Castlegate IT WP Socialize

Socialize generates sharing links for common social networks and provides icons and brand colours. It currently supports the following sites and protocols:

Network	Key
Email	email
Bluesky	bluesky
Facebook	facebook
LinkedIn	linkedin
Pinterest	pinterest
Pocket	pocket
Reddit	reddit
Twitter	twitter
WhatsApp	whatsapp
X	x

Generating links

Sharing links require a title and URL. They may also include an excerpt, where supported by the network. There are three ways of specifying the link to be shared using the Socialize class:

use Castlegate\Socialize\Socialize;

// Set the title, URL, and excerpt manually
$socialize = new Socialize();
$socialize->title = 'Example Title';
$socialize->url = 'https://www.example.com/';
$socialize->excerpt = 'Example excerpt ...';

// Set the title, URL, and excerpt based on a post ID
$socialize = new Socialize(post_id: 123);

// Set the title, URL, and excerpt based on the current post ID
$socialize = new Socialize(auto: true);

You can then specify the social networks that should appear in the output and generate the links, using the keys in the table above:

$socialize->networks = [
    'facebook',
    'linkedin',
    'twitter',
];

// Return an array of links without icons
$links = $socialize->links();

// Return an array of links with icons
$links = $socialize->links(icons: true);

Each link will be an array, with name, url, color, and (optionally) icon keys.

Utilities

You can use the Socialize class's static methods as utilities, e.g. to get the icon of a social network for use elsewhere in a theme.

$key = 'facebook';

Socialize::getNetworkName($key);     // "Facebook"
Socialize::getNetworkColor($key);    // "#1877f2"
Socialize::getNetworkIconPath($key); // (absolute path to icon file)
Socialize::getNetworkIconUrl($key);  // (icon URL)
Socialize::getNetworkIconSvg($key);  // (icon SVG safe to embed in HTML)

License

Released under the MIT License. See LICENSE for details.