The Social Sharing Extension enables the feature that allows your website visitors to share your website posts across different social networks.
Activating the Social Sharing Extension #
You can access the Social Sharing Extension via WordPress Dashboard > Appearance > Rishi Theme > Extensions. Then click the Activate button to get the Social Sharing extension to work.
Configuring Social Sharing Settings #
You can configure the Social Sharing Settings for your website via Appearance > Customize > Posts / Pages > Single Post / Social Sharing.
General Setting #
The following are the different settings provided under the General Settings tab:
Title: Enabling this option will allow you to enter and display the title for the Social sharing box.
Open Graph Meta Tags: Disable this option if you’re using Jetpack, Yoast or other plugins to maintain Open Graph Meta Tags.
Sticky Share: Enable this if option you want to display the Social sharing box throughout the post read.
Note – Enabling the Sticky Share option will allow you to locate the Social Sharing box to the left or right side of the post and select the offset values whereas disabling this option will allow you to locate the Social Sharing box to the top or bottom of the post and select the alignment for it.
Shape: You can transform the icons to either circular or square shape.
Social Networks: Enable the Social networks where you want to allow your posts to be shared.
Set links to nofollow: Enable this option to add “nofollow” attribute to the shared post links.
Icon Size: You can adjust the icon size here.
Icon Spacing: Set the value for top, right, bottom and left spacing for each icon.
Top Spacing: You can set the top margin value for the Social Sharing box here.
Visibility: Select the device where you want to make the Social Sharing icons visible.
Design Setting #
Here you can choose to display either the brand color for each social sharing icon or you can set your own preferred custom color to all the social sharing icons.