This feature available on All Plans
Overview
The Share Widget adds social icons to your campaign, making it easy for your visitors to share a link to your campaign in just a couple clicks.
To add one of these widgets to your campaign, click the Share Widget icon in the Add Widgets Panel, or click and drag the icon into your preview area.
Widget Settings
The widget settings popup is where you'll make any needed changes to your Share Widget. To change the widget name, click on the pencil icon in the top-left (next to the name) then type your new name.
You will also see the CSS ID (starting with a #) of your new widget listed in the top-right corner of the popup.
You'll want to move through each item in the menu on the left side to make sure you've completely customized the Share Widget in the way you'd like. You can navigate through these sections using the Back and Next buttons at the bottom.
When you're finished making changes to your widget, click the blue Save and Exit button.
Share Platforms
You'll use the Share Platforms section to do most of the setup for your Share Widget. The options on the right allow you to adjust your title, description, and image for each social channel.
You'll see a listing of all available share methods; click and drag the icon to change the position in which that social media channel appears, and select which channels to use by checking/unchecking the box on the left of the name. The currently selected channel's name will be highlighted.
You'll be able to customize the settings for the selected social media channel on the right - the share is shown as a preview. Each channel will have slightly different settings (depending on how the site handles sharing), so make sure to click through all of the channels you're using to make sure each one is customized to your liking.
About Email and SMS Sharing
When Email and/or Text Sharing is enabled, the entrants' preferred email and SMS platform will be used. Emails and SMS sent via the Share Widget way are not sent via ShortStack. Sharing via email and text is similar to sharing a news article or social media post; a pre-determined text about the article will be displayed in the text or email body, and you choose who to send it to.
ShortStack does not offer SMS notifications.
Where's Instagram?
Instagram does not allow traditional sharing of outside sources. As a solution, you can ask participants to share the URL via Stories or create your own post or Reel on Instagram and ask followers to share it to their stories.
Another solution is to use hashtags to share and spread the word about you campaign. You can even import follower's posts to Instagram with specific hashtags. Learn More about Hashtag Feeds.
Share Prompt
Set up the text for your call to action in the Share Prompt section. Simply type your text into the Share prompt (optional) field; the text you use will be displayed above the social icons in the Share Widget by default.
Visibility
If you'd like to limit the visibility of the widget to a specific date and time, make the widget a popup, only show the widget in your Builder, or limit in which country/countries the widget can be seen; you'd do so in the Visibility section. More information about these settings can be found in the Widget Visibility help doc.
Extras
Learn about the Main Tag, CSS Classes, and Smart Labels settings here.