First, in Posting Settings you can choose to have Sharing turned on or off. But, how do you select the social networks that appear in the sharing section of the Posts. For example, we don’t want Google+.
Secondly, I’m using Visual Composer for constructing the Homepage. I want to add Social Network buttons below the top slider. The Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest buttons can be selected from the elements and added to a section. But, we’d like larger buttons and that are positioned better. Is the best way to do that with a Raw HTML element and add the code? Please excuse my level of website code knowledge.
Thirdly, in the Theme Panel > Social Networks there is a list of social networks where links can be added. How are these used? How would these appear on the website?
Thanks,
Hi
1. The theme display the default share buttons on post, but you can change that by modifying the code like this:
-social sharing top: http://screencast.com/t/5cOfEKhOvq
-social sharing bottom: http://screencast.com/t/HaYAos2UW14E
2. You can use Wp Text widget http://screencast.com/t/Rj251NC5yOPU to add a new share button but notice that the php code will not be interpreted, you can use only html, js and css, also make sure you insert the code in text format: http://screencast.com/t/woDhLq9Li5 Notice that you may need additional css customization for your buttons. The result could be like here: http://screencast.com/t/Br8L5bpjk
3. The social networks from Theme Panel > Social Networks are adding the corresponding social network icon into theme’s top bar section in front end and will link to the social page you set here: http://screencast.com/t/Nr5yKbQ9Tt – http://screencast.com/t/dpkjL2Nff
Thanks!
Hi, I edited the file indicated in one, but in the newspaper theme. I added the edited file to newspaper-child/includes/modules, and I have functions.php and styles.css included in the newspaper-child root folder.
Nevertheless, the social buttons still appear when I open an article. Should I perform an extra step to ‘activate’ the child theme, or do I have to edit different files in Newspaper?
Hi
Make sure you’re using the child theme included in theme’s path and also make sure that the child theme is the theme which is active in dashboard.
Thanks!
