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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Please "Mark as Installed" if you use this.
Donations always appreciated. :up:
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[BirdOPrey5]

There is a phrase that controls this, the same phrase that controls vbulletin's built in Facebook Like button-

GLOBAL Phrase: facebook_language
Default is: en_US

Please "Mark as Installed."

[ROTPAR]

awesome thx, installed ....No wait, I changed it to de_DE but it still shows up in english.

By the way, I would like to place the social Icons beneath the title of the first posting, could you explain how this could be done? I asked here on the forums but it seems like nobody can help me as I am not a real coder.

[BirdOPrey5]

Not sure why it wouldn't work but you can force it by editing the more_share_tng template.

Find the line:

e.src = document.location.protocol + '//connect.facebook.net/{vb:rawphrase facebook_language}/all.js';

and change it to

e.src = document.location.protocol + '//connect.facebook.net/de_DE/all.js';

This mod can't be moved below the first post it is currently coded.

[thenoob2012]

Facebook Send button is not working as intended. I can send a page to any group I am a member to, but I can not send it to any of my friends, including my own profile page.

[thang28101993]

Great Mod!
Go on with VB v4.2 Pl3

[simon661]

works good with gold version, use it a lot to share forum with linkedin group people.

see examples as below:

http://www.railtransit-cbtc.com/CBTC...ity/forum.php?

http://www.linkedin.com/groups?displ...ted=&gid=43169

http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Train...k=.gmr_4779358

[dsantana]

The Twitter part is working correctly...
The FB part of this isn't though... I removed the image ref from >Facebook Options >Image URL but it just uses a random image and no choice when posting to use a different image.
Also it just takes you to the Home Page instead of the thread or pic that you "Liked"

I've disable it for now...
www.VintageJetBoats.com

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by thenoob2012

Facebook Send button is not working as intended. I can send a page to any group I am a member to, but I can not send it to any of my friends, including my own profile page.

If you get the Facebook popup when you click on it with the TO box to enter info, unfortunately anything that happens after that is up to Facebook- nothing this mod can do or change about it.

Originally Posted by dsantana

The Twitter part is working correctly...
The FB part of this isn't though... I removed the image ref from >Facebook Options >Image URL but it just uses a random image and no choice when posting to use a different image.
Also it just takes you to the Home Page instead of the thread or pic that you "Liked"

I've disable it for now...
www.VintageJetBoats.com

Again it is up to Facebook to determine what image(s) to use if you don't specify one- nothing in this mod would change that.

If you want to re-enable and past in the HTML source code around the button (or leave it enabled on your site) I will take a look for the URL issue.

[Bob_R]

I tweeted the forumhome page yesterday and the count didn't/hasn't budged.

Any reason for this?

I tweeted a page whose counter was zero and it increased to one.

I'm thinking if you've tweeted a page you cannot tweet it again. But, I hope this is not the truth.

Thanks!

[BirdOPrey5]

I'm not really sure- it is pretty much up to Twitter when it should increase in count- there isn't too much this mod can do to change that.

Please "Mark as Installed" if you are using the mod.

Please post a link to forumhome if you want me to the check it out.