HowTo: Tell AddThis to not append tracking suffix on addressbar

ClipFlair’s project description website is based on WordPress (a quite extensible blogging platform based on PHP). The other day we had an issue with the AddThis Plugin for WordPress, which was adding tracking suffices (in the form #.UAxxxxx) to the end of our URLs on the browser address bar.

Moreover this wasn’t occuring in Internet Explorer, since it doesn’t support the History API – probably for more security against Phishing scams – that the AddThis plugin uses for its Address Bar Shares tracking feature.

At first I didn’t spot that setting at the Settings/AddThis menu in WordPress dashboard and was looking into configuring it manually (it’s “addthis_addressbar” boolean setting, probably kept in wp_config.php), but eventually our designer spotted it at the “Advanced” tab there (wonder how I missed that 2nd tab altogether in the first place).