I’m very pleased to announce that ShareThis 2.0 is now available!
This new version has a ton of great features, including:
- A new WordPress plugin.
- WordPress users can download the new plugin here.
- Support for non-WordPress platforms.
- This was by far the #1 requested feature, and you can use the ShareThis widget for other blogging platforms or for regular HTML web sites. Go the the Get the Button page and follow the simple steps.
- Choose your social web services and easy color configuration.
- ShareThis has a simple online configuration tool that allows you to choose which social web services you want to offer links to and allow you to set colors to match you site’s theme.
- Sending using AIM, SMS, Facebook and MySpace.
- Yes, people use more communication channels than just e-mail.
- Stats for publishers.
- With tracking features to keep track of the sharing activity on your site, ShareThis will be offering stats for publishers.
- Import address books.
- You can import your buddy lists to make sharing to AIM, Facebook and MySpace easy.
You can see that lots of these features wouldn’t be available without the great sharing platform being built at ShareThis.com. You can see why it made sense to work with the great folks at ShareThis.
It’s a pretty impressive upgrade, and this is really just the tip of the iceberg for ShareThis. There are a lot of exciting things on the roadmap for publishers (including some advanced customization options) and users, and Crowd Favorite is proud to be a part of it - stay tuned!
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November 8th, 2007 at 3:34 pm
Francesc adds this Comment:
Cool!, downloading now
November 8th, 2007 at 3:56 pm
Kevin S. adds this Comment:
Wow, I’ve been looking forward to this. Going to play with it for a while.
November 8th, 2007 at 4:20 pm
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November 8th, 2007 at 4:25 pm
iDayBlog adds this Comment:
Very Thank, I’m Just to Download Now..
November 8th, 2007 at 4:27 pm
weston deboer adds this Comment:
awesome!
November 8th, 2007 at 4:32 pm
Jason Litka adds this Comment:
Is there any way to change where the icon appears? Can the font be changed?
November 8th, 2007 at 4:38 pm
Chris adds this Comment:
I like it, but I liked being able to place it where i wanted like in the old version. Its nice that it finally doesnt use prototype though, that was very unnecessary.
November 8th, 2007 at 5:03 pm
travis adds this Comment:
how do i put it where i want it??
November 8th, 2007 at 5:06 pm
Alex adds this Comment:
To place the widget where you want to in your theme (like I’ve done on this site), you can use the following code:
<?php echo st_widget(); ?>Note, this is unsupported in the current version and will work a little smoother and have a proper template tag in a future release.
November 8th, 2007 at 5:11 pm
Rolando adds this Comment:
Dang, that’s very cool! Thanks for the plugin!
November 8th, 2007 at 5:15 pm
Geof F. Morris adds this Comment:
Congrats to you and to the CF team, Alex.
November 8th, 2007 at 5:23 pm
Diego adds this Comment:
Excellent Alex
November 8th, 2007 at 5:32 pm
Hannes adds this Comment:
Wow, this sounds great.
Especially the stats part - I’ve been wondering if installing the ShareThis plug-in made any difference, whether people were actually using it. Now I can find out. Thanks
November 8th, 2007 at 5:44 pm
Chris adds this Comment:
alex, that code works, but it doesnt disable the other “share this” link. Is there anyway to do that?
November 8th, 2007 at 6:12 pm
Alex adds this Comment:
You need to comment out the places where it adds the filter to
the_content. If that doesn’t make sense, I recommend waiting until this is officially supported.November 8th, 2007 at 6:14 pm
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November 8th, 2007 at 6:48 pm
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November 8th, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Gene Steinberg adds this Comment:
Alex, are their any plain English instructions on migrating from Share This 1.4 to ShareThis 2.0 without having to be a PHP maven?
I am curious to try the new version (though the old one has worked fine), but I wonder how/if this can be done easily.
Peace,
Gene
November 8th, 2007 at 7:03 pm
Alex adds this Comment:
Gene, I tried to find a way to not sound like a smart @$$ in my reply but failed so I figured I should just embrace it.
Here you go, a 3 step process in plain English for migrating from Share This 1.4 to ShareThis 2.0:
1. Deactivate Share This 1.4 from your plugins page.
2. Download ShareThis 2.0 and upload it to your WordPress install.
3. Activate ShareThis 2.0 from your plugins page.
There you have it!
November 8th, 2007 at 7:12 pm
Matt Wiebe adds this Comment:
I like the new direction this is going, but I’ll just wait for a future release with a little more dummy proof customizability built into the WP end of things (as already mentioned, customizing placement, turning placement in post on/off without hacking plugin directly…)
But I do love being able to customize which services to use, as well as tracking stats!
November 8th, 2007 at 7:36 pm
Gene Steinberg adds this Comment:
Fair enough, Alex. Feel free to sound like a smart — whatever whenever you like.
I do know some things that you don’t, I bet
Peace,
Gene
November 8th, 2007 at 8:42 pm
Gene Steinberg adds this Comment:
OK, not so seamless. I renamed the original plug-in, so it wouldn’t be replaced, and disabled it.
I activated the new plug-in, and it killed my sidebar.
So I may need some more hands-on here.
Back to the old one for the time being.
Peace,
Gene
November 8th, 2007 at 8:49 pm
Daniel adds this Comment:
Gene,
I had to remove my call to akst_share_link from my template, as that has changed now. That might be what hosed your sidebar…
November 8th, 2007 at 9:37 pm
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November 8th, 2007 at 10:28 pm
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November 9th, 2007 at 12:04 am
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November 9th, 2007 at 12:21 am
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November 9th, 2007 at 12:55 am
slotvent adds this Comment:
Very cool plugin thanks indeed
November 9th, 2007 at 5:54 am
John Horne adds this Comment:
I’m back to 1.4 for the time being. I understand how to place the widget on the page as I’d like (though I would like to be able to keep my default font and size - not sure how to do that…)
but for some reason, I’m getting a funky, offset border around the share-this window ad the close menu doesn’t show up.
Is anyone else haveing this kind of formatting problem? Could it be something in my css? I’m at a loss and I won’t have time to fool with it until Christmas vacation!
November 9th, 2007 at 7:12 am
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November 9th, 2007 at 9:05 am
Juan Pablo adds this Comment:
Excellent! Cool!
November 9th, 2007 at 9:40 am
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Excelente!
November 9th, 2007 at 9:41 am
Graham Cox adds this Comment:
Hi Alex,
A couple of question’s.
1) I was using gregarious which contains share this. If I disable share this from that, can I use this share-this install or should I wait for gregarious to include v2 of share this.
2) I’m also using v2.3 of wp. Any word on when st will be supported
Thanks
Graham
November 9th, 2007 at 9:42 am
Devin Reams adds this Comment:
Nice work, Alex.
I’m trying to determine what style ShareThis is referencing for the link’s font-size. Is it something I can change or is it built into the javascript?
November 9th, 2007 at 10:04 am
Bobby adds this Comment:
I love this! How would you got about removing the button from certain post though?
November 9th, 2007 at 3:05 pm
Lincoln adds this Comment:
I noticed the ShareThis widget adds to the length of my pages after its been placed. Since I use an absolute layout the block elements overlap each other as a result. I’m assuming once we’re able to customize the font size and placement of the widget this won’t be an issue, so I’m looking forward to when such a feature will officially be supported.
I’m currently using the AddThis widget, but this one blows it out of the water.
November 9th, 2007 at 3:42 pm
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November 9th, 2007 at 5:37 pm
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November 9th, 2007 at 5:41 pm
Rick Beckman adds this Comment:
The new Share This plugin invalidated my site’s XHTML code; the URL it outputs for the JavaScript contains improper (i.e., unencoded) ampersands. Validating this page (on AlexKing.org) shows the same errors.
Just a heads up.
Otherwise, beautiful utility.
November 9th, 2007 at 6:27 pm
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November 9th, 2007 at 11:21 pm
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November 10th, 2007 at 12:55 am
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November 10th, 2007 at 3:03 am
Lino adds this Comment:
It is just what i am waiting for. Thanks, Alex.
November 10th, 2007 at 4:07 am
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November 10th, 2007 at 8:06 am
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November 10th, 2007 at 12:50 pm
Ozh adds this Comment:
Well, I don’t like it. Less control over how things display, plus it relies on another server. Sticking to the hackable sharethis 1.4!
November 11th, 2007 at 8:27 am
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November 11th, 2007 at 4:36 pm
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November 12th, 2007 at 5:19 am
Greg adds this Comment:
I also found AddThis….also has great stats.
November 12th, 2007 at 7:09 am
Pupsor adds this Comment:
Big thanks! I’m just to download this… Nice plugin!
November 12th, 2007 at 7:13 am
yaakov adds this Comment:
Would be nice to have a way to translate the interface of the plugin
November 12th, 2007 at 7:39 am
Ellie adds this Comment:
This plugin has been driving me insane for the past half an hour. Tried to install it, and nothing appeared on the site, though I’d gone through the customization process and saved the resulting script in the Options>sharethis page.
Because I couldn’t get this to work, I’ve now gone back to 1.4, or at least tried to - I’ve uninstalled 2.0 but for some reason, activating 1.4 is killing the site.
Looks like there’s no sharethis for me.
November 12th, 2007 at 1:27 pm
Keith adds this Comment:
I installed the plugin but nothing appeared on my site. I then added the code as described in Alex’s first comment above and still nothing.
I’m using WP 2.3.1
November 12th, 2007 at 4:10 pm
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November 12th, 2007 at 8:19 pm
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November 13th, 2007 at 3:07 pm
Technology adds this Comment:
nice plugin more use for new blogger to get some traffic through sb sites.
November 13th, 2007 at 11:18 pm
Chris Masse adds this Comment:
Hi,
I miss the ability to right-click on the SHARE-THIS link on the web-based blog post, and a new tab would open.
Chris Masse
November 14th, 2007 at 7:46 am
Gi adds this Comment:
hi alex,
thanks for the plugin.
but how could i replace the little icon? and the font for the sharethis link is a bit too big, where can i edit them?
thanks!!!!
November 14th, 2007 at 9:17 am
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November 16th, 2007 at 9:27 am
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November 16th, 2007 at 3:58 pm
Marco Luthe adds this Comment:
Hi Alex!
As your v2.0 plugin gives me some trouble (see the pingback before), I have now simply added the JavaScript script code provided by ShareThis.com.
This works fine if a single post is viewed. I believe that the URL from the address bar is used.
On the other hand, this does not work if you look at a page that is created by the main index template with more than one post.
The script lets the button appear, but it just points to the URL shown in the address bar (e.g. www.saphod.net), not to the post permalink.
I noticed that in your plugin, you add a JavaScript to The_Loop (SHARETHIS.add …) where you kind of define the title and the URL that should be used.
I tried to implement that, too, but it did not work - or better: I do not know how to implement it manually.
Could you please help me out? It would be so much nicer to have “ShareThis” on the main page as well, not just in single post views.
Thanks!
November 17th, 2007 at 2:25 pm
Marco Luthe adds this Comment:
OK, I solved the problem:
I put the Javascript code provided by ShareThis in the header - but only if the main page or a single post is viewed. This way, I can make sure it does not mess with Slickr again.
Then, within the loop, I just use the code snippet you provide in the plugin (SHARETHIS.addEntry).
Works fine!
November 17th, 2007 at 2:57 pm
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November 20th, 2007 at 5:45 pm
Dan adds this Comment:
Went back to 1.4. Can’t configure this one. I don’t have time to mess with all the templating again to make this one plugin display correctly when 1.4 was working fine.
November 20th, 2007 at 7:44 pm
Alex adds this Comment:
I would recommend trying version 1.5:
http://alexking.org/[...]-classic-151
November 20th, 2007 at 7:46 pm
John adds this Comment:
terrific plugin !
I believe this plugin can help me gain more traffic.
Many thanks !!!!!
November 27th, 2007 at 7:30 am
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November 30th, 2007 at 3:52 am
zac adds this Comment:
Thanks for the great work ! Is it still possible to hide the share this link from the main page, and only show it on individual posts? If I cant should I try the V 1.5 ?
December 8th, 2007 at 10:54 pm
Linda Jenkinson adds this Comment:
Hi Alex -
Just wanted to say thanks for your great plugins. I’ve been a happy ShareThis user for several months and just downloaded the popularity plugin. You rock!
December 12th, 2007 at 6:34 am
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December 13th, 2007 at 4:49 pm
SEO Product Reviews adds this Comment:
Wee I finally found this product. Lots of my friends use Share This on their blogs to great success.
December 18th, 2007 at 8:19 pm
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December 23rd, 2007 at 3:04 am
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December 26th, 2007 at 7:32 am
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January 15th, 2008 at 6:42 am
How To Tutorials adds this Comment:
Hi Alex,
Can you kindly add http://www.propeller.com/ to the list of supported social bookmarking services?
Thanks in advance.
January 16th, 2008 at 2:17 am
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February 19th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
Nevis1 adds this Comment:
Does anybody know of a link that shows how to change the icon size for ShareThis 2.1 Wordpress plugin. Something that is in non-geek speak? I looked at the help on the following page http://support.share[...]faq/stapi/62 but this made NO SENSE to me. Any input would be appreciated. Sure wish icon size was just a choice when creating the code
March 28th, 2008 at 10:59 am
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