Social share at bottom of blog post

[user14619]

Would be great to be able to have social share buttons at the bottom of the blog posts

[Max]

Hello there, @user14619

Cool idea! If this request gets more votes, it might become a thing

Thanks a bunch for the feedback, and welcome to the Community!

[digitalPAC]

Thanks Max

Could I ask a question about the blog widget. I would like a person viewing any blog I create to be able to select a social media feed link, so they could post this blog to their feed, is this possible and are there any social media feed graphics that can be added to a blog to enable this?

Thanks

Phil Crook
e: philc@stpaulsweb.org.uk
m: 0792 1814722

[Max]

@digitalPAC Right now, it’s impossible to do, but we have this idea on the Wishlist. I’ve moved your comment to the related thread, where we’ll keep you in the loop

[Julie_Carpenter]

It would be great if the blog had a “share” button for people to easily find a shareable link to copy-paste, or send directly to Bluesky, Reddit, WeChat, etc. Thanks!

[Max]

Hi there, @Julie_Carpenter

Glad to say that this idea is already on the Wishlist! I’ve moved your comment to the related thread, where we’ll keep you in the loop

[digitalPAC]

One of the main reasons for incorporating a Blog into a website is so those who are engaging with it can share it to significantly boost a websites visibility, engagement and traffic, a crucial objective of a website. As Elfsight offer so many ways of adding features to a website to do just this, why is this social platform share feature for the Blog not yet sorted. I am now looking at removing the Elfsight Blog in order that I can do just this with something else, as so many of my followers need this feature. Such a shame when the Blog widget is good in so many other ways.

[Max]

Hi there, @digitalPAC

Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts with us!

Your comment sounds reasonable, and I’m really sorry that this feature isn’t supported yet.

I’ve shared your feedback with the dev team and, hopefully, they’ll be able to consider this idea in the future. If any news comes up, we’ll update you here right away

[Jen_Orth_RVA_Realtor]

It would be great to be able to share a post from the blog on the socials without sharing the entire blog.

[Max]

Greetings and welcome aboard, @Jen_Orth_RVA_Realtor

We already have a similar request, and I’ve added your comment there too. If any news comes, we’ll promptly update you right here

A huge thank you for the feedback!

[Darin]

You have a social sharing button App that can be added to the website through code. BUT there is no way to place social sharing buttons on each post in the Blog App? Can either the ability to add these buttons be made or at least pasting the socxial code app code into the Blog so it will display these within the blog posts? Thanks

[Max]

Great to see you’ve decided to join our ranks, @Darin

Thanks a bunch for the feedback!

We already have a Wishlist request for the Social Share buttons for the blog posts. I’ve added your comment to the related discussion, where we’ll keep you updated

[mjoelx87 (Matt)]

It’s crucial for blog posts to be individually shareable. Without this, a blog loses much of its purpose. What’s even more baffling is how simple it would be for developers to integrate unique URLs into the widget via a share button. Elfsight already generates “shareable links” for each blog and post on the backend, so the framework is already in place. All that’s needed is a share button—even if it only grabs the unique URL for the post itself. A full share widget could also be incorporated, since Elfsight already offers this product. The main challenge is handling custom domains, which would require more extensive changes. In the meantime, a quick fix would be to have the blog title link back to a user-set home page URL. That way, when viewing an individual post on the Elfsight ID blog page—rather than the user’s unique site URL—a viewer could still navigate to the user’s site by clicking the title, which would lead to ‘theirsite .com/blog’ instead of the long Elfsight ID string.

[digitalPAC]

Agree, but I’m not sure they are that interested in improving this widget. This has been on their list for nearly 15 months and as you say would have been simple to incorporate what is already coded in. So don’t hold your breath!!

[CASSANDRA]

It would be great to be able to have a way to share each individual post from our websites that we have embeded with this blog. That would make it easier to drive traffic to our websites while using your blog format. Each blog post is unique, but I cannot drive traffic back to a particular post on my website - plus allowing comments per individual blog posts would also be extremely beneficial for your members, like me.

[Max]

Hey there, folks, @mjoelx87, @digitalPAC

Many thanks for the feedback!

We totally understand the excitement to see new features, and we wish we could release them faster. However, with the large number of requests on the Wishlist, it’s a bit of a challenge to prioritize them all.

Just to clarify, we consider ideas based on their complexity and the number of votes. While this is the 3rd most popular request in the Blog category, we have 95+ apps in total, and many requests from different app categories have event higher priority. That’s why our developers are focusing on those for now.

However, I’d like to assure you that this idea isn’t abandoned and hopefully, the devs will be able to think it over in the future updates. As soon as we have any news, we’ll inform you here right away

[Max]

Hi @CASSANDRA and welcome aboard

Many thanks for the feedback!

This idea already exists on the Wishlist. I’ve moved your comment to the related discussion, where we’ll keep you in the loop