Unable to view social media icons on my blogs
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Hello,
I have two blogs on WordPress free plan. Since the past week, I have not been able to view my social media icons on the home page of both. Please help.
Thank you.WP.com: Yes
Correct account: YesThe blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi there!
Opening up one of your posts, I can see all but one of the icons just fine:
The one that isn’t working is the Official Reddit Button. Since the official buttons are from each service, the problem is on Reddit’s end. We alerted them of the problem and they’ve added it to their bug tracker. However, they didn’t indicate if or when they would get this fixed, so I would recommend going to Tools -> Marketing -> Sharing Buttons and choosing one of the other options for your buttons:
– Icon only
– Text only
– Icon & TextI hope that clarifies things!
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Hey there!
No, I mean the ones on my home page, where I have “Follow Me on Social Media” section. -
Where exactly are those social media buttons located on your blogs? In the header, footer, or sidebar?
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Hi there, it looks like this is an issue on Reddit’s end: https://www.reddit.com/r/redditdev/comments/vc6x31/reddit_sharing_button_updates/
We’ll see what we can do, but we might need to wait for Reddit to fix it.
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Again, I am not talking about the social media sharing links for my posts, but the my social media profile links on the sidebars of my blogs.
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You can upload the screenshot to your site’s Media Library, and we’ll be able to view it.
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Thanks for adding that screenshot!
It looks like that’s a known issue with the legacy Social Icons widget. Since these legacy widgets likely won’t be updated further, you should switch to the Social Icons Block instead.
Let us know if you have trouble setting that up!
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Hey, thank you so much!
I’ve gone through the tutorial and understood what’s being said there.
Now, I have another question: What do I do after I add the social icons bar?
Another question that I should probably ask before that: Where do I add these social icons? I cannot see the answer anywhere in that article. I simply opened a new page and followed the tutorial. Do I publish that page or what?I’ll be adding a screenshot of this, too, to the Media Library, in case you need more clarification.
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Okay, I played around a bit and got the hang of how to set it up on my sidebar. It shows up beautifully on my blog now. Thank you so much, everybody!
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