Description
Sharezel adds a clean, animated share menu to your posts and pages so readers can share your content on Facebook, WhatsApp, X (Twitter), Telegram, Messenger, LinkedIn, Pinterest, email, or copy the link — all with a single click.
Key features:
- Three display styles: floating popup button, floating bar, or inline (below content)
- 9 built-in platforms, individually toggled on or off
- Choose which post types the menu appears on
- Circle, rounded, or square icon shapes
- Custom accent color with the native WordPress color picker
- Optional text labels next to icons
[sharezel_share_menu]shortcode for manual placement anywhere- 100% inline SVG icons — no icon fonts, no external image requests
- No analytics, no visitor tracking, no data sent anywhere by the plugin itself
- Translation-ready
- Clean uninstall — removes its single settings option, nothing left behind
Privacy note: This plugin does not collect, store, or transmit any visitor data itself. When a reader clicks a share icon, their browser opens that platform’s own official share dialog directly — see “External services” below for exactly what that involves.
External services
This plugin does not run any background requests, analytics, or tracking of its own. However, several of the share buttons are simple links that open each platform’s own public share dialog directly in the visitor’s browser when they are clicked. No data is sent by the plugin or its author — the visitor’s browser communicates directly with the platform they chose to share to, the same as clicking a normal link to that site. Only the current page’s URL and title are included in that link, and only when the visitor deliberately clicks the corresponding icon.
- Facebook — opens Facebook’s share dialog. Used when a visitor clicks the Facebook icon. Terms, Privacy Policy
- WhatsApp (Meta) — opens WhatsApp’s click-to-chat page. Used when a visitor clicks the WhatsApp icon. Terms, Privacy Policy
- X (Twitter) — opens X’s tweet-composer page. Used when a visitor clicks the X icon. Terms, Privacy Policy
- Telegram — opens Telegram’s share page. Used when a visitor clicks the Telegram icon. Terms, Privacy Policy
- Messenger (Meta) — opens Messenger’s send dialog. Used when a visitor clicks the Messenger icon. Terms, Privacy Policy
- LinkedIn — opens LinkedIn’s share dialog. Used when a visitor clicks the LinkedIn icon. Terms, Privacy Policy
- Pinterest — opens Pinterest’s pin-creation dialog. Used when a visitor clicks the Pinterest icon. Terms, Privacy Policy
The Email icon only opens the visitor’s own local email client via a standard mailto: link — no external service is involved. The Copy Link button only uses the browser’s built-in clipboard API — no external service is involved either.
Installation
A) Install from within WordPress (recommended)
- In your WordPress dashboard, go to Plugins > Add New Plugin.
- Search for “Sharezel”.
- Click Install Now, then Activate.
- Go to Settings > Sharezel to choose your platforms, style, and colors.
B) Upload the ZIP manually
- Download the plugin ZIP file.
- In your dashboard, go to Plugins > Add New Plugin > Upload Plugin.
- Choose the ZIP file and click Install Now.
- Click Activate Plugin.
- Go to Settings > Sharezel to configure it.
C) Upload via FTP/SFTP
- Unzip the plugin package on your computer.
- Upload the resulting
sharezel-social-share-buttonsfolder to/wp-content/plugins/on your server. - In your dashboard, go to Plugins, find “Sharezel – Social Share Buttons”, and click Activate.
- Go to Settings > Sharezel to configure it.
After activation
The plugin works immediately with sensible defaults (a floating popup button near the top-right of the screen, showing 9 platforms) — you don’t have to configure anything to start sharing. Visit Settings > Sharezel any time to adjust:
- Show on — which public post types display the menu (Posts, Pages, or any custom post type).
- Platforms — tick the networks you want; untick any you don’t. Order follows the list top-to-bottom.
- Menu style — Floating popup button, Floating bar, or Inline (below the content).
- Position — Left/Right for floating styles, Top/Bottom for the bar style.
- Icon shape — Circle, rounded square, or square.
- Toggle button color — pick any accent color with the built-in WordPress color picker.
- Show text labels — adds the platform name next to each icon (floating bar always shows icons only, by design).
- Vertical offset (px) — fine-tune the distance from the top of the screen for floating styles.
Click Save Changes and the menu updates on your site immediately — no cache to clear beyond your usual page cache, if you use one.
You can also drop the menu manually into any post, page, or widget using the shortcode [sharezel_share_menu], regardless of the global style setting (it always renders inline where you place it).
FAQ
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Does this plugin track visitors or send data anywhere?
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The plugin itself does not run analytics or tracking. Share icons are plain links to each platform’s own official share dialog — see the “External services” section above for exactly what that involves and links to each platform’s terms and privacy policy.
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Yes — use the
[sharezel_share_menu]shortcode anywhere in your content, widgets, or template files (withdo_shortcode()). -
Yes, under Settings > Sharezel > “Show on” you can enable it per public post type (posts, pages, or any custom post type).
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Will it slow down my site?
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No. CSS and JS are only enqueued on pages where the menu actually renders, and everything is dependency-free vanilla JS.
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Contributors & Developers
“Sharezel – Social Share Buttons” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Changelog
1.0.0
- Initial release.