Sharing Buttons

Help your readers spread your message across the web, via social media Sharing Buttons.

Give readers the tools to post your content to their networks from the bottom of each post and/or page. You can configure services to appear as icons, text, or both. Some services also display the number of times the post has been shared, as reported by that service.

Activate the Sharing Buttons feature

Note: block themes have Sharing Buttons active by default. Head to Appearance > Site Editor and add Jetpack’s Sharing buttons block to your templates.

If you are not using a block theme, and do not see the Sharing Buttons opions, you will need to activate it by following these steps:

1. In the WP Admin, go to Jetpack → Settings → Sharing.
2. Under Sharing buttons, activate the Add sharing buttons to your posts and pages option.

Add and configure Sharing Buttons

Once the Sharing Buttons feature is active, you can add them to your website in four steps:

1. Navigate to Jetpack → Settings → Sharing in your site’s WP Admin.
2. Click on Configure your sharing buttons.
3. Under Sharing Buttons, clicm Edit sharing buttons.
4. Click on the services you would like to add or remove.
5. Drag and drop the services in the order you would like them to display on your site.
6. Choose your preferred button style and where you would like the buttons to appear.
7. Click Save Changes.

Add more Sharing buttons

Optionally, you can click Edit “More” buttons add extra social networks which will be hidden behing a More button on your site. When your reader clicks on this “More” button, the additional network buttons will be displayed.

Sharing Button Options

There are a few options that you can customize on your sharing buttons:

• Show buttons on: This option allows you to choose to show sharing buttons on the Front Page, Archive Pages, and Search Results, Posts, Pages, and/or Media.
• X Site Tag: Adding your Twitter/X username in this field will add a custom via @username message at the end of the shared tweet.
• Sharing Label: This option allows you to customize the message that shows above your sharing buttons.
• Button Style: This option allows you to choose to display buttons with the Icon + Text, Icon Only, Text Only, or the service’s official sharing button.

Display number of likes

Some services allow share counts to be displayed, and they all count them differently. For example, Facebook Share numbers are a total of shares + likes + 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.

These totals are reliant on the site’s URL. If your URL changes in any way (for example, changing from http to https), the Sharing Button counts will be reset to zero. Unfortunately there is no way for us to recover the old totals.

Supported services

The following services are currently supported for Sharing Buttons. (Others may be added in the future.)

Privacy Information

Sharing Buttons are deactivated by default. You can activate them at any moment from your WP Admin. To do so:

1. Go to Jetpack → Settings.
2. Click the Sharing tab.
3. Toggle the Add sharing buttons to your posts and pages setting in the Sharing buttons section.

Data Used
Site Owners / Users If you add your Twitter username to the Sharing settings, it will be published with the tweet sharing your content. The post title and permalink will also be shared with any of the services. Moreover, if you have Akismet enabled on your site, and a visitor attempts to share a post via email, the site’s home page URL and the post’s permalink will be sent in the API call to Akismet in order to check for spam.Additionally, for activity tracking (detailed below): IP address, WordPress.com user ID, WordPress.com username, WordPress.com-connected site ID and URL, Jetpack version, user agent, visiting URL, referring URL, timestamp of event, browser language, country code.	Site Visitors When official sharing buttons are active on the site, each button loads content directly from its service in order to display the button as well as information and tools for the sharing party. As a result, each service can in turn collect information about the sharing party. When a non-official Pinterest sharing button is active on the site, information such as the sharing party’s IP address as well as the page URL will be made available to Pinterest, so sharing counts can be displayed next to the button. In addition, Pinterest may add cookies to the page. When sharing content via email (this option is only available if Akismet is active on the site), the following information is used: sharing party’s name and email address (if the user is logged in, this information will be pulled directly from their account), IP address (for spam checking), user agent (for spam checking), and email body/content. This content will be sent to Akismet (also owned by Automattic) so that a spam check can be performed. Additionally, if reCAPTCHA (by Google) is enabled by the site owner, the sharing party’s IP address will be shared with that service. You can find Google’s privacy policy here.
Activity Tracked
Site Owners / Users We track when, and by which user, the feature is activated and deactivated. We track when, and which, configuration settings are modified (and by which user).	Site Visitors Email shares will be sent to Akismet (also owned by Automattic) and logged there. See above for the specific data sent to Akismet.
Data Synced (Read More)
Site Owners / Users We sync options that identify whether or not the feature is activated and how its available settings are configured.	Site Visitors None.