Recently I saw and downloaded this Plugin called Share This by Alex King. I was having some problems with it, and it had taken me some time to resolve this as I am new to php and style sheet, thus I am putting here so that fiends who have the same problem can resolve this sooner.
After activating the Plugin in WordPress, I am hosting WordPress on my own server, I was able to see the Share This link at the bottom of each of my post, however, I had problem with the icon and the pop-up window - it was not showing.
I tried all the recommendations provided in the Installation Guide but nothing works. But after much effort in exploring, I finally managed to solve the icon issue by replicating the .akst_share_link class into my style sheet, style.css, as follows:
.akst_share_link{
background: 1px 0 url(images/share-icon-16×16.gif) no-repeat;
padding: 1px 0 3px 22px;
}
The above class can also be found in the share-this.php but because Share This allows this class to be defined externally, I am able to do this.
The other problem was a little more tricky, i.e. the Share This pop-up window did not appear when I click on the Share This icon instead it was loaded in a new page. I had spent more time trying to resolve this.
The installation guide only mentioned that it is a known limitation of Share This that it requires the wp_foot() call for the pop-up window to work. However, I also traced down that it also require the wp_head() call; my theme does not have both the wp_header() and wp_foot() call. This is what I did, I put the <?php wp_head(); ?> in my header.php before the </head> end tag and <?php wp_footer(); ?> in my footer.php before the </body> end tag.
Hope the above, which works for me, is helpful to friends who face the same problem. However, for more detail about installation, please refer to the Installation Guide by Alex.
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