Social Group and Album Enhancements - Add Twitter to vBSEO Social Bookmarking

If you use vBSEO and want to add Twitter to your Social Bookmarking area, then this is for you.

• Upload files to your forum root
• Open vBSEO and go to Other Enhancements>> Social Bookmarking
• Put a check in add custom
• Add this code

  http://twitter.com/home/?status=Check+this+out+%url%,images/vbseo/twitter.png,Share on Twitter,Share on Twitter

Now you should see your twitter icon listed with your other Social Bookmarking icons.

You can change "Check This Out" to what ever you want. But make sure you use +'s for the spaces. Using %20's will not work. Make sure to never use http://www.twitter.com/ - This will not work. You will need to always use http://twitter.com - For some reason twitter doesn't want you to use the www address. Now this will work fine if you're all ready logged in. But for people that are not logged in, it will not work well at all.

If you would like to add a "&" symbol you will need to use +%26 in order to have it added. So here is an example:

http://twitter.com/home/?status=Read+26%+Share+%url%,images/vbseo/twitter.png,Share on Twitter,Share on Twitter

If you would like to have your vBSEO Social Bookmarks in the postbit like mine here is what you will need to do.


vB4 Post Bit

Here is how to locate the postbit template to edit:

AdminCP>> Styles & Templates>> Style Manager>> Edit Templates>> Postbit Templates>> postbit

Search for:

						<div class="imlinks">
							{vb:raw post.icqicon} {vb:raw post.aimicon} {vb:raw post.msnicon} {vb:raw post.yahooicon} {vb:raw post.skypeicon}
						</div>
					</vb:if>

After Add:

		<!--VBSEO_BOOKMARKS-->

Legacy Postbit

AdminCP>> Styles & Templates>> Style Manager>> Edit Templates>> Postbit Templates>> postbit_legacy

Search for:

				<div class="imlinks">
					{vb:raw post.icqicon} {vb:raw post.aimicon} {vb:raw post.msnicon} {vb:raw post.yahooicon} {vb:raw post.skypeicon}
				</div>

After Add:

		<!--VBSEO_BOOKMARKS-->

Now save and you should be good to go.


NOTE: If you don't have vBSEO RC2 installed you will get an added "$post[postid]" on the end of your shared twitter posts. This is a bug in RC1. Instead of giving you a #post123 you get #post$post[postid]. So to fix just update to RC2.

[TroyTrojansFan]

Well, I am using mrpaint's post to twitter on threads. That might be the problem? But like we mentioned, the mod is still working.

[crazyace]

Troy, I see that you are still using vBSEO RC1. Try upgrading to RC2 and see if that helps. I know they fixed a lot of bugs in RC2.

[TroyTrojansFan]

I installed vbSEO RC2 and that fixed the problem. :up: Great job on the mod, it works great and just as expected. :up:

[Brandon Sheley]

thanks for this, ill add it shortly

[crazyace]

Originally Posted by TroyTrojansFan

I installed vbSEO RC2 and that fixed the problem. :up: Great job on the mod, it works great and just as expected. :up:

You're very welcome. I'm happy that I was able to help you get it fixed :-)

[Alfa1]

Is it possible to add this to vbulletins social bookmarking?

[crazyace]

Originally Posted by Alfa1

Is it possible to add this to vbulletins social bookmarking?

It may be. But I don't think that the URL will work the same way. The vBSEO 3.5 RC2 is processing the URL to make it work. I'll check into this and see what I can come up with

[woffie]

Real nice!

[trackpads]

Thanks! Installed