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What's even more confounding, is that the controls are there. They simply don't work as yet. Social sharing is such an integral part of marketing for most of us, and it would seem to me that implementing this function should have been at the top of the list of things-to-do for the Squarespace team. 

Hi @PDChappelle, ah, thank you. When I read the thread earlier, I saw a few recommendations, including for more costly options, but somehow missed the discussion on ShareThis' asethetic. I personally think it looks ok, but again, I am a novice at website design. Thanks anyway for looping me into the discussion. 

What's even more confounding, is that the controls are there. They simply don't work as yet. Social sharing is such an integral part of marketing for most of us, and it would seem to me that implementing this function should have been at the top of the list of things-to-do for the Squarespace team. 

As with everyone else, I'm flabbergasted and outraged that not only is this not a Squarespace feature, and not even only that you have to use custom code to add it, but on top of all that, since javascript is excluded with personal accounts, most of the sharing buttons you find such as those shared in this thread can't even be used. Absolutely ridiculous. Squarespace, if I'm paying you almost 20 bucks a month, I ought to get the basics of a good site, which includes social sharing buttons. This plus the fact that they don't autosave blog posts as they're being written is just ludicrous for such a big-name platform. 
ANYWAY
I would also greatly appreciate if anyone has a resource for no-javascript sharing buttons, thanks.

I really wish Squarespace would hurry up and roll out this feature. The ShareThis buttons are ugly and criminally outdated. They looked cool in 2009, not so much now.

What's even more confounding, is that the controls are there. They simply don't work as yet. Social sharing is such an integral part of marketing for most of us, and it would seem to me that implementing this function should have been at the top of the list of things-to-do for the Squarespace team. 

I really wish Squarespace would hurry up and roll out this feature. The ShareThis buttons are ugly and criminally outdated. They looked cool in 2009, not so much now.

I spoke to a representative at SqSp last year about it, and was told that it was a "good idea", and that he would forward my request to engineers. 😒 I thought he was joking. They obviously have plans to roll out this feature since the controls are there, but I don't know why they're sitting on it.

 

What's even more confounding, is that the controls are there. They simply don't work as yet. Social sharing is such an integral part of marketing for most of us, and it would seem to me that implementing this function should have been at the top of the list of things-to-do for the Squarespace team. 

I really wish Squarespace would hurry up and roll out this feature. The ShareThis buttons are ugly and criminally outdated. They looked cool in 2009, not so much now.

I really wish Squarespace would hurry up and roll out this feature. The ShareThis buttons are ugly and criminally outdated. They looked cool in 2009, not so much now.

What's even more confounding, is that the controls are there. They simply don't work as yet. Social sharing is such an integral part of marketing for most of us, and it would seem to me that implementing this function should have been at the top of the list of things-to-do for the Squarespace team. 

I really wish Squarespace would hurry up and roll out this feature. The ShareThis buttons are ugly and criminally outdated. They looked cool in 2009, not so much now.

I found your share buttons and really liked it. I just didn't like the cost to be able to use it on my blog that should have share buttons built into the template.

Two months ago, I asked Squarespace when they plan to have built-in share buttons on product pages on Squarespace 7.1. I received this: "For share buttons,  we don't have any public plans on whether we're adding that or not in the foreseeable future." Very disappointed. I guess we'll have to find a way on our own....😒

I started out on 7.1 and this weekend I rebuilt my entire site in 7.0 so I have it ready to go before next billing cycle so I can go through the steps of switching everything over. I don't mind doing it and my site looks better for it, BUT the reason why I rebuilt is because 7.1 is missing share buttons on the blog. It really is odd that they left this off at launch. I thought they would work because I saw the settings before I built out the blog page. 😞

Same here... that should totally be a feature of Sqarespace.

I really wish Squarespace would hurry up and roll out this feature. The ShareThis buttons are ugly and criminally outdated. They looked cool in 2009, not so much now.

Another vote to add sharing buttons to our blog posts in 7.1.
It's such a basic and essential feature for a blog post...it's almost like a gate to force you to upgrade.
cmon guys.

This is a joke, any standard blog page should have a share buttons readily available. Come on Squarespace, make it available, or will this be another app that we have to pay for. Starts to feel a bit like I am dealing Ryanair.

Wow! Come on Squarespace! I've been a big supporter, but it REALLY sucks to commit to the 7.1 platform and then find out that some of these basics are not supported. Please don't be such a growing disappointment.

I'm really super disappointed in Squarespace for not including share buttons. I'm a big fan of Squarespace, but seeing that the platform lacks such a basic need, make me doubtful. 

What's even more confounding, is that the controls are there. They simply don't work as yet. Social sharing is such an integral part of marketing for most of us, and it would seem to me that implementing this function should have been at the top of the list of things-to-do for the Squarespace team. 

If you want a well functioning and customizable social share buttons, then try Elfsight. It's an expensive tool but they do a really good job with customization and our package includes unlimited websites. I customized the whole look and feel of the buttons and then was able to just implement it in the code of the Blog instead of having to paste it manually on each blog, works so much better.
https://elfsight.com/social-media-share-buttons/

I'm really disappointed in Squarespace for not including this as standard at launch for 7.1. What are they thinking? They need to hurry up and roll this out