Still cannot disable Sharing Toolbar on mobile

  • In my career, every time I make a project where social sharing is needed, I always installed this plugin as my first choice, but every time I has to remove them of the bugs.

    These bugs are still here now, after many years. The version 5.3.1 claimed to solve one of the most annoying bugs, but the bug is still here: the mobile sharing toolbar cannot be disabled in any way, because if you disable them in the option, it will be still shown).

    That bar is a waste of space on such small displays.

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  • Plugin Contributor Julka Grodel

    (@jgrodel)

    Hi Marco.

    Thanks for letting us know about your issue.

    The standard Mobile Toolbar change in 5.3.1 was to disable it when the Mobile Sharing Toolbar is enabled (a tool we recently changed to free and added to the plugin). Are you still seeing the Mobile Toolbar after enabling the Mobile Sharing Toolbar?

    Assuming you’re in WordPress mode, if you haven’t enabled the Mobile Sharing Toolbar enabled and want to disable the standard one anyway, you can do that using our Smart Layers API. To use this API in the plugin go to the Advanced Settings tab within the plugin, scroll down to Additional Options, and put JSON into the addthis.layers() textarea. The following JSON would disable the standard Mobile Toolbar.

    {"share": {"mobile": false}}

    Thanks,
    Julka

    Hi Julka,

    I simply want to get rid of the Mobile Toolbar.

    MM

    Plugin Contributor Julka Grodel

    (@jgrodel)

    Hi Marco.

    Did you try {"share": {"mobile": false}}?

    It won’t work.

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    Plugin Contributor Julka Grodel

    (@jgrodel)

    Hi Marco.

    Thanks for the follow up. I can reproduce what’s in your screenshot when I make my browser window narrow when visiting your site. I will bring that up with the team to see if it is intentional.

    I also tested this on your site both on a real mobile device and simulated mobile devices. With that mobile flag set to false, the Mobile Toolbar was hidden. I visited your site on my Nexus 6, and also in Chrome asking it to simulate an iPhone 6 Plus and a Galaxy S5. The Mobile Toolbar was hidden in all three. Here are screenshots:

    Nexus 6

    iPhone 6 Plus

    Galaxy S5

    Is there a specific mobile device where you’ve seen issues with this?

    Thanks,
    Julka

    It works from my phone now. But I think it is a counterintuitive and crazy way to do it. Everyone here think that disabling “Mobile Toolbar” from plugin options would have brought to the same result.

    Plugin Contributor Brad Sneade

    (@bradaddthiscom)

    Hi Marco,

    Thanks for the feedback. I’m thrilled to hear that we are your go to for your social sharing needs. Our tools have a lot of configuration options and we believe that putting them all in the admin dashboard would be overwhelming for the vast majority of users. A great place to start learning about some of these options is the AddThis Academy (https://www.addthis.com/academy/) and the support links that Julka mentioned. We’ll consider your suggestion for future versions of the plugin.

    Thanks again,
    Brad

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