Social Share

:discourse2: Summary Social Share allows you to easily add extra social providers to the share button on posts..
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:hammer_and_wrench: Repository Link https://github.com/discourse/discourse-social-share
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Install this theme component

Features

:information_source: This component only works on public sites.
Share icons will be automatically disabled on private sites when site setting login required is active.


:exclamation: Manipulating settings related to crawler user agents could potentially interfere with the proper functioning of the component.

Settings:

Name Descriptions
social share links Comma delimited in this order: name, icon, title, link.
svg icons List of FontAwesome 5 icons used in this theme component. Use prefix fa- for solid icons, far- for regular icons and fab- for brand icons.

Some providers & Links:

English Social Media

Provider Sharing URL
Tumblr https://www.tumblr.com/widgets/share/tool?canonicalUrl=
Pinterest https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=
Reddit https://www.reddit.com/submit?url=
Pocket https://getpocket.com/edit?url=
Evernote https://www.evernote.com/clip.action?url=
HackerNews https://news.ycombinator.com/submitlink?u=
Digg https://digg.com/submit?url=
Flipboard https://share.flipboard.com/bookmarklet/popout?v=2&title=
Instapaper https://www.instapaper.com/edit?url=
Diaspora https://share.diasporafoundation.org/?title={title}&url=
Viber viber://forward?text=
Mastodon https://mastodonshare.com/?url=
Threads https://www.threads.net/share?url=
Bluesky https://bsky.app/intent/compose?text=
Mix.com https://mix.com/add?url=
MeWe https://mewe.com/share?link=

International (non-english) Social Media

Provider Sharing URL
QZone (China) http://sns.qzone.qq.com/cgi-bin/qzshare/cgi_qzshare_onekey?url=
Weibo (China) http://service.weibo.com/share/share.php?url=
Douban (China) https://www.douban.com/recommend/?url=
RenRen (China) http://widget.renren.com/dialog/share?resourceUrl=
VK (Russia) https://vk.com/share.php?url=
OK.ru (Russia) https://connect.ok.ru/dk?st.cmd=WidgetSharePreview&st.shareUrl=
Xing (Germany) https://www.xing.com/app/user?op=share&url=
SurfingBird (Russia) http://surfingbird.ru/share?url=

Phone/Audio-Based Social Media

Provider Sharing URL
SMS sms:{phone_number}?body=
Telegram https://telegram.me/share/url?url=
Line https://lineit.line.me/share/ui?url=
Skype https://web.skype.com/share?url=
WhatsApp https://wa.me/?text=
WhatsApp Web https://web.whatsapp.com/send?text= (read also here)

This guide is a wiki, if you have other providers, maybe specific for your country, just add them to the list.

You will find the share URL in the documentation for the developers.


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Last edited by @dax 2025-05-09T19:43:20Z

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