Like Block: ensure that it can be displayed on CPTs too

[foleynotrose]

Impacted plugin

Jetpack

What

Enable Likes on Custom Post Types

How

In ticket 8327637-zd-a8c, user requests that Likes be available for Custom Post Types.

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Support References

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• [ ] 8327637-zen

[jeherve]

Likes are already available on CPTs: https://github.com/Automattic/jetpack/issues/8074#issuecomment-340846339

Looking at the linked ticket, I believe the problem is more about how we manage the display of Likes on a site when you deactivate the Likes module and only rely on the newer Like block instead. That Like Block should work on CPTs too, but looking at their report, it may not work yet. We will need to test this.

[coder-karen]

With Custom Post Types, likes work for me if I add the Like Block, but don't if I enable the Like module. The older Settings > Sharing page in wp-admin doesn't appear to be available any more, so I don't see a way to enable this for CPTs. This seems to match the issue reported in the ticket. @jeherve have you got a test site that shows the legacy settings?

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On reading the ticket, an issue was mentioned with templates Like placement as well, but I don't believe that is an issue.

• On templates, if I add a Like Block as well as having Likes enabled, I see the like this feature on the page twice. However that's also the same elsewhere too (posts, pages).
• If likes are not enabled on the Sharing page, then the like feature only appears once.
• The issue they mentioned appears to be the placement of the Likes feature if it isn't added as a block to a template, but when the module itself is enabled site-wide and gets placed where it doesn't appear to make as much sense.
• I'm not sure this is an issue though, as I would imagine having likes above tags makes sense - that's the case elsewhere (posts / pages) as well.

[jeherve]

The older Settings > Sharing page in wp-admin doesn't appear to be available any more, so I don't see a way to enable this for CPTs.

You should be able to activate them in Calypso blue, at https://wordpress.com/marketing/sharing-buttons/yoursite.com

Using a classic theme like Twenty Eleven, classic likes (i.e. via the module) seem to work well. I indeed do not have the flexibility to control where exactly Likes are hooked into the_content, but that's expected on classic themes.

Using a block theme like Twenty Twenty Four, and disabling the module to use a Like block instead, I am also able to add the LIke block:

It seems to me like we can close this issue?

[coder-karen]

You should be able to activate them in Calypso blue, at https://wordpress.com/marketing/sharing-buttons/yoursite.com

Oh! I see that in the support docs too now, but I'll make an edit to make explicit mention of CPTs. Yes, in that case, it looks like we can close it out.