Social Integrations
General Social Buttons Settings
On this guide, you will be able to configure the social buttons that appears on the blog listings. You can determine the size of the social buttons that would appear on the site. Navigate to Components > EasyBlog > Settings > Social Integrations.
- None (Disabled)
No social button will be displayed. - Simple Buttons (Without Counters)
Uses the build-in custom social buttons. - Respective Social Networking Sites
Uses social buttons respective to it's social networking sites. - Add This
Utilises Add This features. - Share This
Utilises Share This features.
To check if social buttons are displayed on a certain view, ensure that the Show Social Buttons setting is enabled in the respective view. The following views contain this setting:
- Single author listing - Components > EasyBlog > Settings > Views > Single Author > Show Social Buttons
- Single category listing - Components > EasyBlog > Settings > Views > Single Category > Show Social Buttons
- Post entry view - Components > EasyBlog > Settings > Views > Entry Post > Show Social Buttons
- Frontpage blog listing - Components > EasyBlog > Settings > Views > Frontpage Listing > Show Social Buttons
- Single tag listing - Components > EasyBlog > Settings > Views > Single Tag > Show Social Buttons
Apart from the settings above, do note that categories(entry layout) and menu items also have these settings which have the ability to override the default view settings. So be sure to check those as well if social buttons are not showing on the page.
Facebook General Options
This guide will help you to configure the behavior of the Facebook button on the site.
- Display Facebook Author URL
This option allows authors to enter their own Facebook profile URL. When a post is shared on Facebook, the author would be linked to their Facebook profile. - Admin ID
Set your Facebook ID here. - Application ID
Enter the Facebook application id which you can retrieve from the application page. - Load Facebook scripts
Switch this option off when you have conflicts with 3rd party modules or components. - Append opengraph info in headers
If you want to use a different component to render the opengraph headers for Facebook, you may disable this here.
Facebook Social Analytics
This section will help you setup Google Analytics Social Interactions for social buttons.
- Enable Social Analytics
Enabling this allows EasyBlog to send data to Google Analytics when a user shares your post on Facebook.
Facebook Button Styles
This section will help you configure the styling of Facebook button on your site.
- Show Faces
Profile pictures will be displayed when someone likes an item. - Show Share Button
Include the Share button beside the Like button. - Choose Verb
Configure the verbs should be used in the Facebook button. - Theme
Configure the Facebook button theme.
Facebook Instant Article
This section will help you to configure Facebook instant article.
Please visit our documentation on how you may Facebook Instant Article configuration.
- API Key
Get the API key when authorizing your site with Facebook Instant Article. - Instant Article RSS URL
This is the Instant Article RSS URL which you should be using when you try to insert your feed in Facebook Instant Article configuration.
Twitter General Options
This section will help you to configure the Twitter button and Twitter cards.
- Enable Twitter Cards
Twitter's card will be added into the head section of the page. - Twitter Card Type
Select Twitter card type. - @Via Screen Name
Specify the Twitter '@Via' screen-name for your cards.
Twitter Social Analytics
This section will help you setup Google Analytics Social Interactions for social buttons.
- Enable Social Analytics
Enabling this allows EasyBlog to send data to Google Analytics when a user shares your post on Twitter.
Twitter Remote Tweets
This section will help you to configure fetching remote tweets and convert them as a post.
- Fetch Remote Tweets
By enabling this, EasyBlog will automatically search for hashtags you defined below. - Hash Tags To Search For
Enter the hash tags you want EasyBlog to look for. Separate each hash tags with a comma. E.g: #hash1,#hash2. - Save Posts Into Category
Specify which category should this tweet be fetched and created in. - Default Publishing State
Specify the publishing state of the created post. - Post Available On Frontend
Determine whether these post should be automatically published on the frontend.