Why do some blogs have a little follow button on the bottom right?

  • Resolved aryasxtarkx

    (@aryasxtarkx)


    5 years, 11 months ago

    Hi there,

    I’m not sure where to post this question. It’s just out of curiosity. I noticed that some blogs have little follow buttons on the bottom right hand side (where you usually find the back to top button) like these blogs here:

    (I’m not linking them directly because you usually get lots of spam after posting a link to your site)

    I wonder why wordpress sites like theirs have follow buttons on the bottom right and others don’t? Also, how do I have this on my site? Do I need to install a plug-in?

    Thank you!

    • This topic was modified 5 years, 11 months ago by Jan Dembowski.
    • This topic was modified 5 years, 11 months ago by Jan Dembowski.
    • This topic was modified 5 years, 11 months ago by Jan Dembowski.
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  • Moderator Jan Dembowski

    (@jdembowski)

    Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

    Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Everything else WordPress topic.

    That Follow pop-up/link is a function from WordPress.COM. Self-hosted WordPress installations do not have that unless they use a plugin to add that.

    Thread Starter aryasxtarkx

    (@aryasxtarkx)

    Hey Jan,

    Thanks for moving it for me and for responding to my Q! I wasn’t sure where to classify it exactly. Maybe we need more sections for the forums?

    Ohh okay so that’s why. One more question, one of the sites does not have a dot wordpress dot com extension but still has the pop-up. Does this mean they bought their hosting from wordpress?

    Geoffrey Shilling

    (@geoffreyshilling)

    Volunteer Moderator

    It doesn’t necessarily mean it’s hosted by WordPress.com. The Jetpack “Likes” feature will provide that functionality on self-hosted (non WordPress.COM) sites.

    Thread Starter aryasxtarkx

    (@aryasxtarkx)

    Awesome! Thanks for the info Geoffrey! Marking this as solved.

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