Fixing ShareThis Wired #Hashtag Ending Sites Url

The ShareThis button is an all-in-one widget that lets people share any content on the Web with friends via e-mail, AIM, or text message. Shar.es is the URL shortener for ShareThis.com. The widget can also keep an account of personal contacts so that users can send an e-mail, IM, or text message with favorite links to friends. The button can be deployed on any site to drive traffic, stimulate viral activity, and track the sharing of content. Toolbar versions exist for Firefox, Mozilla Application Suite and Internet Explorer, and customized widgets are available for leading blog publisher sites including Blogger, TypePad and WordPress.
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ShareThis keep changing things and they keep making thing worse for some of website owners because no website/blog owners will like to see his/her website of over thousand facebook likes having zero count just because of the changes in the url format. You should understand when you read refuter.

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You might have notice this (#sthash.dlLomqYg.dpbs e.g yoursite.com#sthash.dlLomqYg.dpbs) in your url address bar and wondered how it get there and how to get rid of it once, read further.

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When you see this behind your url, this is caused by ShareThis, if you are using ShareThis code on your blog or website. This might not be affecting you if are not using their current head tag code.

You can stop this in two various explanatory ways as it will be explained bellow, please read carefully.

Step 1

Check the code bellow very well some highlighted in red, blue.

<script type=”text/javascript”>var switchTo5x=true;</script>
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://w.sharethis.com/button/buttons.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript”>stLight.options({publisher: “5d6aab41-b006-4035-a69b-750b7df25bd9″, doNotHash: false, doNotCopy: false, hashAddressBar: true});</script>

change the blue text to false and change the red to true. That’s all.

Step 2

Assuming you just wanted to insert sharethis code to your site and you dont want to e a victim of the url #hashtag when you are about to Click on Finish: Get The Code you will notice some two check-box like in the image bellow.

sharethis2

Untick the two box and Click on Finish: Get The Code. That’s all.

Insert to your website and check the url.

Comment bellow if you have any question, any question is welcomed.

Don’t forget sharing is caring, do share to your friends and save a website facing this problem.

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Comments

  1. avatar Dawah
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    Am happy this blog is back and beta, nice one bro

  2. I dont think this tutorial, will work if you are using the sharethis plugin?

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