How to add sharing buttons to your Ghost blog
Here is a 2-step method to add Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest and LinkedIn sharing links and icons to your Ghost posts, with a nice smooth hover animation.
(To add more sharing services, you'll need a SVG or image icon, the brand colour and the sharing URL. The icons in this example are from Nucleo.)
1. Add the HTML
The most flexible way to add share icons is to create a re-usable theme "partial". You can then reference this code snippet in multiple places in your theme files.
To do this, make a new file in the /partials folder within your theme called share-block.hbs (or similar) and paste the following code:
<div class="share-block">
<span>Share</span>
<a href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url={{url absolute='true'}}&text={{encode title}}" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="32" height="32" viewBox="0 0 24 24"><path d="M24 4.6c-.9.4-1.8.7-2.8.8 1-.6 1.8-1.6 2.2-2.7-1 .6-2 1-3.1 1.2-.9-1-2.2-1.6-3.6-1.6-2.7 0-4.9 2.2-4.9 4.9 0 .4 0 .8.1 1.1-4.2-.2-7.8-2.2-10.2-5.2-.5.8-.7 1.6-.7 2.5 0 1.7.9 3.2 2.2 4.1-.8 0-1.6-.2-2.2-.6v.1c0 2.4 1.7 4.4 3.9 4.8-.4.1-.8.2-1.3.2-.3 0-.6 0-.9-.1.6 2 2.4 3.4 4.6 3.4-1.7 1.3-3.8 2.1-6.1 2.1-.4 0-.8 0-1.2-.1 2.2 1.4 4.8 2.2 7.5 2.2 9.1 0 14-7.5 14-14v-.6c1-.7 1.8-1.6 2.5-2.5z" fill="#1da1f2"/></svg>
</a>
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u={{url absolute='true'}}" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="32" height="32" viewBox="0 0 24 24"><path d="M24 12.072a12 12 0 10-13.875 11.854v-8.385H7.078v-3.469h3.047V9.428c0-3.007 1.792-4.669 4.532-4.669a18.611 18.611 0 012.687.234v2.954H15.83a1.734 1.734 0 00-1.947 1.49 1.71 1.71 0 00-.008.385v2.25H17.2l-.532 3.469h-2.8v8.385A12 12 0 0024 12.072z" fill="#4267B2"/></svg>
</a>
<a href="https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url={{url absolute='true'}}&media=&description={{encode title}}" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-pin-do="none">
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="32" height="32" viewBox="0 0 24 24"><path d="M12 0C5.4 0 0 5.4 0 12c0 5.1 3.2 9.4 7.6 11.2-.1-.9-.2-2.4 0-3.4.2-.9 1.4-6 1.4-6s-.3-.8-.3-1.8c0-1.7 1-2.9 2.2-2.9 1 0 1.5.8 1.5 1.7 0 1-.7 2.6-1 4-.3 1.2.6 2.2 1.8 2.2 2.1 0 3.8-2.2 3.8-5.5 0-2.9-2.1-4.9-5-4.9-3.4 0-5.4 2.6-5.4 5.2 0 1 .4 2.1.9 2.7.1.1.1.2.1.3-.1.4-.3 1.2-.3 1.4-.1.2-.2.3-.4.2-1.5-.7-2.4-2.9-2.4-4.6 0-3.8 2.8-7.3 7.9-7.3 4.2 0 7.4 3 7.4 6.9 0 4.1-2.6 7.5-6.2 7.5-1.2 0-2.4-.6-2.8-1.4 0 0-.6 2.3-.7 2.9-.3 1-1 2.3-1.5 3.1 1 .3 2.2.5 3.4.5 6.6 0 12-5.4 12-12S18.6 0 12 0z" fill="#E60023"/></svg>
</a>
<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url={{url absolute='true'}}&title={{encode title}}" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="32" height="32" viewBox="0 0 24 24"><path d="M23 0H1C.4 0 0 .4 0 1v22c0 .6.4 1 1 1h22c.6 0 1-.4 1-1V1c0-.6-.4-1-1-1zM7.1 20.5H3.6V9h3.6v11.5zM5.3 7.4c-1.1 0-2.1-.9-2.1-2.1 0-1.1.9-2.1 2.1-2.1 1.1 0 2.1.9 2.1 2.1 0 1.2-.9 2.1-2.1 2.1zm15.2 13.1h-3.6v-5.6c0-1.3 0-3-1.8-3-1.9 0-2.1 1.4-2.1 2.9v5.7H9.4V9h3.4v1.6c.5-.9 1.6-1.8 3.4-1.8 3.6 0 4.3 2.4 4.3 5.5v6.2z" fill="#2867B2"/></svg>
</a>
</div>You can then insert your share buttons anywhere in your site (multiple times per page if you want) by simply adding {{> share-block}}.
Important! Make sure you add this within the {{#post}}...{{/post}} block to make sure the button links work properly.
2. Add the CSS
The CSS for these buttons can either be pasted into your theme's HTML (in the <head> section of default.hbs), a CSS file or via the Code Injection setting with your Ghost admin.
<style>
.share-block {
margin-top: 8rem;
text-align: center;
}
.share-block span {
display: inline-block;
font-weight: bold;
margin-right: 1rem;
font-size: 2rem;
}
.share-block a {
display: inline-block;
transition: all 0.3s;
margin: 0 0.25rem;
}
.share-block a:hover {
transform: scale(1.1);
}
</style>And there you have it!