Facebook Widget
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I want to be able to have a Facebook Like widget – not just a Facebook Share widget – on each post. How do I go about doing this? Is it even possible? I currently use the Mystique theme. TIA
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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We cannot enable widgets in posts or pages. They can only be used in sidebars or footers. Click this link https://en.support.wordpress.com/facebook-integration/
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Yes you can. From your WP Admin Dashboard go to Settings > Sharing and you can pick the buttons you want to have. If you want to see the actual Facebook “Like” button, change your button styles to “Official”. Screenshots are in the help document I linked at the start.
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Wait, I’m confused now, do you want a widget to like a Facebook page (I think what timethief is referring to) or do you want a button for visitors to click on your posts so they can say on Facebook that they like your post?
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I want to be able to have a Facebook Like widget – not just a Facebook Share widget – on each post.
What posted was correct. This blogger already has sharing icons. Example https://misssurrey.wordpress.com/blog-posts/
Here we teach bloggers how to fish. We don’t usually fish, cook the fish, and serve it plated to them. That is why I directed misssurrey1982 to this entry https://en.support.wordpress.com/facebook-integration/
That is where she will discover Facebook Like Box
https://en.support.wordpress.com/facebook-integration/#facebook-like-boxIf you have a Facebook Page (not just a profile), you can add a Facebook Like Box to your sidebar or other widget area simply by adding the Facebook Like Box widget from Appearance → Widgets in your blog’s Dashboard.
Now I will also prompt misssurrey1982 to note that widgets have visibility settings.
@misssurrey1982
For widget visibility settings that determine which pages which widgets display on see also http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/#widget-visibilityGo to Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets to enable widgets http://misssurrey.wordpress.com/ wp-admin/widgets.php
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Edit for missing word.
What I posted is correct. I am visually challenged and very tired of spending nearly 9 years of not only answering support questions which I like to do, but also ghosting the threads of new volunteers and making corrections, which is something I hate doing, because it’s an annoying waste of my time, but Staff does not have time to do it. -
@raincoaster
Does it still work? I can’t attest that it does and the site of the blogger who posted the workaround is no longer hosted here. I don’t have time to check the sites of those who posted into that thread as I have to log out now. Hope you have a good evening. -
I apologize for causing confusion; I forgot to refresh before posting my first response to see if someone else had already responded, and when I was looking up an answer I didn’t think about needing to disable AdBlock Plus in Firefox to see if misssurrey1982 already had sharing buttons or not (AdBlock Plus hides them).
The workaround raincoaster posted does still work, with the caveat that the official buttons must be used. If they’re not used, both buttons become share links. Here’s an example where using the official buttons gives both a Like and a Share (and for contrast, here’s one where not using the official buttons gives two Share buttons).
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