Social Share Links with Custom Icons

Question

I'm looking for any solid current information on creating custom share icons for the following.

• Facebook
• Twitter
• Google +
• LinkedIn
• Pinterest

All the documentation I keep getting to seems to be about using THEIR social like / share buttons - which most of the time I think are not very appealing. Things like socialite.js help to deal with some of the other issues that arrise when using the "native" like / share buttons (sorry not sure what else to call them), but they're not very pretty to be honest.

Any reference material / tutorials or guidance would be awesome.

Cheers.

Solution 1

Social link URL’s

Twitter

https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=[TEXT]

Facebook

http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=[URL]&title=[TITLE]

StumbleUpon

http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=[URL]&title=[TITLE]

Delicious

http://del.icio.us/post?url=[URL]&title=[TITLE]]&notes=[DESCRIPTION]

Linkedin

http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=[URL]&title=[TITLE]&source=[SOURCE/DOMAIN]

Technorati

http://technorati.com/faves?add=[URL]&title=[TITLE]

Tumblr

http://www.tumblr.com/share?v=3&u=[URL]&t=[TITLE]

Reddit

http://www.reddit.com/submit?url=[URL]&title=[TITLE]

Google Bookmarks

http://www.google.com/bookmarks/mark?op=edit&bkmk=[URL]&title=[title]&annotation=[DESCRIPTION]

Evernote

http://www.evernote.com/clip.action?url=[URL]&title=[TITLE]

Solution 2

Just a quick update on these links, here's a link for Google+

https://plus.google.com/share?url=[URL]

Now, if you want those links to open in a new window, just add this javascript code after the href's:

onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"

This javascript code works with Twitter, Google+ and Facebook (maybe some other, but I haven't tested any other social networks).

Example for WordPress:

<a href="https://plus.google.com/share?url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;">Here you can add text, image, whatever.</a>

Solution 3

The solution suggested by Grzegorz is deprecated and it's not really the best way to do it. For Facebook, you just need to load the JS SDK ( https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/javascript/ ) and call the UI feed method on click on your custom button. More details on the UI method: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/javascript/FB.ui/

For Twitter: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/tweet-button#build-your-own

You will have other options for LinkedIn, Google+, etc. but I don't know them from the top of my head and not sure if of all them offer alternatives.

Keep searching, you probably just didn't dig deep enough, it took me 2 minutes to find the link for Twitter :)

Solution 4

Your required social media custom share links are provided below.

Facebook

http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=[EncodedURL]

Twitter

http://twitter.com/share?text=[TITLE]&url=[URL]

Google +

https://plus.google.com/share?url=[EncodedURL]

LinkedIn

http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=[EncodedURL]

Pinterest

http://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=[EncodedURL]&media={[MEDIA]}&description=[TITLE]

You can find some other social media custom URL links and implementation guide from here - How to Create Custom Social Share Links

Solution 5

For Facebook sharing you can simply add this link to any object:

<a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=<url to share>
&t=<title of content>">link or image</a>

For the rest: Sorry, but I cannot help you.

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Comments

[bigmadwolf]

thanks, can you point me in the direction of any documentation regarding this ?

[bigmadwolf]

nice, will keep looking, didn't come across that twitter link myself but part of why I'm posting this question is for exactly the kind of info you mentioned regarding the depreciated link - collective wisdom FTW.

[Andrew Barber]

That's not what was being asked for; OP was asking for information on creating "custom share icons".

[bigmadwolf]

@Andrew, while you're kind of correct, these links are the direct links one would use or would have used with custom icons, THOUGH, as has been discussed below, at least the facebook link shown above is already depreciated, and Google Buzz? do they even still run Google Buzz ? lol.

[Awlad Liton]

Hi @Baskaran , please send me google plus services url please.

[Baskaran]

@AwladLiton code<a href="plus.google.com/share?url={URL}" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href, '', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=6‌​00,width=600');retur‌​n false;"><img src="gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-64.png" alt="Share on Google+"/></a>code

[Baskaran]

@AwladLiton For reference developers.google.com/+/web/share

[Anidhya Ahuja]

@Baskaran thank you for all the links together. however can you pls tell me how to open them up in a popup window..should i create my own using javascript?

[lharby]

I believe this code is cut and paste from the web, and also what is the solution in terms of technology (php, javascript etc).

[bigmadwolf]

these are just straight basic anchor tag links which si what I was after, I originally had some concerns as facebooks sharer.php was marked as deprecated, but testing this recently I have found that it still works just fine.

[bigmadwolf]

originally down voted this as that link is marked for deprecation but some time on now it still works just fine.

[Dex]

Be sure the url parameters are fully escaped. Tumblr is the only one I've come across so far that won't work otherwise.

[Igor Jerosimić]

Website with up to date share links for Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn and Pinterest: sharelinkgenerator.com

[Meg]

Here's a website with how to integrate these urls with your theme, in case you're using WordPress: atlchris.com/1665/…

[Suneel Kumar]

Really nice, it helped me.

[Yonn Trimoreau]

Thank you very much.. Really appreciated <3

[Marcio]

@Baskaran Any idea how to make work with a URL that contains # hashtag? Like domain.com/#hero ??

[HoldOffHunger]

2020, APRIL UPDATE: This no longer works, try it out yourself: linkedin.com/… If you want well-maintained URL's, try out a github project.