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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[ckgb]

I think I have to retract. Everything seems to work now. Weird.

[ckgb]

In your pinterest mod you give an option to add a url to an image you want to get displayed in the posts where there is no image.

Is there a possibility to get something like that added to this mo, so that added custom image would be used by default if there are no images meeting 200x200 criteria? Could be very useful.

Thank you

[ckgb]

On the below forum home page you have share buttons incorporated into the Forum Statistics section.

What is the way to do that?

http://www.juot.net/forums/forum.php

Thank you.

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by ckgb

I made this post here. I do not really know whose side the fix could be on but it would definitely be beneficial for everybody.

Please do not get upset with me for pointing this out.

Thank you

You could check out this mod- https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=305162 for better titles/descriptions.

Originally Posted by ckgb

In your pinterest mod you give an option to add a url to an image you want to get displayed in the posts where there is no image.

Is there a possibility to get something like that added to this mo, so that added custom image would be used by default if there are no images meeting 200x200 criteria? Could be very useful.

Thank you

You could do this by editing your showthread template... somewhere before the footer code add something like this-

<div style="display:none;">
<img src="images/misc/some_image_you_want.jpg" alt="some alt text" />
</div>

That will be a hidden image to the user but it will be picked up by Pinterest and other sites as an image that can be used to share your pages. Make the image like a site logo or such so it's always available.

Originally Posted by ckgb

On the below forum home page you have share buttons incorporated into the Forum Statistics section.

What is the way to do that?

http://www.juot.net/forums/forum.php

Thank you.

That is from the older version of this mod, version 2.6.1 which is available for download in this thread but I don't recommend using it.

[ckgb]

How do I disable the mod on the photoplog page which has address of photoplog/index.php

This script states "index". Index is already disable for forum. It still shows up on photoplog.

Thank you.

[dougdirac]

Recently have an issue where the facebook buttons are screwing things up when viewed on an iPad. What happens is the line height changes as the buttons load screwing the page up and people end up clicking on the wrong then because the page shifted.

[addamroy]

Any chances that you can allow us to place the share buttons code in showthread, as well as header, navbar, and footer?

I'd like to put this in a better location for threads

[Sal Collaziano]

Is there an easy way to change WHERE the buttons are displayed?

[pityocamptes]

BOP, I have a few questions. I noticed that this mod (with the facebook, Google+, etc. buttons) on the home page index kicks the total page load up about 400+kb. Is there anyway to shrink the image sizes of those buttons to reduce page load, or perhaps have it on all the other standard pages EXCEPT for the index? or perhaps something I am not thinking of? Thanks again!

[Videx]

Originally Posted by pityocamptes

BOP, I have a few questions. I noticed that this mod (with the facebook, Google+, etc. buttons) on the home page index kicks the total page load up about 400+kb. ...

I wonder why, since the images themselves should be cached locally.

A bigger problem I've noticed is the delay loading FB. It would be nice if there was some way to just display the button and let it load whatever it has to later. Not like anyone will be clicking it in the first second or two anyway.