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Plugin: Genesis Simple Share
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WhatsApp sharing support #68

Open nickcernis opened 8 years ago

nickcernis commented 8 years ago

A customer has requested we add a WhatsApp share button: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/will-you-add-whatsapp-and-email?replies=2

WhatsApp detail their API here: https://www.whatsapp.com/faq/iphone/23559013

In HTML it would look something like this for Android and iOS:

<a href="whatsapp://send?text=Check%20out%20my%20incredible%20post.%20http%3A%2F%2Fexample.com">Share on WhatsApp</a>

I have a quick demo of this online here that works in iOS for me: http://debug.wpdemo.me/watest.html

We should probably hide the button on desktop and other platforms.

BuzzFeed have found their WhatsApp button to be more popular than the twitter one, apparently, so it's worth considering for some sites: http://qz.com/179261/people-are-already-sharing-more-buzzfeed-stories-to-whatsapp-than-to-twitter/

Editing for vote tally: 5 votes total

jamesponddotco commented 7 years ago

@NicktheGeek Sorry, closed by mistake 🤦‍♂️