Download: sharethis_plugin-1.6.zip

Downloading: sharethis_plugin-1.6.zip ShareThis Plugin

Installation

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.

  1. 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.
  2. Go to My Account Dashboard (http://www.sharethis.com/account/) and copy the Pub Key
    ShareThis Plugin
    ShareThis Pub Key
  3. 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).
  4. Enable the plugin for that collection and paste the Pub Key code.
    ShareThis Plugin
    Plugin settings
ShareThis Plugin
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)