[Plugin: Sharedaddy] Adding this manually

@john: Are there any restrictions where i can use the template tag? I put it on several places inside the loop but it won′t show up at this places.

Right now I am using 4 different plugins for email, print, retweet and Facebook like.

This plugin is great, because it’s 4 in one and much more. Unfortunately there’s no easy way for manual insertion or place it only on top of a post.

This would be an awesome feature. I switched to ShareThis because ShareDaddy doesn’t have a manual insert option.

seriously, there needs to be a fix? anyone fix this?

wouldnt it be much easier if the author just added this feature to the plugin? How hard can it be to add a option for this?

+1 for manual insertion. Please add this feature.

I hate ShareThis because it loads gazillions of times the same ultra-heavy JS library, each time their buttons are displayed. But ShareThis works on pretty much every theme out there. To be honest, the number of themes — even hand-crafted ones from scratch — where ShareDaddy actually works is really minimal: out of a hundred or so WP installations, I could only get ShareDaddy to work on a handful.

I wish that manual insertion worked at all. The echo sharing_display(); sometimes works, but it’s rare…

If anyone is using the ‘ShareDaddy’ plugin for their self-hosted blogs I have finally had success with it.

First I edited the plugins ‘sharing-service.php’ files to remove the following lines: (you can find them right at the bottom of the file)

add_filter( 'excerpt_length', 'calculate_excerpt_length' );<br />
add_filter( 'the_excerpt', 'sharing_display', 19 );<br />
add_filter( 'the_content', 'sharing_display', 19 );

The next bit is dependant on your theme files but somewhere you should have a ‘loop.php’ where your theme builds each post. Find this file and insert the following code wherever you want the ShareDaddy line to appear.

<?php echo sharing_display(); ?>

That should work. All the options in the settings page will still work, but this way you don’t need to fiddle around with excerpts! Plus this way you have control over where it goes… realistically this plugin should never have been released without such a basic option!

Hope this can help some of you.

If anyone would like to see it in action check out my site at https://www.geekdownunder.net ??

@geekdownunder

works fine, thanks a lot!

@geekdownunder
Thanks Mate. It worked perfectly.