Title: Text To Share
Author: fabioz
Published: <strong>October 10, 2013</strong>
Last modified: March 9, 2015

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Text To Share

 By [fabioz](https://profiles.wordpress.org/webdisrupt/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/text-to-share.0.5.1.zip)

 * [Details](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/text-to-share/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/text-to-share/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/text-to-share/#installation)
 * [Development](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/text-to-share/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/text-to-share/)

## Description

Text to Share is a plugin that offers editors a neat way of how to share quotes 
that are within the various posts. All quotes would need be set via the WordPress
Admin when adding or editing a particular post. This sharing tool would then allow
visitors to share a quote on Facebook and Twitter.

The features of this plugin are:

For Admins and Editors

 * Simple and neat design
 * Selecting text to share with a click of a button
 * Easy to customise and style according to design of website
 * Increase engagement on major social networks

For Visitors

 * Simple sharing mechanism to Facebook and Twitter
 * Automatic redirect to social networks

## Installation

This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.

 1. Upload the entire `text-to-share` folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 3. Add or edit a particular post
 4. In the content editor, highlight a particular piece of text
 5. Click on the ‘Text To Share’ icon and voila you are done

## FAQ

  How do you set a quote?

 1. Login to WordPress Admin
 2. Add or edit a particular post
 3. In the content editor, highlight a particular piece of text
 4. Click on the ‘Text To Share’ icon and voila you are done

  How do I modify the design or style of the plugin?

 1. Download all the files via FTP/SFTP from the directory `/wp-content/plugins/text-
    to-share`
 2. Make a back-up of the files you are going to change
 3. Go into the CSS folder and make all necessary changes to the `main.css`

  How do I change the text for the share buttons?

 1. Download all the files via FTP/SFTP from the directory `/wp-content/plugins/text-
    to-share`
 2. Make a back-up of the files you are going to change
 3. Open the INC folder and open config.php
 4. Change the values for “TEXT_TO_SHARE_TWEET_TEXT” and “TEXT_TO_SHARE_FB_TEXT” to
    the desired value

  “I would like to see a new feature, what do I do?”

 1. Please let us know through the support tab as we would love to hear from you!

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Text To Share” is open source software. The following people have contributed to
this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ fabioz ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/webdisrupt/)

[Translate “Text To Share” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/text-to-share)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/text-to-share/), check
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/text-to-share/), or subscribe
to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/text-to-share/) 
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/text-to-share/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 0.1

Initial Build

#### 0.2

Update to documentation

#### 0.3

 1. Changes to HTML syntax to remove redundant tags.
 2. Improvements to CSS style and overall design.
 3. Fix to Twitter sharing so as not to encode non alpha characters

#### 0.4

 1. Minor fixes to CSS

## Meta

 *  Version **0.5.1**
 *  Last updated **11 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.0.1 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.1.42**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/text-to-share/)
 * Tags
 * [facebook](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/facebook/)[share](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/share/)
   [text](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/text/)[twitter](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/twitter/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/text-to-share/advanced/)

## Ratings

 4.7 out of 5 stars.

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## Contributors

 *   [ fabioz ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/webdisrupt/)

## Support

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