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timethief on "Sharing Icons Do not Display"

timethief — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 17:58:22 +0000

Hello there,
Are you sure you followed this guide carefully to customize the sharing icons of your own selection? http://en.support.wordpress.com/sharing/
See also http://en.support.wordpress.com/sharing/#troubleshooting

jakprpro on "Sharing Icons Do not Display"

jakprpro — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 14:39:37 +0000

I have activated all the sharing tools under Settings>Sharing but nothing shows on my blog. Help?

airodyssey on "remove the @wordpressdotcom"

airodyssey — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 02:53:43 +0000

To do what raincoaster said:
http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-to-add-a-tweet-button-with-your-twitter-username-into?replies=4

raincoaster on "remove the @wordpressdotcom"

raincoaster — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 02:47:38 +0000

You can't change it. You can, however, take the prefab Twitter share button out, make your own, and put that in.

visibilitybypcg on "remove the @wordpressdotcom"

visibilitybypcg — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 02:41:05 +0000

Note to self: Use SpellCheck, especially when typing angry!

visibilitybypcg on "remove the @wordpressdotcom"

visibilitybypcg — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 02:39:31 +0000

Trying to find out how we can change the default on the social share, recently WordPress made changes and now when someone shares using something like twitter it ads a "via @wordpressdotcom" which is not only misrepresentation but a great injustice to the blog authors.

The blog is not via @wordpressdotcom, the blog is hosted on @wordpressdotcom, but it is via the author or the site. How do we diable or change this...

SideNote: If its not supported can we revert to your old social share? If we can't you might want to add an upgrade option, not as if those of us using premium themes and upgrades havn't already paid more the self hosting but just a thought should the guys in the board room be short sighted.

timethief on "green "shareThis" button - how do I add this to widgets?"

timethief — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 18:17:39 +0000

Does that mean I can't do a "Christmas Countdown" animated picture or anything like that?

There are free Christmas countdown tickers/banners that can be used on WordPress.com blogs available at Ult-Tex All Occasion Countdown Banners.

Also, you're welcome from me. :)

mysoulinshoes on "green "shareThis" button - how do I add this to widgets?"

mysoulinshoes — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 03:23:11 +0000

Thanks folks!

airodyssey on "green "shareThis" button - how do I add this to widgets?"

airodyssey — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 02:14:56 +0000

To my knowledge, you can't insert that button here. It looks like it contains JavaScript, which is also not allowed here at WordPress.com.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/

The instructions you see in the Sharing support document...
http://en.support.wordpress.com/sharing/
...are for adding a specific service that is not part of the default ones (such as MySpace).

mysoulinshoes on "green "shareThis" button - how do I add this to widgets?"

mysoulinshoes — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 01:35:47 +0000

So then I can't do this to add a shareThis button?

Adding Your Own Service

If you would like to add a sharing service to your blog that is not available in the standard set, you can add it using the Add a new service link in the Available Services section.

You will need to enter:

Service name
Sharing URL
Icon URL
The Service name is the name you would like to use for the sharing service. It will appear in the link to the service and in the blog sharing stats, i.e. Buzz

The Sharing URL is the URL address to the sharing service. You can use the variables %post_title%, %post_url% (short URL), %post_full_url% and %post_excerpt% in the URL, i.e. http://www.google.com/buzz/post?url=%post_url%

The Icon URL is the URL address to the icon image you wish to use for this service, i.e. http://www.someserver.com/images/buzz.png

Save the service and the new service will appear in the Available Services section.

mysoulinshoes on "green "shareThis" button - how do I add this to widgets?"

mysoulinshoes — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 01:32:35 +0000

Thanks for your answer. Does that mean I can't do a "Christmas Countdown" animated picture or anything like that?

timethief on "green "shareThis" button - how do I add this to widgets?"

timethief — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:24:55 +0000

You can't. There is no FTP access to free hosted WordPress.com blogs and we cannot install individual plugins. Those found on the internet are for WordPress.ORG installs only. http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

See here for enabling sharing buttons. http://en.support.wordpress.com/sharing/

mysoulinshoes on "green "shareThis" button - how do I add this to widgets?"

mysoulinshoes — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:18:04 +0000

I am trying to add the green "shareThis" button to my sidebar

http://sharethis.com/publishers/get-hovering-buttons

Every time I add the html code to the "text" widget, all it does is shoe the actual html code on the sidebar - not the icon.

Please tell me how do I do this?

Thank you!

husdal on "Top features missing in wordpress.com"

husdal — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:24:46 +0000

If you add the AddThis button to your post it will give you the exact URL of that post. I agree that the new window is a bit annoying, but it still works.

pmelchor on "Top features missing in wordpress.com"

pmelchor — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:39:22 +0000

Thanks for the comments. My replies:

husdal:

1) Yes, but I think it is better than having subscribers split between feedburner and wordpress (which is what happens to me now: I have an RSS icon linking to feedburner; some people click on that icon but others use the browser autodiscovery which takes them to the wordpress feed)

2) Yes, but it opens the sharing links in a new window instead of a layer and it does not let you personalize which links you want. Also since it is not really integrated if someone shares a post from your blog's homepage, what they will be sharing is not the permalink of that post but your homepage URL

thesacredpath:

1) I agree completely, sorry for not being clear: I meant I would like to have a feedburner integration option (never a "no choice")

thesacredpath on "Top features missing in wordpress.com"

thesacredpath — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:27:07 +0000

1) I don't like being told that I will use this feed service or that feed service. You force me into a certain feed service and I'll wave goodbye to your blog and never look back.

inktopia7 on "Top features missing in wordpress.com"

inktopia7 — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:17:59 +0000

I vote for dynamic blogrolls (not to sound like a broken record, as I just added a post on this, but it changes the way one blogs forever).

husdal on "Top features missing in wordpress.com"

husdal — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:37:02 +0000

1) Even with Feedburner, you cannot know for sure.
2) wordpress.com already offers Addthis: http://support.wordpress.com/addthis/

pmelchor on "Top features missing in wordpress.com"

pmelchor — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:31:11 +0000

In my opinion these are the top features missing in wordpress.com:

1) FEEDBURNER INTEGRATION:

Being able to redirect all existing subscribers from http://yourblog/feed to your feedburner address. And making that feedburner address be the autodiscovery address for new subscribers.

Today you cannot know how many subscribers you have.

2) A JAVASCRIPT ENABLED SHARETHIS TYPE BUTTON (options not shown on new page but on a layer onclick or onmouseover):

* That can be configured to include the social sharing services you are interested in (in my case some international and some Spanish: bitacoras.com, delicious.com, fresqui.com, friendfeed.com, facebook.com and meneame.net)

* And that can be automatically added at the end of each post

What do you think? I wish wordpress.com had a list like Dell's ideastorm where we could vote for feature requests (and see which the most popular are.