Add a Linkedin button

Hello,

The linked in solution provided will not work for the newspaper theme properly. Please add this code instead in td_module_single.php: http://screencast.com/t/nQ0Tj5O1

<a class="td-social-sharing-buttons td-social-linkedin" href="http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=' . urlencode(esc_url(get_permalink())) . '&title=' . htmlspecialchars(urlencode(html_entity_decode($this->title, ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8')), ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8') . '&source=' . urlencode(get_bloginfo('name')) . '" onclick="window.open(this.href, \'mywin\',\'left=50,top=50,width=600,height=350,toolbar=0\'); return false;"><i class="fa fa-linkedin"></i></a>

I added a font awesome linked in icon so you need to install and activate ‘font awesome 4 menus’ and then use this css code in the theme panel – custom css box:

.td-social-linkedin{
margin-left:8px;
background-color: 
#006699!important;;
}

Hope this helps.
Thank you!

Hi,

The whatsapp button will not get overwritten. It only shows on the mobile version. If it disapeared, please check the code again and make sure you did not affect the whatsapp code.
Please retry the method as I have tested it again and works as expected. It does not affect any other social network: http://screencast.com/t/LUU4A55pwoL
As for the bottom sharing, you will find a similar code below that one if you scroll down the file. You can simply paste in the linkedin code there as well.

Thank you!

Hi,
This is not standard at all. It is a customization. Normally the theme does not allow you to add extra social networks in it’s widget. This is a ‘hack’. If you do not want to hack the theme files, you can always use a plugin for the social icons that allows you to add other networks besides the ones the theme provides.
Thank you!

Hi,
You must look for the change log and the modified files for the new version. If the file is on the list and got modified, you need to re-apply the modification as keeping the old file will break the site. In newspaper 7 and 7.01 the file did not get modified so you can keep the old file. Please check these 2 links for a list of modified files in NP7 and 7.01:
http://tagdiv.com/td_deploy/Newspaper/changed_files_6.6_7.0.html
http://tagdiv.com/td_deploy/Newspaper/changed_files_7.0_7.0.1.html
Thank you!

Hi,
Unfortunately there is no linked in button on the social counter. The implementation for another social network in the social counter will not be so easy to make as the solution provided here.
Thank you!

Hi,
I can’t say for sure as there is no official plan for it at the moment. However we are always looking to update and improve our themes so maybe in a future version we will be able to implement it, jut not at the moment.
Thank you!

Hi,
This will work from the child theme so you do not have to edit the original file. What I was mentioning above is that a child theme is not update proof. You still have to replace the file in the child theme if the main theme update will require replacing of the td_module_single.php file. (there is a list of modified files attached to the change log on themeforest for every update so you can inspect what files were changed. If td_module_single.php is on that list, then you need to replace it in the child theme as well and re-apply the modification)
I hope this helps.
Thanks.

Hi,

Well please check the file again as there are 2 sections of code that are identical. Scroll a bit further down and you will see another identical code. One is for the top sharing and one is for the bottom sharing. You could be altering one and checking the other. (I’ve done that a couple of times myself :))

Hope this helps.

Hi,
The method specified in this thread requires font awesome 4 menus for the linked in icon to be present.
Install the plugin and check again.
Thank you!