Posts Tagged ‘typepad’

Adding ShareThis plugin to Advanced Typepad Templates

May 6, 2008 | Filed under: Tutorials

After looking for some answers and being very unsatisfied with the amount of information out there, I decided to share this.

What you need

1. You’ll need advanced template access in Typepad.
2. A Share This script for your registered blog.
3. Some HTML knowledge.

Basics

The Typepad foundation uses Moveable Type tags. You’ll see a tag called < MT Entries > that surrounds your posts. These tags are what list the posts on the page. There is an tag to close the post area. You’ll need to use these tags to place the ShareThis script in each post.

If you look in your Main Index Advanced Template, you will see a tag < $MTWeblogIncludeModule module=”entry-list-sticky”$ >. This is where your < MT Entries > ……. < /MT Entries > tag actually lives on the front page. In other pages (Individual, Date Archive, etc) we’ll be modifying a similar, but slightly different, entry list module. So it’s not going to be as obvious about where to place the script. We’ll need to do a teeny tiny hack to get it to display at each post.

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Share This updates

February 12, 2008 | Filed under: Miniblog

The extremely useful Share This social bookmarking plugin by Alex King (that we use on this very blog) is now available for TypePad and Blogger users! In addition to that, registered users now have access to snazzy new usage reports for the plugin.