Miscellaneous Hacks - 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!



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[VHLinks]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

I put your site in the Facebook Debugger and got this:

https://developers.facebook.com/tool...ks-t52693.html

It's saying that there were too many redirects... if you scroll down you'll see at least two 301 redirects and a 3rd page.

I'm not really sure how or why this is happening- it may be the result of your .htaccess file or the way your domain is setup. I really don't have any more info- hopefully you know what is going on.

Ok that at least helps! Thanks. Something to go off of.

[VHLinks]

Well once I turned off Zoints SEO and went back to the old way of calling the thread, showtread.php etc....THEN it worked. But I don't want to do that.

Does anyone know a work around to allow the like button to work with redirecting URL's with SEO scripts? I know most most people around here use VBSEO or Zoints SEO. I can't believe they don't have like buttons on their sites.

[VHLinks]

Well I turned off the 301 directing in the Zoints settings. That seemed to do it. I guess basically it won't redirect the old showthread.php stuff to the right place, but I haven't used that format on the board in like 5 years so I doubt it will matter.

But yep now it's working.

[BirdOPrey5]

Hey... all of a sudden the thread I "test liked" on your forum last week showed up on my wall this morning- so I guess any past likes will start working.

[JesterP]

When I go to get my app id, it asks for a password. I enter my password and it redirects me back to my own wall.

Any ideas??

[BirdOPrey5]

Sounds like a Facebook cookie issue. Do you keep yourself logged into facebook? Maybe try another browser.

[j-bo]

Edit: Found the problem, didn't have it uploaded in correct file.

[B@Zzz...]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

If I remember right it takes you to a page that allows you to create an app, it doesn't just hand you an appid by clicking on it- you have to put in some info and when you are done you get an appid.

Oops, didn't receive email notification, so I missed your post...
I think I wasn't logged in, because now it works. Thank you. I don't know what I can do more with the app created on facebook, but I have my ID.

Thank you!

[juliannova]

Can you add Pinterest button on the update

[BirdOPrey5]

I have setup a pinterest account and am working on how it can be integrated. Since pinterest wants a unique image for each share I don't know if it makes sense to include it yet since choosing a unique image from a thread is well out of scope of this mod.