Can sharing setting appear at the top of posts?
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My Sharing Settings appear at the bottom of each post. Can I also include some of these sharing buttons at the top of my post? I’m using the Modern News theme?
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Hi Lawrence,
It won’t be possible to have them both at the top and the bottom of your posts, just one or the other. Would you like to move them to the top? We can give that a try through CSS. Let me know!
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Thanks for the offer. Very kind of you.
Would you be able to use the icons in my media library, which are more prominent?
I think I’d prefer them at the top, but could we revert back if I don’t like the look when I see it on the page?
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Definitely! We’ll be able to revert back if we like the bottom look the best.
Regarding the media icons in your Media Library, you would need to create your own sharing button as described here if you would like to use those:
To start with moving the icons to the top of the page, can you try placing this under Appearance -> Customize -> CSS?
div.sharedaddy { position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 450px; } .entry { position: relative; padding-top: 160px; } .jetpack-likes-widget { padding-top: 110px; }That should give us a good start. Once you save that, view one of your individual posts, and let me know what you think about the sharing button position!
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The icons moved up but so did the “Related” story headlines. Here’s what it looked like after I saved CSS
http://awesomescreenshot.com/0754opxid2Can we move just the icons, without also moving Related headlines?
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Yep! Sorry – I didn’t realize that the Related Posts section didn’t load in the Customizer for some reason. Will investigate that! Can you try this code instead?
.sd-block, .sd-block.sd-like { position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 450px; } .entry { position: relative; padding-top: 160px; } .jetpack-likes-widget { padding-top: 110px; } -
That’s much better, thanks, but in addition to the icons I’m seeing tiny pictures of people, possibly those who Liked the article or who commented.
Can we stick to the icons and remove the little pictures?
Also, I’m not being notified of your follow up posts via email, as I think should happen, since I’ve ticked off the box beloiw
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Here’s question that may be related.
When I post an article, people who follow me get an email with the text of the article. Can the sharing icons appear in that email, so that they can share directly from their email?
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That’s much better, thanks, but in addition to the icons I’m seeing tiny pictures of people, possibly those who Liked the article or who commented.
Can we stick to the icons and remove the little pictures?
Those are the Gravatars of individuals that have liked your blog post. If you would like, you can remove them using the following CSS:
.wpl-avatars { display: none; }So, the full code would be this:
.sd-block, .sd-block.sd-like { position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 450px; } .entry { position: relative; padding-top: 160px; } .jetpack-likes-widget { padding-top: 110px; } .wpl-avatars { display: none; }Also, I’m not being notified of your follow up posts via email, as I think should happen, since I’ve ticked off the box below
It looks like some of the emails we’re sending are bouncing from your Next City email address. They’re getting blocked for some reason or another. Can you check with your email provider to whitelist @wordpress.com emails?
When I post an article, people who follow me get an email with the text of the article. Can the sharing icons appear in that email, so that they can share directly from their email?
No, I’m afraid the sharing buttons cannot be placed in the email automatically created when you publish a new WordPress.com post.
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I’m still seeing the Gravatars. They seem to be associated with people who Like my post.
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Can I change my email from the Nextcity account to a gmail account ((email visible only to moderators and staff))
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I’m still seeing the Gravatars. They seem to be associated with people who Like my post.
You’re correct – they are associated with WordPress.com users that have liked your posts. I’m sorry for overlooking this; the Gravatars are contained inside of an iframe so we’re unable to target them with CSS to remove them. The main option would be to hide the like button on your posts here:
https://vaccinefactcheck.wordpress.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=sharing
You would need to change the option for “WordPress.com Likes are” to “Turned on per post.”
Can you give that a try? That will remove the Like button from the sharing area.
Can I change my email from the Nextcity account to a gmail account
Definitely! We have some instructions on how to do that here:
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Great! You’ve solved the Gravatar problem.
But now there’s a large amount of space between the sharing button and the headline in the post. Can you reduce the space?
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I’ve reduced the space (and am feeling very proud of myself), so that’s fixed now.
Next, I’d like to use the sharing icons that are in my Media library. How can I get them installed?
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Jeremy,
The I’m okay with the sharing icons as they now appear on my site, so I’ll end this session. Thank you very much for helping me with all this. You’ve been terrific.
Larry -
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