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footer links to social networking sites and link to tags
 
   
  
 
 
In stackexchange,  every question has a footer
 
"Know someone who can answer? Share a link to this question via email, twitter, facebook, or linkedin"
 
Of course,  since askbot has support for more including Google Plus now, encouraging users to share questions and answers is important for anyone using askbot.  Typically successful sites have large majority of traffic (70 to 80%) that come from search engines and one of the sure shot way of increasing popularity is encouraging people to link to your site.  So in addition to the facebook, twitter sharing links on the site of the questions, this is helpful
 
If you are just browsing a site. this footer is instead
 
"Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged foo or ask your own question."
 
This is useful in encouraging a tag based search which often yields better answers
 
 
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    updated 13 years ago 
 
 
 
 
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    asked 13 years ago 
 
 
 
 
        
 
 
 
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        note that it is incorrect to say that 'every question has a footer'... on stackexchange, only those questions _without answers_ have this footer, hence the "else" tag in the example below.
      
 
 NoahY's avatar NoahY (13 years ago)   
 
 
  
 
 
  
 
 

        yes.  you are right
      
 
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Not sure if it's kosher to just copy the code verbatim, but this seems to work:
 
    {% if answers %}

    ...

    {% else %}
        <h2 class="share-question">{% trans url=settings.APP_URL+question.get_absolute_url()|iriencode, name=settings.APP_SHORT_NAME|iriencode %}Know someone who can answer?  Share a <a href="{{ url }}">link</a> to this question via 
            <a href="mailto:?subject={{ name }}&amp;body={{ url }}">email</a>, 
            <a href="http://twitter.com/share?url={{ url }}">Twitter</a>, 
            <a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u={{ url }}">Facebook</a>, or
            <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url={{ url }}&amp;source={{ name }}">Linkedin</a>.{% endtrans %}
        </h2>
    {% endif %}

 
 
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    updated 13 years ago,
        
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        note: google+ doesn't seem to have such a link available: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6676658/share-link-on-google 
 
 NoahY's avatar NoahY (13 years ago)   
 
 
  
 
 
  
 
 
 @Evgeny, can you merge this functionality? 
      
 
 mether's avatar mether (13 years ago)   
 
 
  
 
 
  
 
 

        Done, many thanks to Noah.
      
 
 Evgeny's avatar Evgeny (13 years ago)   
 
 
  
 
 
  
 
 

        confirmed that all these works except for email.  Posted as a separate bug
      
 
 mether's avatar mether (13 years ago)   
 
 
  
 
 
  
 
 

        when using "iriencode" I got a template error "no filter named iriencode". Changing it to urlencode sovles the problem.
      
 
 DominiCattus's avatar DominiCattus (13 years ago)   
 
 
  
 
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