ShareToSocial – Social Media Share Buttons & Sharing Icons

Description

ShareToSocial is a simple, lightweight social sharing plugin for WordPress. Add share buttons before or after your content, display them in both places, or place them anywhere you like with a Gutenberg block, a widget, or the [sharetosocial] shortcode. An optional floating share bar is also available.

The plugin includes 40+ sharing networks and actions, including popular social networks, messaging services, bookmarking sites, developer communities, AI assistants, and built-in sharing tools.

All social media icons are included as inline SVG icons, and the plugin does not load icon fonts, external libraries, tracking scripts, or third-party assets.

Built with privacy in mind — ShareToSocial does not track visitors or set cookies. Third-party sharing services are contacted only when a visitor chooses to use a share button.

Share networks

ShareToSocial currently supports 44 sharing networks and actions:

• Social networks: Facebook, X (Twitter), LinkedIn, Pinterest, WhatsApp, Messenger, Telegram, Reddit, Threads, Bluesky, Tumblr, LINE, VK, Snapchat, Mastodon, Weibo, OK.ru, Mail.ru, QQ Zone, Douban, Kakao.

• Sharing and bookmarking: Hacker News, Instapaper, Flipboard, Buffer, Xing, Digg, Meneame, Blogger, LiveJournal.

• Messaging and device actions: Email, Copy Link, Native Share, Print, Viber, SMS.

• AI assistants: ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, Copilot, DeepSeek, Grok, Meta AI.

You can choose which networks are shown, remove the ones you do not need, and drag them into your preferred order.

Inline share buttons

Choose where inline share buttons appear:

• Before your content
• After your content
• Before and after your content
• Disabled for automatic placement

You can also control:

• Left, centered, or right icon alignment
• Share title and title text
• Which networks show their names
• Which public post types display buttons
• Front page, blog index, and archive visibility
• Exclude categories whose posts should not show buttons

Floating share bar

Enable an optional floating share bar with its own independent network selection and ordering.

Choose:

• Left side
• Right side
• Bottom
• Bottom sticky

Additional controls include:

• Top offset
• Hide on mobile toggle, default off
• Custom screen-width breakpoint
• Automatic hide/reveal while scrolling
• Always-visible, hover, or icon-only labels
• Independent network selection from inline buttons

When mobile hiding is enabled, you can choose the screen width below which the floating bar is hidden.

AI assistant sharing

Add AI assistant buttons that open supported AI services with a prompt asking the assistant to summarize the current page URL.

Supported AI assistants include:

• ChatGPT
• Gemini
• Claude
• Perplexity
• Copilot
• DeepSeek
• Grok
• Meta AI

AI assistant links use the URL formats currently supported by their respective services. Because these are third-party services, their URL-based prompt behavior may change independently of the plugin.

Design controls

Customize the appearance of both inline buttons and the floating bar.

Button styles:

• Rounded
• Square
• Pill
• Outline
• Official Buttons
• Round Text
• Accent Border
• Icons Only

Button sizes:

• Small
• Medium
• Large
• Extra Large

You can also control:

• Spacing between buttons
• Brand colors
• One custom color for all buttons
• Monochrome styling

Advanced controls

ShareToSocial includes additional controls for sharing behavior, performance, accessibility, metadata, tracking, custom CSS, and data management.

Share link behavior

Choose between:

• Popup window
• New tab/window

Performance

Optionally defer the plugin’s frontend script until the page has finished parsing.

Accessibility

• Larger touch targets with a minimum 44×44px target
• Screen-reader labels for icon-only buttons

Open Graph & Twitter Card tags

ShareToSocial can add Open Graph and Twitter Card metadata for supported singular content.

It can use:

• The post title
• A generated description
• The featured image
• The first image found in the content
• A site-wide fallback image

If a supported SEO plugin is already generating the metadata, ShareToSocial skips its own tags to avoid duplicate Open Graph data.

UTM tracking

Optionally append UTM parameters to share URLs for analytics tracking.

utm_source is automatically set to the network name, while `utm_medium` and `utm_campaign` can be customized.

Custom CSS

Add your own CSS to fine-tune the appearance beyond the built-in design options.

Data control

Choose whether plugin settings and per-post overrides should be removed when the plugin is deleted.

A factory reset option is also available to restore all plugin settings to their defaults.

Per-post controls

Each supported post or page can have its own ShareToSocial settings.

From the ShareToSocial panel in the editor, you can independently set:

• Inline Share Buttons: Default, On, or Off
• Floating Share Bar: Default, On, or Off

This lets you override global settings for individual content without changing the site-wide configuration.

Gutenberg block

Add a ShareToSocial Share Buttons block anywhere in your content with the block editor.

Works just like the built-in Social Icons block:

• Add networks with the + button, which opens WordPress’s standard block inserter.
• Remove a network by selecting it and using the normal block controls.
• Change any network’s platform from its Network panel in the sidebar.
• When a block is first added, it shows the networks enabled in the plugin’s General settings.

Design controls (style, size, color, and gap) are available in the block’s sidebar and apply to every button in that block. Each block keeps its own design, independent of the plugin defaults.

The block renders the full share row on the frontend from its inner network blocks.

Widget

A ShareToSocial – Share Buttons classic widget is available to place share buttons in any widget area (sidebar, footer, and so on). The widget renders the inline share buttons and includes an optional title.

Shortcode

Use the [sharetosocial] shortcode to manually place inline share buttons anywhere shortcodes are supported.

Basic usage:

[sharetosocial]

You can also override the heading, networks, URL, and title:

[sharetosocial heading="Share this post" networks="facebook,linkedin,whatsapp" url="https://example.com/" title="My Page Title"]

Shortcode attributes:

• heading — custom heading text
• networks — comma-separated network keys
• url — custom URL
• title — custom share title

Style, size, gap, and color are controlled by the plugin settings and are not shortcode attributes.

The shortcode works independently of automatic content placement and can also be used in widgets or templates with do_shortcode().

Developer-friendly

ShareToSocial provides filters for developers who want to customize the generated output.

Customize a share SVG icon

Use the stsocial_share_svg_icon filter to modify or replace an individual share icon.

Example:

add_filter( 'stsocial_share_svg_icon', function( $icon, $network ) {
    if ( 'facebook' === $network ) {
        $icon = '<svg>...</svg>';
    }

    return $icon;
}, 10, 2 );

Customize the share buttons output

Use the stsocial_share_buttons_output filter to modify the final generated share buttons HTML.

Example:

add_filter( 'stsocial_share_buttons_output', function( $output, $args ) {
    return '<div class="my-share-buttons">' . $output . '</div>';
}, 10, 2 );

Privacy and performance

ShareToSocial is designed to keep the frontend lightweight and privacy-friendly.

• No tracking scripts
• No cookies set by the plugin
• No icon fonts
• No external frontend libraries
• No third-party assets required for the button interface
• Local versioned CSS and JavaScript files
• Minified production assets
• Third-party sharing services are opened only after the visitor chooses to share