Lightweight plugin that gives your readers an easy way to share your content via their email client. A classic Share via Email link.

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<p>Lightweight plugin that gives your readers an easy way to share your content via email.</p>
<p>A classic Share via Email link. It provides you with a shortcode that you can add to your pages, posts or any other content type that turns into a share link on your website. You can also add it to your template files to have it show up by default on all content.</p>
<p>Once a user clicks the “Share by email” link with icon it will open their default email client with pre-populated Subject and Email body. Such as:</p>
<p><strong>Subject:</strong> Your website name | The title of the post they are sharing<br />
**Email Body: ** You may be interested in this article: .. Excerpt of the post.. – Link to the post</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>The plugin is designed to load minimal resources so your website stays fast</li>
<li>You can customize what shows in your readers email client when they are sharing your posts.</li>
<li>There are tokens available for you to further customize the email message of your readers</li>
<li>Optimized for website speed unlike some of the bulky plugins that provide JS heavy features</li>
</ul>
<h3>How to Use</h3>
<ul>
<li>Install and activate the plugin</li>
<li>Navigate to Settings > Share By Email > General Settings Tab and configure to look of the link</li>
<li>Navigate to “Email Settings” Tab and configure the default email texts your readers will see</li>
<li>Use tokens available for you to customize the message they see when they hit share</li>
<li>Place <strong>[sbe-share-by-email]</strong> shortcode to anywhere on your page where you can add shortcodes, such as content, widgets etc.</li>
<li>Or place <code><?php echo do_shortcode("[sbe-share-by-email]"); ?></code> in any of your template files</li>
<li>Try the link and share your Content via Email</li>
</ul>
<h3>Tokens Available</h3>
<p>To customize the message you have the following tokens available:</p>
<ul>
<li>[blogname] – The name of your wordpress website that was set Appearance > Customize > Site Identity</li>
<li>[title] – Title of the post your reader is on when sharing the link</li>
<li>[excerpt] – The excerpt of the post your reader is on when sharing the link</li>
<li>[link] – The URL of the post your reader is on when sharing the link</li>
</ul>


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