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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[pityocamptes]

Originally Posted by Videx

I wonder why, since the images themselves should be cached locally.

A bigger problem I've noticed is the delay loading FB. It would be nice if there was some way to just display the button and let it load whatever it has to later. Not like anyone will be clicking it in the first second or two anyway.

Don't know. My page load went over 1meg with this add on...

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by Sal Collaziano

Is there an easy way to change WHERE the buttons are displayed?

You can go to the mod settings and set Automatically Show Below Navbar? to No.

Then manually add {vb:raw more_share_tng} to the header, navbar, or footer template, anywhere you want.

Originally Posted by pityocamptes

BOP, I have a few questions. I noticed that this mod (with the facebook, Google+, etc. buttons) on the home page index kicks the total page load up about 400+kb. Is there anyway to shrink the image sizes of those buttons to reduce page load, or perhaps have it on all the other standard pages EXCEPT for the index? or perhaps something I am not thinking of? Thanks again!

You can disable in forum index by going to Admin CP settings for the mod, go to the Disable on these Scripts (Pages) setting, and add index to the list of scripts.

Originally Posted by Videx

I wonder why, since the images themselves should be cached locally.

A bigger problem I've noticed is the delay loading FB. It would be nice if there was some way to just display the button and let it load whatever it has to later. Not like anyone will be clicking it in the first second or two anyway.

Are you using the latest version of vBulletin? Early versions of 4.x did not use asynchronous loading for Facebook but newer versions do.

[BirdOPrey5]

Although it's not this mod those concerned about file size should check out a custom share button created by digitalpoint- https://tools.digitalpoint.com/social-buttons

Its as light weight as can be and allows sharing on the major sites with its own combined counter.

[pityocamptes]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

You can go to the mod settings and set Automatically Show Below Navbar? to No.

Then manually add {vb:raw more_share_tng} to the header, navbar, or footer template, anywhere you want.




You can disable in forum index by going to Admin CP settings for the mod, go to the Disable on these Scripts (Pages) setting, and add index to the list of scripts.



Are you using the latest version of vBulletin? Early versions of 4.x did not use asynchronous loading for Facebook but newer versions do.

Using 4.2.2...

[BirdOPrey5]

From the site in your signature it seems to be working as I'd expect, even if it doesn't finish loading the rest of the page is accessible without pause until it finishes.

Can't really do much to change that. Ideally vBulletin would have put the Facebook Code in the header rather than footer but I don't think its worth the effort of moving it.

[krimznheidiz]

Hi guys, does this mod working for vb 4.2.1?

[addamroy]

BOP, is there any way to add some juice to this thing that will allow us to manually add the shortcode in the threadbit templates?

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by krimznheidiz

Hi guys, does this mod working for vb 4.2.1?

Yes.

Originally Posted by addamroy

BOP, is there any way to add some juice to this thing that will allow us to manually add the shortcode in the threadbit templates?

Not going to happen with this version- I am going to release a major update that will have that option though.

[addamroy]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

Not going to happen with this version- I am going to release a major update that will have that option though.

Cool. When do you suspect this update will be ready? Definitely looking forward to it.

[BirdOPrey5]

Hard to guess... I need a good weekend to dedicate to it to get it ready to go so anytime really.