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[Nadjejda]

Hi,

On my pages I added the shortcode for social media sharing but it’s been months since they don’t appear. When I put my mouse where they need to be, I get a red box and it says which social media I’ll be sharing my page to but the actual icons don’t appear. I tried removing and adding the shortcode again and I get the same issue. This started after an update sometime last year I believe. I’ve looked through your resources and other people’s issues here but nothing seems to address my issue.

In case you want to see what I’m talking about visit my website: http://www.lovelightcoaching.com and check out where it says Share This Post.

My blog pages social sharing icons work fine as they are different.

I’d appreciate your help with this, thanks!

Nadjejda

[Friech]

Hi Nadjejda,

Thanks for writing in! Your X|Theme (v4.3.4) is a few update behind, and your site is still using the X|Shortcodes plugin. Cornerstone is taking over for X|Shortcodes, which you can read much more about here in detail. That means you need to un-install the X|Shortcodes and in place install the Cornerstone.

Please update the X|THEME to the latest version (4.4.2) first and that should install the latest Cornerstone automatically.

And another thing, you have some code error on your custom javascript. Please update that to:

jQuery(document).ready(function($){

//Show/hide effect for share buttons
  $(".tweetable").hover(
      function(){
            if ($(this).data('vis') != true) {
                    $(this).data('vis', true);
                    $(this).find('.sharebuttons').fadeIn(500);
            }
      },
      function(){
            if ($(this).data('vis') === true) {
                    $(this).find('.sharebuttons').clearQueue().delay(2000).fadeOut(500);
                    $(this).data('vis', false);
                    $(this).data('leftSet', false);
            }
      });

  $(".tweetable").mousemove( 
      function(e) {
            if ($(this).data('leftSet') != true) {
                    $(this).find('.sharebuttons').css({'left':(e.pageX - this.offsetLeft - 50)});
                    $(this).data('leftSet', true);
            }
      });

});

Hope it helps, Cheers!

[Nadjejda]

Hi Friech,

Thanks for your prompt response. I’m not using child themes, will I lose everything on my website when I update the X|THEME to the latest version (4.4.2), will I lose all the content on my website?

Also, where do I find my custom Javascript to update it to what you shared?

Curious, using child themes at this point, will that mean starting from scratch or if I save my stuff by exporting them to my computer, I can just import them after installing child themes?

Thank you!

Nadjejda

[Nadjejda]

Hi,

I went ahead and updated X theme to the latest version you mentioned but not seeing Cornerstone anywhere under the Visual Composer settings?

Any suggestions, do you mind checking if it’s been updated?

Thanks!

Nadjejda

[Friech]

Hi Nadjejda,

Yes, your X|Theme is now updated. But you still have the X|shortcodes.

You can download the Cornerstone installer here. Install that like how you normally install a plugin. After a successful installation of Cornerstone, please delete and deactivate the X|shortcodes. And then clear all your caching plugins and browser’s cache.

Sorry, the script that I’m referring to does not reside on your domain but is requested from dropbox

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6606104/www/tweetable-text/v0.1/tweetabletext.js

So you might have something on your content or plugin that is requesting that script.

Would you mind providing us with login credentials so we can take a closer look? To do this, you can make a post with the following info:

– Link to your site
– WordPress Admin username / password
– FTP credentials

Don’t forget to select Set as private reply. This ensures your information is only visible to our staff.

Thanks.

[Nadjejda]

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[Rad]

Hi there,

It’s the tweetable text plugin’s script. I deactivated it since it’s not editable.

About the child theme, for settings, then yes, you need to export and import them. But for the content, there is no need. Switching child themes and themes don’t have any effect on existing contents. If you also have custom code or templates on your main theme, then you should transfer them to the child theme too.

Thanks!

[Nadjejda]

Hi Rad,

Thanks for your response. I need a way to share my content inside my blog as a tweet, do you know of any other ones I can use since you deactivated the tweetable text since you said it was not editable?

Can you explain what the issue was since it was working fine and not sure why it needed to be deactivated.

Thanks!

Nadjejda

[Rad]

Hi there,

It’s throwing javascript error because it’s not compatible with WordPress’ built-in jQuery library. It can be fixed by editing the code, but it’s not possible since the file is hosted in Dropbox. I’m not sure why the plugin’s developer did that. It should be hosted within the plugin, not on dropbox.

About the tweet sharing, you can use the sharing element of a cornerstone, or sharing shortcode and enable the tweet feature. It should give you the sharing button for twitter. There are also many plugins out there, and it really depends on what functionality you wish to achieve.

If it’s working and not causing troubles, then you can keep it. I checked and I don’t see any problem on my end, which maybe related to cache.

Thanks!

[Nadjejda]

Ok Thanks, I’ll try to find something else that allows me to tweet a specific text from my blog posts and if not, will go back to it and see if I have some issues.

Thanks again for your help.

Nadjejda

[Nico]

Let us know how it goes

Thanks.

[Author]

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