A social share plugin that doesn't spy on users and doesn't slow down your site.
Add simple share buttons under your posts, add share block in the new editor, or use the widget to add sharing to any widget area your theme provides. This plugin uses simple SVG icons for social network logos and small vanilla JavaScript to allow the user to share the current post or page. Share icons inherit their colours from the theme link colours to match the website design.
Why choose Minimal Share Buttons before other similar plugins?
There are five ways of displaying the share buttons on a post or page:
[msb_share title="Share this"]
in the classic editor.msb_display_buttons()
to render the widget in your theme templates.From version 1.4 you can more easily display the sharing widget in your templates using the function msb_display_buttons()
. The function accepts two arguments – an array of options, passed to the widget, and a second boolean argument that tells the function to echo the resulting markup. Here’s an example:
$args = [ 'before_widget' => '<div class="msb-container">', 'after_widget' => '</div>', 'before_title' => '<h2>', 'after_title' => '</h2>', 'title' => __( 'Share this article', 'mytextdomain' ), ]; msb_display_buttons( $args, true );
If your theme uses SVG icons, combined into a SVG sprite, and your sprite has icons for Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and LinkedIn, there are two filters you can use to replace the icons, provided by the plugin, with yours. The results of the two filters are concatenated with a hash between them and passed through esc_url
before output.
Another filter allows manipulation of the array of social networks.
The filter is applied to the URL of the sprite image and the filter function should return the URL (without the hash sign) of an SVG sprite image, consisting of icons in symbol
elements.
The filter is applied to the icon name before concatenating it to the sprite URL. It should return the ID of the icon symbol in the sprite.
The filter is applied to the default list of social networks and allows adding or removing socials networks. The array of social networks is associative array, the key is used for the option name on settings page and for the icon ID, and the value is associative array with three elements – field_label
(the label of the field in settings), button_label
(the label of the button for screenreader users), and share_url
(the URL for sharing links). The share_url
is passed through sprintf
with two params – the URL of the current page and the title of the page. Example:
function my_add_xing( $socials ){ $socials['xing'] = array( 'field_label' => __( 'Xing', 'mytheme' ), 'button_label' => __( 'Share on Xing', 'mytheme' ), 'share_url' => 'https://www.xing.com/spi/shares/new?url=%1$s&title=%2$s' ); return $socials; } add_filter( 'msb_socials', 'my_add_xing' );<h3>msb_button_classes</h3>
This filter allows changing the classes of the individual buttons. Two parameters are apssed to the filter functions: the array with classes and the social network / button slug.
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