Pinterest? Any ideas on how to set up in BC properly?

Hello DandyDahlia,

A Pin It button on a blog details layout would be hard since there is no image tag within the blog layout, other than tag_blogpostauthorpicture. And the description would be the post body, which could be a lot. So I guess it is do-able but at the same time, maybe just a follow me pinterest button would work better for the blog.

With the code you have for a large product layout. It is hard to say what the true error is without a link to an example, but did you remove the spaces within the tags?

<a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url={tag_itemurl_withhost}&amp;media=http://[CHANGEME].com{tag_largeimage_path}&amp;description={tag_description}" class="pin-it-button" count-layout="horizontal"><img border="0" src="//assets.pinterest.com/images/PinExt.png" title="Pin It" /></a>

[CHANGEME] should be your domain: yourdomain.com

I've placed this on my sandbox product and was able to pin products:  http://bcg-sandbox.hotpressplatform.com/store/clothing/mens-jacket

Also the script file that is with your code, add it to your page only once, directly above the closing </BODY> tag, without the ; at the end:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://assets.pinterest.com/js/pinit.js"></script>

Hope this helps,

Chad Smith | http://bcgurus.com/Business-Catalyst-Templates for only $7

Okay, I'm having the same issues with Pinterest as well. I got the code for the product from Pinterest, inserted it into my HTML, placed the javascript at the bottom of the template.

I had to modify the code becuase BC or the HTML was not recognizing the colon and slash HTML code. The small Pin it box appears, with photo, and I fill in the description and off it goes to Pintreest. However, when checking the Pinterest page, not one of my 5 or 6 attempts at pining have appeared.

Here is my code...

<a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url= http://www.lechameauusa.com/chasseur.html&media=http://www.lechameauusa.com/Product page Images/CHASSEUR.png" class="pin-it-button" count-layout="horizontal"><img border="0" src="//assets.pinterest.com/images/PinExt.png" title="Pin It" /></a>

Here is the page itself....

http://www.lechameauusa.com/chasseur.html

Just WHAT am I doing wrong?

Thanks

Chuck

Worked like a charm....

Then I had an "Oh cr*p" moment. I did not set up the files and a majority of the images file names have spaces. I can rename them in my FTP program (so I don't need to move the items inside), but will BC follow the new link or do I have to relink all images?

ah yes the dreaded space in file names!

You're probably going to have to rename all the images paths, but should an easy using the import feature.

Chad Smith | http://bcgurus.com/Business-Catalyst-Templates for only $7

It occured to me that since I had the FTP up and running, I went ahead and copied the images files to a new folder with a name with no spaces and created the Pin It code to read those images. Wasn't too much work, only 44 images in all and about half of them located on 3 different pages on the site.

Thanks Dandy and Chad!