CUNY Academic Commons

Hi Scott - So, after some back-and-forth with the ShareThis people, and some testing on my own, I found that I was able to make the connection to ShareThis only if I disabled all the tracker-blocking tools on my computer. In this case, it meant disabling Firefox's default behavior of blocking trackers (see https://winaero.com/disable-content-blocking-for-individual-sites-in-firefox/) and also removing my extensive /etc/hosts block list for tracking websites. Can you check to see whether, on your setup, you have similar blocks in place?

Thanks Boone. I was finally able to register and spent considerable time trying to get it to work. Then I noticed that to use it, you need to paste a script into the head of your site. See attached. The plugin is way too complicated to set up. I think we should remove it from the Commons.

We have other options - Atomic Blocks has an easy to use block called "Sharing." And there is another plugin called "WP Social Sharing." I'm glad we got rid of the old version of the plugin that didn't work, but we shouldn't replace it with this new and improved version.

Thanks for plugging away at this, Scott. I've removed the plugin in https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/8f37fcf9fe9c15fc8260d5eb82ceca12a810a968 and it will be off the site after today's release.

Since it sounds like the existing Atomic Blocks may be a good alternative, I'm going to close this ticket. If it looks like we need to try a different plugin, please open a new ticket.