Originally Posted by oBEAVISo

Seems to work ok for me too on 4.1.4 with vbseo installed . One thing i notice , Once tweeted, the tweet carries the full url address and not the shortened url . Any ideas ?

I believe that is something twitter is deciding to do on their own. If you mouse-over the link you will see it indeed has the link to the url shortener address.

[stationar]

Installed. Like it very much. Two questions:
1. How can I add this to other pages, like downloads.php?
2. How can I edit "tweet" to include URL with title?

[BirdOPrey5]

1) This should show anywhere the standard vBulletin Facebook Like button would normally show. I'd imagine to add it to a downloads page would require custom coding a plugin to make the facebook_likebutton template available to that page.

2) the title and a link to the page is already included on each tweet.