By Brian_Phillips on

Can someone tell me, in very simple words (I'm very much a novice at Drupal - no php skills) how to add both of the AddtoAny widgets (Subscribe and Share - see http://www.addtoany.com/) to a blog site I'm putting together.

I'd like to add the widgets using the buttons as shown on the AddtoAny homepage. I'd also like the freedom to add them to any part of my page I want, using a block if possible. (One thing - how exactly do I limit blocks to show up on just the blog page? I don't understand what the line "Enter one page per line as Drupal paths" in the blocks configuration page means.)

I've enabled the AddtoAny module, but it only seems to offer the Share widget - but not with the recognisable button, and not in any useful location. Also, the Syndicate and Service Links modules only offer a small sample of the options available from AddtoAny.

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

Brian.

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vm’s picture

vm commented

One thing - how exactly do I limit blocks to show up on just the blog page? I don't understand what the line "Enter one page per line as Drupal paths" in the blocks configuration page means

first choose the radio button above fore how you want the visibility to work.
in this example were going to assume you've chosen "show on all pages except"

The means the block we are configuring will show on every page except the ones we list in the text box. (all we need to worry about here is the path after the domain.)

blog
blog/*

The above block if set to those paths will not show on those paths. It won't show @ yoursite.com/blog nor @ yoursite.com blog/ <- anything after that slash in the path.

if you don't want the block to show on only the front page. You add:
<front>

The above is bit of a neat feature because it is indifferent to the actual front page set in administer -> site information -> default front page.

some people have their forum as their front page, or a specific node at the front page ... so on so forth. No matter what is set as front page or what it is set to later so long as you have <front> set in the block visibility the block will still show.

I can't help with addtoany. I've no experience with the module at this time.

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accessiveapps commented

Basicaly you can activate the share function like described above. After recognizing that the addtoany button is not very often downloaded I stopped using it and I didn't know that there is a suscribe button.

Another guy and me are maintaining the addthis button also. Maybe you should give this a shot. I am doing the permission and node type handling better right now for the 5.x version.

If you have any questions feel free to contact me.

--patrick

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Brian_Phillips commented

Thanks for your answers. At the moment, I'm using a couple of different modules (Syndicate and Service Links) that add up to doing almost the same job. I was hoping there was an easier way.

I guess now my options are to:
A) find out how to move the Share button into a block (rather than have it stuck down with the comments link), or
B) find out how to create a block with the Addtoany buttons on it.

I've tried to do B) a couple of times, by pasting the code into the block (with and without my wysiwyg editor), but it seems to break the button's function.

If anyone could give me a few ideas on how I might do either of these options, I'd be grateful