Highlight and Share – Unobtrusive and Lightweight Content Sharing

This makes it easy for readers to highlight important quotes, statistics, or passages and share them instantly.

Additional sharing features such as image sharing, headline sharing, and a Click to Share block/shortcode allow for more sharing options.
Can visitors share highlighted text from my articles?
Yes. Highlight and Share allows users to select and highlight text directly within your content. Once text is selected, social sharing options appear automatically.

Visitors can then:

Share the highlighted text to supported social networks
Copy the text to their clipboard
Send the text via email
Use the Web Share API on supported devices

This makes it easy to enable content highlighter functionality in WordPress.
What is headline sharing?
Headline sharing allows visitors to share individual headings within your content.

When enabled, a small link icon appears next to headings such as H2 or H3. Clicking the icon allows users to copy a link directly to that section or share the headline to social networks.

This feature works especially well for long articles, tutorials, and documentation where users may want to reference a specific section.
Does this plugin support image sharing?
Yes. Highlight and Share includes image sharing support for Pinterest and the Web Share API.

You can control where image sharing appears, including:

Post content
Featured images
Archive excerpts

When readers click the share box, they can instantly share the text to social networks or copy it to their clipboard. This is useful for quotes, key takeaways, statistics, or other shareable snippets.

A shortcode version is also available if you prefer not to use the block editor.
Can I control where text highlighting works?
Yes. Highlight and Share includes advanced selectors and post type settings that allow you to control exactly where highlighting appears.

You can:

Enable highlighting only within post content
Enable highlighting in comments
Disable highlighting on specific post types
Use custom selectors for page builders

This flexibility makes Highlight and Share compatible with most themes and page builders.
Does Highlight and Share track user data?
Highlight and Share does not collect personal information or set tracking cookies.

The plugin does allow for advanced stats tracking, which is opt-in and is designed for developers. Stats are compatible with GA4, GTM, and synthetic JS events.
Is this a Click to Tweet plugin?
Highlight and Share includes a Click to Share block that works similarly to traditional Click to Tweet plugins, but with additional flexibility, showing more than just one network.

Instead of limiting sharing to a single network, users can choose from multiple social networks, copy the text, or share using the Web Share API.
What social networks does this plugin work with?
Highlight and Share works with the following networks:

X (formerly Twitter) (allows text sharing)
Facebook
Threads (allows text sharing)
WhatsApp (allows text sharing)
Mastodon (allows text sharing)
Bluesky (allows text sharing)
Reddit
Telegram (allows text sharing)
LinkedIn
Xing
Copy (allows text sharing)
Email (allows text sharing)
Pinterest (for image sharing only)
Web Share API (allows text sharing)

How does Highlight and Share work?
Highlight and Share is designed to be unobtrusive and lightweight, with only advanced sharing features being opt-in such as image and headline sharing.

Highlight and Share shows social networks as users interact with content on your site. This can be in the form of content highlighting, text selection, image sharing, headline sharing, or using the inline highlighting mechanism or Click to Share block/shortcode.

Since Highlight and Share can provide some useful shortcuts, the plugin can provide your users with some useful shortcuts to enhance their reading and editing workflows.
How can I customize the look of Highlight and Share?
Higlight and Share is extremely customizable through a theming system and through custom CSS.

In general, you can:

Customize all the social networks as far as order, colors, size, and orientation.
Customize all the image sharing features, such as Pinterest and Web Share. You can change how the icons appear, what colors they appear as, and for which images.
Completely customize a Click to Share block/shortcode and use the customized icons to show the social networks to the user.

Will you be adding more sharing services?
If the social network has an endpoint, it can be added. Please see the available social networks and their specifications. Please request a new network via support.
I want to include my own CSS. How can I do that?
You can turn off the theme and include CSS in your own theme.

See Customizing Highlight and Share through custom CSS
Does this plugin work on mobile devices?
Yes, Highlight and Share works well for mobile devices and also supports the Web Share API, which is one of the options of social sharing networks.

Most mobile devices already have their own sharing features on text selection, but Highlight and Share works especially well for inline highlighting and the Click to Share block.

Image Sharing and Headline sharing also make the plugin useful for mobile devices.
What Browsers Have You Tested This In?
So far, the latest versions of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, and IE9+.

iOS Safari and Chrome work well, but the text selection is a bit different than on desktop browsers.
Where do I report security bugs found in this plugin?
Please report security bugs found in the source code of the undefined plugin through the Patchstack Vulnerability Disclosure  Program. The Patchstack team will assist you with verification, CVE assignment, and notify the developers of this plugin.