Social Media Buttons not showing for few posts
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I have four blog posts where SM sharing buttons are not being shown-
1. https://kshpa.wordpress.com/2015/08/27/bird-perspective/
2. https://kshpa.wordpress.com/2015/08/27/wish-of-kite/
3. https://kshpa.wordpress.com/2015/08/19/shayri-6/
4. https://kshpa.wordpress.com/2015/09/06/shayri-5/I double checked the posts with other posts where SM sharing buttons are being shown and found not a single difference. I can try to delete these posts and re-add these but the URLs will get changed.
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Hi there,
Please head to your existing above 4 posts in My Sites → Blog Posts and look for the posts .
Under every post in your post list is a Share button. Please check whether it is ticked or not.Thanks.
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Hi,
This is what i see and nothing is checked, not even for the posts where i see those buttons.
Are you talking about some other screen?
I hardly use new UI and block editors. I prefer to use old wp-admin console and classic editor and these posts were created sometime back but i just noticed that sharing buttons are missing in these.
And this is how it looks under wp-admin -> settings -> sharing
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Hi there, open those Posts for editing in WP Admin and in the “Likes & Shares” module in the sidebar or under your Post, make sure that “Show sharing buttons” is checked and update your post.
If you don’t see the “Likes & Shares” module, click the “Screen Options” tab at the top right to check it and make it visible.
Let us know how that goes.
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Hi @justjennifer
I don’t even see any option called like and shares.
https://imgur.com/a/IsW4BZ6 -
OK-thanks for providing that last screenshot.
Another user had a similar issue after activating the new block editor but was editing the post in Classic Editor mode. Is that possibly the issue here?
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Hi there,
The Likes and Shares option is not available in the new editor yet, and if you have the new editor active you won’t see them in the classic editor either.
To control likes and shares for individual posts at this point you’ll need to completely disable the block editor first.
Go to My Site ->Blog Posts ->Add to create a new post. In the editor, click the three dots top-right, and then select Switch to Classic Editor at the bottom. Then you should see the options for enabling sharing buttons when you edit an existing post.
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@kokkieh
I second @justjennifer
i am not trying to enable these button for just few posts. I want these to be served on every single post and hence i have enabled it at site level settings. I don’t want any control at post level for these buttons. -
Hi there,
It’s a known issue and our developers are working on it. We’ll let you know as soon as it is fixed.
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Ohk. I followed https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/social-media-buttons-not-showing-for-few-posts/#post-3254708 and reverted to old method of editing posts completely i.e. i disabled the new editor completely and then i could see “Likes & Sharing” options for those four posts.
I checked the show sharing buttons for these four posts in old editor and now getting the buttons for these four posts. -
If the user has Likes and Sharing enabled in their settings, as this user seemingly does, what would cause those sharing buttons to disappear?
If the global setting for the site is to include sharing buttons on new posts, they should appear regardless of the editor used, and of whether or not that setting is visible.
I’m not sure why it didn’t happen in this case, but I haven’t seen any other reports of this and haven’t been able to replicate it myself, so it looks like a site-specific issue.
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