Using this plugin you can display the ShareThis widget into the contents of your site and let your visitors share them to their preferred social networks and websites.
![ShareThis Plugin](https://plugins.b2evolution.net/media/blogs/plugins/sharethis-plugin/.evocache/sharethis-pluginshot.png/fit-1280x720.png?mtime=1440454984)
ShareThis widget added to a post
You can use this plugin in your site by following the regular plugins installation process detailed in this manual page: Plugins Available For Installation.
After having successfully installed the plugin in your site, you need to configure a ShareThis account in order to get a Pub Key
, which is a code with the following format: XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX.
- Go to the ShareThis website (http://www.sharethis.com/) and register a new user account (if you have not done it yet) and login into the site.
- Go to My Account Dashboard (http://www.sharethis.com/account/) and copy the
Pub Key
![ShareThis Plugin](https://plugins.b2evolution.net/media/blogs/plugins/sharethis-plugin/.evocache/sharethis-pubkey.png/fit-1280x720.png?mtime=1440246710)
ShareThis Pub Key
- Go back to your b2evolution site and open the plugins settings page of the collection in which you want to display the ShareThis widget: Plugin Settings (Per Collection / Blog).
- Enable the plugin for that collection and paste the
Pub Key
code. ![ShareThis Plugin](https://plugins.b2evolution.net/media/blogs/plugins/sharethis-plugin/.evocache/sharethis-blog_plugins_settings.png/fit-1280x720.png?mtime=1440246710)
Plugin settings
![ShareThis Plugin](https://plugins.b2evolution.net/media/blogs/plugins/sharethis-plugin/.evocache/sharethis-text_renderers_panel.png/fit-1280x720.png?mtime=1440246710)
Text renderers panel
As this is a Text Renderer plugin, you may control when to enable / disable it for individual posts by checking the ShareThis option in the Text Renderers panel of the posts' edition form.
NOTE: some sections of this plugin have been developed based on the work published by Larry Nieves (http://cronicaslinuxeras.com/extension-sharethis-b2evolution#p2103-in-english)