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.
Donations always appreciated. :up:
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[silberfuchs]

I just installed the mod within my 4.1.7 Suite and everything seems to work fine. Except the facebook function. If I click the "I like" button it's working fine but I cannot "dislike it" and the message at Facebook is my domain with the additional information "vBulletin 4 Suite" below the domain. The logo is alway a picture from the latest CMS News in spite of the fact I clicked on the button at forumhome.

Any idea for me to support? Thanks a lot!

Issue solved!

[LuDawgs]

I love this mod. I see a clear correlation between this mod and traffic increase (also an increase in bounce rate, but we're converting new members!).

Has anyone experienced any inaccuracies with the Digg counter?

[sticky]

Installed but it only displays on forum home and not the CMS and threads. Yes, I made sure it was enabled and that enable on CMS is set to yes.

[silberfuchs]

Is there any chance to make also photos from the CMS visible in goole+? Everything works fine except the photo will not be displayed.....

...in the meantime I found the issue - it takes the logo of my vB but this has white color with a transparent background. Could you please support me to resolve that issue? Thanks a lot!

.....I only need the possibility to transfer a different logo than my vB has.....where do I have to change that?

[sticky]

Originally Posted by sticky

Installed but it only displays on forum home and not the CMS and threads. Yes, I made sure it was enabled and that enable on CMS is set to yes.

Fixed, just had to enable the thumbs up under facebook options now it displays everywhere.

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by silberfuchs

Is there any chance to make also photos from the CMS visible in goole+? Everything works fine except the photo will not be displayed.....

...in the meantime I found the issue - it takes the logo of my vB but this has white color with a transparent background. Could you please support me to resolve that issue? Thanks a lot!

.....I only need the possibility to transfer a different logo than my vB has.....where do I have to change that?

You should replace the vBulletin logo with a custom logo/title image anyway. Upload or create your image and then go to Admin CP -> Style Manager -> Your Style -> Style Vars Editor and put the path for the new logo into the stylevar Image Paths -> titleimage.

It may take some time for Google to pick up the new image... (hours, maybe days.)

Originally Posted by sticky

Fixed, just had to enable the thumbs up under facebook options now it displays everywhere.

Thanks. Please "Mark as Installed."

[silberfuchs]

I have my logo already installed, please have a look at www.mf-rn.de

The logo is only the page title in front of the header image

[BirdOPrey5]

If your logo is white on transparent the logical solution seems to be to change your logo if you're unhappy with it.

[silberfuchs]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

If your logo is white on transparent the logical solution seems to be to change your logo if you're unhappy with it.

I am not unhappy with my logo -I wanted to ask if it is possible to tell the mod to take another file to deliver to google - not to take titleimage ?

[BirdOPrey5]

There is no option in the mod to do this. I don't know the details of how Google+ works, you could Google for more info I guess. I know Facebook allows you to add HTML code to the header to force it to use an image, I'd assume Google+ has something like this.