Pinterest Button, Adding a Pin it Button to the Product Pages Options

[Richard]

Hi,

Pinterest is yet another site which may add some visitors to your site - their site is here: http://pinterest.com/

Essentially members (its an invitation only site currently with 'only' about a million members where photos of loved items are uploaded and shared.

After numerous attempts to get the Pin It button to work (this is the button which is clicked to add the photo of your item to the visitors album) this is the result - for CC3.16 onwards:


1. Find a member to invite you - maybe me?

2. Go to the goodies page and get the code for the Pin It button.

3. Make the following alterations to the code:

<a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=http://www.your_site.co.uk/prod_{PRODUCT_ID}.html&media=http://www.your-site.co.uk/{IMG_SRC}&description={TXT_PINIT}" class="pin-it-button" count-layout="horizontal">Pin It</a>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://assets.pinterest.com/js/pinit.js"></script>

Add this code to the Viewprod.tpl at the place you wish the button to appear - its a small button so shouldn't use up much real estate.

4. Go to the file /includes/content/viewprod.inc.php and look for this line:

$view_prod->assign("TXT_DESCRIPTION",$prodArray[0]['description']);
add this line after:

$view_prod->assign("TXT_PINIT",$prodArray[0]['prod_metadesc']);

The {TXT_PINIT} placeholder should not have any HTML style attributes - HTML causes problems with the Pinterest code and will not upload successfully
AFAIK prod_metadesc is plain text (if not there could be problems) - it is on my version of CC3
Thats it!

I hope it brings your site some new visitors.

Regards

Richard

This post has been edited by Robsta: Feb 5 2012, 10:38 AM

[Richard]

Hi,
Ooops -

This line: url=http://www.your_site.co.uk/prod_{PRODUCT_ID}

Should be: url=http://www.your_site.co.uk/prod_{PRODUCT_ID}.html

Otherwise the link on the Pinterest Likes page will not work -

Richard

[Hrs]

Thank you for this. Is there any chance it will work on cubecart 5.

[Richard]

Thank you for this. Is there any chance it will work on cubecart 5.

Hi,
I am sorry but I am stuck in the 'dark ages' of CC3 and have no idea of the coding changes needed for CC5 - I would imagine its not tricky - maybe a CC5 expert could help.

Regards
Richard

[bkessler91]

Hi,
I am sorry but I am stuck in the 'dark ages' of CC3 and have no idea of the coding changes needed for CC5 - I would imagine its not tricky - maybe a CC5 expert could help.

Regards
Richard

This is not working for me. Using 3.0.16

Any hints?