How to make social buttons visible all the time?

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  adredwood · Member · Apr 1, 2012 at 5:24 pm

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  Hi there all

  I’m trying to set up my blog to be as easily functional as possible, including social network buttons after each post. It’s very easily done through ‘sharing’ in settings, the only problem is the buttons aren’t actually visible by default, only when you hover a mouse over the drop down menu. This seems to me a waste of space (there’s a whole bar with just the drop down arrow showing) and less enticing for folks to click on them.

  Anyone know a way around this to show them all the time?

  A (:

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

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  timethief · Member · Apr 1, 2012 at 5:29 pm

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  We expect visitors to read full posts befor they click any like or sharing buttons. That’s why the social networking icons appear at the end of our posts and display when we click the blog title or comment lin as that’s when the full post can be read on it’s own page.

  I can’t see the buttons on the front page.
  Make sure to select “Front Page, Archive Pages, and Search Results” for “Show buttons on” setting. http://en.support.wordpress.com/sharing/#troubleshooting

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  adredwood · Member · Apr 1, 2012 at 5:36 pm

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  Thanks for your response, but that wasn’t quite my question. I’m searching for a way to make the buttons visible on the page without hovering your mouse over the button; in other words I’d like one of those neat button rows you see so often on blogs. Any ideas?

  A (:

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  timethief · Member · Apr 1, 2012 at 5:41 pm

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  You can choose to display the buttons as you have done, or you can choose to display all the buttons individually side-by-side below the post.

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  adredwood · Member · Apr 1, 2012 at 5:49 pm

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  Thanks but I can’t see the option to do this, how did you achieve it?

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  timethief · Member · Apr 1, 2012 at 6:01 pm

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  here > Settings > Sharing is where I drug and dropped my buttons into this box on my sharing page
  Enabled Services
  Services dragged here will appear individually.

  What you have done is out them all in this box:
  Services dragged here will be hidden behind a share button.
  All you have to do is drag them out and drop them into the enabled services area.
  Then click “save changes”

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  adredwood · Member · Apr 1, 2012 at 7:38 pm

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  Aha, now I see, exactly what I wanted. Thanks for all the help!

  A (:

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  timethief · Member · Apr 1, 2012 at 7:40 pm

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  Hooray! I see them your blog below your posts now. You’re welcome. Would you be kind enough to enter the top of this thread and mark it “resolved”?