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[lmkitties]

lmkitties

#1970

The Sharethis buttons on http://palomboforcongress are set up to float right. When the buttons display at the bottom, they display neatly beneath a line after the post. However, when they display at the top, the text of the post wraps around the buttons. What code can I put in my child style.css file to prevent the wrap? I would like to have the buttons on their own line and the post start on the next line.

[lmkitties]

lmkitties

#22067

Also, if I select to display the buttons at the top, they do show on the front page of the website but if I select to display them at the bottom, they do not show on the front page. I would really like to have them at the bottom but to appear on the front page.

[Kenneth John Odle]

Kenneth John Odle

#22068

This post

http://blog.kjodle.net/2011/11/04/graphene-action-hook-widgets-an-easy-way-to-modify-your-blog/

may be just what you need.

[lmkitties]

lmkitties

#22069

Thanks. That did work. However, when these buttons show on the front page of the website, the shares and counts are for the home page, not the post. Is there anyway to share the post from the home page and show the post counts on the home page?

[Kenneth John Odle]

Kenneth John Odle

#22070

Nope. The code is linked to the page on which the buttons appear. That’s not a theme issue, but a sharing button issue–they want the count to reflect the page the button is appearing on. That’s another reason I don’t want my sharing buttons to show up on the front page.

[lmkitties]

lmkitties

#22071

How do you get them not to appear on the home page?

[Kenneth John Odle]

Kenneth John Odle

#22072

use is_singular to make this appear on both posts and pages.

That should leave them off the home page, unless you are using a static front page. If so, use a PHP “not” operator:

if !(is_home())

should work, but not tested, no guarantees, YMMV.

If it doesn’t, try peeking here for some variations:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags#The_Conditions_For_…

[Syahir Hakim]

Syahir Hakim

#22073

If you’re using AddThis, their API allows you to explicitly define the URL, Title, and Description of the page the buttons are sharing, regardless of on which page the button is placed.

See this:

http://www.addthis.com/help/url-and-title

[lmkitties]

lmkitties

#22074

I may just have to switch to AddThis. Thanks for that.

Is there any way to omit the sharing buttons from a particular post either using Graphene Options or the Action Hook widget?

[Kenneth John Odle]

Kenneth John Odle

#22075

If you’re using AddThis, their API allows you to explicitly define the URL, Title, and Description of the page the buttons are sharing, regardless of on which page the button is placed.

I did not know this–thanks, Syahir. Yet another reason to use AddThis.

I may just have to switch to AddThis.

Yes, because now it rocks even more.

Is there any way to omit the sharing buttons from a particular post either using Graphene Options or the Action Hook widget?

Well, sure. Remember that everything on WP gets its own unique ID. So if you look at this page on my blog:

the trees are bare…

and either view source or use Firebug, you’ll notice that its content area is identified as id="post-1096".

So I can use a bit of custom CSS like this:

#post-1096 #php_widget-4 {display:none;}

to hide the sharing buttons from that post.

In my case php_widget-4 is the ID of the Graphene action hook widget I’m using. Yours will most likely be different.

I’m going to leave that custom CSS in place until you get yours up and running, so let me know when you do. You can check the next post:

http://blog.kjodle.net/2011/12/30/changing-the-width-of-the-graphene-theme-for-wordpress/

to see that it only affects that particular post.

Interesting question! Thanks for making me think a bit.

Ken