Widgets: Share (Social)

Widget Categories: Social

Making it easy for visitors to share your site is important for boosting organic traffic and conversion rates. The Share widget makes this easy, with a smooth flow, attractive interface, and an additional share capability.

The Share widget enables site visitors to share the site via Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, WhatsApp and email.

Note

This widget enables visitors to share your site through their own social accounts. It is not connected to the social accounts associated with the site. For information about connecting a site to your social accounts, see Widgets: Social Icons.

For information on adding widgets, see Add Widgets.

Tip

Fore more information on widgets and the widgets library, see Widgets: Library and Overview.

Content Editor

To access the content editor, right click the widget and select Edit Content.

Share setup options

  • To add a Title for the widget, click the unhide icon (eye-icon-new-editor.png) and type a title into the provided field.

  • Turn off any of the unnecessary options by clicking the toggle for it.

Design Editor

To access the design editor, right-click the element, and click Edit Design.

Select the layout and customize the icon colors, sizes and background. Choose hover effects for desktop and customize the title font and style.

For information about design options that are not specific to this widget (for example, layout, style, or spacing), see Widget Design.

FAQs

I set up social share icons, but the image does not display on social networks when pasting the URL of my site.

The social network has already scraped information from the site URL and is caching the information for a certain amount of time. This will update eventually, but to work around the issue, ensure your social network images are updated correctly on your site.

Note

External social network cache cannot be controlled by the site. You will need to either request a cache clearing from the social network or wait for it to clear automatically.

To review and/or change social icons:

  1. In the side panel of the editor, click Settings, and then click Site Icons.

  2. Next to Social Networks Image (Open Graph), click +Image.

  3. Alternatively, you can change the social network images by page:

    1. In the left panel, click Pages, and then click the settings (three_dots_horiz_icon.png) icon next to the page name.

    2. Click SEO, and then next to Social Networks Image (Open Graph), click +Image.

It may take some time for the cache to update with the new information.

To request a social's cache is cleared, visit their debugger and request new information is fetched: