Welcome To Highlight and Share
(a free WordPress plugin)
Easily Show Social Networks When Users Interact With Your Site’s Text
Highlight and Share is a free plugin on the WordPress Plugin Directory
The Goal of Highlight and Share
Provide an intuitive, lightweight, and highly flexible way for users to be shown social sharing options when interacting with your site’s text.
How Does Highlight and Share Work?
Text Selection
When users select text on your website, the user will be shown several social networking options.
Inline Highlighting
Split or mark up sections of text as a highlight. When users click on the highlight, social media options are shown.
Click to Share Block
Use the WordPress Block Editor and insert a Click to Share block.
Meet your readers at your content
Highlight and Share is designed to work out of the box the moment you install it.
Further customization can be done using the intuitive admin settings.
Available Social Networks
A Note From the Plugin Author: Ronald Huereca
A co-worker of mine was on Vogue.com and noticed that when she highlighted text, a social option popped up. She asked if I could do this as a WordPress plugin.
The code was minimized, so I did my best to reverse-engineer it and bake it into a plugin.
I came up with the name Highlight and Share, and luckily the WordPress Plugin Team allowed me to use this name on .org.
As of this writing, the plugin is installed on 2,000+ sites. Although it’s not the most popular plugin out there, the users love it.
Highlight and Share Features
Here are several useful features that make social sharing very easy.
Unobtrusive Highlighting
The sharing interface only shows when highlighting text and is out of the way so users can optionally use it.
Inline Highlighting
We have a Block Editor format option that makes it simple to add inline highlighting.
Click to Share Block
Create a highly customizable Click to Share block
Extremely Customizable
Eleven Built-in Themes
There are button themes for just about every need. You can heavily customize the social networks in the Highlight and Share Settings
Theme Customizer
The Social Network scan now be heavily customized using the theme editor
Shortlinks
Highlight and Share supports shortlinks. It is compatible with most shortlink service plugins.
Comprehensive Settings
The admin has been completely rebuild in React.
Advanced Emails
The emails now have their own dedicated modal and spam protection via Akismet and reCAPTCHA 3.
Better Typography Options
The Click to Share block allows for custom typography in the form of self-hosted Google fonts and Adobe Fonts.
Want to Learn More About Highlight and Share?
A Few Glowing Testimonials
Highlight and Share is extremely well rated. Here are just a few of the reviews.
Does everything I’d hoped, plus some!
And thanks to Ronald’s quick fix workaround, works with Elegant Themes Divi – perfectly! I love it.
Great addition to your site
Adds some convenient functionality that fits right in. If you miss some of what Medium provides on your WP site, this will add part of it.
Good experience with developer as well.
Me ha gustado!
Muy completo y muy interesante. Lo estoy incluyendo en varios proyectos. Lo recomiendo.
“Very complete and interesting. I have included this with various projects. I recommend it.”
Fantastic work and 1st class support
The best plugin with the best support ever. I use it with OceanWP and it work perfect for my needs. Ronald is one of the best! Thank you so much!