Request – Add share functionality to social icons

  • Hi,

    We can easily add social icons on our pages or posts by using the social gutenberg block. However, since almost everyone as social icons in the navigation or in the footer, I feel like it’s a bit useless to have another area to put the icons. What I would like to see instead is a new toggle to use this icon as a sharable link. Like that I think it would be more useful to get more traffic on our website if people love the content they read.

    Do you think it could be a good thing to implement? I know there a multiple plugins for that, but since the functionality is almost there, I feel like having that by default would be much better.

    Thank you

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  • Hi @nic727,

    Thanks for the suggestion, there is some overlap with the Social Links block and as you stated the share features are available in Jetpack and other plugins, which shows the feature is somewhat popular.

    There is some complexity to develop and use the block, since it would need to work for both cases on the same page. For example, a user may want to link in the header or footer to their social site, but also include a share button next to all the articles. This is possible using a toggle or based on how it is used in templates.

    Could you open a ticket on GitHub https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues and suggest the feature. Thanks again!

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