Likes: Individual page Likes settings not respected when page is displayed outside the main query

[sixhours]

Originally reported in Automattic/themes#13

Steps to reproduce the issue

In Shoreditch:

1. Activate Shoreditch
2. Make sure like buttons for the site are turned on globally under My Site > Sharing
3. Create a page with the Panel Page template
4. Give that page a few child pages and make sure the Like button is turned off for each individual Child Page
5. View the parent Panel Page - like buttons appear on the child panels

A similar instance in Affinity:

1. Activate Affinity.
2. Make sure like buttons for the site are turned on under My Site > Sharing.
3. Create a couple of Pages, and turn Likes off for those pages.
4. Set a Static Front Page under Customize -> Homepage Settings.
5. Go to Customize -> Theme Options -> Panel 1 and select one of the pages created in step 3.
6. Go to Customize -> Theme Options -> Panel 2 and select the other page created in step 3.
7. Publish changes and view your home page. The Likes settings for the individual child pages are not respected; you'll still see Likes enabled, even though they've been turned off for those child pages.

What I expected

Likes should respect the individual page/post settings before falling back to the global settings, even though the pages are displayed in a separate query.

What happened instead

Likes are shown according to the global settings, ignoring the individual page/post settings when displayed outside the main query.

We're working around this with Custom CSS to hide unwanted Likes for now.

Follow-up information:

• User report: 2918760-t

• User's site: https://admagicmedia.com/services/

• User report: 979454-zen

• User's site: https://esthermekkelholt.com/wat-kan-ik/

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This issue has been marked as stale. This happened because:

• It has been inactive in the past 6 months.
• It hasn’t been labeled `[Pri] Blocker`, `[Pri] High`.

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[formosattic]

User report with Shoreditch (7642824-hc, 1529468-zen)

CSS workaround to hide Like button only on pages with Panel Template:

.page-template-panel-page .sharedaddy {
     display: none;
}

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This issue has been marked as stale. This happened because:

• It has been inactive in the past 6 months.
• It hasn’t been labeled `[Pri] Blocker`, `[Pri] High`.

No further action is needed. But it's worth checking if this ticket has clear reproduction steps and it is still reproducible. Feel free to close this issue if you think it's not valid anymore — if you do, please add a brief explanation.

[stale]

This issue has been marked as stale. This happened because:

• It has been inactive in the past 6 months.
• It hasn’t been labeled `[Pri] Blocker`, `[Pri] High`.

No further action is needed. But it's worth checking if this ticket has clear reproduction steps and it is still reproducible. Feel free to close this issue if you think it's not valid anymore — if you do, please add a brief explanation.