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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[hasidoo]

Dear developer,
I'm having some compatibility issues with downloads II and 8wayrun media library mods.
The share buttons appear at the top of theses mod pages, but although someone clicks the like button, it is not getting the current page url (I mean it appears as if the person has liked the community). Can u kindly tell me a solution for this please..

Apart from that, this mod works fine and I simply love this

[BirdOPrey5]

Can I get a link to your community?

[hasidoo]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

Can I get a link to your community?

Surely. Check out this link.
http://www.zoom.lk/forums/media.php?do=details&mid=144

637 likes here represent the like for the community, not for this page.

I'm having the same issue here too.
http://www.zoom.lk/forums/downloads.php?do=file&id=185

[BirdOPrey5]

I have confirmed in your HTML source code the correct URL is being supplied to the Facebook Like button on all pages.

However Facebook itself reports a "Redirect Error" when access your site's pages:
https://developers.facebook.com/tool...rums%2Ffaq.php

If you scroll down that page near the bottom you will see it it being redirected to your forum homepage.

I don't know how or why that is happening, you may have something in your .htaccess file or something setup on your server that does this- it is not normal vBulletin behavior.

[hasidoo]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

I have confirmed in your HTML source code the correct URL is being supplied to the Facebook Like button on all pages.

However Facebook itself reports a "Redirect Error" when access your site's pages:
https://developers.facebook.com/tool...rums%2Ffaq.php

If you scroll down that page near the bottom you will see it it being redirected to your forum homepage.

I don't know how or why that is happening, you may have something in your .htaccess file or something setup on your server that does this- it is not normal vBulletin behavior.

whom should I contact regarding this issue? Thank you very much for the quick response.

[BirdOPrey5]

I really don't know... I doubt Facebook has staff to answer these questions. Do you have any kind of custom htaccess file? I was hoping the link above would have reminded you about something you setup that may be interfering.

I can't really think of any reason Facebook's spider is getting a 301 redirect when regular users do not except for a custom setting in htaccess or the server.

You may see if your host has an answer but I doubt they will.

[hasidoo]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

I really don't know... I doubt Facebook has staff to answer these questions. Do you have any kind of custom htaccess file? I was hoping the link above would have reminded you about something you setup that may be interfering.

I can't really think of any reason Facebook's spider is getting a 301 redirect when regular users do not except for a custom setting in htaccess or the server.

You may see if your host has an answer but I doubt they will.

I have an htaccess file. At the top of that file,there are these lines.
ErrorDocument 403 /403.shtml
ErrorDocument 404 /404.shtml
ErrorDocument 500 /500.shtml
ErrorDocument 400 /400.shtml
ErrorDocument 401 /401.shtml

I'm sorry if I asked you something wrong. I've no idea what to do.

[BirdOPrey5]

You didn't ask anything wrong, I just have no idea what to do to fix it. If I ever figure it out I will post here.

[charlesr]

What are the admin options for this please? Can you specify only on CMS for example? (Sorry if earlier in thread).

[BirdOPrey5]

In the first post is a link to the full admin options:
http://www.qapla.com/mods/ss/msotng_admincp_free.jpg

Basically it is enabled by default on ALL pages. You can specify THIS_SCRIPT values to disable on specific pages.

If you ONLY wanted it on the CMS it would probably be easier to follow the instructions for the manual template edit and simply put the code inside a template conditional- such as:

<vb:if condition="THIS_SCRIPT=='vbcms'">
{vb:raw more_share_tng}
</vb:if>

So it only appears on the CMS and you don't have to enter 20 different THIS_SCRIPT values to literally disable them on every other page.