Social Settings

Various settings related to social sharing options.

Enables visitors to comment on your products. This software supports the comments systems shown in the dropdown. You can also add in your own comments system (such as a self hosted solution) by editing the templates. Supported comments overview as follows:

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Disqus (disqus.com) - Enter disqus shortname and category ID (Optional).

Intense Debate (intensedebate.com) - Enter account ID.

Hyvor Talk (talk.hyvor.com) - Enter Website ID.

Commento (commento.io) - No options are required. Sign up and enter your URL before activating.

Facebook Comments (developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/comments/) - An AppID is required for your comments to work.

Make sure you sign up for an account where applicable and complete any options required before activating in this software. Also, please note the restrictions with this plugin if you are based in the E.U.

At least one option must be enabled for the comments system to work. Check out the websites above for more information and further customisation. Files related to the comments plugins can be found in the following folder:

content/**theme**/html/comments/*

Note that for most comments plugins you must enter your domain as an allowed domain in their settings.

For Twitter API integration. Enter Twitter API consumer key. Sign up for credentials here, then enter details here and below.

Enter Twitter API consumer secret key.

Enter Twitter API access token.

Enter Twitter API access token secret

If you have a Twitter page, enter your Twitter username. This is not required for the API.

Here you can add social links. You can add as many as you need, but links should not be duplicated. Duplicates will be removed. Too add new links do the following:

1 In the first box enter the Font Awesome class name. This software currently supports v4* only. Click the icon or visit Font Awesome.

2 In the second box enter the full url starting http/https to your site.

3 Click the button to add link to list

4 Click 'Update' to save.


To remove links, leave url box blank, click update and refresh screen. Links with blank urls will be removed. If you don't like any icons on default links, you need to remove them and add them again.

Social plugin that adds social share buttons to your store products screen. Supports inline ONLY.

It is recommended you utilise the power of social networks. More info on AddThis here.

For direct link sharing on Twitter. Recommended.

For direct link sharing on Facebook. Recommended.

To see what image is currently being pulled for any of your pages by Facebook, view their crawler page.

Facebook state this is required. So, you should set up an appID here, then specify the ID here. Not creating an app ID could result in your site being rejected by the Facebook crawler.