Description
A social sharing plugin that allows you to highlight text and and share amonst several social networks including Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Xing, Telegram, Reddit, WhatsApp, and email.
In-depth Documentation – Please check out our thorough documentation ❤️️
Click to Tweet functionality is allowed via highlighting text or using the Gutenberg block or inline highlighting for social sharing.
If you have a feature request, please leave a ’support request..
Features
- A free alternative to Better Click to Tweet.
- Choose from many themes for display.
- Enable or disable on main content and excerpts.
- Enable or disable Facebook sharing.
- Enable or disable Twitter sharing.
- Customize the Twitter username used.
- Advanced: Override which content is selectable (using jQuery class notation without the dots).
- Advanced: Override the Font Awesome classes, especially if you’re using Font Awesome 5
- Advanced: Gutenberg block for Click to Share and Click to Tweet functionality
Advanced customization is allowed via hooks. See the plugin’s documentation.
Screenshots
Blocks
This plugin provides 1 block.
- Highlight and Share: Click to Share
Installation
- Search Highlight and Share in the plugin’s screen.
- Install and activate.
In-depth Documentation – Please check out our thorough documentation ❤️️
FAQ
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Signal doesn’t have a sharing API currently.
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You can if you have a Facebook App ID. They are easy to create.
Here’s a video showing you how:
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Will you be adding more sharing services?
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Possibly. Please send me a message.
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Where did my icons go?
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Since people are having is’sues with the icons, I decided to do SVG includes instead. This should be more reliable and faster.
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I want to include my own CSS. How can I do that?
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You can turn off the theme and include CSS in your own theme.
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Does this plugin work on mobile devices?
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Yes, it has ’successfully been tested on iOS and Android devices.
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What Browsers Have You Tested This In?
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So far, the latest versions of Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. Works for IE9+
Reviews
Contributors & Developers
“Highlight and Share – Highlight Text and Share It” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors“Highlight and Share – Highlight Text and Share It” has been translated into 1 locale. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.
Translate “Highlight and Share – Highlight Text and Share It” into your language.
Interested in development?
Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.
Changelog
3.6.1
- Released 2022-06-23
- Fixing typo that caused two Twitter buttons to show up when icons are off, the default theme is used, and a user has added their Facebook App ID.
3.6.0
- Released 2022-06-13
- Released new documentation
- Refreshed the admin panel.
- Replaced Fancybox with Photoswipe.
3.5.8
- Released 2022-04-09
- Fixed WhatsApp sharing. The text wasn’t sharing correctly on desktop/mobile.
- Fixed inline highlighting and Click to Share from not being able to share on Twitter.
3.5.6
- Released 2022-03-26
- Fixed LinkedIn sharing (only URL is ’supported by LinkedIn now).
- WordPress 5.9 compatibility testing.
3.5.5
- Released 2021-06-18
- Added Hashtag ’support for Twitter.
- See https://mediaron.com/highlight-and-share-now-’supports-hashtags/ for more details.
3.5.1
- Released 2021-05-30
- Adjusting glass styles to be more inline with glassmorphism.
3.5.0
- Released 2021-05-29
- Added two new themes: circular, and circular glass.
- Added two new social networks: Odnoklassniki and VKontakte.
- Fixed SVG bug on the front-end where it could cause extra space at the bottom of a theme.
3.4.1
- Released 2021-04-08
- Fixing email JavaScript bug preventing email options from showing.
3.4.0
- Released 2021-02-12
- Tested with WordPress 5.7.
- Updating Gutenberg functionality to fix deprecations.
- Added a prefix/’suffix you can use to add quotations or other text around a text share.
3.3.8
- Released 2021-01-31
- Fixing typo in the Dark CSS theme.
3.3.7
- Released 2021-01-30
- Documentation update.
3.3.6
- Released 2020-12-01
- Fixing undefined notice errors in logs and JavaScript.
3.3.5
- Released 2020-11-16
- Added Reddit sharing option.
- Added Telegram sharing option.
- Added purple theme.
3.3.0
- Released 2020-11-09
- Removed Font Awesome requirement.
- Improve a little performance around the blocks and scripts.
- Remove Pinterest. It stopped working a long time ago.
- Removed icons from customizer and admin panel.
- Added SVG sprite for icon retrieval.
- En’sures all the themes were correct for the new icons.
- Fixed a few small errors in the Click to Share/Click to Tweet block.
- More changes coming soon: https://mediaron.com/highlight-and-share/
3.2.11
- Released 2020-05-10
- Adjusting styles (particularly for Elementor Pro) to be more specific in intention of what the colors of the highlighting interface is.
3.2.10
- Released 2020-04-29
- Fixed compatiblity is’sues with Page Builders.
3.2.9
- Released 2020-02-24
- Fixing inline highlighting on mobile devices.
3.2.0
- Released 2020-02-16
- Added inline highlighting formatting option in Gutenberg.
3.1.5
- Released 2019-10-20
- Code cleanup and smaller footprint for Gutenberg block.
3.1.2
- Released 2019-07-10
- Prevent HAS from showing in the admin area.
3.1.1
- Released 2019-06-13
- Fixing infinite loop is’sue with JS errors when clicking on the buttons.
3.1.0
- Released 2019-05-11
- Removing show service on hover (was conflicting on smaller screens)
- Adding Cyan theme (icons only)
- Fixing highlight position on desktop/mobile to it doesn’t go off screen
- Fixing highlight position on Gutenberg block so that it’s centered above the block
3.0.9
- Released 2019-04-07
- Show service on hover.
3.0.8
- Released 2019-03-30
- Fixing bug in Click to Share email functionality and honering margins on Click to Share block.
3.0.7
- Released 2019-03-03
- Hot fix for undefined JavaScript error in email popup
3.0.6
- Released 2019-03-03
- Resolving undefined error in email popup
3.0.5
- Released 2019-03-03
- Fixing email JavaScript error
3.0.4
- Released 2019-02-01
- Fixed copy functionality when Gutenberg block is present
- Fixed copy styling in default theme
- Fixed URL shortening error when URL shortening is enabled
3.0.3
- Released 2019-01-17
- Hotfix: Regular text was not showing all icons
3.0.2
- Released 2019-01-17
- Fixing is’sue when email addresses use an alias
3.0.1
- Released 2019-01-17
- Fixing multiple HAS interfaces showing in Gutenberg block.
3.0.0
- Released 2019-01-16
- Added copy functionality.
- Added Click to Share Gutenberg block.
2.4.8
- Released 2018-12-12
- Highlighted text now shows in email notifications
2.4.7
- Released 2018-12-10
- En’suring undefines do not show up when emailing
2.4.6
- Released 2018-10-02
- Added modal to emails for better mobile compatibility
2.4.1
- Released 2018-09-05
- Fix: Facebook App ID uses a different sanitzation technique to prevent App ID errors.
2.4.0
- Released 2018-09-02
- New theme: Brand Colors (icons only).
- Enhancement: You can now customize Highlight and Share through the customizer.
2.3.6
- Released 2018-08-28
- Hotfix: Email styles failed to commit.
2.3.5
- Released 2018-08-26
- Reworked email so it doesn’t pop up in a new window and is shown inline very similar to JetPack’s email functionality.
2.3.1
- Released 2018-08-20
- Bug fix: some settings weren’t being saved correctly.
2.3.0
- Released 2018-08-19
- Added the ability to select themes. No more need for custom CSS.
- Added the ability to change FontAwesome classes for compatibility with FontAwesome 5.
2.2.2
- Released 2018-07-27
- Added ’support for WhatsApp
2.2.0
- Released 2018-02-11
- Added ’support for XING
- Added better ’support for emailing
2.1.7
- Released 2018-02-10
- JS Related bug where the wrong text was showing for Twitter sharing.
2.1.5
- Released 2017-11-15
- CSS adjustment for better theme compatibility.
2.1.2
- Released 2017-02-12
- Fixing iOS/Android is’sue with highlighted text being only the initial selection.
2.1.0
- Released 2017-01-11
- Sharing via Facebook is now possible if you create a Facebook application ID.
2.0.1
- Released 2016-10-20
- Fixing %text% is’sue in iOS10.
2.0.0
- Released 2016-05-21
- Enhancement: Added LinkedIn, Pinterest, and E-mail buttons
- Enhancement: Allow icons only view.
1.2.7
- Released 2015-11-08
- Fixing polish translation
1.2.5
- Released 2015-11-08
- Added Polish translation
- Added minified scripts
1.2.1
- Updated 2015-10-29
- Testing for WordPress 4.4
- Added German translation
1.2.0
- Updated 2015-09-07
- Fixed loading order of initial filters to be better overridable in the context of a WordPress query
- Fixed typo in the admin section
- Added filter to change content URL
1.1.2
- Updated 2015-08-20 – WordPress 4.3 compatibility
- Released 2015-04-19
- Fixing is’sue with multiple twitter popups.
- En’suring WordPress 4.2 compatibility.
1.1.1
- Released 2015-03-18
- Added filter for customizing the jQuery selectors
1.1.0
- Released 2015-03-16
- Added option for shortlink in the settings
- Removed the requirement for having to set a Twitter handle
1.0.0
- Updated 2014-12-11 – En’suring WordPress 4.1 compatibility
- Released 2014-12-03
- Initial release on WordPress.org