Rebalance theme: Sharing buttons are not displayed on the Front Page (wpcom simple)

[happychait]

Quick summary

Sharing buttons are not displayed on the front page despite enabling the Front Page, Archive Pages, and Search Results option for the Show like and sharing buttons on setting as in this screenshot:

Steps to reproduce

1. From https://wordpress.com/marketing/sharing-buttons enable the Front Page, Archive Pages, and Search Results checkbox for the Show like and sharing buttons on option.
2. Click the "Save Changes" button.

What you expected to happen

Sharing and Like buttons are displayed on the front (Posts page) page of the site.

What actually happened

Sharing and Like buttons are not displayed on the front page (Posts page).

Context

5463340-zen

Platform (Simple, Atomic, or both?)

Simple

Theme-specific issue?

Rebalance

Browser, operating system and other notes

No response

Reproducibility

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Severity

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Available workarounds?

No response

Workaround details

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• [ ] 5463340-zen
• [ ] 5487475-zen
• [ ] 6169722-zen

[cuemarie]

📌 SCRUBBING

• Tested on Simple ✅
• Tested on AT ✅

📌 FINDINGS/SCREENSHOTS/VIDEO

• Replicable - sharing buttons appear on AT site using Rebalance theme, but not Simple site
• In test sites below, sharing buttons are enabled for individual posts as well

AT Site

Simple Site

📌 ACTIONS

• Marked as Triaged for Quality Squad review

[rw-ye]

Another case here: 5487475-zd-woothemes Theme: Twenty Twenty-One

I can also reproduce this on Twenty Twenty-One (simple site). The sharing buttons do not appear on the front page or the posts page.

[karenroldan]

Transferring to Jetpack repo.