Twitter Share Button is Not Clickable

Hi Godwin,
first, for Facebook, sharing the score is impossible. This is a limitation of Facebook. A few years ago, HD Quiz had integration with Facebook by creating a Facebook app that allowed sharing of custom content – but Facebook no longer allows this, only allowing sharing the page itself.

As for Twitter – this is directly caused by a script on your theme. Specifically ./themes/zoxpress/js/scripts.js. If you look at that file, on line 21, you will see a function that modifies all links on your page, including the Twitter Share link. The real issue is that it includes e.preventDefault(); which is what is stopping the link from… being a link. It looks like this function was designed to enable smooth scrolling on your site when a user clicks on an internal link.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like the function has any kind of exclusions built in – it’s an all or nothing. So you have three options.

1. Contact them theme developer for support. Your theme was purchased from Theme Forest, so you can contact the developer there to see if there is a way to disable the smooth scroll function without needing to modify the code of your site.

If not, there are two easy solutions that require a minor edit to one of your theme files.

2. Manually edit the previously mentioned js file to remove that function. From what I can see, it really doesn’t provide much value. For example, going through some random pages on your site, I failed to find a single link that it should be used on since you are not really using any internal links. The specific lines to remove are lines 21 to 29.

3. Modify that function to check to see if the link’s parent has a class hdq_social_icon. Basically, before the e.preventDefault(); line, add: if (e.parentElement.classList.contains("hdq_social_icon")) {return;}. That will tell the function to ignore the social share links of HD Quiz.