20091105 ShareThis quit working
Submitted by admin on Tue, 2009-11-10 11:56
In the first few days of November, I noticed that the ShareThis links on the site stopped working. A quick look at the Error Console in Firefox revealed the error "shareel is null". Oops. Something broke, and I suspect it was because I allowed an update to happen that contained a bug. After a frenzied search, I found that the Drupal community had discovered that the solution was to step back to a previous version of ShareThis.
- Navigate -> Administer -> Site configuration -> Share This Settings.
- If there is a an enable/disable selector, select Share This Disabled, and click -> Save Configuration.
- Navigate -> Administer -> Site building -> Modules, deselect ShareThis (probably in group Other), and click -> Save Configuration.
- In direct session, type the following commands:
cd ~/public_html/sites/all/modules
rm -r sharethis
wget ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/sharethis-6.x-1.3-3.tar.gz
tar -xf sharethis-6.x-1.3-3.tar.gz
mv sharethis-6.x-1.3-3.tar.gz ./uploads - Navigate -> Administer -> Site building -> Modules -> Custom Modules by Himerus, enable ShareThis, and click -> Save Configuration.
- Navigate -> Administer -> Site configuration -> Share This Settings, select Share This Enabled, and click -> Save Configuration.
Share this should now be working again. You can take addtional steps to customize the ShareThis pop-up. To do that, follow the link to the ShareThis site that is included below the Javascript code window on the Share This Settings page.
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