Social share buttons – GeneratePress

This is a post on how you can Add Social share buttons – GeneratePress below post without Javascript. If you check tophits you will see how I Created Social Sharing Buttons without JavaScript with simple CSS. If you like the look then continue read the process involved below.

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Note: This tutorial is in two steps

Step-1:


function tophitsbutton_social_sharing_buttons($content) {
global $post;
if(is_singular() || is_home()){// Get current page URL
$tophitsbuttonURL = urlencode(get_permalink());
// Get current page title
$tophitsbuttonTitle = htmlspecialchars(urlencode(html_entity_decode(get_the_title(), ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8')), ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8');
// $tophitsbuttonTitle = str_replace( ' ', '%20', get_the_title());
// Get Post Thumbnail for pinterest
$tophitsbuttonThumbnail = wp_get_attachment_image_src( get_post_thumbnail_id( $post->ID ), 'full' );
// Construct sharing URL without using any script
$twitterURL = 'https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text='.$tophitsbuttonTitle.'&url='.$tophitsbuttonURL.'&via=tophitsbutton';
$facebookURL = 'https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u='.$tophitsbuttonURL;
$googleURL = 'https://plus.google.com/share?url='.$tophitsbuttonURL;
$bufferURL = 'https://bufferapp.com/add?url='.$tophitsbuttonURL.'&text='.$tophitsbuttonTitle;
$whatsappURL = 'whatsapp://send?text='.$tophitsbuttonTitle . ' ' . $tophitsbuttonURL;
$linkedInURL = 'https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url='.$tophitsbuttonURL.'&title='.$tophitsbuttonTitle;
// Based on popular demand added Pinterest too
$pinterestURL = 'https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url='.$tophitsbuttonURL.'&media='.$tophitsbuttonThumbnail[0].'&description='.$tophitsbuttonTitle;
// Add sharing button at the end of page/page content
$content .= '';
$content .= '
';
$content .= '
SHARE ON

Twitter’;
$content .= ‘Facebook’;
$content .= ‘Google+’;
$content .= ‘Buffer’;
$content .= ‘WhatsApp’;
$content .= ‘LinkedIn’;
$content .= ‘Pin It’;
$content .= ‘
‘;
return $content;
}else{
// if not a post/page then don’t include sharing button
return $content;
}
};
add_filter( ‘the_content’, ‘tophitsbutton_social_sharing_buttons’);

Step-2:

Add below code to your style.css file of your WordPress theme


.tophitsbutton-link {
padding: 2px 8px 4px 8px !important;
color: white;
font-size: 12px;
border-radius: 2px;
margin-right: 2px;
cursor: pointer;
-moz-background-clip: padding;
-webkit-background-clip: padding-box;
box-shadow: inset 0 -3px 0 rgba(0,0,0,.2);
-moz-box-shadow: inset 0 -3px 0 rgba(0,0,0,.2);
-webkit-box-shadow: inset 0 -3px 0 rgba(0,0,0,.2);
margin-top: 2px;
display: inline-block;
text-decoration: none;
}.tophitsbutton-link:hover,.tophitsbutton-link:active {
color: white;
}
.tophitsbutton-twitter {
background: #00aced;
}
.tophitsbutton-twitter:hover,.tophitsbutton-twitter:active {
background: #0084b4;
}
.tophitsbutton-facebook {
background: #3B5997;
}
.tophitsbutton-facebook:hover,.tophitsbutton-facebook:active {
background: #2d4372;
}
.tophitsbutton-googleplus {
background: #D64937;
}
.tophitsbutton-googleplus:hover,.tophitsbutton-googleplus:active {
background: #b53525;
}
.tophitsbutton-buffer {
background: #444;
}
.tophitsbutton-buffer:hover,.tophitsbutton-buffer:active {
background: #222;
}
.tophitsbutton-pinterest {
background: #bd081c;
}
.tophitsbutton-pinterest:hover,.tophitsbutton-pinterest:active {
background: #bd081c;
}
.tophitsbutton-linkedin {
background: #0074A1;
}
.tophitsbutton-linkedin:hover,.tophitsbutton-linkedin:active {
background: #006288;
}
.tophitsbutton-social {
margin: 20px 0px 25px 0px;
-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
font-size: 12px;
}
.tophitsbutton-whatsapp {
background: #43d854;
}
.tophitsbutton-whatsapp:hover,.tophitsbutton-whatsapp:active {
background: #009688;
}
.tophitsbutton-social h5 { color: #333; font-weight: 900;
margin-bottom: 0px;
}