Sharing

Not all services allow share counts to be displayed. Twitter will not show the number of shares. Facebook Share numbers are a total of shares, likes, and comments on Facebook.

Share counts are only displayed on the “official buttons” for certain services. Try selecting official buttons from the Button Style dropdown if the number of shares does not display. Pinterest’s Pin-It Button will only show on images if you are using the Official Buttons style.

Check your Sharing settings at Settings → Sharing and make sure you have enabled the sharing buttons on the post types you want to display them on:

The totals shown for each official sharing button are reported from the services themselves: Facebook, Twitter etc. To calculate the total count, those services use the exact URL of the post when it was originally shared.

If your site’s url changes in any way (for example, changing from http to https, or changing the permalink structure), since the exact URL of the posts has now changed, the counts will have been reset to zero.

And since the count data lies with each service and not on WordPress.com or with Jetpack, there’s no way for us to merge or update those totals on our end.

When Sharing is activated, you should find a Sharing Buttons section in your WordPress.com dashboard, under Tools → Marketing. If you don’t see it, please follow this guide to make sure the Sharing feature is not disabled.

Google+ is now no longer a sharing button option. If you had not added a Google+ button to your site before, you won’t see the option to add one to your site anymore. Under Settings > Sharing, you will not see any Google+ option.

If you had added a Google+ button to your site in the past, you will see a new button instead, when you are logged in to your admin account. That button will invite you to remove that deprecated service from your site. Your readers, however, won’t see anything.

1. Navigate to Settings → Sharing on your WP Admin dashboard.
2. Click the Add a new service link in the Available Services section.

1. Enter a “Service name” to use for the sharing service. It will appear in the link to the service and in the blog sharing stats.
2. Enter the “Sharing URL.” This is the URL address to the sharing service. You can use the variables,%post_title% %post_url% (short URL), %post_full_url% and %post_excerpt% in the URL, i.e. http://www.google.com/buzz/post?url=%post_url%
3. Enter the “Icon URL.” This is the URL address to the icon image you wish to use to display with this service, i.e. https://www.someserver.com/images/buzz.png. Note that this image should be available online at the link that you enter here.
4. Click the “Create Share Button” button.
5. The new service will appear in the Available Services section. You can now add it to the Enabled Services section to use on your site.

As you customize the sharing services, you can see how they are ordered in the Live Preview section.

The Email button is great, and you can make it even better by adding a Captcha to the submission form:

To add the Captcha to your site, follow these steps:

1. Register for an account on this site. Upon registration, you will receive a Public and a Private key.
2. Open your site’s wp-config.php file in your favorite text editor. Add the following constants with both reCaptcha keys right before /* That's all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */:

   define( 'RECAPTCHA_SITE_KEY', 'XXXXXXX' );
   define( 'RECAPTCHA_SECRET_KEY', 'XXXXXXX' );
   

3. Save the wp-config.php file and refresh your site.

Voila! Your email sharing buttons are now protected against spam.

By default, the sharing icons will display right at the bottom of your post’s content. You may want to move it elsewhere in your post, such as right before the content.

To do this, in your functions.php file, add the following:

function jptweak_remove_share() {
    remove_filter( 'the_content', 'sharing_display', 19 );
    remove_filter( 'the_excerpt', 'sharing_display', 19 );
    if ( class_exists( 'Jetpack_Likes' ) ) {
        remove_filter( 'the_content', array( Jetpack_Likes::init(), 'post_likes' ), 30, 1 );
    }
}
add_action( 'loop_start', 'jptweak_remove_share' );

Then find the file for the location where you’d like the sharing icons to appear. Insert the following code in the area you want the Sharing or Likes buttons to appear:

if ( function_exists( 'sharing_display' ) ) {
    sharing_display( '', true );
}

if ( class_exists( 'Jetpack_Likes' ) ) {
    $custom_likes = new Jetpack_Likes;
    echo $custom_likes->post_likes( '' );
}
add_action( 'loop_start', 'jptweak_remove_share' );

Please note that this is provided as a courtesy and we do not provide support for implementing or editing custom code.

Insert this code in your functions.php file:

// Check if we are on mobile
function jetpack_developer_is_mobile() {

    // Are Jetpack Mobile functions available?
    if ( ! function_exists( 'jetpack_is_mobile' ) ) {
        return false;
    }

    // Is Mobile theme showing?
    if ( isset( $_COOKIE['akm_mobile'] ) && $_COOKIE['akm_mobile'] == 'false' ) {
        return false;
    }

    return jetpack_is_mobile();
}

// Let's remove the sharing buttons when on mobile
function jetpack_developer_maybe_add_filter() {

    // On mobile?
    if ( jetpack_developer_is_mobile() ) {
        add_filter( 'sharing_show', '__return_false' );
    }
}
add_action( 'wp_head', 'jetpack_developer_maybe_add_filter' );
add_action( 'loop_start', 'jptweak_remove_share' );

The sharing feature includes an “advanced” option, allowing you to use your own Javascript and CSS files instead of the files added by Jetpack by default.

To get started, go to Settings → Sharing in your dashboard, and check the Advanced checkbox at the bottom of the page.

Then, you can add your own libraries by adding the following code in a functionality plugin or in your theme’s functions.php file:

function tweakjp_add_sharing_js() {
    wp_enqueue_script( 'sharing-js', WP_SHARING_PLUGIN_URL . 'sharing.js', array( ), 4 );
    $sharing_js_options = array(
	    'lang'   => get_base_recaptcha_lang_code(),
	    'counts' => apply_filters( 'jetpack_sharing_counts', true )
    );
    wp_localize_script( 'sharing-js', 'sharing_js_options', $sharing_js_options );
}
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'tweakjp_add_sharing_js' );

function tweakjp_add_sharing_css() {
    wp_enqueue_style( 'sharing', WP_SHARING_PLUGIN_URL. 'sharing.css', false, JETPACK__VERSION );
}
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'tweakjp_add_sharing_css' );

There are 2 options to add your Twitter account to the end of each tweet:

• You can fill in the “Twitter Site Tag” option in Settings → Sharing.
• If you use Jetpack Social and connected a Twitter account, this account will be used in the Twitter sharing button.