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Ridiculously Responsive Social Sharing Buttons for Joomla

Screenshot of Ridiculously Responsive Social Sharing Buttons for joomla.org from the Joomla Web Installer

Ridiculously Responsive Social Sharing Buttons is a plugin for Joomla

The joomlarrssb plugin adds social sharing buttons and metadata tags for Open Graph to com_content items. It is an official Joomla Project plugin, primarily aimed at use on the joomla.org website network. It works on Joomla 4.x and 5.x. It adds nice sharing buttons and more importantly it creates open graph tags for all your site content, automatically.

Social Sharing Buttons for Joomla

The plugin generates buttons like this. (Thise is an image, see the bigger one for the real buttons). Screenshot: The buttons provided by the Ridiculously Responsive Social Sharing Buttons for joomla.org plugin

Screenshot: The buttons provided by the Ridiculously Responsive Social Sharing Buttons for joomla.org plugin

Open Graph Tags for Joomla

The plugin also automatcally creates Open Graph tags for every page og:title, og:type, og:image, og:type, and og:url. which is higly beneficial for articles to look good when they are shared on social site For example if you view the source of this page you'll see the tags in the <head> section of the page.

<meta property="og:image" content="https://www.ezone.co.uk/images/j4/joomlarrssb.png#joomlaImage://local-images/j4/joomlarrssb.png?width=1400&amp;height=640">
 <meta property="og:description" content="Ridiculously Responsive Social Sharing Buttons for Joomla. This Joomla! plugin adds social sharing buttons and metadata optimized for Open Graph and Twitter to com_content items. It is an...">
 <meta property="og:title" content="Ridiculously Responsive Social Sharing Buttons for Joomla">
 <meta property="og:type" content="article">
 <meta property="og:url" content="https://www.ezone.co.uk/cms/joomlarrssb.html">

There is almost zero configuration required. Just clone it from GitHub, build it locally, install and enable the plugin.

TL:DR — Once built and uploaded this just works and is worth it for the open graph tags alone!

Contents

Instructions

Clone and build the plugin

  • I wasnt able to use the web installer - it returned a manifext.xml error, so I cloned the plugin and built it on macOS.
  • Clone the repository from GitHub git clone https://github.com/joomla-projects/plg_content_joomlarrssb.git
  • Install coreutils brew install coreutils because you are going to need the GNU sha512sum command which is to compute the SHA512 message digest for the plugin. You may need to install Homebrew first.
  • Build the plugin cd plg_content_joomlarrssb/build and then ./build.sh
  • Install the plugin in Joomla by choosing 'Upload Package File' and selecting the zip file that you just created.
    Screenshot: Uploading the Ridiculously Responsive Social Sharing Buttons for joomla.org plugin
    Screenshot: Uploading the Ridiculously Responsive Social Sharing Buttons for joomla.org plugin

Enable the plugin

  • Enable the plugin by selecting it and clicking 'Enable'
    Screenshot: Enabling the Ridiculously Responsive Social Sharing Buttons for joomla.org plugin
    Screenshot: Enabling the Ridiculously Responsive Social Sharing Buttons for joomla.org plugin

Display Options

  • You can customise the plugin, for example to remove Twitter from your list of buttons now that is no longer applicable.

    Screenshot: Display Options for the Ridiculously Responsive Social Sharing Buttons for joomla.org plugin
    Screenshot: Display Options for the Ridiculously Responsive Social Sharing Buttons for joomla.org plugin

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