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Pinterest?

Any plans to add pinterest to this plugin??

Thu, 31 May 2012 18:16:02

aecnu
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Greetings laurabetterly,

I am sorry to report that I cannot answer this question due to I have no idea which plugin you are referring to?

Please advise.

Cheers, Joe
laurabetterly
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Sorry–https://wpmudev.com/project/floating-social/ the floating social plugin is what I was inquring on..
aecnu
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Greetings laurabetterly,

Thank you for the quick feedback.

Pinterest is incorporated within the Floating Social plugin.

The reason the Pinterest button is not showing is most likely because the plugin didn’t found an image for your post. By default, the plugin will look for the featured image for your post, and use that as Pinterest image.

If this look up fails, the plugin will just skip showing the Pinterest button, by default. The solution for this situation could be as easy as adding a featured image to your post. However, there are also some more advanced techniques of dealing with this situation, if the easy solution doesn’t fit your scenario.

If you’re comfortable with PHP, I’ll include some quick examples here.

For an example, this will force the Pin button to show, no matter what:
```
function fshf_show_pinterest ($show, $atts) {

return true;

}

add_filter('wdsb-buttons-pinterest', 'fshf_show_pinterest', 10, 2);
```
The “wdsb-buttons-pinterest” filter takes 2 arguments – should the button be shown ($show) and an array of button features ($atts). The filter should return a boolean true or false – true meaning the button will be shown.

This example will force all Pin buttons to share a Hello Kitty image from Wikipedia:
```
function fshf_show_image ($image, $size) {

return 'http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/05/Hello_kitty_character_portrait.png/200px-Hello_kitty_character_portrait.png';

}

add_filter('wdsb-media-image', 'fshf_show_image', 10, 2);
```
The “wdsb-media-image” filter also takes 2 arguments – the image found by the plugin (if any), and the size that was being looked for. The filter handling function is expected to return a string, which is the full URL to the image you want to be shared.

There are some other filters you may want to use to modify the plugin behavior as well – if you wish, you can find them in the file lib/functions.php in the plugin directory.

Thank you for being a WPMU Dev member!

Cheers, Joe
Jay
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Regarding the floating social plugin…

Any plans to add some of the functionality seen in this…

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pinterest-pin-it-button/screenshots/

(Namely the image selection vs auto use of the post’s featured image.)
aecnu
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Greetings Jay,

Thank you for your feedback, it is greatly appreciated.

I have no idea if the lead developer intends to incorporate this as a feature, though I gave the code above to force it.

It may be in your best interest to put in a feature request if my coding above does not get the job done or you would like it to be incorporated as shown in your link.

You can now make plugin and feature requests here:

http://wpmudev.uservoice.com/

The more popular a request is and the more votes it gets, the more likely it will be considered.

It might have already been suggested. It is worth a quick search to add your votes before submitting a new suggestion.

Thank you for being a WPMU Dev Member!

Cheers, Joe :slight_smile:
Jay
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You can now make plugin and feature requests here:

http://wpmudev.uservoice.com/

Thanks

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