What features are available for ShareThis Classic?

The new ShareThis plugin (version 2.x) provides:

• Free reporting regarding usage of ShareThis on your blog or website
• More social web sites
• Post to profile options for user posting to social web profiles
• A mashed-up address book created from several web mail sites and social networking sites
• Automatic updates to the widget interface when ShareThis adds new services and features where ShareThis Classic does not

ShareThis Classic does, however, have a couple of features that the current version does not:
ShareThis Classic is internationalized and provides a language package for localization. This language pack enables the user to translate the Classic widget and the recipient view of the shared item into any language. The following instructions will guide you how to use the language pack:

• Download a localization tool if necessary. We recommend PoEdit, found at http://poedit.net/download.php (It’s free, and the rest of these instructions assume that you use PoEdit)
• Select “File” and choose “New catalog from POT file…”
• Select “share-this.pot” from the “translations” folder within your “share-this-classic” folder
• Input your language and country, and your team name if you choose.
• Save your file as “share-this-es_ES.po” (This nomenclature is for Spanish only. The naming convention for WordPress is plugin-language_country. For more information on localization and language-country naming conventions click here. )
• Use PoEdit to translate each string in the template file. The upper section lists the strings to be translated. Select a string and type your translations into the lower left text area.

Save the translated catalog. Poedit will produce a .mo file and a .po file. Save the .mo file in the share-this plugin folder and upload to your server. Make sure your installation of Wordpress is configured to use your language. The .mo file will be loaded by Wordpress and the plugin will appear in your language!

ShareThis Classic also has the ability to disable the ShareThis footprint to isolate the widget from the ShareThis service. The following steps will guide you through this process:

• Navigate to your WordPress admin area, and change the URL of your browser so that the last two parts read /wp-admin/options.php. For example: http://mysite.com/blog/wp-admin/options.php
• In the list of options, select “st_tracking”. It defaults to “yes”
• Type in “no” in place of “yes”
• Select the “Update Options” button at the bottom of the list.

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