[Chris]

On my Nirvana blog template, when I select “show sharing buttons,” the buttons are round with a  symbol inside instead of a blue circle with the Facebook “f” or the light blue circle with the “Twitter bird” logo. Is there a setting I’ve missed to correct this issue?

[Zed]

Does this happen in specific places on the site? I browsed around and they appear to be working now or on the posts I viewed.

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[Chris]

I only notice it on the blog page of the site in the page underneath each of the blog posts (not at the top or bottom of the screen).

[Zed]

For anyone with this issue: When using the blog page template in conjunction with Jetpack’s sharing buttons you need to keep sharing enabled on pages for the buttons to appear correctly.

The long explanation: The ‘blog’ section is a page is using the theme’s blog page template. The plugin can be configured to add the social icons independently on pages and/or posts.
Disabling social icons on pages in the plugin will keep them visible on posts including when they are listed on the theme’s blog page; but as this ‘blog’ section of the site is a page, not a true category, the plugin’s check will fail and it will not load its resources (styles and icon font), leaving the social links malfunctioning.

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[Chris]

Thanks for the reply, Zed! Forgive my simplistic understanding of WordPress. I’m new. From your reply, I’m not quite sure what to do to fix it. Can you give a n00b a set of explicit instructions on how to make it work?

[Zed]

I’ve mostly summed it up in my previous answer: When using the theme’s blog page template in conjunction with Jetpack’s sharing buttons feature you need to keep the sharing buttons enabled on pages (beside posts) for the buttons to appear correctly on the posts listed on the blog page.

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