Social Sharing

The Sitegurus social sharing is a light wrapper around an open source JavaScript Plugin called Vanilla Sharing. It was added in order to save time and easily allow the functions to be implemented using data-attributes.

Normally included in

Layouts where sharing functionality is needed.

We use context.exports to make sure the script is only loaded once on the page:

Script Code

{% if context.exports.module_86.sitegurus_social_share_api != true %}
  <script async id="sitegurus_social_share_api" src="{{'modules/module_86/js/sitegurus_social_share_api.js' | asset_url}}" charset="utf-8"></script>
  {% assign sitegurus_social_share_api = true %}
  {% export sitegurus_social_share_api, namespace: "module_86" %}
{% endif %}

Usage

We use vanilla-sharing documentation and power it using data-attributes, so this documentation is vital for understanding usage.

Add data-s-g-social-feature to a <button> element to make it a sharing button. The value of the attribute should be the name of one of the functions listed in the vanilla-sharing documentation, or you can also use data-s-g-social-feature="clipboard" which creates a button for copying the URL to the clipboard.

Add data-s-g-option-<option-name>="<option-value>" to the same element to add options from the vanilla-sharing documentation. Any array type options like data-s-g-option-hashtags="hashtag,hashtag2,hashtag3" should be given a comma-seperated string value and we'll convert these to an array for you.

The data-s-g-option-url is normally a required option and if you leave it blank, we'll default to the current page URL!

Full Twitter example:

<button data-s-g-social-feature="tw" data-s-g-option-url="https://sitegurus.io" data-s-g-option-hashtags="test,testing,ilovetesting">Tweet about Sitegurus!</button>