WordPress likes and registration

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  bristolschoolwi · Member · Oct 19, 2012 at 4:01 pm

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  I am trying to do two things with the like button.

  1) I don’t won’t people to have to register to like.
  2) I want the like button to show on the front page not have to click into the individual posting. Maybe I jus tneed a different or better theme

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

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  timethief · Member · Oct 19, 2012 at 4:03 pm

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  Neither one of those is possible.
  1) You cannot use Facebook like button without being a logged in Facebook user. the same is true everywhere else that has in-house features and it’s true here too.
  2) The like button cannot be relocated.

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  bristolschoolwi · Member · Oct 19, 2012 at 4:07 pm

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  The like button i was shooting for isn’t the facebook like. Its just the wordpress like.

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  bristolschoolwi · Member · Oct 19, 2012 at 4:08 pm

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  The like with the blue star

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  timethief · Member · Oct 19, 2012 at 4:14 pm

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  The WordPress.com like button can only be used by those who have WordPress.com username accounts when they are logged into WordPress.com.

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  almofates · Member · Oct 19, 2012 at 7:36 pm

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  I haven’t been able to ‘like’ some posts on different blogs (on WordPress.org?), even when I’m logged in to WP. But these blogs’ authors do ‘like’ my posts!

  My blog is http://almofate.wordpress.com

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  timethief · Member · Oct 19, 2012 at 7:42 pm

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  WordPress.COM and WordPress.org are completely separate. WordPress.COM has a blogging community with common in-house features WordPress.com users can use.

  WordPress.ORG installs are NOT a part of the WordPress.COM community. They are stand alone islands.

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  almofates · Member · Oct 19, 2012 at 8:19 pm

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  Yes, I know they are different. My comment wasn’t clear.
  I wasn’t sure but I’ve checked it and this happens with WordPress.com blogs, only with blogs that don’t have wordpress in the name – but are in fact WordPress.com blogs.
  When I press the like button, there’s a window asking me to log in. Well, I’m logged in already, but I log in again, the page refreshes, I press the like button again and the same window shows again! Over and over!
  The other day I was able to ‘like’ a post in one of these blogs, but only after posting a comment. On other blogs however I can’t like the posts, not even after posting a comment.