Share Highlights, Images, and Headlines Instantly

Share text highlights, images, and headlines with an unobtrusive sharing menu that appears exactly when readers need it.

Share highlighted text
Share images and headlines
Share inline highlights
Share via a Click to Share block/shortcode

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dlx-has-text-selection — Highlight and Share Comes With Several Pre-built Themes to Make Customization Easy

With text selection, users can highlight text and see a variety of social networks and other options, such as email, Web Share, and copy.

Users highlight text and are shown selected social networks.

The networks look great across all screen sizes, including mobile.

You can customize which networks are shown, when they are displayed, and choose a theme to match your site’s design.

Advanced selectors can be configured to adapt to most page builders.

Image Sharing Allows for Pinterest and Web Share

Show shortcuts to Pinterest and Web Share when users hover over an included image. With Web Share enabled, users can easily save images to their native devices and, in some cases, across devices.

Choose to show the sharing icons on hover or have them always visible.

Customize the colors, location, and general appearance of the available networks.

Choose which post types to enable image sharing for, and set up exclusions.

Headline Sharing Shows a Small Anchor Next to Each Heading on a Post or Page

Headline Sharing works by enabling a small link icon next to each heading, allowing a user to copy a shortcut link to the headline or even share it on a social network.

Provide users with a useful shortcut, such as copying the link to the headline.

Show a non-obtrusive, SEO-friendly, and fully accessible anchor icon for all enabled headlines.

Select which heading levels you want to target, and which post types you’d like headline sharing enabled for.

Generate missing headline IDs, customize the social networks, and much more.

A Click to Share Block Enables Easy Sharing of Almost Any Content

Click to Share is a block or shortcode you can use to wrap content. When a user clicks on the container, your enabled social networks display for easy sharing. See a quick demo below.

Show all enabled networks when clicking on a Click to Share box.

An easy-to-use block and shortcode are included to make adding shareable content as easy as possible.

The Click to Share content looks great on all device sizes and works great on mobile.

Inline Highlighting Shows Social Networks Shortcuts on Click

Wrap important and shareable text with an inline highlight

Highlight important, shareable text for your readers to quickly share, copy, and email.

Break large amounts of text into shareable chunks (click on me for a demo).

Show the enabled social networks when the highlight is clicked, providing quick shortcuts for your users.

Customize the appearance of the highlights to match your site’s design, such as color and tooltips.

Enable tooltips for an interactive experience.

Here’s what people have to say about Highlight and Share

These reviews were pulled from WordPress.org.

Does everything I’d hoped, plus some! And thanks to Ronald’s quick fix workaround, works with Elegant Themes Divi – perfectly! I love it.

Holly Jahangiri (Valued User and Software Tester)

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.

@jtbayly from WordPress.org

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The plugin developer did a really good job.

@gauchoc from WordPress.org

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Really love this plugin (and some others from the creators).

The support is perfect, couldn’t be better.

@wpuser53 from WordPress.org

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this plugin free, or does it contain any upsells?

The plugin is free as in beer and contains no upsells. The source is freely available on GitHub (but accepts sponsorships) and can be forked and adapted to your site if needed.

JavaScript

GPL-2.0

Highlight and Share

6.0.1

A WordPress plugin for highlighting text and sharing it via Twitter or Facebook.

Last updated: March 10, 2026

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Do you have a demo?

Yes, this plugin has a free demo via InstaWP.

You can also try it out by highlighting some text in this section.

Here is an important highlight.

This is a shareable headline.

Which social networks are available?

X (formerly Twitter) (allows text sharing)
Facebook
Threads (allows text sharing)
WhatsApp (allows text sharing)
Mastodon (allows text sharing)
Bluesky (allows text sharing)
Reddit
Telegram (allows text sharing)
LinkedIn
Xing
Copy (allows text sharing)
Email (allows text sharing)
Pinterest (for image sharing only)
Web Share API (allows text sharing)

The main admin settings for Highlight and Share let you configure each social network. Each has its own section, with options to adjust its label, tooltip, and, for X (formerly Twitter), a default handle.

Please refer to our documentation for a list of available social networks and what they share. For more configuration information, please check out our guide on enabling social networks.

How customizable is Highlight and Share?

Extremely.

You’re able to:

Enable or disable your preferred social networks.
Reorder the social networks.
Choose from several built-in themes for the appearance, or choose Custom to change the colors and appearance per social network.
Use a comprehensive block or shortcode to lay out shareable text with many customization options built in.
Enable custom styles if you prefer to add your own styles for Highlight and Share.
Heavily customize the image sharing feature, including how Pinterest and Web Share are displayed.
Customize the headlines and which social networks are displayed.

Does the plugin work on mobile devices?

Yes, across most mobile devices we’ve tested. You can also enable the Web Share option for native mobile sharing.

What browsers has the plugin been tested in?

The latest versions of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, and IE9+. iOS and Android are also supported

Do you have a changelog?

Yes, you can visit the public changelog or view a condensed one below.

Version: 6.0.1

Tested Up To: 7.0

Requires WP: 6.5

Requires PHP: 7.2

6.0.1

Released 2026-03-09
✨ NewAlign headlines to the right. You can select inline positioning (link icon next to the last word) or absolute positioning (right of the headline).
✨ NewAuto-truncate headline anchors (off by default). This will prevent super long headline anchors.
✨ NewThe sidebar options now reflect their state, even if a sharing option is disbabled, the post sidebar options win.
🔧 FixedThe social network settings cogs could lose their state if clicking around too fast.
🔧 FixedInline highlighting CSS wasn’t specific enough, preventing overrides.
🔧 FixedTooltips for social networks were overlapping.
🔧 FixedImage sharing positioning (top right, bottom right) now respect the image’s dimensions.

6.0.0

Released 2026-03-06
✨ NewSharing tab reorganized, consolidating the sharing options into one tab, eliminating the Appearance and Block Editor tabs. Social Networks have been moved to a single panel, with advanced options tucked away for a cleaner appearance.
✨ NewAll tabs support a global save bar, making saving and discarding options much more intuitive.
✨ NewPost sidebar for per-post disabling of Highlight and Share, including sharing, images, and headlines.
New (Text Sharing): Added Post Type exclusions to selection sharing.
New (Image Sharing): Can enable on archive excerpts and featured images.
New (Stats): New stats system that dispatches events if stats service is found. This allows for layered opt-in to GA4, GTM, and synthetic events. No personal information or cookies are sent, so there’s no need to update privacy policies.
New (Stats): The plugin detects GA4, dispatching events if found.
New (Stats): Google Tag Manager has been consolidated with GA4 and synthetic event firing.
New (Stats): The plugin fires synthetic events per social network, allowing for listeners and third-party integrations.
New (Stats): Filters has_stats_enabled and has_stats_enhanced control behavior. Stats are enabled by default and just show social network and click type (selection, cta, highlight, headline). has_stats_enhanced can be set to true to send page url, title, and text selection to stats tracking service.
New (Sharing Block): Theme system with built-in themes (Light, Dark, Bold, Royal, Legacy) replacing presets.
New (Sharing Block): Removing third-party locally-hosted fonts in favor of third-party solutions, reducing the plugin bundle size by 75%.
New (Sharing Block): Block variations let you insert a pre-themed Click to Share block (Light, Dark, Bold, Royal) from the inserter.
New (Sharing Block): Theme overrides for color, typography, and dimensions in the block editor for the new themes.
New (Sharing Block): Quick shortcut to the parent block from child blocks for quicker access to block settings.
New (Sharing Block): Custom Fonts plugin support; Adobe fonts removed from plugin in favor of third-party plugins.
New (Sharing Block): Core/Group allowed inside share content so any block can be nested via Group.
New (Headline Sharing): Ability to enable headline sharing is now available. Show a link icon next to available headings and allow quick copying and sharing of headlines. This compliments content sharing and is compatible with TOC plugins.
New (Headline Sharing): Select up to three social networks to share to in addition to copying.
New (Headline Sharing): Customize per post type and per page how headlines are enabled.
Bug fix (Sharing Block): Text alignment on mobile (align right).
Bug fix (Image Sharing): Image sharing for Web Share would error out when sharing an image.
Bug fix (Image Sharing): Improved page builder support and added loop detection to prevent timeouts.
Bug fix (Image Sharing): Fixed hover and focus states, adding better reliability to image sharing display.
Bug fix (Email Sharing): Emails can be enabled with only the mailto option if spam protection isn’t available.

5.3.5

Released 2025-12-17
Bug fix: Responsive styles were not saving or setting correctly in the Click to Share block.
Bug fix: Fixed sync values when changing screen size in the block editor iframe.
Code improvement: Removed defaultProps from React components to clear up deprecation warnings.

5.3.2

Released 2025-12-16
Bug fix: Block.json was still set to version 2. This has been updated to version 3.
Bug fix: Some build scripts werne’t included. Apologies.

5.3.1

Released 2025-12-16
✨ NewClick to Share block is now at verison 3 of the block.json API.
Bug fix: Click to Share block would error out when switching responsive breakpoints in the block editor.

5.3.0

Released 2025-11-25
Security fix: Resolving Broken Access Control vulnerability in regards to email sending as reported by Patchstack.
Bug fix: email sending now requires either reCAPTCHA Enterprise or Turnstile enabled.

5.2.0

Released 2025-11-16
Security fix: Resolving XSS vulnerability in the plugin as reported by Patchstack.

5.1.1

Released 2025-07-24
Fixing translations loading too soon error.
Resolving PHP warnings when enabled for comments.

5.1.0

Released 2025-04-29
Added reCAPTCHA Enterprise to the emails tab to support the phasing out of reCAPTCHA 3.
Added Cloudflare Turnstile to the emails tab for an alternate spam solution.
New theme: Orbs.