Is there something specific I have to do in order to get the "Social sharing buttons" to work? I have them enabled (show) both in the article and in the category and they still don't show. I can't figure out why. Anyone out there who can help?

Thanks in advance!

Hello Rakel,

You should check your category inheritance. These button are 'plug n' play' inside your item.
They come enabled by default as well.

Also make sure your templates are up to date as well.

Thanks for your reply.

My setup is as follows:

Article:
Under "Item view options"
- 'Social button' like ShareThis, AddThis etc. is set up as "Inherit from Category"
- Social sharing Facebook button is set up as "Inherit from Category"

Category:
Under "Item view options"
- 'Social button' like ShareThis, AddThis etc. is set up as Show
- Social sharing Facebook button is set up as Show

You can see my site on www.aett.is and the section where I am working with K2 (at the moment) under aett.is/index.php/is/frettir. As you can see there are no social buttons visible.

Thanks again for helping

Hello Rakel,

aett.is/index.php/is/frettir/item/62-adhalfundur-28-februar-2013 is showing the social sharing buttons properly. The url you sent me is an itemlist. By default social buttons are not rendered on itemlists. If you need them you have to override category_item.php

Ahhhh...I see what you mean. How do I override category_item.php?

Thanks for helping!

Hi Rackel,
This is a pretty good description on how to use template overrides LINK

Hi Peter,
Thanks for the tip, I'm afraid it's a little too advanced for me. I need more specific instructions to be able to achieve this. But thanks anyways :-)

Rakel wrote: Hi Peter,
Thanks for the tip, I'm afraid it's a little too advanced for me. I need more specific instructions to be able to achieve this. But thanks anyways :-)

Hi Rakel,
It may seem a bit difficult at first but it's not really.


1/ Open your sites Default Template folder (you should see a folder named html (if none exists create one).

2/ Inside the html folder create a new folder (name it com_k2)

3/ Then navigate to components/com_k2/templates then (copy all the files & the default folder)

4/ Navigate back to the your templates html folder & open the com_k2 folder that you created in step 2 and Paste the files & default folder.

5/ Rename Default folder to anything you like eg my_override_template (you can copy the default folder multiple times if you want multiple overrides)

6/ Then in K2 open the Category you want to override, In the Right Side Menu - Category Item Layout - select a template (you should see your new overide in dropdown list)

7/ If you want to overide the K2s CSS files, you need a plugin called CSS4K2 it's free and you can find it HERE

item.php & category_item.php are the 2 files that are most often customized, and you can always delete the overrides & start again, so its fine to experiment.

If you need any help let me know.