The AddThis Blog

As part of a side project, I’ve been playing around with the ever-popular wiki software MediaWiki. It’s the software that’s used to power Wikipedia.

After I got MediaWiki installed, I wanted to figure out how to install AddThis on all of my pages so they’d be shareable. Here’s how I did it…

Obviously, first I created an AddThis account. From there, I clicked on the “Get Your Button Code” button in the upper right-hand part of the page. I created a sharing/bookmarking button for a website and got my AddThis button code.

Next, I found the appropriate file for my MediaWiki skin. If you’re still using the default skin, it’d be skins > MonoBook.php. Open the file in your favorite coding application.

The file will show all the PHP that marks the beginnings of the HTML page.

I wanted to put the AddThis button right after the page’s title. If you’d like to do that, find this code <h1 class=”firstHeading”… After that line, paste the AddThis button code.

Finally, I published that file and I was set to go.

Let me know if you find these instructions useful. Drop me an e-mail – justin@addthis.com

As a holiday present from us to you, we’ve finally updated our WordPress plugin. It’s way more customizable, and integrated with the WordPress dashboard so you don’t have to know anything about PHP to make changes.

Download it here:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/addthis/

As always, we appreciate your feedback! Many of the features of this new plugin came straight out of forum discussions.

Enjoy!

We’re really excited about AddThis and how easily it can make your content shareable. We’ve been brainstorming ways that we could share our excitement and the value proposition with you.

Our genius creative director recently put the finishing touches on an AddThis Video Tour, kind of a 60 second commercial, and I wanted to share it with you guys.

As always, if you ever any questions, thoughts, feedback, or you just wanna say hi, e-mail me – justin@addthis.com. We ALWAYS love meeting our users.