Having the ability to share your blogs on your site can help boost engagement, but it should be noted, not by much. Typically less than 1% of users ever even use these features, so it should not be a priority that takes away from the rest of your page to do.

However, it can be helpful to have a way for visitors to quickly copy a link or share it with ease.

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First of all, add your buttons to your page with the text or icons you need.

Next, add ID's to each button so we can identify which platform it is.

I am using ID's such as

shareCopyLink - Copy and paste the link directly

shareFacebook - Share to Facebook, etc

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Next - we add in some custom code to the page.

Below is an example containing a Copy button, LinkedIn, X, Facebook and WhatsApp.

// Get the current page URL and Title
const pageUrl = encodeURIComponent(window.location.href);
const pageTitle = encodeURIComponent(document.title);

//  Copy Link Button
document.getElementById('shareCopyLink').addEventListener('click', () => {
    navigator.clipboard.writeText(window.location.href).then(() => {
        alert('Link copied to clipboard!');
    }).catch(err => {
        console.error('Failed to copy: ', err);
    });
});

// LinkedIn Share
document.getElementById('shareLinkedIn').href = 
    `https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=${pageUrl}&title=${pageTitle}`;
    
// X (Twitter) Share
document.getElementById('shareX').href = 
    `https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=${pageUrl}&text=${pageTitle}`;

//  Facebook Share
document.getElementById('shareFacebook').href = 
    `https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=${pageUrl}`;

//  WhatsApp Share
document.getElementById('shareWhatsApp').href = 
    `https://api.whatsapp.com/send?text=${pageTitle}%20${pageUrl}`;

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Use what you need from this code and test it works - your should be able to, in a single tap, open up the relevant page and see a share window containing the post title and link.

Remember, these features are very rarely used, but a small engagement boost not previously tapped into could help increase your online presence.