Written By: EMG
Posted On: Jul 19, 2009
Filed Under: Administration, On the Web Development Front, On the WordPress Front
So uhmmm… whooops?
EDIT: Justin Thorp from the AddThis team directly replied to this post in a comment and said that the team is looking into resolving both issues! Thank you, Justin!
The newer version of the WordPress-specific AddThis coding (the one you can manually add to your posts that uses the php echo?) does NOT validate through W3C. It WORKS, but because of the ampersand and perhaps something else, W3C is going bonkers over it, offering up anywhere between 5 to 9 errors on account of it.
So if you visit the blog and validate it and see a million AddThis validation errors? That’s why.
And oh yes, the ‘Print’ functionality does not work for a single post if you have the AddThis coding enabled on say your main blog page where it appears multiple times – once on each post.
Instead of printing that one post, it will print the entire page – whooops!
I hope AddThis fixes that soon!
~ EMG
Written By: EMG
Posted On: Jul 12, 2009
Filed Under: Administration


November 03, 2010: Just an Update
It’s been a while since I’ve updated this Bulletin Board and so I thought I would take care of it!
On the AddThis front, AddThis added a Print Friendly functionality to their repertoire of sharing functions a while ago which allows single posts to be printed straight from a blog’s main site rather than through the individual post view.
This was a feature I had inquired about in the community forum back when I was still learning the ropes and seeing it finally come true was – and still is – way WAY cool.
Also, in case my previous Bulletin Board post confused anybody, the W3C validation error was fixed very shortly after I discovered the bug and the issue was reported. Thanks especially to Justin Thorp who reported the bug to the developers who then fixed it!
As a token of my thanks for the awesome service the little button offers my site and for the awesome support I have received from the team since I have started using the AddThis service, I created a little button of my own which links to the AddThis website.
Check it out on my sidebar! Just scroll on down to where I’m Giving Props!
In relation to Giving Props, I’ll (HOPEFULLY) have all of my Giving Props buttons, links, and whatevers working and operational before December rolls around.
It’s been a seriously CrAzY ride for the past year starting from August of last year up until now and owing to the things that have happened, it’s hard to keep up with everything at times.
With that said, thanks for your patience and understanding!