Proper homepage sharing please!

  • Resolved mpmchugh

    (@mpmchugh)


    10 years, 6 months ago

    A lingering problem with the Sharing buttons, which can’t even be overcome with the Custom Sharing buttons placement is that there is no simple way to add them to a site’s homepage template, so that it actually shares the site’s homepage URL.

    Currently, there is no way to do this unless you’re using a simple static homepage.

    Most themes come with more complex home pages and when you attempt to add the echo sharing_display(); code to the home page template, it will share a latest blog post or something else the page is displaying, and not the main site URL.

    It would be really useful if there was a way to code the echo sharing_display(); placement, or an alternative code snippet, for a homepage template so that it actually forces the button set on the homepage to share the site’s homepage URL no matter what.

    Thanks,
    Michael

    http://wordpress.org/plugins/jetpack/

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  • elizabeth

    (@greybird)

    10 years, 6 months ago

    I have this problem also, no Jetpack Sharing for the homepage (just the individual posts on the homepage blog). Is there a way to use the Jetpack Sharing feature with a widget? If there was a widget I could at least put it in the sidebar or footer.

    Thread Starter mpmchugh

    (@mpmchugh)

    10 years, 6 months ago

    I agree. A widget would also be great.

    Though I appreciate the per-page and per-post sharing ability of JetPack’s Sharing buttons, there is a need also for global site-sharing as well.

    A widget and a template code option for doing so would both be very useful, and make it a more complete sharing solution.

    Plugin Author Jeremy Herve

    (@jeherve)

    Jetpack Mechanic 🚀

    10 years, 6 months ago

    I believe we already discussed about this a few months ago:
    http://wordpress.org/support/topic/share-buttons-on-homepage-sharing-blog-post-link?replies=6

    As I mentioned at the time, the sharing buttons were designed to be used on a Page or a Post. Your home page can be considered a Page if you use the front page setting. If you set up your site this way, you will be able to use the sharing buttons on your home page.

    If your theme uses a more complex home page, you should still be able to use this more complex home page on a static front page. The default themes Twenty Eleven and Twenty Twelve provide good working examples.
    If your theme wasn’t built this way, you can move the custom code to a new custom page template, as explained here:
    http://codex.wordpress.org/Page_Templates#Custom_Page_Template

    I hope this helps.

    Thread Starter mpmchugh

    (@mpmchugh)

    10 years, 6 months ago

    Thanks Jeremy,

    I was able to do that — move the custom homepage to a custom page template — but had to consult with the theme developers to rework a few things, because the way some themes are built, it’s not just a cut and paste job.

    It was very frustrating because it wasn’t working via that method.

    It still would be nice if it were simpler to have sharing buttons on the homepage of a site, because theme developers aren’t educated well enough on best practices in this regard, it seems.

    Thanks again.

    -Michael

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