php plugin help – 03 social follow

[Elaine Griffin]

Hello!

I'm using 03 social follow, and unfortunately, the buttons don't show up on the featured post on the home page. The plugin people tell me this:

You'll want to use this piece of code conditionally set for the homepage:

<?php echo o3_output_social_plugins(); ?>

So on your index.php file, you'll want to find the piece of code that produces the featured post. After the the_content() declaration, you'll use this:

if(is_home()) { //conditional for the home page
    echo o3_output_social_plugins(); //output the social plugins
}

But I'm not sure exactly where to put it, because I don't see the_content declaration in any of the php files.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Elaine

http://www.elainegriffindesigns.com/blog/

[rfmeier]

Hello,

If you want the social share buttons after your content you could hook a filter in your functions.php file;

/* functions.php */
add_filter( 'the_content', 'custom_add_share_buttons' );
/**
 * Callback for WordPress 'the_content' filter.
 * 
 * Append social share buttons to the end of the post's content.
 * 
 * @package WordPress
 * @category Post Content
 * @author Ryan Meier http://www.rfmeier.net
 * 
 * @param string $the_content
 * @return string $the_content
 */
function custom_add_share_buttons( $the_content ){
	
	// if we are not on the home page, return default content
	if( ! is_home() )
		return $the_content;
	
	// return the content with the social share buttons appened to the end
	return $the_content . o3_output_social_plugins();
	
}

I hope this helps. There are other places the code could be places too.

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Ryan Meier – Twitter

[Elaine Griffin]

Thank you Ryan. Is there anything else I need to do? I put the code in the functions file, but I'm not seeing the buttons.

[rfmeier]

Elaine,

I went and installed the plugin on my development environment. I immediately received a ton of errors. I cannot get this to work because their code is throwing a lot of errors. I went to the source code... it is very messy and I already see a some bad coding practices.

Unfortunately, I don't have the time to go through and fix their issues to get this to work.

Was this working at all for you?

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Ryan Meier – Twitter

[Elaine Griffin]

Whoa, really?! It's been working great for me! I guess I'll go back to ShareThis, which I think did have the sharing buttons on the featured post.

Thanks for taking the time to look into it.

I appreciate the help!

[rfmeier]

Elaine,

It is up to you. If you have been using it on your hosting site, then you probably won't see the errors because they are most likely being suppressed/hidden for security.

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Ryan Meier – Twitter

[Elaine Griffin]

Yeah.

I just remembered Jetpack has sharing buttons, and they show up on features, so there we go.

Thanks again!

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