Classic Themes: Jetpack Likes and Sharing conflict with Dotcom Sharing Buttons settings

[mxhassani]

Quick summary

When Marketing > Sharing Buttons > Front Page, Archive Pages, and Search Results is ON, and the Homepage has Likes and Sharing > Show likes OFF, a perpetual Loading.. element becomes visible on the homepage.

Classic Themes on Simple sites only.

Steps to reproduce

1. Create a simple site
2. Enable a classic theme on it (i.e Canape)
3. Make sure Marketing > Sharing Buttons > Front Page, Archive Pages, and Search Results is checked.
4. Set a static page as the homepage, under Appearance → Customize → Homepage Settings → A static page → Homepage
5. Go to your pages list and edit the page you've set as the homepage in 4.
6. On the top right part of Gutenberg, click the Jetpack icon.
7. Make sure Likes and Sharing > Show likes is OFF.
8. Visit the front end of the site (homepage).
9. Notice the loading.. text just before the footer

What you expected to happen

To not see the "Loading" mention

What actually happened

I see the following "Loading" mention:

Impact

Some (< 50%)

Available workarounds?

Yes, easy to implement

Platform (Simple and/or Atomic)

Simple

Logs or notes

• Issue nonexistent on AT sites.

Workaround

Make sure Marketing > Sharing Buttons > Front Page, Archive Pages, and Search Results is unchecked.

Or, use CSS:

.home #jp-post-flair{
  display: none;
}

[rickmgithub]

📌 REPRODUCTION RESULTS

• Tested on Simple as per the report

📌 ACTIONS

Triaged

• Closed as could not replicate (please reopen if the issue reoccurs)

Message to author

Thanks so much for the report @mxhassani I couldn't replicate the issue with the same set up? Are you still able to produce this on a number of sites? Feel free to reopen if you can still replicate.