Follow button for mobile users

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    melbfoodreviewer · Member ·

    Hi, I am using the Motif theme and there i no follow button in the bottom right corner when people use the mobile. (PC, Laptop and tablet fine)
    There is no point telling me to use the follow me widget as the sidebar is not visible in mobile view. Can you please fix this asap as the majority of my traffic comes from mobiles and this affects follower numbers, in fact a friend complained the other day that she couldn’t clearly see where to sign up. This seems like it would be a pretty big issue for all users, not just myself.
    As well as this, thanks to the frustrating new editor layout I am missing half of my categories! Ironically, they still show up in the mobile version. Please fix this also.

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    Hi there. An option you can look at is the Blog Subscription shortcode. That one works on posts and pages, so you can create a new page and add the shortcode to allow people to subscribe that way. It’s not as elegant as a button, but will at least give you this functionality. https://en.support.wordpress.com/blog-subscription-shortcode/

    Still, I’ll tag this for staff to follow up. I was helping someone else with this issue the other day, and could swear I tagged that thread, but it doesn’t appear to be tagged anymore and no one from staff responded to that one, so I might have imagined doing it :) Please be patient while waiting for them to respond to this thread.

    As well as this, thanks to the frustrating new editor layout I am missing half of my categories! Ironically, they still show up in the mobile version. Please fix this also.

    The current main feedback thread on the new editor can be found here: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/please-reinstate-the-option-of-choice-to-use-the-old-publishing-format?replies=167 Please post in that thread with any and all problems you are experiencing with the new editor.

    Meanwhile, I recommend you use the classic editor instead. From the My Sites page, click on the WP-Admin link, and then select Posts ->Add New to create a new post or Posts ->All Posts to edit an existing one. That editor shows all your categories and is completely bug-free, unlike the new editor.

  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    Just confirming (for the sake of my own sanity) that I definitely did add the modlook tag to this thread ;)

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    traumadissociation · Member ·

    The Follow button does show on a mobile, it’s just at the very bottom of the page.
    An alternative is to option above is to create a menu item that jumps down the home page to the follow button. The follow button section has an ID assigned by wordpress in the source code.

    View the source code from a desktop and search for “subscription”, find the “id=” section and note what the value of ID is. In my theme it is id=blog_subscription-4

    Then create a Follow menu item and link it to Follow section of the home page, eg
    http://traumadissociation.wordpress.com#blog_subscription-4

  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    @traumadissociation
    Sorry, I only saw your post now. For some reason I didn’t get an email notification when you posted.

    Viewing the OP’s site in the Android browser and Chrome for Android I don’t see the button at all. I do see the follow widget under the content, but not the button for logged out users. Same on the blog of the user I assisted in the other thread linked above.

    On what type of device and browser do you see the button? It might help narrow this down.

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    jeremeylduvall · Member ·

    Hi @melbfoodreviewer,

    I am using the Motif theme and there i no follow button in the bottom right corner when people use the mobile. (PC, Laptop and tablet fine)

    The Follow tab will not appear on phones. This is intended behavior.

    The best fix would be to use the Follow widget like you mentioned. However, if you disable the default mobile theme (since your theme is mobile responsive) here:

    https://melbgourmet.wordpress.com/wp-admin/themes.php?page=mobile-options

    You should see the widget at the bottom of your site as shown here:

    http://d.pr/i/XDWs

    I would also suggest reducing the number of posts shown on page load to less than 50 (maybe 20) to reduce the amount of scrolling required (this will also help page load time). You can do that here:

    https://melbgourmet.wordpress.com/wp-admin/options-reading.php

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