Easy Social Sharing

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Getting started

This is the Easy Social Sharing instruction page. We have tried our best to keep it as simple as possible. If you think it can be made even simpler let us know, we will be glad to make some adjustments. Let’s start! On the left side you can see the table of contents of this documentation. Jump to the section you want, or read it all through – your choice. Let’s move on!

Installation

Installing your plugin is pretty easy! After downloading you should have a easy-social-sharing.zip file. This is a compressed file containing all of the required files and images required for the plugin to function properly.

Upload plugin

  1. Go to Appearance > Plugins in the WordPress Dashboard
  2. Click on the Add New button
  3. Click on the Upload link
  4. Select the easy-social-sharing.zip file
  5. Click on Install Now button
  6. Click on Activate Plugin Link

General Options

This option helps you to add the general options available in this plugin. Some of them are listed below as with their respective effects:

Specific Location(s)

    1. This option enables you to add the social sharing icon either in the sidebar(floating bar on left or right of the screen) or Inline( Above or below the content). The options provided here will be like this one:
  1. Inline: It will be displayed in the post, page and also for the other custom post types screens
  2. Sidebar: It will be displayed in the left or in the right middle corner of the browser
  3. Popup: It will be displayed as a pop up in the screen of browser
  4. Fly In: It will be displayed after certain time frame, sliding up from the bottom of the screen

Custom Screen(s)

  1. Display on all screens: This option enables you to display the social sharing buttons on all of the post as well as pages
  2. Display on all screens, except for …: This option enables you to display the social sharing buttons on the specific post or pages except the choosen one from the Allow All Screens, Except For… box
  3. Display on specific screens: his options enables you to display the social sharing buttons in the choosen post as well as pages from the Allow Specific Screens textbox

Front Page Display

    This option allows you to display the social sharing buttons in the front page(home).

Mobile Behaviours

    This option enable you to disable the display of the social sharing buttons while browsing through the mobile devices

Reset WordPress Loop

    1. If you have not selected the permalink setting, then, checking the option available in the checkbox here, will reset the postmeta data to fetch the correct permalink.

Network Options

This option helps you to manage the social sharing buttons to be displayed in the front-end according to your site requirement. The options are

Social Network(s)

    Here, you can choose the required social sites/network for the sharing purpose of your site’s post as well as pages

  1. Select the preferred social network.
  2. Add description for the selected network.
  3. Set the minimum count.
    For eg: if you have setup the number as 5 here, then, the counting will not be there unless the total count reaches to 5 for the particular network.

Social Option(s)

    Here, you need to set credentials to access social network related functionality.

  1. Twitter Username
    When someone tweets your post or page, adding the username here will povide you the credit on tweet
  2. Facebook App ID.
  3. Facebook App Secret
    To get Facebook app id and secret, you can follow this link Get App ID
  4. API Supported Networks
    Only to provide support for API supported networks you can enable this option.

Layouts Options

This option helps you to change different style and color for different layout options.

Layout Options

  1. Custom Colors:To enable the custom colors for the social icons, you need to select the checkbox option of Enable Custom Colors. Now, after doing it, the default color of the social sharing box of the site will be overwritten.
  2. Background Color: Choose the background color for the social sharing icons for this plugin.
  3. Hover Background Color: Choose the background hover color for the social sharing icons for this plugin.

Note: For taking effect of the point 2 and 3, the first point, ie, Custom Colors need to be enabled.

Inline Layout

  1. Icon Shape:Choose the shape of the icons for the social sharing button from here. The options available here are Square and Rounded
  2. Choose Layout:Choose the different layout option for social sharing button from here. The options available here are Layout One, Layout Two, Rectangular Rounded, Rectangular, Rounded Edge(circular) and Text Only.
  3. Choose Location: This option enables you to display the social sharing icons in above or below as well as in both side of the content in the page or single post page.
  4. Enable networks label: This option helps you to display the social sites name along with the icons in the sharing buttons.
  5. Enable social share counts: This options enables you to display the total number of sharing counts of the particular post or page.
  6. Display total shares counter: This options helps users to view total shares performed in all social networks.
  7. Show All Networks: This options helps you to add the all of the social sites to be available or not for sharing.

Sidebar Layout

  1. Icon Shape:Choose the shape of the icons for the social sharing button from here. The options available here are Square and Rounded
  2. Layout Orientation: This option enables you to display the social sharing icons either in the left or in the right middle corner section of the browser.
  3. Enable social share counts: This options enables you to display the total number of sharing counts of the particular post or page.
  4. Display total shares counter: This options helps users to view total shares performed in all social networks.
  5. Show All Networks: This options helps you to add the all of the social sites to be available or not for sharing.
  6. Show on mobile screen: This option allows user to show/hide sidebar layout on mobile screen.

Popup Layout

  1. Title:Input the title for popup layout here.
  2. Message:Input the message here which will be displayed on popup.
  3. Layout Style: This option allows you to select different style for popup. There are Flat and Rounded Corners as a style options.
  4. Enable networks label: This option helps you to display the social sites name along with the icons in the sharing buttons.
  5. Enable social share counts: This options enables you to display the total number of sharing counts of the particular post or page.
  6. Display total shares counter: This options helps users to view total shares performed in all social networks.
  7. Show All Networks: This options helps you to add the all of the social sites to be available or not for sharing.
  8. Show on mobile screen: This option allows user to show/hide sidebar layout on mobile screen.
  9. Trigger Share: This option allows user to trigger popup layout at different event. Trigger after purchasing, Trigger after commenting and Trigger at the bottom of Post are the available options for trigger share.
  10. Enable Delay: Enable an option for time delay. Delay time can be set in belwo given option “Time Delay”.
  11. Time Delay (in seconds): Set the delay time in seconds which is the delay time before the social share appears on the screen.
  12. Enable Inactivity: This option allows how many seconds user should be inactive before the popup layout appears on the screen. You can set the time(seconds) after enabling this option.
  13. Enable Page Scroll: This option allows to define the percentage of the page to be scrolled before the social share appears on the screen. You can set the percentage number after enabling it.
  14. Enable Per Session: This option allows to define the length of time(in days) that a session lasts for.

Fly In Layout

  1. Title:Input the title for popup layout here.
  2. Message:Input the message here which will be displayed on popup.
  3. Icon Shape: This option allows you to select different style for social share icon layout. There are Square and Rounded as a style options.
  4. Choose Location: This option allows you to choose location to be displayed in the browser screens. There are Bottom Left and Bottom Right as an option.
  5. Enable networks label: This option helps you to display the social sites name along with the icons in the sharing buttons.
  6. Enable social share counts: This options enables you to display the total number of sharing counts of the particular post or page.
  7. Display total shares counter: This options helps users to view total shares performed in all social networks.
  8. Show All Networks: This options helps you to add the all of the social sites to be available or not for sharing.
  9. Show on mobile screen: This option allows user to show/hide sidebar layout on mobile screen.
  10. Trigger Share: This option allows user to trigger popup layout at different event. Trigger after purchasing, Trigger after commenting and Trigger at the bottom of Post are the available options for trigger share.
  11. Enable Delay: Enable an option for time delay. Delay time can be set in belwo given option “Time Delay”.
  12. Time Delay (in seconds): Set the delay time in seconds which is the delay time before the social share appears on the screen.
  13. Enable Inactivity: This option allows how many seconds user should be inactive before the popup layout appears on the screen. You can set the time(seconds) after enabling this option.
  14. Enable Page Scroll: This option allows to define the percentage of the page to be scrolled before the social share appears on the screen. You can set the percentage number after enabling it.
  15. Enable Per Session: This option allows to define the length of time(in days) that a session lasts for.

Analytics Option

This is the section where detail analytics of social sharing can be observed. Each and every layout (Inline, Sidebar, Popup, Fly In) of social sharing’s detail analytical report is generated here. You can have yearly, monthly and weekly analytical report of total social sharings.
Easy Social Sharing