I’ll answer the sidebar question first: if you have shortcodes enabled for your widgets, you can use the [scriptless] shortcode in a widget area, but only on singular posts/pages. On archives/category pages, etc., the plugin will not be able to correctly get the URL/title/etc needed for the buttons, although they will show. So the answer there is yes, with certain limitations.
As far as I can tell, a “copy URL” button would require the use of JavaScript, so that’s not something I am likely to be adding to this plugin.
As for Whatsapp, if there is enough interest in adding a new network, I am happy to look into doing that, so I can certainly look into bringing a Whatsapp button to a future release. If you are okay with some code, I posted an example of how to add an SMS button–the same principles should work for any network.
Hope that helps get you started.
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yig
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Hi there Robin,
Thanks very much for your response. Your suggestion for the sidebar worked well for me, I just disabled the text widget from appearing on archive pages.
About whatsapp, I think i am not that familiar with coding yet but thanks for the resource. Whatsapp is the main mobile communication tool in some countries (like in Europe, Latin America) at the moment so I believe it could create a difference for mobile readers especially.
Thanks again for this awesome plugin,
Sure thing! I did some looking into WhatsApp and agree that it’s worth adding it as a button to the plugin. Look for that option in the next update–not sure yet of a release date as I’m trying to tidy up a different feature, but the WhatsApp button seems to be in and working well.
If you have a staging or test site where you feel like you can experiment, you can try the new button using the develop branch from Github. (I would not install this on a live site at this time.)
