Social Share Links with Custom Icons [closed]

Answer 1

Twitter link format http://twitter.com/home?status=[TITLE]+[URL] is deprecated and will no longer work for the Twitter iOS app.

Use the following format instead

https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=[TITLE]+[URL]

Source: https://dev.twitter.com/web/tweet-button

Answer 2

Social Share URLs ~ On Github!

A github repo that is regularly updated and retested, with what looks like about ~50 or 60 services listed.

https://github.com/bradvin/social-share-urls

This is much better than the accepted answer. NewsVine, Delicious, Slashdot, Ping.fm, etc., are all non-existent services today. Plus, some important ones are missing, Skype, etc..

Answer 3

Just a quick update on these links, here's a link for Google+

https://plus.google.com/share?url=[URL]

Now, if you want those links to open in a new window, just add this javascript code after the href's:

onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"

This javascript code works with Twitter, Google+ and Facebook (maybe some other, but I haven't tested any other social networks).

Example for WordPress:

<a href="https://plus.google.com/share?url=<?php the_permalink(); ?>" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;">Here you can add text, image, whatever.</a>

Answer 4

The solution suggested by Grzegorz is deprecated and it's not really the best way to do it. For Facebook, you just need to load the JS SDK ( https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/javascript/ ) and call the UI feed method on click on your custom button. More details on the UI method: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/javascript/FB.ui/

For Twitter: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/tweet-button#build-your-own

You will have other options for LinkedIn, Google+, etc. but I don't know them from the top of my head and not sure if of all them offer alternatives.

Keep searching, you probably just didn't dig deep enough, it took me 2 minutes to find the link for Twitter :)