ochSocials (content plugin)

Manually add Social sharing buttons in your blog / article

You can place the buttons automatically on the top or bottom (or both) positions of the selected article categories, but the real power lies in the manual placement of the Social sharing buttons:

1. open the blog / article (or even HTML module!) that you want to place the Social sharing buttons in
2. insert:
   1. {ochsocials} into the location where you want to automagically display the Social sharing buttons, or
   2. {ochsocials url="https://your custom url", title="your custom text", buttonorder="F,X"} into the location where you want to automagically display the Social sharing buttons
3. click [Save & Close]
4. when surfing to your article / blog on the frontend, the Social sharing buttons should automagically show up: Cool :)

All buttons on device DesktopMobile listed below:

Overview of tag parameters

You can set or override the configured plugin settings with the following parameters. Want to remove a configured setting? Just add the parameter with empty string (like: via=""):

• url="htps://your custom url"
• title="your custom title"
• buttonorder="your buttons in the order you like"
• via="X (twitter) via accountname"
• call2action="X (twitter) added text"
• hashtags="X (twitter) added hashtags"
• quote="your Facebook quote text"
• image="your Pinterest image"
• author="@mastodon author name"
• mashtags="#mastodon hashtags"

Support for Custom Article Fields

You can set or override the configured plugin settings with the following Custom Article Fields, you need to first create these Custom Article Fields and then map them to ochJSsocials in the plugins Integration tab:

• url (field type url)
• title (field type: text)
• buttonorder (field type text)

Tips & Tricks

• ochSocials replaces both jssocials tag and ochsocials tag
• Did you know that the Pinterest button only shows when you have an (intro) image in your blog / article?
• Did you know that in order for the plugin to work on a 'Custom HTML' module, you need to configure this module to 'Prepare content = yes' in the options tab?

Important: when using a Custom module to display the buttons and you display that module on multiple pages: remember to disable caching of the module in the modules advanced settings!

• Do you prefer round buttons? > in back-end tab [ochSocial Buttons] disable 'Responsive Buttons', 'Show Button Labels' and 'Show Share Count' and in tab [ochSocials Theme] add the following custom css rule
  • .ochsocials-share-link { border-radius: 50%; }
  • Make sure you set in [ochSocials Buttons] tab:
    • Responsive buttons = No
    • Show button labels = No
    • Show share count = No
• Display the Social Sharing buttons in Kunena (6.x)? read here how to do that: Social Sharing buttons in Kunena (jssocials)
• When you entered the ochsocials tag in a Custom HTML module and it doesn't 'convert' into buttons: configure you custom HTML module with 'Prepare Content'=yes (Options tab)

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