How to add a share\like facebook button to each listing?

Hi Daniel,

We already support this today by allowing various social sites to be added as fields in the listing. We support LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter. See the docs on how to configure those for more details: https://businessdirectoryplugin.com/docs/#admin-form-fields

Hi, thanks for the quick respond!
I’m aware to that function, but this function is adding a like to a facebook page, not to the listing page in my site.
What i’m looking for is a simple like+share button that will enable visitors and directory users to like and share a specific page in my site.
Any ideas? ??
thanks, daniel

Hi Daniel,

Not sure I understand here. The Facebook function we have allows you to like a specific Facebook page for the business listing you have. Facebook doesn’t allow you to like pages on *your* site, only on theirs. Liking is a Facebook function, not really a WP or BD one. Am I missing something here?

Can I join conversation?
I am also having problem with adding sharing option to my Directory Listing (using Premium).
I think what Daniel trying to ask is how to add same functionality to Directory Listings as you can do to Posts with AddThis plugin.
Any suggestions?

We only have a way to link to a business Facebook page in the BD listing fields right now. Sharing is something that a Facebook plugin should handle as long as they support custom post types (that’s what BD uses). If a plugin isn’t working to do that sharing, that’s most likely the problem.

You might look around at other FB sharing plugins and ask specifically if they support custom post types (a good one SHOULD).

I am unable to find a plugin that does the custom post types if anyone stumbles across one. I can share the heck out of the main page but not cats, etc. I’ve had good luck with add to any for other sites but no luck with this.

Hi lazyym,

A FB plugin needs to be able to handle custom post types to share properly, so I don’t know what alternate solutions to offer. The standard FB plugin should do this, but clearly it doesn’t. ??

I was able to get the addtoany to work: https://www.addtoany.com/

I installed it in a float right span in the businessdirectory-listing.tpl.php behind the listing-details cf div.

<div class="listing-details cf <?php if ($main_image): ?>with-image<?php endif; ?>">
    <?php echo $listing_fields; ?>
</div>
<span style="padding-top:20px;float:right;"><!-- AddToAny BEGIN -->
<a class="a2a_dd" href="https://www.addtoany.com/share_save"><img src="https://static.addtoany.com/buttons/share_save_256_24.png" width="256" height="24" border="0" alt="Share"/></a>
<script type="text/javascript" src="//static.addtoany.com/menu/page.js"></script>
<!-- AddToAny END --></span>

It seems to work anywhere in the template files.

Good to know, thanks for the tip.