Simple Pop Out Social Sharing Plugin With jQuery

A really simple jQuery plugin used for creating a horizontal/vertical pop out social sharing widget to prompt your content in modern social networks: Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest, Whatsapp(Mobile only), Linkedin, Reddit, Email and Print.

How to use it:

1. To get started, you first need to load the jQuery Social Media Sharing plugin's JS and CSS files in the html document.

<script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="simple_social_share.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="simple_social_share.css">

2. Then create a DIV container to place the social share widget.

<div class="shareThis">
</div>

3. Finally, call the function on the DIV container to initialize the social share widget.

$("div.shareThis").simpleSocialShare();

4. Customize the social share widget by passing the following options as an object to the simpleSocialShare() function.

$("div.shareThis").simpleSocialShare({

  // url to share
  url: "",

  // title to share
  title: "",

  // page description
  description: "",

  // image to share
  image: "",

  // specify social networks
  // facebook, twitter, google, linkedin, pinterest, email, whatsapp, reddit
  sites: "",

  // horizontal or vertical button orientation
  orientation: "horizontal", 

  // button (shows a togglable share button)
  // none (shows nothing)
  // text (shows Share on: text before buttons)
  shareType: "text", 

  // only works with shareType of button
  // determines if the button should be clicked when created
  triggerButtonActiveState: false, 

  // only works with shareType of button
  // places the button on the left or right side of the social media icons
  buttonSide: "left", 

  // facebook developer app id
  // gives you more control over what you can customize when sharing on FB
  facebookAppId: "", 
  
});

Change log:

2016-08-05

• The Facebook FB.ui function should only be used if an AppId is provided.

2016-07-02

• Changed Spacing from User Additions and Updated Minified Source

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This awesome jQuery plugin is developed by earnolmartin. For more Advanced Usages, please check the demo page or visit the official website.