895335 - Add Social Share widget to about:community blog

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Websites :: Other, defect)

Description

[Brian King [:kinger]]

Please add the Social Share widget to posts on https://blog.mozilla.org/community/.

Code: https://github.com/mozilla/SocialShare

Once in production, an admin needs to enable it via Settings > Reading and check the "add social sharing" option.

See bug 737486 for a successful deployment of this.

Comment 1

[Chris More [:cmore]]

Craig: Isn't this just an admin feature in WP under Settings > Reading? Should the admin of this blog be able to check that box?

Brian: Can you check if you can find that setting?

Comment 2

[Craig Cook (:craigcook)]

(In reply to Chris More [:cmore] from comment #1)
> Craig: Isn't this just an admin feature in WP under Settings > Reading?
> Should the admin of this blog be able to check that box?

Correct, this is already baked into the One Mozilla theme. You'll find it in the admin under Settings > Reading, with a checkbox labeled "Social sharing" and any blog administrator should have access to those settings. 

Brian: let me know if you hit any snags or have any other questions. If you don't have sufficient access on the community blog we can find someone who does (and should probably bump you up to admin anyway).

Comment 3

[Brian King [:kinger]]

I think David is admin of this blog so will talk to him about it.

Comment 4

[David Boswell]

Adding the social sharing buttons sounds like a great idea.

I just made the changes in comment #2 and tested it.  The button for Facebook put a post on my wall, but when I clicked through the link on Facebook back to the blog post I got an error:

"Sorry, this page isn't available. The link you followed may be broken, or the page may have been removed."

Link on Facebook to blog post: https://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=193048140809145

Not sure if that's a Facebook issue or an issue with the sharing widget.

Comment 5

[Brian King [:kinger]]

(In reply to David Boswell from comment #4)
> I just made the changes in comment #2 and tested it.  The button for
> Facebook put a post on my wall, but when I clicked through the link on
> Facebook back to the blog post I got an error:
> 
> "Sorry, this page isn't available. The link you followed may be broken, or
> the page may have been removed."
> 
> Link on Facebook to blog post:
> https://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=193048140809145
> 
> Not sure if that's a Facebook issue or an issue with the sharing widget.

I can reproduce. I filed a new bug for this:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=897497

Comment 6

[Chris More [:cmore]]

(In reply to Brian King [:kinger] from comment #5)
> (In reply to David Boswell from comment #4)
> > I just made the changes in comment #2 and tested it.  The button for
> > Facebook put a post on my wall, but when I clicked through the link on
> > Facebook back to the blog post I got an error:
> > 
> > "Sorry, this page isn't available. The link you followed may be broken, or
> > the page may have been removed."
> > 
> > Link on Facebook to blog post:
> > https://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=193048140809145
> > 
> > Not sure if that's a Facebook issue or an issue with the sharing widget.
> 
> I can reproduce. I filed a new bug for this:
> 
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=897497

I just posted in that bug that it works for me fine. I tried it on our websites blog too and it showed up on facebook and I could click the link.