Can't see share buttons below posts
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Alright guys, getting frustrated with this now.
I’m sure I have activated share icons for Twitter, Facebook, etc to appear with each post yet I see absolutely nothing. Please help
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I’m using Firefox 46 and I can see them for example here at the end of the post https://truegunnerhorsetips.wordpress.com/2016/05/26/friday-270516-tips/
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Hi I can now see the share icons when I click your link but when I access the blog myself they do not appear at all. This seems really bizarre.
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Ah I see what it has happened I was expecting to see the share icons as soon as I access the blog’s homepage. However I actually have to click the title of the post and once inside, the share icons appear. This seems a bit unpractical as if somebody is not used to using WordPress and want to share a post, they may not even realise you can expand the post further by clicking on the title. Thanks for your help and sorry for being daft.
As for my Twitter card query, how I can workaround this so that I do not get one that is blank?
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However, I actually have to click the title of the post and once inside, the share icons appear.
Unless you use the P2 theme https://theme.wordpress.com/themes/p2-breathe/ which is a Twitter-like theme, the front pages of our blogs showcase content and comments are collapsed on that page. The way the comments function is coded into the core of WordPress. By clicking the post title or the comments link the posts on the front page open on their own page where all comments display. You cannot change this.
In a new blog, one does not have many posts or comments. In an established blog if the comments did not collapse on the front page it would become a mile long in no time flat and page loading time is a page ranking factor. We have only seconds before visitors refuse to wait and click out.
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As for my Twitter card query, how I can workaround this so that I do not get one that is blank?
I located this thread https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-can-i-use-large-image-twitter-cards-for-wordpresscom-blog-post?replies=11 See what alexjgustafson, Staff says there please.
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Also, note this support doc https://en.support.wordpress.com/twitter/ for Twitter integration with wordpress.com hosted sites.
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Hi. I have taken a look at the links but i’m afraid it goes completely above my head. I just want a blog with minimal fuss.
Now I have looked at my shared posts to Twitter. On the right side it does list the title on the mobile application. On the PC I can see the actual starting contents of the post as well.
Now the left hand side where an image should be is completely blank. I did a test and added a featured image onto a test post and shared to Twitter. Turns out a picture went along with it, albeit not how I was hoping it would be incorporated and it was way too big as it was my header image that I used.
Now I don’t want to use a featured image for every post but this is the only way I can get an image to appear with a shared post so there is no blank box. Is there some way I can make WordPress take a scaled down version of my header image and use that as the picture for a shared post?
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@destroyer94
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Is there some way I can make WordPress take a scaled down version of my header image and use that as the picture for a shared post?
NOTE: We have no control over the images that Twitter, Facebook or any other social networks chooses to display or when they choose to flush their image caches. We really only send them the URL of the post, and they hunt through that for the excerpt and images to include.
Please read Images in Publicize http://en.support.wordpress.com/publicize/#images-in-publicize
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