The New Sharing Options Thread
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I love this new feature — thanks so much for providing it.
I’m having trouble understanding the share stats, though. Basically, the stats on my blog seem a little inflated. For example, there are six shares (3 Facebook, 3 Digg) for this post, even though that post didn’t get any visits today and is old enough that it’s no longer visible on my blog’s home page (and also, a search on Digg didn’t turn up any mention of that page). Can you please explain how the stats are calculated? Is it possible that enabling mShots previews somehow confuses the stats collector into thinking that a share button has been clicked on?
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I read that “If you have the custom CSS upgrade you can go even further and choose your own icons and layout”. I have the custom CSS upgrade but can’t figure it out?!
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It seems to be doubling up on many photo pages on my inuit types theme.
I just took a look at your site and it appears to be working a-OK right now; are you still seeing this? If so, can you please contact us at Support?
Question: Can we WordPressers get just a little greedy and have the Facebook SHARE button AND the Facebook LIKE button present at the same time, as opposed to having to make a choice between the two?
I’ll pass that along. FYI, Facebook is currently strongly encouraging people to use the Like button instead of the Share button.
I enabled the buttons on my blog and then attempted to click on one (I don’t remember which) and it brought me up to what looked like my posting screen with a hyperlink to the post.
Was it the Press This button? Press This does exactly that and you can even use it as a bookmarklet anywhere on the Web: http://en.support.wordpress.com/press-this/
I read that “If you have the custom CSS upgrade you can go even further and choose your own icons and layout”. I have the custom CSS upgrade but can’t figure it out?!
That’s a question more for the CSS Customization forum, which you can find here.
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Markel,
Thanks for being patient with all of us and providing us with so much information! My question was really more in line with jpearlman’s question, their’s was explained much better than mine though.
Also, is there any way to find out who or which blog we are being shared by?
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Thanks for being patient with all of us and providing us with so much information!
You’re welcome!
Also, is there any way to find out who or which blog we are being shared by?
For the various social networking services, you can sometimes figure this out using their services. For example, if you’re using the “smart” Tweet button, click on the number of shares next to the button and it’ll run a search on Twitter for your post URL, like this result on the WordPress.com blog post announcing the sharing feature.
For Press This, if someone uses it to repost and they keep the link that’s provided intact, you should receive a pingback notification, which will show up in your comments. It will include a link back to the article that links to yours. You can read more about pingbacks here.
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what is the css code for editing the share buttons and text. i am using Black Letterhead theme!
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I have added both an Email and Print buttons, but when I click on the Email button nothing happens. Do I need to configure some other feature? What should happen when a user clicks this button?
MCP
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My blog has a mix of photgraphs and text and I don’t want the new sharing buttons to appear on the photographs, so I’ve followed the Support instructions –
“You can disable the sharing option on specific posts or pages by using the checkbox at the bottom of the edit page”
ALL my checkboxes are unticked and yet the share buttons (which I want only on text posts) are appearing on all posts. Can you help please?
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I have added both an Email and Print buttons, but when I click on the Email button nothing happens. Do I need to configure some other feature? What should happen when a user clicks this button?
We just fixed this; can you please check? You should see a pop-up with a captcha when you click on the Email share button.
ALL my checkboxes are unticked and yet the share buttons (which I want only on text posts) are appearing on all posts. Can you help please?
We’re looking into this.
Is there a way to move the share toolbar to the top of the posts and pages?
Not at the present time.
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Loving the work you’ve done, but I’m clicking the “smart” option for the Digg button and still only getting the regular button. This a glitch, or am I missing something?
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I am very pleased about the new sharing options, but I have a problem: they do not show anymore, neither on the posts or on the index page. When I enabled the service yesterday, it worked fine. Today, all of a sudden, it does not work. I have tried to save the settings several more times, but with no effect. Any ideas?
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Loving the work you’ve done, but I’m clicking the “smart” option for the Digg button and still only getting the regular button. This a glitch, or am I missing something?
We’re seeing some errors from Digg when the button is being called; we’re looking into it but it appears Digg will have to get their buttons back up and running.
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Would it be possible (it’s been on my wish list for a while now) to include a page view share? It would great to show how many hits a page has been visited to-date.
Could you explain what you mean by a “page view share”?
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Markel, by “Page View Share” I mean a button that displays the number of hits or page views that particular post has received. Real-time or static stats I guess doesn’t really matter as long there is an option to do so. Presently, we need to visit blog stats and then click on the stats icon in order to get a graphical view.
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The options for disabling the sharing options do not seem to appear for pages. It works perfectly for posts but the option to remove them isn’t there for pages.
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Got all my share buttons up and running but am clueless (despite the instructions) about how to add more — like delicious, buzz, and technorati. I have no idea where to get the info (sharing and icon URLs) to put in to add each one. It would be a huge assist if WP would either list the appropriate info for all these other buttons, or better, just add them to the group of drag-and-drop buttons already provided.
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