Show Thread Enhancements - Social Buttons with Short Share URL

Description:
This Modification will help you to add social buttons in thread conversation toolbar

• using your site short urls e.g. http://example.com/node/xxxx
• using original social buttons code
• only one template modification
• supporting vb5 responsive style
• supporting LTR and RTL style
• supporting style variables

Screenshots:







Instructions:

• Open your site [Admin CP]
• Go to [Styles & Templates] > [Search Templates]
• Select your style from [Search in Style]. Put the following code in [Search for Text] and press [Find] button
  

  <vb:if condition="!empty($showSubscriberFilter)">

• Select the template named [conversation_toolbar]
• Find the above line in the [conversation_toolbar] template code as shown bellow
  

  ... ... ...
  ... ... ...
        </vb:if>
      </ul>
    </div>
  
    <vb:if condition="!empty($showSubscriberFilter)">
      <vb:comment>
        This form will be hidden and will not be shown at all but this will be programmatically used for paginating and sorting the Subscriber header 'Last Activity' in Subscription widget.
      </vb:comment>
  ... ... ...
  ... ... ...

• Add the the following code above the red line
• Note 1: You must replace "EXAMPLE.COM" with your website naked domain. There are 3 links.
• Note 2: If your vBulletin files installed inside a folder, add the folder. e.g. example.com/vb
  

  <vb:comment>START of Social Buttons Code</vb:comment>
  <vb:if condition="$page['view'] == 'thread'">
  	<style>
  		.share-buttons { float:{vb:stylevar left}; position:relative; padding:8px 10px; height:20px; margin-top:-37px; }
  		.share-buttons.withRB { margin-{vb:stylevar left}:150px; }
  		.share-buttons iframe { float:{vb:stylevar left}; border:none; height:20px; }
  		.share-buttons .facebook { width:135px; }
  		.share-buttons .twitter { width:90px; }
  		.share-buttons #___plusone_0 { width:72px !important; float:{vb:stylevar left} !important; }
  		@media only screen and (max-width:767px) { .share-buttons.withRB { margin-{vb:stylevar left}: 100px; } }
  		@media only screen and (max-width:636px) { .share-buttons { float: none; border: {vb:stylevar toolbar_border}; background:{vb:stylevar toolbar_background}; margin: 0; } .share-buttons.withRB { margin: 0; } }
  	</style>
  	<div class="share-buttons<vb:if condition="(isset($showReplyBtn) AND $showReplyBtn) OR (isset($showAll) AND $showAll) OR $showVmBtn"> withRB</vb:if>">
  {vb:set starterRoute, {vb:raw conversation.starterroute}}
  {vb:set starterPost.nodeid, {vb:raw conversation.starter}}
  {vb:set threadurl, {vb:url {vb:raw starterRoute}, {vb:raw starterPost}}}
  		<iframe class="facebook" src="//www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http://EXAMPLE.COM/node/{vb:raw nodeid}&layout=button_count&action=like&show_faces=false&share=true&width=135&height=20" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowTransparency="true"></iframe>
  		<iframe class="twitter" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets/tweet_button.html?text={vb:raw conversation.title}%0A&url=http://EXAMPLE.COM/node/{vb:raw nodeid}&counturl={vb:raw threadurl}" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowTransparency="true"></iframe>
  		<div class="g-plusone" data-size="medium" data-width="68" data-href="http://EXAMPLE.COM/node/{vb:raw nodeid}"></div>
  		<script type="text/javascript">(function() {var po = document.createElement('script'); po.type = 'text/javascript'; po.async = true; po.src = '//apis.google.com/js/plusone.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s);})();</script>
  	</div>
  </vb:if>
  <vb:comment>END of Social Buttons Code</vb:comment>

Tags: Social, Share, button, buttons, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Google Plus, Thread, Short, URL, Link

[GamerUnguided]

Sweet just what i was looking for, thanks for this .... guaranteed that this is installed

[heredia21]

Perfect! Thanks for sharing, works well on mobile devices as well.

[crystalduna]

When I click conversion_toolbar it wont let me customize it

[bxb]

Works, thanks a bunch! VB5.0.5

[ecihanuysal]

works, thank you so mch

[Macgiber]

thanks

[fionix]

Any udate for the latest version 5.1.1 ? it seems this line we have to find isn't there any longer.

Thanks.

[Daryn]

Tested and works on 5.1.1.

It seems like though it sends the right URL's to Facebook, the title it sends out as a share is pretty generic. Will fiddle some more with that.

[Razgritz]

This work.