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Why is LinkedIn breaking menus on blog/category pages?

  1. brcapitalinc1
    Member

    Gentlemen:

    When I use your JetPack sharing function on http://brcapitalinc.com for the most part it works great. I am using the 2011 theme with extensions. However when I add the LinkedIn button, either by itself or in the share envelope with the other share buttons it wrecks the menus and turns them into a list.

    Also, it is not possible to turn off sharing on selected pages, even when I uncheck "Show Sharing Buttons on this Post" at the bottom of the page. When the page is saved or updated the check box reappears.

    Thanks for your help. Bill Roller
    Blog url: http://brcapitalinc.com/blog/

  2. kardotim
    Happiness Engineer

    Could you send us a screenshot of the page where you're seeing this?

    Sorry for the inconvenience.

  3. brcapitalinc1
    Member

    Sorry for the confusion. I'm new at this. I removed LinkedIn because I did not want a broken looking website. I added it back. and will leave it in if you want to look at the pages. Here is a shot of null with LinkedIn:

    http://brcapitalinc.com/images/BlogwithLinkedIn.jpg

    Here is a shot without LinkedIn

    http://brcapitalinc.com/images/BlogwithoutLinkedIn.jpg

    You can see that it only happens on blog and category posts (subset of blog pages)

    for example: http://brcapitalinc.com/category/articles/

    But it does not occur on pages, and it only occurs with LinkedIn.

    Bill Roller

  4. brcapitalinc1
    Member

    Note also that it does not happen on single post pages. For example:

    http://brcapitalinc.com/2012/05/15/morning-market-report-5152012/

  5. macmanx
    Staff

    I'm actually not seeing the problem myself, were you able to resolve the issue?

    If not, which browser (and version of) are you using?

  6. brcapitalinc1
    Member

    No it is not resolved. It is not a problem in the home page, custom pages, or single posts. It is a problem on the blog, or category pages.

    Go to http://brcapitalinc.com/blog/

    or to http://brcapitalinc.com/category/articles/

    It only occurs with LinkedIn.

    Bill

  7. brcapitalinc1
    Member

    OK. Very interesting. I checked the site with 4 browsers with LinkedIn added for sharing:

    Chrome--No problems
    Firefox--No problems
    Internet Explorer 9.0--All menus on all pages blow up.
    Internet Explorer 9.0 64-Bit--Menus on blog/multiple post pages blow up other pages OK.

    Without LinkedIn:

    No problems in any browsers.

    Bill

  8. macmanx
    Staff

    Huh, that is weird. Would you please try disabling all of IE's add-ons?

    If you don't have any, or if disabling them made no difference, try switching IE into or out of Compatibility mode (whichever is the opposite of what it is now).

  9. brcapitalinc1
    Member

    OK. Here are the results
    IE9 Extensions Off, Pages OK, Blog page menus blow up.
    IE9 Extensions Off, Compatibility Mode, pages ok, Blog page menus blow up

    IE9 64 Bit. Extensions Off, Pages OK, Blog page menus blow up.
    IE9 64 bit, Extensions Off, Compatibility Mode, Pages OK, Blog page menus blow up.

    IE9 Extensions Off, No LinkedIn, No problems
    IE9 Extensions Off, Compatibility Mode, No LinkedIn, No problems

    IE9 64 Bit Extensions Off, No LinkedIn, No problems
    IE9 64 Bit Extensions Off, Compatibility Mode, No LinkedIn, No problems

  10. macmanx
    Staff

    Ok, now I see the problem under IE 9 too. This is very strange indeed.

    Do you still have the same problem if you temporarily switch to the Twenty Eleven theme?

  11. brcapitalinc1
    Member

    Yes. When I switch to the pure Twenty Eleven 2011 theme, the menu appears properly on pages, and single posts. It does not appear at all on blog or category pages.

  12. macmanx
    Staff

    Ok, so this definitely specific to that theme. Which theme were you using?

  13. brcapitalinc1
    Member

    No. I'm saying it is not specific to that theme, because it still breaks when I switch to the pure 2011 theme it only breaks in a different way. Instead of forming a list on blog/category . It does not show up at all on blog/category pages at all. On all other pages and single posts, it shows up properly. I'm using 2011 as a child theme.

  14. macmanx
    Staff

    This is very odd, I am unable to reproduce the issue on any of my test blogs.

    Would you please temporarily deactivate all other plugins so we can rule-out any plugin conflicts?

  15. brcapitalinc1
    Member

    I deactivated all plugins including Twenty Eleven Theme Extensions.

    With Jetpack deactivated. No problems.

    With Jetpack activated without LinkedIn, no problem.

    With Jetpack activated and withLinkedIn menu breaks,

  16. brcapitalinc1
    Member

    I also changed to the pure Twenty Eleven Theme (not a child them) without the Twenty Eleven Extensions. Same problem.

    I then changed to the the Twenty Ten Theme. Same problem.

  17. brcapitalinc1
    Member

    I also checked just to make sure there was not an interaction problem within the Jetpack sharing function between the different social sites:

    JetPack enabled, no social sites selected: No problems
    JetPack enabled, LinkedIn only, not in share envelope: Menus blow up on blog/category.
    JetPack enabled, LinkedIn only, in share envelope: Menus blow up on blog/category.
    JetPack enabled, No LinkedIn, all other services outside share envelope: No problems
    JetPack enabled, No LinkedIn, all other services inside share envelope: No problems.

    Have you looked at the LinkedIn function?

  18. macmanx
    Staff

    I've looked at it, but without being able to reproduce it on any of my test sites, it's hard to tell exactly what to look for.

    I'm going to pass this up to the big guns.

  19. brcapitalinc1
    Member

    So what did the big guns say?

  20. macmanx
    Staff

    Unfortunately, there isn't much we can do.

    You're using the official buttons, and all that does is pull in the code from LinkedIn. None of the button code comes from us in this case, not even the display code. So, it's basically an issue on LinkedIn's end that they would need to fix.

    In this case, the best thing to do would be to not use their official button, or just not display the LinkedIn button.

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