# Social share components do not appear
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/social-share-components-do-not-appear/164172
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [September 16, 2020, 5:59am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/social-share-components-do-not-appear/164172 "2020-09-16T05:59:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@lyseoy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/lyseoy)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2020, 5:59am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/social-share-components-do-not-appear/164172/1 "2020-09-16T05:59:08Z")
> [@Social Share](https://meta.discourse.org/t/social-share-component/89980):
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> discourse2Summary Social Share allows you to easily add extra social providers to the share button on posts..eyeglassesPreview [Preview on Discourse Theme Creator](https://discourse.theme-creator.io/theme/Discourse/social-share)hammer_and_wrenchRepository Link [https://github.com/discourse/discourse-social-share](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-social-share)open_bookNew to Discourse Themes? [Beginner’s guide to using Discourse Themes](https://meta.discourse.org/t/beginners-guide-to-using-discourse-themes/91966) Install this theme component Features information_source This component only works on public sites. Share icons will be aut…
Installed the theme component and added link sharing for LinkedIn, which was confirmed to be working by another user. Link share icons do not appear.
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### Author:  [@Bcat](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Bcat)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2020, 7:14am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/social-share-components-do-not-appear/164172/2 "2020-09-16T07:14:28Z")
- social share links: `linkedin,fab-linkedin,linkedin share,https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=`
- svg icons: `fab-linkedin`
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### Author:  [@lyseoy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/lyseoy)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2020, 10:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/social-share-components-do-not-appear/164172/3 "2020-09-16T10:01:03Z")
Copied your settings exactly but no LinkedIn share icon:
But I’m also missing the Twitter and Facebook share icons, and these should be active by default: (?)
@Bcat I’m running discourse v2.6.0.beta2 +381. Which version are you on?
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### Author:  [@simon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/simon)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2020, 10:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/social-share-components-do-not-appear/164172/4 "2020-09-16T22:38:42Z")
I’ve just tried configuring the theme component with exactly the same settings are were posted above. It is working for me, so I don’t think there is a bug in the theme component.
> [@lyseoy](#):
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> But I’m also missing the Twitter and Facebook share icons, and these should be active by default: (?)
If you are able to open your browser’s web inspector to its console tab, do you see any errors appear in the console after you click the “share” button?
Can you try opening your site in safe-mode to see if the missing icons are a result of a site customization?
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### Author:  [@lyseoy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/lyseoy)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2020, 2:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/social-share-components-do-not-appear/164172/5 "2020-09-17T02:10:31Z")
Well this is interesting: I tried safe-mode, and hey pronto, the twitter and facebook icons came back. Checked the console and found no errors. Exited safe-mode, and then I see this:
Still don’t think this looks like a bug?
@Ed_Bobkov Maybe a peek in [safe-mode](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-use-discourse-safe-mode/53504) and in the console will bring back your share icons too.
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### Author:  [@Bcat](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Bcat)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2020, 4:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/social-share-components-do-not-appear/164172/6 "2020-09-17T04:09:16Z")
You are asking about discourse-social-share theme so you have to use it!
The image you above is default
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### Author:  [@Tara\_Walton](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Tara_Walton)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2022, 10:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/social-share-components-do-not-appear/164172/7 "2022-01-25T22:07:01Z")
> [@lyseoy](#):
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> But I’m also missing the Twitter and Facebook share icons, and these should be active by default: (?)
I am also having this issue regardless of if I am using the theme component or not. I thought i might be able to override the missing links, but no such luck adding links either. @lyseoy - Did you ever figure out how to fix this or what could be causing it?