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Hide Jetpack Sharing Buttons from Specific Categories

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Add the following code to your WordPress theme’s function.php file, or a functionality plugin to prevent Jetpack sharing buttons from displaying in specific category archives.

/**
 * Hide Jetpack Sharing Buttons
 */
function jptweak_remove_share() {
	if (in_category(array(xx,xxx,xxx)) ) {
	    remove_filter( 'the_content', 'sharing_display',19 );
	    remove_filter( 'the_excerpt', 'sharing_display',19 );
	    if ( class_exists( 'Jetpack_Likes' ) ) {
	        remove_filter( 'the_content', array( Jetpack_Likes::init(), 'post_likes' ), 30, 1 );
	    }
	}
}
add_action( 'loop_start', 'jptweak_remove_share' );

by Jack Alltrade on February 6, 2017

Filed Under: Code Snippets Tagged With: Code, Jetpack, Plugins

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