Blog Post Social Sharing

[wademd]

I was wondering if there was a way to change the social sharing profiles in the blog posts. My client would rather use linkedin instead of Pinterest, so I was wondering if there was a way that I could swap out the pinterest sharing. Is that possible?

Thanks for your help.

[Tahir – SUPPORT]

Hi,
I just checked in version 1.51 . The linkedIn profile option is there in the Theme Options -> Social Profiles section. Do you have the latest theme version ?. If not please update.

Thanks
Tahir

[wademd]

Hi Tahir,

Yes the LinkedIn field is in the Social Profiles in the THeme options and shows at the top of the page BUT thats not what im asking about.

On a blog post there is a sharing options for the post at the start of the article, the options are facebook, google, email, twitter, love it, and Pinterest. I want to change the Pinterest to Linked in here. When I create a new blog post in the Main options there is a checkbox that says:
“Include social sharing – Check this box to show social sharing icons on the detail page.”

But there is no option that I can see that controls which options show in the blog post social sharing. All I want is to change the default option where it shows Pinterest and change to Linkedin. How can I do this? If there is code I need to adjust can you let me know the page and line?

[Tahir – SUPPORT]

Hi,
Thank you for the details. You can find the code in ‘single.php’ line 285.

Best,
Tahir

[Tekguild]

See my post about this here:

http://support.swiftideas.net/forums/topic/enable-reddit-in-social-sharing-sharethis/

Instead of the Reddit code, use this:

<span class='st_linkedin_hcount' displayText='LinkedIn'></span>

[Melanie – SUPPORT]

Thank you grokism!

[parasomnias]

Hi,
That’s for the Flexform theme not Dante. How do you achieve this with Dante?
Thanks

[parasomnias]

Fixed.
The URL structure is slightly different for LinkedIn. (shareArticle?url)

Add this to the ‘single.php’ file for sharing on linkedin:

<li class=”linkedin”>” class=”post_share_linkedin” onclick=”javascript:window.open(this.href,”,’menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=220,width=600′);return false;”><i class=”fa-linkedin”></i><i class=”fa-linkedin”></i>

Hope this helps.

[parasomnias]

sorry.

<li class=”linkedin”>” class=”post_share_linkedin” onclick=”javascript:window.open(this.href,”,’menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=220,width=600′);return false;”><i class=”fa-linkedin”></i><i class=”fa-linkedin”></i>

[parasomnias]

Sorry again, just realized the pasted code above was f*ç@#d up.

Here’s the code again, hopefully should paste properly:

<li class="linkedin"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>" class="post_share_linkedin" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'','menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=220,width=600');return false;"><i class="fa-linkedin"></i><i class="fa-linkedin"></i></a></li>

[Mohammad – SUPPORT]

Hi there ,
Thanks For code share 🙂
With Best Regards
Swift Ideas

[Kyle – SUPPORT]

Ok great! Glad you managed it 🙂

– Kyle

[parasomnias]

No prob 😉

[Kyle – SUPPORT]

🙂