Activity Link Preview For BuddyPress vs Professional Social Sharing Buttons, Icons & Related Posts – Shareaholic

Activity Link Preview For BuddyPress turns a plain URL into a rich card. When a member pastes a link into the activity composer or a comment, the plugin reads the page, pulls a title, description and image, and shows a preview card before they post. Saved previews render server-side, so they still display when JavaScript is off. It needs BuddyPress or BuddyBoss Platform active. There is no settings page: previews work as soon as you activate the plugin, and developers can change behaviour through filters. What you get Rich previews as members type * Detects URLs as they are typed or pasted into the activity form. * Shows title, description and a featured image in a card the member can review before posting. * Multiple image selection: when a page offers several images, prev and next buttons let the member pick one, with an “Image X of Y” counter. * The preview clears itself when the URL is removed from the composer, and blocked or invalid URLs show an inline error instead of failing quietly. Internal member and group cards, with no HTTP request * Sharing a link to a member profile on your own site (/members/username/) builds a card from your database: display name, the XProfile About text, and the member’s avatar. * Sharing a link to a group (/groups/group-slug/) builds a card with the group name, description and group avatar. * Because this reads locally, there is no self-request and no external fetch, which keeps busy sites fast. Comments and embeds * Link previews work in activity comments and replies, not just top-level posts. * Native embeds for Twitter/X and Facebook. * Inline video and rich embeds via WordPress oEmbed (YouTube, Vimeo and other providers WordPress supports). * Short URLs (bit.ly, tinyurl and similar) are resolved to the real destination before the preview is built. Fast and safe by default * Per-URL caching, plus 15-minute negative caching so a slow or unreachable link is not retried on every render. * Comment rendering never fetches remote URLs, so a dead link cannot delay a page load. * SSRF protection blocks localhost, private and reserved IP ranges, and re-validates redirect targets. * Nonce verification, logged-in-only parsing, and sanitized and escaped output. Works alongside your platform * On BuddyBoss Platform with its own link preview enabled, this plugin stands down so you never get two cards on one post. * On Youzify with its wall URL preview enabled, it does the same. * Preview data is included in the BuddyPress REST API activity response. Developer friendly * bp_activity_link_preview_load_assets – control which pages load the CSS, JS and social SDKs. * bp_activity_parse_url_preview – filter the preview data returned by the parse endpoint. * bp_activity_link_parse_url – filter the parsed result before it is returned. * bp_activity_link_parse_url_shorten_url_provider – add or remove short-URL providers to resolve. * bp_oembed_discover_support – opt in to oEmbed discovery for unknown providers. * bp_activity_link_preview_enable_comments – turn preview handling in activity comments on or off. Perfect For BuddyPress and BuddyBoss communities where members share articles, videos and news Groups that use the activity stream as a reading or link-sharing feed Communities that link internally to member profiles and groups Any activity stream that currently shows bare, unclickable-looking URLs Premium Support Our support team can help with setup, theme compatibility and troubleshooting. Reach us through the links below. Documentation Documentation and Support – Setup walkthrough and usage guides for every Wbcom plugin Translations English (default) Ready for translation in your language with the included POT file RTL language support included Links Plugin Homepage Documentation Support Request Features Compatibility WordPress 6.5 and higher PHP 8.0 and higher BuddyPress 6.0+ or BuddyBoss Platform (required – the plugin deactivates itself if neither is active) Tested with popular themes including BuddyX, Reign and Youzify What’s New in 1.7.4 A performance and security pass. Plugin assets and the Twitter and Facebook SDKs now load only in activity contexts instead of on every page. Failed link lookups are cached for 15 minutes and comment rendering never fetches remote URLs, so slow links no longer hold up a page. Blocked or invalid URLs now report the problem in the composer, scraped titles and descriptions are sanitized before saving, and short-URL resolution re-validates its redirect target against the SSRF guard. Third-Party Services This plugin renders native Twitter/X and Facebook embeds. Those embeds can only be rendered by each network’s own script, so the plugin loads that script directly from the network: Twitter/X widgets.js, loaded from platform.twitter.com. Terms of service: https://twitter.com/en/tos – Privacy policy: https://twitter.com/en/privacy Facebook SDK, loaded from connect.facebook.net. Terms of service: https://www.facebook.com/terms.php – Privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy/ These scripts load only on BuddyPress activity screens (the activity directory, member activity and group screens), never site-wide. On those screens they load whether or not a Twitter or Facebook link is actually present, so the visitor’s browser contacts Twitter and Facebook on every activity page view. Those services can therefore see the visitor’s IP address, user agent and referring page, and may set their own cookies. If your site needs to avoid that (for example to satisfy a consent requirement), use the bp_activity_link_preview_load_assets filter to stop the assets loading: add_filter( 'bp_activity_link_preview_load_assets', '__return_false' ); No data is sent to Wbcom Designs, and the plugin itself collects nothing. More Free Tools from Wbcom Designs Rich link previews make your activity stream worth reading, but a stream is only one part of a community. These other free tools from Wbcom Designs fill in the rest of the space your members spend time in, from the theme and social network itself to forums, media, events, gamification, directories, jobs, and courses. BuddyX – A free, fast community theme for BuddyPress, BuddyBoss and PeepSo with a modern layout and dark mode. BuddyNext – Stand up a complete WordPress community with activity streams, member spaces, profiles, direct messaging, and built-in moderation. Jetonomy – Add forums, question-and-answer boards, and idea spaces that stay tidy through trust-based auto-moderation even past 100,000 topics. Mediaverse – Let members build photo and video albums, react, follow each other, and message privately while AI moderation keeps things clean. Eventonomy – Run community events with RSVPs, calendars, and front-end submissions. WB Gamification – Reward members with points, badges, and leaderboards to keep engagement high. Listora – Publish searchable directories across ten listing types with reviews, maps, and member-submitted entries from the front end. WP Career Board – Add a job board with front-end listings, applications, and employer profiles. Learnomy – Build and sell online courses, auto-grade quizzes, collect payments, and award certificates when learners finish.

Shareaholic is the world’s leading suite of Audience Growth & Engagement tools. It allows you to add Award-Winning Social Share Buttons, Related Posts, Content Analytics, Ad Monetization, and more to your website. This plugin makes it easy for any website — big or small — to engage and grow their traffic, market their content, gain insight, and monetize their audience. And it all lives in one simple dashboard. We do all this in a lightweight & lightening fast package by using advanced code optimization techniques such a selective and lazy loading. The plugin loads just the functionality that you have selected and when necessary. Also, because all the tools are integrated, you’ll have a set of tools on your website that are designed to work perfectly together with no conflicts, headaches or slow downs. In fact, Shareaholic is recognized by WP Engine as an “Essential Speed Friendly Social Media & SEO Toolkit”. Kinsta upon testing determined that the plugin doesn’t add much load time overall to a WordPress site. A mere 14 milliseconds. That is less than 1/20th of a blink of an eye! Support One on one email support is available. Visit our Support Center or reach out to our team directly. Rest easy knowing real people are ready to help you. Everyone on our Customer Care team is an experienced Shareaholic user and you can even upgrade to pro for access to a dedicated account manager. To learn about the latest Product Updates, please visit our blog. Social Media Share Buttons Make it easy for your visitors to share social content with their friends with Shareaholic’s award-winning Social Media Share Buttons. This is the ultimate set of Social Tools for your website. Share Buttons demo Official Share Counters and Share Buttons for Facebook, Pinterest, and more Official integration with Google Analytics Full support for: WhatsApp, Facebook share sharing, Twitter sharing, Pinterest sharing, Instagram sharing, Reddit sharing, LinkedIn sharing, Gmail sharing, Delicious sharing, OneNote sharing, Evernote sharing, Stumbleupon sharing, Digg sharing, Tumblr sharing, Hootsuite sharing, Buffer sharing, Fancy sharing, Wanelo sharing, Yummly sharing, WeHeartIt sharing, Flipboard sharing, Printfriendly sharing, Amazon Wishlist sharing, Instapaper sharing, Pocket sharing, Odnoklassniki sharing, Houzz sharing, Hacker News sharing, Inbound.org sharing, Vk sharing, etc Supports theme features such as HTML5 & XHTML, widgets, plugins, infinite scroll, post formats, and mobile optimization Supported URL Shorteners: Bitly (including custom tracking), J.mp, TinyURL, Shr.lc Vector share buttons & follow buttons (SVG icons) Learn more about Share Buttons Share Count Recovery [Premium] Never worry about losing your share counts when you change URLs, adjust your site taxonomy, or switch to HTTPS. Our proprietary technology ensures that no matter how your URLs change, your share counts stay the same. Learn more about Share Count Recovery Privacy Features The German computer magazine c’t has developed “Shariff” (ʃɛɹɪf) that follows the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR – Regulation (EU) 2016/679). This plugin adapts the Shariff concept. The “original” share buttons from Facebook, Pinterest and others automatically transmit data of your visitors to the social network sites as soon as they visit your website. They do not need to click on a share button for this to happen and therefore have no choice. Shareaholic enables visitors to see how popular your page is and display share buttons without this needless leakage to the social networks (unless they decide to share, of course). This is done via server-side code that is part of this plugin to fetch share counts. Once fetched, share counts are cached to ensure maximum performance. To take advantage of this privacy feature, enable “Share Count Proxy” under Advanced Settings. Share Buttons for Images Automatically add Pinterest’s “Pin It” button and other social share buttons directly onto the images on your site to increase outbound traffic to your social sites, and inbound traffic to your website. Includes integrated share buttons for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and more! Share Buttons for Images demo Floating Share Buttons Increase social sharing by 2x or more by adding our Share Button plugin that hovers on the side of the page, rather than in the page content. Floating Share Buttons demo Related Posts Increases pageviews, engagement, and time on site by highlighting related content & related posts that may not otherwise be discovered on your site. Shareaholic is not just yet another related content plugin. It’s simple installation & content dashboard allows you quickly customize what content is delivered and where on your site. You’ll be using well-engineered and optimized code that won’t slow or block your pages from loading. Help your users rediscover your entire content by including related posts on all of your pages. Choose between several themes to seamlessly match your site’s theme, design, and personality. Automatically utilizes post keywords specified in the “All in One SEO Pack”, “WordPress SEO by Yoast”, “Add Meta Tags”, and other plugins. Promote and advertise your content and products across our network using our Related Content Advertising Tools Optimized for mobile devices like the iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, Android mobile phones, and more. Learn more about Related Posts Content Analytics Shareaholic is proud to be an official Google Analytics Technology Partner. Shareaholic provides you with important actionable metrics including insights into popular pages on your website, referral channels, and top refrerrers who are spreading your web pages on the internet on your behalf, bringing more traffic and new visitors to your site. Shareaholic automatically and seamlessly integrates with Google Analytics, including UTM tracking parameters, to provide Google Analytics social data in your Shareaholic dashboard and Shareaholic data in your Google Analytics dashboard. See social and page analytics by content, author, and custom tags. Discover how visitors find each story, product, author, and section, so you can build distribution strategies that work. Measure author performance and focus on authors who get the best results. Check whether your campaigns are targeting Verified Human audiences who are actually capable of purchasing your product or service Learn more about Google Analytics integration Social Follow Buttons Grow your social following and page views with our easily customizable social plugin and tools for adding social follow buttons directly to your page. Supported services include: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn ,Spotify, Pinterest, Etsy, BuzzFeed, iTunes, Tumblr, Vimeo, eBay, 500px, about.me, Baidu, Behance, Better Business Bureau, Bloglovin, Disqus, Dribbble, Feedly, Flickr, Foursquare, Github, Google Classroom, Houzz, LinkedIn Company, LiveJournal, TikTok, Odnoklassniki, Polyvore, RSS, Skype, SlideShare, SoundCloud, Stack Overflow, StumbleUpon, Tripadvisor, Vine, VK, Yelp, Zillow Learn more about Follow Buttons GDPR Cookie Notice Actively notify your visitors that your site uses cookies through a message bar at the top or bottom of your page Target EU and EEA visitors specifically or show to everyone Supports both IPv4 and IPv6 IP address lookups for maximum geo accuracy Learn more about Cookie Consent Notice Monetize your Site Affiliate Links: Automatically turn your site’s existing links into rewards. Clicks that turn into purchases from our ever-expanding universe of 35,000+ retailers, turn into commissions for you with zero additional effort. Outstream Video: Monetize your content with highly viewable and in-demand video ads through Outstream video units that appear between paragraphs on your pages. Promoted Native Content: Generate revenue with targeted content recommendations from our sponsored content marketplace. Each time your readers click through to sponsored articles, you make money. Additional features GDPR Compliant – Automatically anonymizes EU/EEA Visitor data and provides a layer of protection that prevents data leakage typically associated with Share Count lookups Compatible with Gutenberg editor 100% Customizable – Choose from several themes to match your site’s design or personalize your own to create a custom look. Mobile Optimized – Responsive and retina display friendly. Shareaholic will work and look great on all mobile devices and tablets. Built for Scale – It doesn’t matter if your website generates 1 or a 100 million views. Shareaholic scales to any size and will work just as well. Monetize – Make money with minimal effort while retaining full control at all times. Fast & Secure – We use industry best practices to make our code as fast and unobtrusive as possible, meaning – for example – that the performance impact is comparable to adding Google Analytics to your site. Because all of the processing and collection runs on our servers and not yours, it doesn’t cause any additional load on your hosting account. In addition, our JavaScript is hosted on Amazon’s CDN to make fetching it as blazing fast and reliable as possible. In fact, it’s one of the fastest proven analytics systems, hosted or not hosted, that you can use. Integrations – We’re officially partnered with GoDaddy, WP Engine, Siteground, Cloudflare, Google & others to ensure that Shareaholic is safe, stable, and speedy. Recent Updates Social Share Count Recovery (learn more) Google Analytics integration (setup guide) Promoted Content Post-Share Follow Buttons Shareaholic Teams Official support for WooCommerce You’re in Great Company Shareaholic is used and trusted by hundreds of thousands of websites like yours and touches over 300 million people each month. Designed and built with all the love in the world in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Note: The analytics portion of Shareaholic may use trusted 3rd party services like Google Analytics and AppNexus to enhance its data. Contact Support | Terms | APIs | Security Special Thanks & Credits The plugin wouldn’t be half of what it is today if it weren’t for people like you who take the time to help it grow! Whether it be by submitting bug reports, translations, or maybe even a little development help. A special thanks to some of you who have helped us out a great deal: Complete credits on Shareaholic.com Shareaholic in Your Language Shareaholic is used all over the world. Our goal is to support Shareaholic in the native language of all our users and people who want to use our products. All text across all Apps such as Share Buttons, Cookie Consent, Content Recommendations, etc are customizable to any language. The Shareaholic Plugin Admin UI itself is currently localized in the following languages: Catalan – Català (ca) Chinese Simplified – 简体中文 (zh-CN) Chinese Traditional – 中國傳統的 (zh-TW) Dutch (nl) English (en) Estonian – Eestlane (et) French – Français (fr) German – Deutsch (de) Greek – Ελληνικά (el) Italian – Italiano (it) Japanese – 日本語 (ja) Polish – polski (pl) Portuguese (pt) Romanian – Română (ro) Russian – Русский (ru) Spanish – Español (es) Swedish – svenska (sv) Turkish – Türk (tr) Vietnamese – Tiếng Việt (vi) Contribute a translation! — we would appreciate your help in translating Shareaholic into even more languages! It doesn’t take much to get started. Instructions. Social Platform Integrations Social Follow Buttons: Facebook follow buttons, Twitter / X follow buttons, Instagram follow buttons, YouTube follow buttons, LinkedIn, Spotify, Pinterest follow buttons, Etsy, BuzzFeed, Bluesky, Apple Music, Tumblr, Vimeo, eBay, 500px, about.me, Meetup, Patreon, Medium, Snapchat, Slack, Baidu, Behance, Better Business Bureau (BBB), Bloglovin, Disqus, Dribbble, Feedly, Flickr, Foursquare, Github, Google Classroom, Houzz, LinkedIn, LiveJournal, Odnoklassniki (OK), Polyvore, RSS, Skype, SlideShare, Strava, SoundCloud, Stack Overflow, StumbleUpon, Tripadvisor, Vine, VK, Yelp, Zillow Social Share Buttons: Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Reddit, Skype share buttons, SMS share button, StumbleUpon share buttons, Tumblr, Twitter / X, Telegram, Mix, Amazon Kindle share buttons, Amazon share buttons, Amazon Wish List, AOL Mail, Arto, Baidu, Bluesky, Bitly, Blogger Post, Box, Buffer, Delicious, Digg, Diigo, Diigolet, Email This, Evernote, Facebook Send, Fancy, Fark, Flipboard share buttons, GMail share buttons, Google Bookmarks, Google Classroom, Google Mail, HootSuite share buttons, Houzz share buttons, Inbound.org, Instapaper, Kik, Line share buttons, LinkedIn share buttons, Mail, Meneame, Microsoft OneNote, Mixi, MSDN, Odnoklassniki (OK), Outlook, Parler, Pinboard.in, Pinterest, Plurk, Pocket share buttons, Print share buttons, PrintFriendly share buttons, Read Later share buttons, Reddit share buttons, Sina Weibo, Skype share buttons, SMS, Soup.io, Stumpedia, Symphony, Techmeme, TinyURL, TypePad Post, Viadeo, Vkontakte (VK), Wanelo, We Heart It, WhatsApp, Windows Live Favorites, WordPress share buttons, Wykop, Xing, Yahoo! Mail, Yammer, YC Hacker News, Yummly, Viber, Trello, Facebook Messenger