wrav/simplesharing

Simple Sharing generates social media share links within CP entry pages, allowing you to quickly & easily share entries.

3.0.0 2026-01-14 09:38 UTC

Requires

• php: ^8.2
• craftcms/cms: ^5.0.0
• vlucas/phpdotenv: ^5.6

Requires (Dev)

• codeception/module-asserts: ^3.0
• codeception/module-phpbrowser: ^3.0
• codeception/module-yii2: ^1.1
• phpunit/phpunit: ^11.4

MIT

• reganlawton

• cms
• twitter
• facebook
• social
• instagram
• social media
• sharing
• Craft
• craftcms
• craft-plugin
• simplesharing

README

Simple Sharing is a CraftCMS plugin that generates social media share links within the Craft CP page, allowing you to quickly and easily share entries.

Requirements

Version	Craft CMS	PHP
^3.0.0	^5.0.0	^8.2
^2.0.0	^4.0.0	^8.0.2
^1.0.0	^3.0.0	^7.2.5

If you are looking for CraftCMS 4.x support, use Version 2.x

If you are looking for CraftCMS 3.x support, use Version 1.0.8

Installing

To install the plugin, follow these instructions.

1. Open your terminal and go to your Craft project:

    cd /path/to/project
   

2. Then tell Composer to load the plugin:

    composer require wrav/simplesharing
   

3. In the Control Panel, go to Settings → Plugins and click the “Install” button for SimpleSharing.

Usage

Your able to generate share links on the fly in a template as followed.

{{ craft.simpleSharing.link(url, 'facebook') }}
{{ craft.simpleSharing.link(url, 'twitter') }}
{{ craft.simpleSharing.link(url, 'linkedin') }}
{{ craft.simpleSharing.link(url, 'mix') }}
{{ craft.simpleSharing.link(url, 'tumblr') }}
{{ craft.simpleSharing.link(url, 'reddit') }}

Testing

The plugin includes a comprehensive test suite using Codeception with unit, integration, and functional tests.

Running Tests

Tests require Docker with PostgreSQL:

# Setup test environment
cp tests/.env.example tests/.env

# Start Docker containers
docker compose up -d

# Access app container
docker exec -it app sh

# Run all tests
vendor/bin/codecept run

# Run specific suites
vendor/bin/codecept run unit
vendor/bin/codecept run integration
vendor/bin/codecept run functional

# Run with coverage report
vendor/bin/codecept run --coverage

Test Coverage

• Unit Tests: URL generation, input validation, platform support
• Integration Tests: Plugin installation, settings rendering, Craft integration
• Functional Tests: Template variable availability

Credits

Original built while at working at HutSix I've since been granted permission to continue development here.

Change Log

Changes can be viewed here

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Support

Get in touch via email or by creating a Github issue