Social Sharing

Social Platforms

The Social Sharing plugin offers an impressive range of options for social media integration, supporting 39 different platforms. This extensive selection enables website owners to tailor their social sharing features to their audience’s preferences, ensuring maximum engagement and reach.

Along with selecting the most relevant social platforms, the plugin provides an intuitive drag-and-drop interface for rearranging the order of these platforms. Additionally, you can personalize the platforms’ display names to enhance user engagement. For instance, you can change the default label ‘Facebook’ to a more action-oriented phrase like ‘Share with Facebook’.

Styling Options for Buttons

The Social Sharing plugin offers a rich set of styling options that vary based on the chosen button type. Whether you opt for a link or an outlined button, you can customize aspects like the text, icon, border, or background colors. These options also extend to hover states, allowing for a dynamic interaction experience. Notably, for solid buttons, an innovative feature enables color adjustments on hover using HSLA values. This means you can subtly darken or lighten the platform-colored options, adding a sophisticated touch to the user interface.

Layout Customization Features

Beyond design elements, the Social Sharing plugin provides extensive layout customization options. These include the ability to set the gap between the icon and the text, customize padding, and adjust the size of the icons and text. This level of control ensures that the social sharing buttons match your site’s aesthetic and fit perfectly within its layout. Whether aiming for a compact look or a more spaced-out arrangement, these settings allow precise tailoring to meet your design needs.

Advanced Customization

The Social Sharing plugin extends its versatility with advanced customization options, enabling a deeper level of control and personalization for your social sharing buttons.

• Social Sharing Popup: An optional popup window can be enabled to provide a focused sharing experience. This feature activates a popup when a user clicks a social sharing button, offering a dedicated space for sharing without leaving your site. The dimensions of this popup are customizable, ensuring it fits perfectly within the context of your site’s design.
• Customizable CSS Classes: For those who require specific styling needs or want to integrate the plugin seamlessly with custom themes, the plugin provides options to assign custom CSS classes to the button and container elements. This flexibility allows for intricate styling adjustments and ensures that the plugin’s appearance is in complete harmony with your site’s unique design.

Efficient Performance and Lightweight Design

The Social Sharing plugin is exemplary in its efficiency and optimized performance. It intelligently creates a single SVG sprite map containing only the icons for the social platforms chosen by the user. This approach significantly reduces the load on your website, as it avoids loading individual icons for each platform and instead loads just one file.

Coupled with CSS that is customized based on user-selected options, this ensures that only the necessary styles are applied, further enhancing the site’s loading speed. The plugin’s social sharing popup feature, powered by a vanilla JavaScript script, lacks extra library dependencies, ensuring fast and responsive functionality. This design focus on efficiency and performance ensures your site remains swift and responsive, delivering an optimal user experience without the burden of unnecessary resources.

Supported Social Platforms

The Social Sharing plugin for Publii CMS supports a wide range of social media platforms, offering 39 different options to enhance your website’s connectivity.

Here are the platforms available for integration: Buffer, Copy URL, Diaspora, Digg, Email, Evernote, Facebook, Flipboard, GetPocket, Hacker News, Instapaper, Kakao, KooApp, Line, LinkedIn, LiveJournal, Mail.Ru, Mastodon, Meneame, Messenger, Mix, Odnoklassniki, Pinterest, Plurk, QZone, Reddit, Refind, Renren, Skype, Snapchat, Telegram, Trello, Tumblr, Twitter (X), VKontakte (VK), Viber, Weibo, WhatsApp, Yummly, and XING.

Note: This plugin requires Publii CMS version 0.43.1 or higher and is compatible with the latest theme versions released around October/November 2023. Ensure your Publii setup is up to date to take full advantage of this plugin’s features.