Simple Social Share Block
Social sharing block for Gurtenberg. Gutenberg should be activated for this plugin to work.
Maintenance 20/100986d since update
Active installs
10
Downloads
1,211
Reviews
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Age
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Tagsblockgutenbergsocialsharing
Plugin info
Total downloads: 1,211
Active installs: 10
Total reviews: 0
Average rating: 0
Support threads opened: 0
Support threads resolved: 0 (0%)
Available in: 2 language(s)
Contributors: 6
Last updated: 4/20/2023 (986 days ago)
Added to WordPress: 8/1/2018 (7 years old)
Minimum WordPress version: 4.9.7
Tested up to WordPress version: 6.1.7
Minimum PHP version: 5.2.4
Maintenance & Compatibility
Maintenance score
Possibly abandoned • Last updated 986 days ago
20/100
Is Simple Social Share Block abandoned?
Possibly abandoned (last update 986 days ago).
Compatibility
Requires WordPress: 4.9.7
Tested up to: 6.1.7
Requires PHP: 5.2.4
Languages
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Description
With this plugin, you can add social sharing buttons as blocks in Gutenberg.
As a first version we created only the ones we needed : print, mail, Facebook and Twitter.
You can choose Dashicons or images, and the original colours for those network, or a grayscale version.
You can use the shortcode [sssb], with the following attributes:
- text_email : string, will be the body of the email when sharing via email | Default : You might be interested by this article : %s | You can use %s it will be replaced by the title of the current post
- object_email : string, will be the object of the email when sharing via email | Default : Have a look at this article : %s | You can use %s it will be replaced by the title of the current post
- text_twitter : string, will be the default text when sharing via twitter | Default : Hey Twitter, Have a look at this! %s | You can use %s it will be replaced by the title of the current post
- show_email : 0 or 1, will 1=show or 0=hide the email button | Default : 1
- show_print : 0 or 1, will 1=show or 0=hide the print button | Default : 1
- show_facebook : 0 or 1, will 1=show or 0=hide the facebook button | Default : 1
- show_twitter : 0 or 1, will 1=show or 0=hide the twitter button | Default : 1
- colour : original, grayscale, black or white | Default : original
- display : icons or images or mail | Default : icons | mail will generate a table
- side : left or right | Default : right
- url : url | Default : current page
Contribution
To contribute, in CLI
- sudo apt install npm
- npm install && npm run build
- npm run dev
Installation
This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.
e.g.
- Upload the plugin files to the
/wp-content/plugins/plugin-namedirectory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly. - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress
- Go to a page or post edited with Gutenberg
- Start Adding the block Social Sharing button
Frequently Asked Questions
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Changelog
1.0
- Hot fix for WP rétro-compatibility : check if wp_set_script_translations function exists
0.9
- Hot fix for Gutenberg compatibility : Dependencies correction
0.8
- Set default value for checkbox to true, it fixes the behaviour of showing nothing when the block is added the first time to the page
- Change Checkboxes to Toggles, because it looks nicer
0.7
- Removed the possibility of selecting black and white for image display, keeping it for icons only
0.5 & 0.6
- mail added to the display option, it builds an array instead of a list and show img instead of background images to work without CSS
0.4
- URL added as a parameter in both shortcode and block
0.3
- Black and White added as a colour choice
0.2
- Shortcode Added
- Alignement Left or Right