Topic-icon How to place social module tags / buttons inline?

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12 years 4 months ago #40275 by johjoh
Hey Folks,

I'm attempting to add individual social sharing buttons inline in certain module positions, but for some reason the buttons are stacking up instead of being placed horizontally.

I think I'm missing the obvious, but been at this for a while now and I give up!

You will see what I mean here - www.healthandsafetytips.co.uk/blog

The buttons near the top of the page are vertically stacked, but on each article, they are horizontal. I manually added the vertically stacked buttons and the horizontal are standard additions via JFBConnect.

Thanks very much.
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12 years 4 months ago #40282 by alzander
I'm not sure what version of JFBConnect you're using, but if you're on a relatively recent version (v5.2+), please try using the new Social Share module. That has easy to use parameters for setting what buttons to display, the configuration for each, and options for showing them horizontally or vertical.

I hope that helps, but if not, please let me know what version of JFBConnect you're using. Also, please post from the account you subscribed to JFBConnect from. Priority support is for active subscribers.

Thanks,
Alex
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12 years 4 months ago #40485 by johjoh
Hey Alex,

Thanks for the reply. A couple of questions, probably quite obvious as well!

Which social share module are you referring to?

I am currently using version 5.1.0, which is a different issue as I can't seem to update to the latest 5.2.2 version.

Another issue has also appeared where the sharing buttons have gone completely now and only show the tags for JFBC in their place. You can see the effect on the same link in my post above.

I thought I had posted from the account I used to subscribe to JFBConnect? I signed in using my Facebook account and I can access my profile with subscription details etc?

John
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12 years 4 months ago #40486 by Jackkane
Apologies Alex, I just logged out and logged back in with my correct subscriber account!

I'll go update to the latest version and see if that helps before I try anything else.
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12 years 4 months ago #40487 by Jackkane
I've updated to 5.2.2, but the buttons still don't show on the 'articles' pages I've added the buttons to.

Shall I create a new forum post for the separate issue I'm having now?

Many thanks.

John
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12 years 4 months ago #40492 by alzander
We can continue these questions here.. they're related to the original topic.

First, I'm glad you found the right account you subscribed with and were able to upgrade JFBConnect. As for the easy-tags showing, that's almost always caused by one of the following:
* You have set and "Admin Render Key" in the admin Social -> Misc section of JFBConnect. If so, you need to update your tags with the key, like:
{JFBCLike key=1234}
* You have the System - Cache plugin enabled. If so, that plugin should be ordered last in the system plugin group.

I hope that helps, but if not, let us know.

Thanks,
Alex
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12 years 4 months ago #40497 by Jackkane
Hey Alex,

Unfortunately, no luck.

The Admin Render Key field is blank, this hasn't been changed. The system cache plugin is not active. I purged / deleted the site's cache files in case that helped, but the same issue is still showing.

Not sure if this is relevant, but the easy tags I manually added to the home page and 'downloads' page show correctly (but stacked vertically as in the original query). I also added easy tags to my 'toolbox talks' page manually, but these don't show correctly. The difference I can see is that the toolbox talks page is a single article page and the downloads page is a list of categories as part of the Phoca Download extension.

I'm not an expert in Joomla!, I hope my garbled explanation is clear enough.

John
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12 years 4 months ago #40499 by alzander
Hmmm. Very strange. I investigated a little more as to what could be happening by analyzing the output HTML. It seems like something on your site is preventing the onAfterRender system call from occurring. onAfterRender should be triggered on all system plugins, and that's where JFBConnect replaces the Easy Tags with the proper HTML. It's also where some specific Javascript files are loaded for Facebook (and other social networks) integration.

When I look at the HTML output on your page, I see the following things that aren't executing properly from our system plugin:
* The raw easy-tags
* Our 'placeholder' tags, like :
<JFBConnectSCTwitterJSPlaceholder />
  <JFBConnectSCGooglePlusOneJSPlaceholder />
  <JFBConnectSCPinterestJSPlaceholder />
  <JLinkedJfbcJSPlaceholder />
Our system plugins are definitely enabled, because I can see other functions that they perform in your code.

I'd scour your plugins and extensions (or any modifications you've made to Joomla core files) to see if there's anything that would be trying to aggressively 'optimize' the site by removing function calls, specifically the onAfterRender routines. I really don't have any great suggestions as to where to start, but you'll need to narrow down what's preventing basic Joomla functionality from triggering.

I hope that helps,
Alex
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12 years 4 months ago #40500 by Jackkane
Thanks very much Alex, I'll dig around and see what I can find.

I did install the iJoomla SEO extension recently, so I'll start there me thinks.

I'll post back when I have anything to share or with more questions.

John
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12 years 4 months ago #40504 by alzander
Definitely keep me posted. I'll be curious to hear what you find. Of course, if you can't find anything, we'll gladly help how we can, but I don't know your site so it won't be as speedy as if you can narrow things down first.

Thanks, and good luck,
Alex
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