Is this possible I need to put these buttons in a smarty file to get them to appear in the right place. please help, cheers.
Did you tried putting the like button code yet? Find out the appropriate .tpl file and insert your code, it should work.
Yes, you can add like and g+ buttons in smarty template. Just make sure that you enclose the script files with {literal}{/literal} tags. Example below. {literal}<script type="text/javascript"> (function() { var po = document.createElement('script'); po.type = 'text/javascript'; po.async = true; po.src = 'https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s); })();</script>{/literal}