Social Share

Add share links for social networks. Comes with support for adding any number of custom dynamic links, mix & match between styles of the links, includes 10 popular social networks out of the box and window popup option for quicker sharing without the user needing to open a new tab.

Included: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Pinterest, Telegram, Xing, Line, VKontakte, Mastodon ,Email, Copy URL & Custom (build your own dynamic link)

Adding your own Custom Links

To cover all use cases, you can extend the element by adding in your own links inside. Adding a new link is as simple as choosing ‘custom’ from the provided options and adding your URL.

Using dynamic data in the URLs

If you are wanting to add a custom link that happens to be a share link for a new social network that isn’t included already, it’s likely that you’ll need to include the URL and other data as URL parameters.

To show how you’d create your own dynamic URL, we’ll just use Twitter as an example (even though Twitter is already included)

Twitter’s guidelines shows the link URL must be in the following format..

https://twitter.com/share?text=OPTIONAL_TEXT_HERE&url=URL_HERE

Here the ‘URL_HERE’ and ‘OPTIONAL_TEXT_HERE’ parts need to be dynamic, and relative to the current page where the link exists. We can fill these parts in using Bricks’ dynamic data.

In the above, the following could be created by using ‘post_title’ for the text and the ‘post_url’ being the URL to be shared.

To find the format of the share URL needed, you’d need to refer to whichever network documentation you’re trying to create a new link for.

(Note that you can also put in a feature request, if you think a specific share link we’ve missed will be common enough to be built in)

Copy URL

The copy URL option allows you to create a link that will copy the current post URL to the user’s clipboard for easy sharing. Note that this feature requires HTTPS on the site.