Title: [Plugin: AddThis] Poor Documentation
Last modified: August 20, 2016
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# [Plugin: AddThis] Poor Documentation
* [Leo Plaw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leoplaw/)
* (@leoplaw)
* [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-addthis-poor-documentation/)
* The documentation for the plugin is non-existant and gives no clues on how to
use the very chaotic documentation on the addthis website.
* I want the following services as 16×16 icons, no counter.
* How do I configure the plugin to do this?
* Twitter, FB, Delicious, Pinterest, G+, Stumble Upon, LinkedIn, email, addthis
* So far I have used
* Services / Build your own
* twitter,facebook,google_plusone,linkedin,delicious,pinterest,stumbleupon,email
* and I get google plus, with a counter, a 49 x 24 Pinterest button, and all of
the rest are 16 x 16
* Please, please, please provide consistent documentation on how to use AddThis.
It is a nightmare.
* Advanced / addthis_config values: (json format)
* how exactly do I format this? Full JavaScript notation with braces?
* Secondly, in the plugin admin,
* Enter a comma-separated list of service codes
* links to [http://addthis.com/services](http://addthis.com/services)
* instead of [http://www.addthis.com/services/list](http://www.addthis.com/services/list)
* or this [http://support.addthis.com/customer/portal/articles/381263-addthis-client-api](http://support.addthis.com/customer/portal/articles/381263-addthis-client-api)
* [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/addthis/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/addthis/)
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* Thread Starter [Leo Plaw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leoplaw/)
* (@leoplaw)
* [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-addthis-poor-documentation/#post-2640559)
* Here is also is another user wondering how to configure the plugin. I can not
get the JSON options to work either.
* Also a bug.
* Services / Build your own if it is unchecked and there are values on the text
field, the plugin still shows the icons.
* Thread Starter [Leo Plaw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leoplaw/)
* (@leoplaw)
* [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-addthis-poor-documentation/#post-2640573)
* OK, I have figured out what to do with Basic/Custom Option
*
* however, upon submit, the plugin strips out g:plusone:annotation=”none” every
single time.
* I still have no control over the Pinterest button size
* Thread Starter [Leo Plaw](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leoplaw/)
* (@leoplaw)
* [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-addthis-poor-documentation/#post-2640577)
* After much searching, finally the correct code to turn off the Google+ count.
[http://support.addthis.com/customer/portal/articles/381237-third-party-buttons](http://support.addthis.com/customer/portal/articles/381237-third-party-buttons)
* [Lax Mariappan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lakshmananphp/)
* (@lakshmananphp)
* [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-addthis-poor-documentation/#post-2640605)
* Hi Leo Plaw!
* I have the same issue with addthis plugin…
* Here is my addthis button code
* ```
```
* **upon submit, the plugin strips out pi:pinit:layout=”horizontal” every single
time.**
* Any ideas? how to get pinterest count box?
* [bcoyour](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcoyour/)
* (@bcoyour)
* [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-addthis-poor-documentation/#post-2640825)
* For anyone looking for the correct code to make the Pinterest button a 16px by
16px icon, here it is:
* ``
* Hope it helps someone!
* [Nancy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dotdabbledorg/)
* (@dotdabbledorg)
* [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-addthis-poor-documentation/#post-2640838)
* [@bcoyour](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcoyour/) – THANK YOU!
I’m amazed
at how poor the documentation for addthis is. there should be a list somewhere
of the code for the various buttons, but I haven’t been able to find it. If anyone
has a link, please post 🙂
* [_mjk_](https://wordpress.org/support/users/_mjk_/)
* (@_mjk_)
* [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-addthis-poor-documentation/#post-2640839)
* Nancy,
* Sorry you’ve had trouble. We’re working on improving your ability to find our
documentation at [http://addthis.com/help](http://addthis.com/help) — in the
meantime, this is the page you’re looking for: [http://www.addthis.com/services/list](http://www.addthis.com/services/list)
* Best,
Matt
* [Nancy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dotdabbledorg/)
* (@dotdabbledorg)
* [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-addthis-poor-documentation/#post-2640840)
* Thank you Matt, but that link would not have answered my question. I was looking
for the class for the tiny pinterest button, and (apparently pinterest_share,
not pinterest, which gives you a big button.) But hopefully that list will help
others.
* This came about because apparently the auto generated tiny buttons(the ones that
supposed show the social networks most used) were not picking up Pinterest as
a most used social network, so that button never showed, even on users who use
Pinterest a great deal, they would see networks they rarely used, but never a
pinterest button. So we had to add it to the bar manually. So you may want to
report that as a problem.
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