Requesting some new features

  • Hi Robin,

    I can’t thank you enough for creating this plugin. I recently knew about this and honestly this is a blessing for people who want it simple and not resource-hogging.

    Plus the features, you’ve included are more than enough for me to ditch social warfare that has recently been pathetic with their updates and conflicts with other plugins.

    Robin,

    Can I request you two features?

    1) A floating share button (both on desktop and mobile) because I usually write long form content (4k-5k words) so the share buttons kind of get lost without helping the visitors share something when they want to (halfway through the article).

    2) A click to button (if possible) please.

    Robin,

    Even if these two features aren’t added, the plugin will still be my favorite. I absolutely love the work you do and actually went to your website and viewed almost all posts (even though I did not understand them as I am not a coder).

    Keep up the great work. ??

    Best,
    -Swadhin

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  • Plugin Author Robin Cornett

    (@littlerchicken)

    Hi Swadhin! Thank you so much for your kind words; I very much appreciate them.

    I have not looked into how floating share buttons could be implemented, but I did some quick playing with CSS to see if it would be possible to do that way. Depending on how you want the buttons to behave (anything fancy might require JavaScript), you could get the buttons to float by using some CSS. I tried this in Chrome’s dev tools and got a nice effect using sticky positioning:

    
div.scriptlesssocialsharing {
    position: sticky;
    top: 20px;
    margin: 0 0 0 18px;
    float: right;
}

div.scriptlesssocialsharing-buttons {
    display: block;
}

div.scriptlesssocialsharing-buttons a.button {
    display: block;
    margin: 2px 0;
    width: auto;
}

    The selectors are all slightly more specific than what the plugin ships with, so I think would work if you wanted to add them to your theme’s stylesheet, or to the Additional CSS panel in the Customizer (which would have the advantage of you being able to preview the style before committing, and maybe modifying what I’ve done here, which were some pretty arbitrary values). I think this styling would work best without a heading (in the plugin settings).

    If you are putting your sharing buttons at the end, but wanted to include them at a break point in your longer content, you could use the [scriptless] shortcode at any point in your content, although that would be more of a marker along the way.

    Can you clarify what the second feature is that you’re asking for? It’s maybe missing a word–click to tweet maybe? If so, you might look at Better Click to Tweet–I’ve not used it, but have heard good things about it.

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