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Introduction

This plugin is compatible with both Joomla! versions 1.5 as well as 1.6, 1.7 and 2.5+, and it uses the Bookmarking services of AddThis.com. For a complete list of the AddThis features take a look at this page. The plugin ValAddThis allows the easy configuration as well the display of the AddThis Button or AddThis Toolbox in any Joomla article, category, section or frontpage, with or without using plugin tags. ValAddThis will automatically read the article URL, its title and the description, and it will pass them to the AddThis script for you. It produces valid markup for XHTML as well as for CSS. ValAddThis is free software, which has been released under the GNU/GPL v2.0 license.

This version of the plugin supports the latest AddThis Menu API 2.0, in combination with the old API 1.0 (which is still used to display an RSS-Feed button). With ValAddThis you're also able to display the new AddThis Toolbox, as well as several other special buttons (such as: LinkedIn and Stumbleupon counters), which aren't supported officially by AddThis yet.

Details

1. Installation

  • If you already have an older version of the plugin installed, you don't need to uninstall it as it will update itself.
  • Go to your Joomla administration backend and on the menu Extensions and click on "Install/Uninstall" (Extensions Manager in J1.6+).
  • Upload the file contained here by clicking on "Browse..." and selecting the zipped file.
  • Click on "Upload file & Install".

Now the content plugin "ValAddThis" is installed in Joomla and you can use it.

2. Configuration

3. Support

Support for the content plugin ValAddThis is only free for my customers or donators of the plugin. If you need a one-time email support please make a donation by using the PayPal "Donate" button on the right hand side of the documentation pages on my website. Donators will be listed at the end of the documentation.

If you have any suggestions or found any bugs in the plugin, feel free to:

4. Open Issues

The following are issues of the AddThis script and not of the plugin itself:

  • When the AddThis Button parameter "Display on" is set to "Mouse click" and used in conjunction with the AddThis Toolbox, some of the Toolbox icons (like email) don't behave properly. This isn't an issue of the plugin itself, rather an issue of the AddThis script and thus it cannot be fixed from me, unless AddThis fixes it.

  • If you use the module ValAddThis together with the plugin (in case of a Toolbox), you should be aware there could be some issues with conflicting CSS styles; in order to bypass any conflict, use the available option inside the module, with which you can deactivate the loading of any of the module's CSS files.

Please vote for the plugin at the web-page of Joomla Extensions. Thank you!

ChangeLog

Version 2.5.1 (27 April 2012)

  • Changed: HTTP to secure HTTPS in some external scripts.
  • Fixed: bug in the AddThis script that was caused by a typo and affected the Google Analytics Integration.

Version 2.5.0 (24 April 2012)

  • Changed: toolbox services tweet and tweet_vertical now use the script provided by Twitter, not the one from AddThis.
  • Changed: versioning of the plugin starts with 2.5 in order to reflect compatibility with Joomla's current version.
  • Fixed: JavaScript error that was caused by a typo (comma missing).

Version 1.5.5 (31 March 2012)

  • Added: latest config options for the AddThis script ui_open_windows and data_track_textcopy.
  • Added: 14 new 3rd party special buttons. Some of them use the AddThis script and others are exclusively called by ValAddThis.
  • Removed: all Google Buzz 3rd party buttons, since it doesn't exist anymore.
  • Removed: deprecated AddThis config option ui_use_embeddable_services_beta.
  • Changed: the google analytics integration method conforms to the latest one used by AddThis.
  • Changed: the order and services/buttons used by the quick toolboxes.
  • Changed: the 3rd party buttons cannot be used in the Toolbox anymore when combined with the styles CSS Horizontal, CSS Vertical #1 and CSS Vertical #2.
  • Changed: the CSS file user.css is now an exact copy of default.css.
  • Changed: some of the CSS styles.
  • Fixed: issue by setting the UI language caused by an undefined variable.

Version 1.5.4 (07 October 2011)

  • Added: one more ValAddThis-only counter button (tweetmeme_vertical).
  • Fixed: bug with the article URL being shared when used the ValAddThis variants of Google Buzz counter buttons.

Version 1.5.3 (01 October 2011)

  • Fixed: bug with the URL being shared when used the ValAddThis variants of Facebook Like/Recommend horizontal and vertical counter buttons; the article URLs are now correctly encoded. This bug affected only the non-SEF Joomla! URLs.

Version 1.5.2 (29 September 2011)

  • Fixed: bug when the ValAddThis-only Google Plus buttons were used; in Blog layout it was displayed only one Google +1 button on the first article.
  • Fixed: PHP notice when selected the AddThis button with the counter.
  • Changed: some CSS styles.
  • Changed: the order of the buttons in the quick Toolbox #12.

Version 1.5.1 (01 September 2011)

  • Fixed: bug in the code that produced PHP warnings in Joomla! media manager; it affected Joomla! versions 1.6 and 1.7.

Version 1.5.0 (18 August 2011)

  • Added: the plugin is now fully compatible with Joomla! versions 1.6 and 1.7. You can use the hybrid installer package for both Joomla! 1.5 as well as 1.6 and 1.7.
  • Fixed: bug in Internet Explorer below version 7 when used the Google Plus +1 buttons in the Toolbox; the buttons won't be displayed in these versions of IE.
  • Fixed: two PHP notices about undefined variables.

Version 1.4.2 (01 August 2011)

  • Fixed: bug when used the AddThis counter buttons (counter_pill, counter_bubble and counter_vertical) inside a Toolbox and more specifically in category, section and frontpage layouts; it displayed the same count in every single button and it also didn't validate XHTML. Now these buttons may be used multiple times inside a Toolbox.

Version 1.4.1 (29 July 2011)

  • Added: one more quick toolbox selection with vertical count buttons.
  • Added: ability to insert the AddThis vertical counter as a Toolbox service.
  • Added: 11 new button counters (Horizontal: Facebook recommend, Google Plus +1 medium and standard. Vertical: StumbleUpon, Digg, Google Buzz, LinkedIn, Facebook like, Facebook recommend, Google Plus +1 and Tweet); these counters are supported by ValAddThis only and won't be included in your personal AddThis Analytics.
  • Changed: some styles in the CSS files including a couple of new classes.
  • Fixed: minor bug in the code when using the vertical style for the AddThis Toolbox.

Version 1.4.0 (27 July 2011)

  • Added: selection of 11 quick toolboxes (with predefined services).
  • Added: ability to insert the AddThis pill counter and the AddThis bubble counter as Toolbox services.
  • Added: 4 new button counters (StumbleUpon, Digg, Google Buzz and LinkedIn); these counters are supported by ValAddThis only and won't be included in your personal AddThis Analytics.
  • Added: option for a share image, which will be displayed next to the Toolbox. 2 sample images are already included with ValAddThis.
  • Added: 4 new plugin tags (html_before, html_after, tool_quick and tool_shareurl).
  • Added: double quotes "" as well as the special characters CR and LF will now be stripped off the articles meta title and meta description, so the user can use them without fear.
  • Changed: minor changes in some of the CSS files including a couple of new classes.
  • Fixed: a couple of PHP notices.
  • Fixed: a typo inside the XML file.

Version 1.3.0 (14 October 2010)

  • Added: option to position the AddThis Menu/Toolbox both on the top and at the bottom of the articles.
  • Added: option to disable the loading of the default AddThis CSS file.
  • Added: option to use the new AddThis counter button.
  • Added: option to add an attribute "rel=nofollow" to the services links of the Toolbox.
  • Added: a couple of CSS files for the new styles of the Toolbox (icons with 32px width).
  • Added: option for a user-defined text in place of "Send to" for the tooltips of the service icons.
  • Fixed: a couple of PHP notices (for undefined variables/properties).

Version 1.2.0 (22 June 2010)

  • Added: options to enter a user-defined HTML code before and/or after the AddThis Button/Toolbox.
  • Fixed: bug in the XML installation file of the plugin.
  • Fixed: bug in the code of the CSS Vertical #2 Toolbox style, which caused an XHTML validation error.

Version 1.1.0 (14 June 2010)

  • Added: options to choose different types of AddThis for the various Joomla layouts (article, category, section and frontpage).
  • Added: options to enable or disable the plugin display in Joomla categories and sections.
  • Added: option for a user-defined title text to be displayed next to the AddThis Toolbox.
  • Added: one more CSS file for the "default" Toolbox style.
  • Fixed: minor bug in the Toolbox code, which displayed an empty icon, even if no services were defined by the user.
  • Fixed: a couple of typos in the German translation file (thanks to Kurt from Austria).

Version 1.0.1 (28 May 2010)

  • Fixed: bug with the article filtering (plugin was displayed in some excluded articles).

Version 1.0.0 (16 May 2010)

  • No changes - First version of the plugin.

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