ShareToSocial – Social Media Share Buttons & Sharing Icons

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.

3.2.0

• Added a Gutenberg block with built-in + network picking and per-block design controls.
• Added a sidebar widget with an optional title.
• Added exclude-by-category for automatic buttons.
• Modular, re-runnable ShareToSocial.init() for page-builder/AJAX content.
• Copy Link fallback when Clipboard API fails.
• Fixed duplicate per-post override logic.
• Native share works on dynamically added buttons.
• target="_blank" only on real web URLs.
• One mobile-hide toggle with custom width breakpoint (default off).

3.1.0

• Added support for 40+ sharing networks and actions.
• Added AI assistant sharing for ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, Copilot, DeepSeek, Grok, and Meta AI.
• Added new button styles, sizes, and icon alignment options.
• Added new floating-bar positions.
• Added Open Graph and Twitter Card metadata support.
• Added SEO plugin detection to help avoid duplicate metadata.
• Added featured image, first content image, and fallback image handling.
• Added UTM tracking for share links.
• Added custom CSS support and accessibility improvements.
• Expanded sharing, performance, and data-control settings.
• Updated the settings screen and live preview.
• Refactored the plugin with a namespaced, autoloaded code structure.

3.0.1

• Sanitized post meta nonce before verification.
• Fixed per-post floating share bar overrides.
• Fixed native Share button visibility on unsupported devices.
• Improved asset loading for shortcode, widget, and template usage.
• Confirmed compatibility with WordPress 7.1.

3.0.0

• Rebranded the plugin as ShareToSocial – Social Share Buttons.
• Rebuilt the plugin with a new STSocial_ / stsocial_ code structure.
• Replaced the icon font with inline SVG icons.
• Added new sharing networks, Copy Link, Messenger, Telegram, Reddit, and native device sharing.
• Added the floating share bar with network selection, ordering, positioning, and responsive controls.
• Added the [sharetosocial] shortcode.
• Added post type selection, button styles, sizes, colors, and spacing options.
• Added content exclusions and per-post overrides.
• Added popup and new-tab sharing options.
• Added accessibility options and developer filters.
• Redesigned the settings screen with tabs, drag-and-drop ordering, and live preview.
• Added one-click reset to default settings.

2.0.1

• Minor fixes and stability improvements.

2.0

• Redesigned share button styles.
• Reduced the bundled Font Awesome icons.
• Improved floating share bar defaults.
• Confirmed compatibility with WordPress 5.4.

1.0.5

• Removed the discontinued Google+ share button.

1.0.4

• General PHP code improvements.

1.0.3

• Renamed the plugin.

1.0.2

• Improved the Pinterest share button.

1.0.1

• General code improvements.

1.0

• Initial release.