So it seems that the Sharing Sidebar is part of something called Smart Layers which is controlled by a different set of configs that are not available for customization by the plugin. I worked around it by turning off all of the features of the plugin and adding code to my custom JS file which mimics the code generated by the plugin but with a ‘services’ variable as well. Customization through the admin would obviously be more ideal but if anyone else is looking for a solution, there it is.
Good (and fast) hacking.
Here’s the doc for that: http://support.addthis.com/customer/portal/articles/1200473-smart-layers-api#share
Specifically, here, you’d want to use addthis.layers.share.services
We’ve discussed adding a UI to the plugin for this, but haven’t gotten to it yet.
Thanks Marc!
Hi Julka. Is it possible to modify only the services in my custom JS and keep the original addthis.layers code or does that snippet set-up as well as execute the sidebar? Rephrased, is it possible to activate the Sharing Sidebar in the plugin and only add a simple customization like
addthis.layers.services = 'facebook,twittah,etc'
to my custom JS file?
Hi Marc.
The hacky way would be to go into addthis_social_widget.php and hard code your desired settings for addthis.layers in addthis_sidebar_script (~ line 1429), but that will be overwritten any time you upgrade the plugin.
The code base that does the sharing sidebar is too messy right now for me to give you a more elegant way of hooking into an action at a specific time to add your preferred services in a way that will be unlikely to break in the future.
I’ve created a task internally to add a text area for addthis.layers just like we have for addthis_share and addthis_config. That’s much a simpler add than the full featured drag and drop option, and I can probably get that into a release sooner.
Hi Julka. Thanks for the insight, I’ll keep an eye on the releases to see if/when the feature is added.
Hi Marc.
Just a quick not to let you know the addthis.layers json field went out in 5.1.0 yesterday. It can be used in WordPress mode.
Thanks,
Julka
