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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[fxdigi-cash]

Thanks for this great plugin " More Share Options for VB4 by BOP5v261". it works good on vb4.2, but the other one doesn't work especially on IE browser. it shows some mess

[patrick91]

Uninstalled but thanks!

[toon79]

Is there a way for the facebook like to take an image, it seems to sometimes take the logo from the forum but there's no selector to pick an image like Google+

I understand this could be the facebook side of things rather than this plugin but has anyone found a way to do this?

[BirdOPrey5]

It has nothing to do with this plugin.

If you have a facebook image set in Facebook Options (the built in VB Facebook options), remove it and Facebook will usually let someone choose the image if it finds any. Attachments will never be recognized as images.

[49er]

I have this in Gold and having this problem, i get a thumbnail instead of the original picture when liking a post or thread on my facebook ..
When using http://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug it gives me this error... (Below)

How do i rectify this issue?

Thanks in advance ...

Like Button Warnings That Should Be Fixed

Like Button Tag Missing: og:title is missing. The og:title meta tag is necessary for Facebook to render a News Feed story that generates a high click-through rate.

Like Button Tag Missing: og:image is missing. The og:image meta tag is necessary for Facebook to render a News Feed story that generates a high click-through rate.

[bzcomputers]

Originally Posted by 49er

I have this in Gold and having this problem, i get a thumbnail instead of the original picture when liking a post or thread on my facebook ..
When using http://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug it gives me this error... (Below)

How do i rectify this issue?

Thanks in advance ...

Like Button Warnings That Should Be Fixed

Like Button Tag Missing: og:title is missing. The og:title meta tag is necessary for Facebook to render a News Feed story that generates a high click-through rate.

Like Button Tag Missing: og:image is missing. The og:image meta tag is necessary for Facebook to render a News Feed story that generates a high click-through rate.

The "og:title is missing" is not unusual Facebook typically doesn't have an issue figuring this out. Having the og:image missing is probably where your problem exists.

Are you using the vBulletin built in Facebook features along with this mod? If so they may be conflicting. First make sure you have an image set at: AdminCP - Settings - Options - Facebook Options - Image URL. then run debug again. If that doesn't work try disabling this mod for "showthread" script and then run the debug again and see if the og:image issue still exists.

[49er]

Originally Posted by bzcomputers

The "og:title is missing" is not unusual Facebook typically doesn't have an issue figuring this out. Having the og:image missing is probably where your problem exists.

Are you using the vBulletin built in Facebook features along with this mod? If so they may be conflicting. First make sure you have an image set at: AdminCP - Settings - Options - Facebook Options - Image URL. then run debug again. If that doesn't work try disabling this mod for "showthread" script and then run the debug again and see if the og:image issue still exists.

Thank you Sir, this now places the image i have added into Facebook Options, very much appreciate your reply. :up:

[Bob_R]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

Please don't feel you have to buy the gold to fix the issue... First I've never seen dig count not work so I can promise you going gold will not help that.

The twitter upgrade to an iframe you could conceivably do yourself by editing the more_share_options template and removing the old twitter code and replacing it with the iframe code.

My twitter count doesn't seem to be working. Because i just tweeted and it remained the same

Would you be as so kind as to explain paragraph 2 quoted here?

Thank you.

EDIT: If it makes any difference, it works on the Forumhome. EDIT(2):But doesn't seem to anywhere else.

[Toorak Times]

YEEES, Bop, just what I need. Really cool, I like all the options too. Great job.

Now I can get rid of tell a friend widgets

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by Bob_R

My twitter count doesn't seem to be working. Because i just tweeted and it remained the same

Would you be as so kind as to explain paragraph 2 quoted here?

Thank you.

EDIT: If it makes any difference, it works on the Forumhome. EDIT(2):But doesn't seem to anywhere else.

That whole post is out-dated, the only supported version now is the "TNG" version - More Share Options TNG FREE (v 3.2) by BOP5.zip

And Twitter is working fine on all pages I've seen.

The old version had an old way of displaying the Tweet button, Twitter updated the code at some point, the TNG version uses the newer code.