Switching off 'Likes'

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  burfordroger · Member · Jul 17, 2012 at 12:55 pm

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  Am going round in circles trying to get rid of those ‘Like’ buttons! Is there a total, global, site-wide setting I can use to switch them off? (Have looked at the Help page, but I’m rather confused) Thanks in advance!

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  timethief · Member · Jul 17, 2012 at 4:27 pm

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  Hi there,
  See here please > Settings > Sharing

  Add a Like Button

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  burfordroger · Member · Jul 17, 2012 at 6:34 pm

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  Thanks, but I still don’t ‘get’ this (sorry!) If I select “Turned on per post”, as the instructions suggest, they seem to be switched ON by default … on all 718 pages on this blog! Do I have to go through each page switching them off manually? Please tell me this is not so!!! Thanks

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  bryanvillarin · Staff · Jul 18, 2012 at 2:12 pm

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  @burfordadmin2: In Settings -> Sharing, can you try selecting “On for all posts”, click Save Changes, switch it to “Turned on per post”, then click Save Changes again?

  Let me know if you have any other questions! :-)

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  burfordroger · Member · Jul 18, 2012 at 3:38 pm

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  Hi. Thanks for this, I did as you suggest but I regret that it hasn’t helped. I now seem to have some which are on and some which are off. I’ve also tried leaving it as “Turned on per post” and have gone through five or six pages switching them off manually … only to find that SOME of them seem to just reappear again. Seems almost random. I really, really wish there was just a global ‘switch off Likes’ button!

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  bryanvillarin · Staff · Jul 18, 2012 at 3:41 pm

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  I’m sorry for the inconvenience. Can you let me know the blog address that you’re referring to? I’ll be happy to take a look.

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  burfordroger · Member · Jul 18, 2012 at 3:56 pm

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  Hi. It’s:
  http://burfordmediagraveyard.wordpress.com
  – currently private etc, do I need to unlock it or do you have magic powers to see through all that?!!
  Thanks.

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  bryanvillarin · Staff · Jul 18, 2012 at 4:08 pm

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  We can see it. I’ll ping our developers and we’ll be in touch with updates.

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  bryanvillarin · Staff · Aug 24, 2012 at 5:08 pm

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  Howdy burfordadmin2,

  Thanks for your patience on this. It looks like you were able to turn off all Likes for your pages. Did you do this manually?

  If you’re still having a problem, can you reply with the URLs of a couple specific pages?

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  burfordroger · Member · Aug 24, 2012 at 5:14 pm

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  Hi. No, I had to do them all manually in the end. Hundreds of pages across two blogs. Sincerely hoping for an “off switch” for Likes in a future update. Thanks for taking time to look though.