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Using twenty eleven layout. When I click on the title of a post it takes me to a page with that single post and at the bottom is a like button. That's all good. My question is: is it possible to have the like button show under each post on my 'home' page where all the posts are showing?
The blog I need help with is lynneayersbeyondthebrush.wordpress.com.
hello, I cannot get the like button to appear anywhere on my post or site even though the box is checked in settings. I have 2010 theme.
My question is: is it possible to have the like button show under each post on my 'home' page where all the posts are showing?
The reason the "like" button appears at the bottom of our posts just avove the comment box is logical. We expect others to click the post title and read the entire post on it's own page before they decide whether or not they appreciate the post enough to click the "like" button. If they don't read the post then the "like" button click is meaningless ie. has no value at all.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/likes/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/sharing/#like-button
@1personresponsible
Please click the blog posts itiles on your blog. When you do that the whole post displays on it's own page and then you will see the like buttons that I am seeing on your posts. I clearly see the like button at the bottom of the posts just above the comment box on your posts.
The front pages of our blogs showcase content. Comments are collapsed on that page and you cannot change this as the way the comments function is coded into the core of WordPress. By clicking the post title or the comments link the posts on the front page open on their own page where all comments display.
In a new blog one does not have many posts or comments. In an established blog if the comments did not collapse on the front page it would become a mile long in no time flat and page loading time is a page ranking factor. We have only seconds before visitors refuse to wait and click out.
Thanks Timethief - I understand. But FYI, using twenty eleven my whole post DOES show and people can read the whole post on my home page. Which is why I was wondering why the like button didn't show. Perhaps I should set it so that the whole post does not show - I think I saw that setting somewhere .... now I just have to find out where. Then the placement of the like button makes sense ...
Hello again,
I click your post title "Superior’s Shore" it opens on its own page as expected, and I see the like button at the end of the post above thee comment box exactly where it's supposed to appear. If you wish you can edit the post and split text by inserting "the more tag".
Under settings, reading, "for each article in a feed show" I changed it from full text to summary ... but it didn't make any change to my home page ... SO, how do I change it so that only a portion of post shows on home page and people need to click the post title to read the whole post?
The setting here > Settings > Reading is only for the RSS Feed. you can select wither "full" or "summary" and doing so only controls what goes out in the RSS Feed. It does not change the post at all.
If you wish you can edit the post and split text by inserting "the more tag" and the result will be only the begiining of the post on the front page of your blog.
P.S. On another issue Staff made a change to the Twenty Eleven theme yesterday. See here > http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/to-infinity?replies=67
Thanks Timethief -
resolved
I visited your blog. Hooray! :)
I'm kind of new to this but when I surf blogs I read all the post thats on page never once have i bothered to click a post to bring it up on it's own page.And when i go to blogs and see know likes or comments i tend not to stay I just went to the thread you suggested and found everybody up in arms about a change you made. How come you can make these changes and yet the like button is buried deep in WordPress inersanctumit it doesn't seem to jell.Thanks
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