Show Thread Enhancements - Addthis Bookmark Integration

Loved the addition of bookmarks in vbulletin but hated the way they were placed at the bottom of the thread, each time I read a thread I immediately found myself scrolling to the top again. I tried moving the bookmarks to the top but didn't like the way they looked.

I came across http://www.addthis.com which allows you to add a handy piece of code to your website that allows you to bookmark a thread to any of the large bookmark sites, 34 different site's in total with out any mess or cluttering up the postbit area with tons of images. Plus addthis.com track all clicks and pages that have been submitted from your site.

AddThis is already on hundreds of thousands of websites including TIME Magazine, Oracle, TechCrunch, Freewebs, Entertainment Weekly, Topix, Lonely Planet, MySpace, PGA Tour, Tower Records, Squidoo, Zappos, FOX, ABC, CBS just to name a few and could be on your vbulletin forum within minutes!!

Demo click here then a thread to view demo


Quick and easy installation:
register an account at http://www.addthis.com and log in, once logged in click Get your button code! and scroll down to and choose from a number of different buttons and get your code.

in SHOWTHREAD
find:

<td class="vbmenu_control" id="threadtools" nowrap="nowrap">

above add:

<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN -->
<td class="vbmenu_control" id="addthis" nowrap="nowrap">
ADD THE ADDTHIS CODE HERE
</td>
<!-- AddThis Button END -->

done!

Make this the simplest MOTM Ever

[drsli]

Works perfectly with 3.82 too. Many thanks!

[obmob]

I just realized that addthis popups an invisible flash movie coming from clearspring.com, it seems to be tracking what you do.

Read a couple of warnings while googling, any thought from you guys?
You might find clearspring, addthis and statcounter cookies.

[karnevil]

Nice Mod, thanks.

Installed on vB 3.7.0 and placed into each post made on the forum next to the yin yang rep button See screenshot below.

In Postbit Templates>>postbit

Find

<if condition="$show['postcount']">#<a href="showpost.php?$session[sessionurl]p=$post[postid]&amp;postcount=$post[postcount]" target="new" rel="nofollow" id="postcount$post[postid]" name="$post[postcount]"><strong>$post[postcount]</strong></a> &nbsp;

Immediately after insert your Addthis code

before

</if>
			<if condition="$show['reputationlink']">
				<span id="reputationmenu_$post[postid]"><a href="reputation.php?$session[sessionurl]p=$post[postid]" rel="nofollow" id="reputation_$post[postid]"><img class="inlineimg" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/reputation.gif" alt="<phrase 1="$post[username]">$vbphrase[add_to_xs_reputation]</phrase>

Marked as installed and tipped MOTM.

Thanks F0xy

[goldenchild79]

the twitter button doesn't work right. when i click on the twitter button, it takes me to twitter and there is only a shorten url and @addthis. it doesn't have the title of the thread. anyway i can fix that? thanks.

[GSeybold]

good stuff.. nice forum by the way

[Fuzzy Logic]

Works great, thanks, but in your image the button is centered vertically within the box, mine is a little high (the bottom of the button is level with the text in the next box) - anyone know how I can move it down a few pixels or centre it vertically?

Many thanks!

[mrt12345]

Thanks that was great

[Kingdombuilder]

Wow, Thank you and great mod. i have it installed and all is well.

[balkanboy]

this works with vb4?

Edit: Dang doesnt seem to have same code any chance someone can do a quick one for vb4

[F0xy]

Originally Posted by balkanboy

this works with vb4?

Edit: Dang doesnt seem to have same code any chance someone can do a quick one for vb4

I haven't upgraded to vb4 yet. I will when it goes gold and update this add-on.