Would people be interested in a tag for creating links to share a page/url on social networking platforms?
I have a lightweight one built for my use case at the moment and I'll release that on my blog once it is up and running, however I am interested in knowing if people would be more interested in this feature; all it does is create a new cms tag for outputting popup links to share a page/url on different platforms. It also can fetch the number of shares that URL has on each of the platforms
If there's enough interest and people have more desired platforms for the tag to support, I will happily expand it and add that to the blog.
Currently it only has 5 platforms available: facebook, twitter, google+, linkedin and reddit
The reason I've created this addon (aside from making it easy to output each tag) is that most social networking sites have their own APIs with javascript codes to get share buttons, but these scripts slow down page load speeds A LOT.
Although the share count part of the addon does also create decreased page loading speeds, because it is generated via couch now before the site is loaded, we can couple it with Couches awesome cache feature to mitigate this load speed.
So we get to use cool share buttons with some data for end users to see, without the slow loading times that javascript buttons create!
Do let me know if there's interest in this and which social networking platforms you would like to be supported.
Here is an example of the tag in action: (The icon and styling are my own, you can change most of the markup with ease)
I have a lightweight one built for my use case at the moment and I'll release that on my blog once it is up and running, however I am interested in knowing if people would be more interested in this feature; all it does is create a new cms tag for outputting popup links to share a page/url on different platforms. It also can fetch the number of shares that URL has on each of the platforms
If there's enough interest and people have more desired platforms for the tag to support, I will happily expand it and add that to the blog.
Currently it only has 5 platforms available: facebook, twitter, google+, linkedin and reddit
The reason I've created this addon (aside from making it easy to output each tag) is that most social networking sites have their own APIs with javascript codes to get share buttons, but these scripts slow down page load speeds A LOT.
Although the share count part of the addon does also create decreased page loading speeds, because it is generated via couch now before the site is loaded, we can couple it with Couches awesome cache feature to mitigate this load speed.
So we get to use cool share buttons with some data for end users to see, without the slow loading times that javascript buttons create!
Do let me know if there's interest in this and which social networking platforms you would like to be supported.
Here is an example of the tag in action: (The icon and styling are my own, you can change most of the markup with ease)