Keep share buttons from appearing in widgets

AddToAny only appears as option for WordPress widgets, so I presume you’re referring to some theme’s so-called “widget” area.

You can toggle standard Placement options such as “Display at the [bottom] of excerpts” in Settings > AddToAny. Try disabling some placement options (especially the “excerpts” one) to see which option is associated with your theme’s “widget” area.

Thanks for the quick reply. Unfortunately, it is not much help because I had tried that before posting on this forum. If nothing is selected, the share buttons (as expected) show up nowhere.

If ONLY “display at bottom of posts” is selected, the buttons do not show up on the pages (or their sidebars). They DO show up on posts (and the sidebars when the posts are displayed).

If ONLY “display at bottom of posts” is selected, the buttons show up on pages, as expected, AND in sidebar widgets when the pages are displayed. They do not, however, show up on posts or the sidebars when the posts are displayed.

The other alternatives behave similarly.

The issue is with widgets that were built that have html (one site has several of these). On one site https://aaptstudies.org, I removed all but the most necessary widgets so there are only two things in the sidebar (a widget with a logo, it has html in it) and a custom menu. For now, that is a possibility, but it is a very short-term thing. I have the settings currently set to show at the bottom of posts and the bottom of pages (all other boxes have been deselected). The same client has another site with several widgets in both sidebars for which this is an issue and for which using fewer things in the sidebars is not an option.

I do not need to use your “follow me” widget, so I am hoping I can append code (either in the css in settings or in the appropriate php file) that will not allow the buttons to populate anywhere in any sidebar or widget. Any suggestions?

Your help in resolving this issue will be greatly appreciated.

The underlying theme/framework should be fixed to support display options on its WordPress post types — that’s the root issue.

In the meantime you should use CSS code to hide the buttons as needed for the theme. One the theme’s “widget” areas for example:

#widget_tribe_widget_builder_30-2 .addtoany_content_bottom { display: none; }

Thanks for your help. I agree that the theme and framework need to be re-visited, but that isn’t an option in the short term. Your help with the CSS code is very much appreciated as a temporary solution.

The theme is quite nice and I truly appreciate your help in resolving the issue for use with my clunky old theme.

Thanks!