How to move the social buttons inside the post

  • ok, so im basically wondering how i can move the buttons in the below picture to the marked ares of the blogpost AND how i can close in on the spacing between each of the social-buttons?

    I am NOT using any plugins. i’ve added the buttons manually to single.php

    and yes, i do want them to be addded for every single blogpost i do, of course.

    here’s the picture: https://bildr.no/view/1383816

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  • What theme are you using and do you have a child theme set up? Modifications to any theme files should always be made in a child theme — so that your changes are not overwritten when the theme is updated.

    Thread Starter Shookie

    (@shookie)

    I am using graphene theme.

    and now i have setup a child theme.

    now what..?

    also, are you talking about that when i update wordpress itself, my changes will be overwritten, or will it happen only when i update my theme..?

    Theme. Yes, if you want to modify a template of your theme (in order to add the social icons), you need to use a child theme.

    Thread Starter Shookie

    (@shookie)

    o…k… but so far i have added style.css and single.php to my child theme… since those are the only one’s i have edited. any other files i need, hmm?

    now, back to my “problem”.. now how do i manage to move those buttons to the post itself, as i described in my opening post? and how to correct the spacing?

    i also found out that the social sharing toolkit-plugin lets me add the buttons just as i want to, BUT… the share button is showing the amount of likes instead of amount of shares…. and the plugin owner does not reply.. gah…

    Using a plugin would be a much better solution. What’s the site URL?

    Thread Starter Shookie

    (@shookie)

    yeah, those would be exact words about 12 hours ago, but nah… there are NO plugins who does the very simple job of adding SIMPLE small/medium sized like, tweet, share, g+1 and email buttons! SO many different plugins but NONE are doing the job correctly. the closest on is that plugin called ‘social sharing tollkit’ which does almost what i want to do, but that crappy share-button is working as both share AND a like-button combined, which is wrong! i just want it to be lined up as simple as i.e on 9gag.. simple buttons, simple actions.

    so. if you do know how to fix that or have suggestions, i highly thank you for that! i also thank you for assisting me with this, mr. much appreciated.

    site url is shookiemonster.com

    You don’t have a child theme active on that site, so that would be the first step – don’t make the mistake of modifying theme files – you will totally regret it later.

    Thread Starter Shookie

    (@shookie)

    im sorry about that, but NOW it should have a child theme in place! ?? and for now, i’ve just got the style.css there…

    now, what’s up next?

    Thread Starter Shookie

    (@shookie)

    Ok, which of the .php-files can I at least try working on to test the code so the social plugin-buttons appears on top of each blogpost? Which files?

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