There’s a new version of the ShareThis WordPress plugin available. Officially it’s a beta because we didn’t have as much time to test it as we wanted to. There may be a couple of bugs lurking out there, but we wanted to get it released before the end of the year because it adds some features people have been asking for:
- An option to let you choose if you want the ShareThis link automatically added to your posts/pages or not.
- If you disable the option to automatically add the ShareThis link to your content, you can now use the
sharethis_button()template tag to add the ShareThis link wherever you like in your theme. - The ShareThis link is now an inline element, just like it is in the ShareThis Classic version. This allows you to place it wherever you like in your theme.
- An option to have the ShareThis window open in a pop-up instead of inline.
- An option to keep Flash and other embeds active when showing the ShareThis window inline. Sometimes those can bleed through, depending on your browser, so they are temporarily disabled by default when showing the ShareThis window.
- Changes to make the loading of the window and the loading of the link a good deal speedier.
If you are currently running ShareThis 2.0, I would recommend upgrading to this version. If you tried ShareThis 2.0 and decided to stick with ShareThis Classic because of the positioning limitations, I’d recommend giving this version a try.
The download is available on my WordPress Plugins page and on ShareThis.com.
If you have any trouble with this, please open a thread in the WP Support Forums and send me the link.
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BlaKKJaKK adds this Comment:
I have been using Anti-sociable / Sociable but this looks way better. Not only are the URLs not visible avoiding givng up Google juice to social network sites but the quick customization features and just general slickness is great. Nice stuff.
Thanks!
December 20th, 2007 at 2:18 pm
travis adds this Comment:
Thank you!! An early Christmas present.. been waiting for this.
December 20th, 2007 at 5:13 pm
Blogging Magazin adds this Comment:
hey guys,
really looking forward to use sharethis. when the stable version of 2.1 will be released?
December 20th, 2007 at 5:42 pm
Gene Steinberg adds this Comment:
Not yet. I can’t run anything but “Classic” on my site, http://www.macnightowl.com, without it killing my sidebar.
Assistance would be appreciated, but I’m not a PHP expert, and need hand-holding.
Peace,
Gene
December 20th, 2007 at 7:07 pm
Alex adds this Comment:
Blogging Magazin– I’d give it a try now. It’s working great here.
Gene Steinberg– I’ve escalated this to the ShareThis team and I’m sure someone will get in touch to debug this issue with you.
December 21st, 2007 at 12:59 am
Gene Steinberg adds this Comment:
Thank you Alex.
Peace,
Gene
December 21st, 2007 at 1:45 am
Kevin Newman adds this Comment:
I haven’t taken a close look, but if Flash bleed-through can sometimes be taken care of by layering an iframe underneath the content layer you want to display over top of Flash content (on Linux especially). Google video uses that technique to get the menus to display over top of playing flash movies.
If you are talking about a different problem, please forget I said anything.
December 21st, 2007 at 11:33 am
Farooq Azam adds this Comment:
Thanks, nice plugin.
December 21st, 2007 at 12:27 pm
Alex adds this Comment:
Yes, it is already in an iFrame.
December 21st, 2007 at 1:11 pm
Tyler adds this Comment:
Hello Alex,
I love this plugin and have been using it for quite some (recently the Classic version). I just upgraded to the 2.1b but I seem to have a problem… I can’t seem to get the button to manually show up. I used the code provided at http://support.share[...]wordpress/66 yet it just doesn’t want to show up.
When I choose to display the button automatically it works just fine. I’m kinda stumped. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Tyler
December 21st, 2007 at 11:22 pm
BlaKKJaKK adds this Comment:
Kicked the tires and I like but one thing in the admin I miss from my social network plugin is that currently there is an option to automatically add Share This to all pages and posts which is great but we need a third option, add automatically to posts only. I don’t won’t have to do it manually but I would also like it to be restricted to posts only.
Users always asking for more.
December 22nd, 2007 at 2:11 am
Gene Steinberg adds this Comment:
Maybe so, but nobody has contacted me yet.
Peace,
Gene
December 22nd, 2007 at 9:57 am
Chris adds this Comment:
I also cant get the plugin to work with the manual code. It works fine if I have it automatically add it to posts, but thats not what I want.
December 22nd, 2007 at 1:47 pm
George adds this Comment:
Same here, manual code is not showing up…
December 23rd, 2007 at 12:42 am
Alex adds this Comment:
That’s strange, it’s working nicely here. I’m escalating this to the ShareThis team and expect we’ll be digging into it after the holidays.
December 23rd, 2007 at 12:47 am
don adds this Comment:
nice plugin but i got error when i use it. This plugin cut my read more when i click it in my content. Waiting to new upgrading plugin from you. Thx again
December 23rd, 2007 at 11:54 pm
Tyler adds this Comment:
It appears to have been a rather simple mistake. Using the code provided at http://support.share[...]wordpress/66 will not work because “the single quotes around the “sharethis_button” parameter are not code compliant”. Re-enter those single quotes and voila!
Thanks to Jeremy Bock at ShareThis.com!
December 26th, 2007 at 8:38 am
Chris adds this Comment:
Great plugin Alex, thanks.
Would you consider adding a way to distinguish between posts & pages? The fact that it displays automatically is convenient, but in my case it looks a little out of place on some of the pages.
I’ll probably look into adding a hack sometime in the new year, but it would be great if you would consider adding it into the core plugin as future upgrading will be a lot easier!
Chris
December 26th, 2007 at 5:05 pm
George adds this Comment:
@Tyler, that was the solution to my problem indeed!
December 27th, 2007 at 12:51 am
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December 27th, 2007 at 12:09 pm
Coldie adds this Comment:
howdy alex,
I had download ShareThis 2.1b1 and try to use it, but it’s seem never comes out to my site
I had try again n again n slowly follow the 3 steps but still the icon stil didnt show on my site 
December 27th, 2007 at 12:40 pm
Chris adds this Comment:
that worked tyler, thanks!
one more thing for me. I would prefer it if I didnt have to have that green “share this” icon under each post, I just want text. Is there something I can do?
December 28th, 2007 at 7:37 pm
vernon trent adds this Comment:
hi alex,
I have downloaded and tested the plug-in.
works fine but after disabling there is still code added in the index page.
cleared the cache and all the stuff but the code is still in the page (see below, not the whole code, but to know what I mean)
any idea what is wrong?
cheers
vt
January 3rd, 2008 at 1:48 pm
vernon trent adds this Comment:
aaargh… the codesnipet has been rendered…
btw, if you visit my page and look at the code you’ll see at the bottom the code.
sorry for doubleposting.
cheers
vt
January 3rd, 2008 at 1:50 pm
Rainer Bendig adds this Comment:
It would be great, if the plugin would support https sites, without breaking into src=http:// tags ;(
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:06 pm
Rootix adds this Comment:
The Plugin is great! But with the K2 Theme, the “Older” Ajax-Timeline is broken when the plugin is active. There is no HTML output when clicking on the older link
January 3rd, 2008 at 11:33 pm
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January 4th, 2008 at 4:12 am
M Harris adds this Comment:
Someone else mentioned this and I’m having the same problem: the formatting/styles are not right when viewed in Firefox for OSX; namely, the send page is squashed and unusable and the close link is lost on a white background, regardless of the styled color on the top border background.
However, using the same browser, this site displays perfectly for me: http://www.eco-cide.com/
What’s the difference? Clearly a CSS problem, but I can’t get to the bottom of it.
January 9th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
Alex adds this Comment:
Thanks, we’ll add it to the list to check out.
January 9th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
FruityOaty adds this Comment:
RE comment by Rootix: “The Plugin is great! But with the K2 Theme, the “Older” Ajax-Timeline is broken when the plugin is active. There is no HTML output when clicking on the older link”
I get the same problem too… but only in Firefox 2.0.0.11… but it’s OK in IE 7.0.
Had to disable… problem went away.
January 11th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
Alex adds this Comment:
There is an incompatibility with Prototype in the current version. The team is testing a fix now and we hope to have it out soon.
January 11th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
kevin adds this Comment:
Hi,
I used this plugin on my site now.
It works well.
One suggestion, can you support more social bookmark site?
–
Kevin
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January 13th, 2008 at 7:02 am
Jason Litka adds this Comment:
Not sure how I missed this update (I suppose I should subscribe to the feed), but I’m one of the people that was sticking with classic due to the positioning issues with 2.x. In any case, I’m downloading now. Thanks again for all your hard work!
January 14th, 2008 at 11:09 am
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January 15th, 2008 at 1:05 am
Sangesh adds this Comment:
i tried to install it in my blog http://www.sangesh.com.np/blog but i could not do it for quite few times… plz do check about this…
January 21st, 2008 at 8:55 am
Dizin Directory adds this Comment:
this is a nice plugin that is very useful for me…
Thank you for this
February 1st, 2008 at 11:56 am
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February 6th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
Mondo Libero adds this Comment:
Thanks for wonderful service
February 11th, 2008 at 7:57 am
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February 12th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
ext adds this Comment:
Thanks very good Plugin
February 15th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
(a different) Alex adds this Comment:
Thank you!! An early Christmas present.. been waiting for this
February 20th, 2008 at 4:48 am
Igor adds this Comment:
Thanks for wonderful service/
this is a nice plugin that is very useful for me…
February 20th, 2008 at 4:50 am
Elen adds this Comment:
There is no HTML output when clicking on the older link.But with the K2 Theme, the “Older” Ajax-Timeline is broken when the plugin is active.
February 20th, 2008 at 4:53 am
Felix adds this Comment:
I have been using Anti-sociable / Sociable but this looks way better. Not only are the URLs not visible avoiding givng up Google juice to social network sites but the quick customization features and just general slickness is great. Nice stuff.
Thanks!
February 20th, 2008 at 4:55 am
AndrewMn adds this Comment:
Thanks for wonderful service ! Best the best !
February 25th, 2008 at 2:58 am
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