I've got a bunch of AddThis sharing buttons that show up after someone subscribes to my e-mail list.
I'd like to add a sharing button for Google Plus, but it's not working.
For example, to put my own LinkedIn button, I use the following and it works like a charm:
<a class="addthis_button_linkedin"><img src="img/linkedin.png" width="64" height="64" alt="Share to LinkedIn"></a>
However, when I do the same for a custom Google+ button, two buttons appear. Here is my markup:
<a class="addthis_button_google_plusone"><img src="img/googleplus.png" width="64" height="64" alt="Share to Google+"></a>
Has anyone run into this issue before?
If it's not supported on the API, is there a workaround?
I can use CSS to move the other icons to cover the small Google+ icon, but it looks sloppy.
Here's how I rolled my own sharing buttons using PHP and HTML:
<div class="sharing_buttons">
<a class="google_plusone sharing" href="https://plus.google.com/share?url=http://YOUR_URL" target="_blank" title="Share on Google+"></a>
<a class="facebook sharing" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://YOUR_URL" target="_blank"title="Share on Facebook"></a>
<a class="twitter sharing" href="http://twitter.com/home?status=YOUR TWEET GOES HERE" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"></a>
<a class="linkedin sharing" href="http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=
<?php echo urlencode('YOUR_URL'); ?>
&title=<?php echo urlencode('YOUR TITLE HERE'); ?>
&summary=<?php echo urlencode('WRITE A SUMMARY HERE (SPACES WILL BE ENCODED)'); ?>
&source=<?php echo urlencode('@4click'); ?>" target="_blank" title="Share on LinkedIn"></a>
<a class="button_email sharing" href="mailto:?subject=YOUR SUBJECT&body=BODY OF THE EMAIL" target="_blank" title="Share via e-mail"></a>
</div>
The icon graphics are added using CSS. For example:
.google_plusone { background:url(../img/sharing_sprite.png) 0px 0px; }
The limitation of this solution is that you don't have the tracking features that AddThis offers, but I track my social shares using HootSuite, so it's not a big deal for me.