Including Social Sharing Options on Custom Pages

[Barry Laminack]

I created a page in my child theme page-mypage.php

I’d like to add the sharing options to it. I included

$show_social = "1";

at the top of the page and then added the following:

<?php if ($show_social) { ?>
<div class="share-links clearfix">
<div class="share-text">Share:</div>
<div class="share-buttons">
<span class='st_facebook_hcount' displayText='Facebook'></span>
<span class='st_twitter_hcount' displayText='Tweet'></span>
<span class='st_googleplus_hcount' displayText='Google +'></span>
<span class='st_linkedin_hcount' displayText='LinkedIn'></span>
<span class='st_pinterest_hcount' displayText='Pinterest'></span>
</div>
"><i class="icon-link"></i>
&body=<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="Share by Email"><i class="icon-envelope-alt"></i>
</div>
<?php } ?>

The only thing I get is the link and email options. Any clue what I’m missing?

Screen shot attached.

[Ben – SUPPORT]

Have you assigned your social accounts on theme options?

Thanks
Ben

[Barry Laminack]

Hi Ben

Yes. The social icons are working on regular posts, just not on this custom page.

[Cosmin – SUPPORT]

Hi Barry,

The pages don’t have this option, so calling it would do nothing.

Try keeping only the div with the share links and remove these lines that condition it:

$show_social = "1";

<?php if ($show_social) { ?>

and finally:

<?php } ?>

Regards,
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Cosmin – Support

[Barry Laminack]

That was it Cosmin. As always, thanks, you guys rock!

[Barry Laminack]

Shoot, one more question. Is it possible to enable them on custom pages? I got it working on my custom post types, but need them on my custom pages as well. Thanks!

[Cosmin – SUPPORT]

Hi Barry,

Well, you can add that block of code to your custom page templates, if that’s what you’re asking. Just make sure to include it properly so things don’t overlap or generate invalid HTML 🙂

Regards,

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Cosmin
Support Assistant