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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[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by kinhell

Works brilliant here.

Any plans to add Reddit?

I'd consider it but I don't find any info on their button. On their own site, the link is dead for me, a Page not found error: http://www.reddit.com/reddits/buttons/

If you have a link to their button somewhere I'll take a look.

[pokesph]

updated reddit buttons link: http://www.reddit.com/buttons/

[theoutlawed]

Great mod, looks much cleaner than hacking these things in 1 by 1 on my own and the automatic updates means it's update friendly which is a +

Thanks!

[vikris]

Absolutely the greatest mod lately! Voted for mod of the month! Works perfectly on suite 4.1.5 pl1

Just that tweet count to be solved

[rajubd]

can I remove add this from option ? I want to use like , 1+ and tweet only

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by rajubd

can I remove add this from option ? I want to use like , 1+ and tweet only

Remove "add" ?? I don't know what that means.

You can disable as many or as few share options as you want, so yes it is possible to use just +1 and tweet.

[steeler7]

Originally Posted by steeler7

that's what I figured was the issue with the Google Button. Weird that it gives me the most trouble on Firefox on Vista but not on Windows 7.

I tried to left justify and the same issue. There are times that the Google+ button shows up but it's very inconsistent. The Facebook buttons never shows

I tried

I ended up fixing this issue. For some strange reason when i had upgraded the forum software, the Headinclude template didn't quite overwrite like the others and there was some left over code in there that caused a conflict with this along with having no buttons in my Editor in Edit mode.

Other than that, Mod works great and a was a huge need for those of us competing against Blogs.

I do hjave a question... where can I edit the color for the text to the Facebook "Be the first of your friends to like this"? Black on black isn't working too well for me

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by steeler7

I do hjave a question... where can I edit the color for the text to the Facebook "Be the first of your friends to like this"? Black on black isn't working too well for me

In the mod options you can switch to the "dark" style for Facebook buttons or if you only want to do it in one (or more) templates then edit the more_share_options template.

Find all instances of:

colorscheme="{vb:raw boplord}"

and change to

colorscheme="dark"

The dark style will work better on dark pages. Light and dark are the only options Facebook offers.

[archet1337]

Fantastic mod. Thanks for sharing

Is there a way to make the buttons show on CMS main page as well? They show in the articles, but I would like my users to be able to share/like the main page too.

If possible, I would like to have them show above "Recent Forum Topics" here: www.radioctrl.com/content/

[BirdOPrey5]

Share on CMS main pages has been a requested feature, I will be working on it.