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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[SocketTF]

I'm trying to deploy the bar manually using the provided option and edit my desired templates, I don't like the BOP5 in ALL the pages so I've edited for example SHOWTREAD inserting the code {vb:raw more_share_tng} inside as you said. The BOP bar don't show at all.

Any ideas or what I'm missing?

[BirdOPrey5]

The mod instructions say clearly you can only put the template in the navbar, header, or footer template.

I did not include code to show it in SHOWTHREAD or any other template besides the 3 above.

HOWEVER, I did include the option to disable the bar on pages you don't want- the setting Disable on these Scripts (Pages) you can add the pages you don't want it to show on.

[SocketTF]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

HOWEVER, I did include the option to disable the bar on pages you don't want- the setting Disable on these Scripts (Pages) you can add the pages you don't want it to show on.

Lol, sorry, I missed that option. Thanks for the explanation

[BirdOPrey5]

No problem... there are A LOT of options.

[Skierpetros]

when i click on like it gives me an Error.


The page at http://www.shopforum.gr/content.php could not be reached.

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by Skierpetros

when i click on like it gives me an Error.


The page at http://www.shopforum.gr/content.php could not be reached.

Here is the report from Facebook:

https://developers.facebook.com/tool...%2Fcontent.php

Using data from http://www.shopforum.gr/content.php because there was an error following the redirect path

Circular redirect path detected (see 'Redirect Path' section for details).

URL requested a HTTP redirect, but it could not be followed.

I'm sure what it means exactly, Facebook isn't able to read your page how they want- Are you doing anything special/weird with your htaccess maybe?

A google search found this- may be of use?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8...cular-redirect

[GamerPerfection]

See where I currently have this mod: http://www.gamerperfection.com

Is it possible for me to move it to the line above, where it has the little navigation bit with the home button and forum, but have the Mod right aligned so it doesn't clash with the navigation?

[StonePilot]

So far so good. Took me a while to realize that the THIS_SCRIPT was just talking about the php pages on my server.

I can't get it to exclude content.php though, perhaps that's an alias and not the actual file name? not sure, otherwise it appears to be working fine.

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by GamerPerfection

See where I currently have this mod: http://www.gamerperfection.com

Is it possible for me to move it to the line above, where it has the little navigation bit with the home button and forum, but have the Mod right aligned so it doesn't clash with the navigation?

I'm sure it is possible but would involve some serious editing of the navar template. Also may run into issues with long thread titles that would make the breadcrumb trail very long.

Originally Posted by StonePilot

So far so good. Took me a while to realize that the THIS_SCRIPT was just talking about the php pages on my server.

I can't get it to exclude content.php though, perhaps that's an alias and not the actual file name? not sure, otherwise it appears to be working fine.

vbcms is the THIS_SCRIPT value for content.php

[hasidoo]

perfect mod. I love it..