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Facebook has deprecated the share button and replaced it with the Like button.

According to Facebook.

We deprecated the Share Button when we launched the Like button, because the Like button improves clickthrough rates by allowing users to connect with one click, and by allowing them to see which of their friends have already connected. For reference, the Share button documentation is still available here.

The plugin doesn’t actually direct the share buttons which page to share, instead all of the share buttons share whatever page they are currently on. I don’t think it’s a bug we can fix because it’s a bug in their code.

The Facebook share button may be deprecated but the Facebook like button still works well.

If you want to manually trigger and use the plugin you just have to include the javascript in the plugin folder and then this trigger that I mentioned. So if you want it to show up at some specific spot on category pages or on your home page then you can manually include those two pieces.

The plugin right now only works on pages and posts. Looking at https://www.tritton.es/en-plena-naturaleza/ I can see that active share shows up, it’s just not triggering until you scroll down the page.

The element that triggers where the active share shows up looks like this
<div id="active-share-comment-marker"></div>

Normally it just tacks that onto the end of your content. On the page you linked to there is a bunch of hidden content which is where our marker resides. That means that the share drop down won’t trigger until you reach the spot where the marker would show up if the content were visible.

This is a theme specific issue with your site and not a bug in the plugin.

Can you post a link to the site you have it installed on? Then we can take a look and see what the issue is.

Thanks!

It looks like there is a broken plugin on your website. PrettyPhoto.js is throwing some errors that might keep active share from functioning. Try disabling that plugin.

We’re addressing this in the new version. Now the text will wrap. There’s still a slight issue if the title is really really long and all the sharing services are enabled, then the text can wrap a bit ugly but it doesn’t happen until you’re up above 150 characters.

Do you have a specific plugin you use to get your facebook shares? If so what are they, that way I can install them and then figure out why they’re conflicting.

Did you disable it?

The default width is set at 800px but you can change it in the settings. It doesn’t currently support fluid width so you have to decide how wide it should be. Maybe that’s something we should add in the future.

You also mentioned on twitter that it breaks the facebook like button. What’s it doing exactly? Does it change the styling? Does it make the button not work? If you get a change I’d appreciate a screenshot. There is an issue where any elements with the class of “fb_share” might get different styling. That’s a problem with the way facebook handles differently styled embeds. But I’m not sure if that’s the same issue that you’re experiencing.

Thanks for commenting and helping us make it better.

I think I found the problem, version 1.01 should show up soon.

Would you mind enabling it and sending me a link to look at the site? It would be useful if I could figure out which piece isn’t working. Also, what version of wordpress are you on?

What browser were you using? This version of the plugin doens’t support Internet Explorer.