Moose Droppings

After installing the ShareThis social plugin for WordPress I was surprised to find that there isn’t an easy option to exclude the social links from showing up on the front page. Luckily, it’s as easy as inserting a small bit of code into the sharethis.php plugin file.
On my system the file is located at

{wordpress root directory}/wp-content/plugins/share-this/sharethis.php

Open up the file in your favorite editor and go to nearly the bottom of the file and find the function (around line 601 in the version that I have) st_makeEntries

Add in the following code

if(is_front_page()){ return ''; }

So that the beginning of your function looks like this:

function st_makeEntries(){
        if(is_front_page()){ return ''; }
        global $post;
        ... the rest of the function follows ...

We are basically bypassing the code that builds the social badges and returning nothing instead of the HTML that the code would otherwise build.