Are there any Inbuilt Social media sharing icons

Are there any inbuilt social media sharing icons in the WordPress core? or the only route is plugin/code. While searching it in menu/widgets, some rectangular icons appeared( as in BLOGGER, but i couldn't find them again) below post but on next login they were not there! While customizing footer, i could find only social icons for "follow us"(can we somehow use those icons for sharing social media posts?). I wanted to avoid PLUGIN to keep my site light. I have …
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Social sharing is not working as expected

I tested posting a blog post to Facebook it shows a too large pic of the header title design you made for the home page not blog image. It doesn't show the feature photo from that blog post. Also, when I share a blog post link via text, it doesn't show a thumbnail photo of that blog post's feature photo, just words. When I post to Twitter, it only shows the URL, no photo. In Instagram it open account but …
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what function can I use to automatically output og tags per page/post?

The issue: I had problem with my links social preview on WhatsApp and Telegram. The social preview appears on desktop and other platforms, also the Facebook debugging tool shows complete information, but it didn't show anything on WhatsApp and Telegram on phone. I did research and tested different stuff and finally found out that WhatsApp and Telegram don't like it when there is a lot of code before them in the <head>. I brought them closer, and it almost worked, …
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How do I remove social buttons from the "Blog" section of my theme?

I have a specific question about the blog section of my site. It is located here: www.newangleanalytics.com/blog If you click on the article, you will notice three social media button at the bottom. Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest. The problem is, I don't know where they are in the admin section and I've tried everywhere! I already found a plugin that easily gave me the share buttons, so I don't need those three. But I can't figure out how to remove …
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How To Post WordPress Custom Post Types to Twitter via IFTTT

I have my wordpress site. Which has the normal "post" and a custom post type "download", I Currently use IFTTT, (If This Then That Service) to post my wordpress posts to Twitter. The IFTTT recipe works perfectly for my posts, and tweets as soon as I publish any post. You can check my site https://milyin.com, and my twitter account is https://twitter.com/milyincrealtors/ The problem is that, this works only for normal wordpress posts. I searched IFTTT for applets to include custom …
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How to add extra custom social icons to page with same style?

I have been trying hard to add more social icons of same style as provided in the theme I purchased, but I couldn't understand how to do it. The theme provides only limited social icons as shown in the footer of My Website. How can I add extra social icons say like that of Telegram/Tumblr etc. but with the same style as is there for other icons. Thanks a lot for help.
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LinkedIn Social Wall | Is there a plug-in (Free / Paid) to display a LinkedIn feed in a social wall (not just a feed)?

I have been researching plug-ins that have the capabilities of displaying a LinkedIn feed in a beautiful social wall style, to no-avail. Previously, I had one that was working however they disabled the ability to display LinkedIn feeds due to the changes in LinkedIn's policies. I have yet again been tasked with creating a tiled LinkedIn feed (with permission to purchase a plug-in). I told him it is not possible but I am hopeful someone will be able to point …
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How to escape echo?

I have just added few social media icons to share the current post. So the code is below for pinterest (example purpose). But the reviewer said echo should be escaped. Why the reviewer pointed it to escape the "echo" and what is the way to do so... <!-- pinterest --> <a href="https://pinterest.com/pin/create/bookmarklet/?media=<?php echo get_the_post_thumbnail_url(); ?>&url=<?php echo get_permalink(); ?>&is_video=false&description=<?php echo get_the_title(); ?>" target="blank"><i class="fab fa-pinterest-square"></i></a>
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How to add FB like + share AND also other Social Buttons on ALL pages and posts?

I tried many plugins but none of them have the following things so I guess I have to code it myself? I just want to add under and above the content of blogpostings AND pages: - the Facebook like and the share button - other social media buttons like twitter - email following option => none of all standard plugins I tried out had all this options included. So I ask you how to solve this problem? How to code …
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Author social media aren't shown on the page

I'm trying to show the authors social medias on the page but they aren't showed at all. Here is the code that I have so far $website = $user->user_url; if($user->user_url != '') { printf('<a href="%s">%s</a>', $user->user_url, '<i class="icon-home"></i>'); } $twitter = get_user_meta($user->ID, 'twitter_profile', true); if($twitter != '') { printf('<a href="%s">%s</a>', $twitter, '<i class="icon-twitter"></i>'); } $facebook = get_user_meta($user->ID, 'facebook_profile', true); if($facebook != '') { printf('<a href="%s">%s</a>', $facebook, '<i class="icon-facebook"></i>'); } $google = get_user_meta($user->ID, 'google_profile', true); if($google != ''){ printf('<a href="%s">%s</a>', $google, …
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buddypress activity social share

Hello Guys I am using buddypress and I am sharing activity on social network like facebook and google and I am using url like https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?t=' . $activity_title . '&u=' . $activity_link . ' buy when facebook crawls the page it is not logged in so it redirects to home page so instead of sharing the image and title of that activity what shows on the facebook is the image and title of home page. activity title and link shows correct …
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Default image for homepage when shared in social media

Currently, my homepage contains a few of the latest posts. Therefore, when the homepage is shared via social media (i.e. Facebook), the thumbnail image which is displayed comes from the top image in the latest post. What I am trying to do, is to set it so that when the homepage is shared, a specific, default image will be displayed. However, the image must only be displayed when the homepage is shared, and should not otherwise appear on the site. …
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WordPress Sumo Plugin not showing all images on clicking pinterest icon

I am using SUMOMME WordPress Plugin for social sharing on WordPress Site. This is the site: https://www.teachworkoutlove.com/ I am facing below issue when i share post with pinterest. General working of the plugin is like when i click on pinterest, sumome plugin will detect all the images in a post and show in a popup box and then we need to select the specific image to share. BUT FOR SOME POST, PINTEREST DOES NOT DETECT ALL THE IMAGES SEE FOR …
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Changing Social Media

Can anyone tell me how to change my social media links? I've tried everything on google. My wordpress was set up by a third party who is no longer able to help me. I have pretty much covered being able to keep it updated. On my website the links to the social media are at the bottom but not a menus, not a footer, or in the media link. I cannot find a plug-in used to put them there.
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Sharing images to social media - issue with aspect ratio

I am designing a website that will have a lot of images, and I want those images to be shareable to Facebook. I know this is possible with social media plugins like "Easy Social Share Buttons," where you can hover over the image and the social media icons appear. BUT, when you share the image, it gets posted to Facebook like a regular link share - it becomes a featured image with a 2:1 aspect ratio (or a thumbnail) and …
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Featured image not showing on facebook share

I Guys! I´ve spent the whole morning after this... Some post images are not showing up on facebook if I try to share. But some are. If I go to facebook and try to share: http://www.taiff.com.br/taiffmag/2018/11/22/ariane-ianicelli-a-beauty-artist-que-vai-te-inspirar/ Everything works fine. BUT, if I try to share this other post: http://www.taiff.com.br/taiffmag/2018/11/08/4-penteados-taiff-curves/ The featured image doesnt shows up. All og: tags are the same on both pages. If I go to Facebook debugger, they identify both images. The first one: The second one: …
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Get total social share count (Facebook, Twitter, Google+. Pinterest)

I'm pulling the individual share counts for the social media I've mentioned using the following code snippet in my theme's function.php: $facebook_like_share_count = function ( $url ) { $api = file_get_contents( 'http://graph.facebook.com/?id=' . $url ); $count = json_decode( $api ); return $count->shares; }; $twitter_tweet_count = function ( $url ) { $api = file_get_contents( 'https://cdn.api.twitter.com/1/urls/count.json?url=' . $url ); $count = json_decode( $api ); return $count->count; }; $pinterest_pins = function ( $url ) { $api = file_get_contents( 'http://api.pinterest.com/v1/urls/count.json?callback%20&url=' . $url ); $body …
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add share buttons above my posts without plugins

I'm trying to install share buttons above the articles of my site and I found this piece of code. Starting with, my problem is that the code is displayed at the end of the articles. I would rather have the buttons at the beginning. Would you like to help me solve the problem? here is the code: add_filter('the_content', 'br_content_with_social_buttons'); function br_content_with_social_buttons($content){ $url = urlencode(get_permalink()); // Get current page title $title = str_replace(' ', '%20', get_the_title()); $blog_title = get_bloginfo('name'); $content .=' …
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