Highlight and Share is a lightweight and unobtrusive social network WordPress plugin designed to help readers share meaningful parts of your content. Instead of placing large social sharing buttons throughout your website, Highlight and Share appears only when users interact with your content. This keeps pages clean while still encouraging natural social sharing.

Visitors can highlight text, share images, copy quotes, or link directly to headlines. Sharing options appear exactly when they are needed, allowing readers to share interesting passages, statistics, or insights without interrupting the reading experience.

Highlight and Share works great for content sharing, social highlights, image sharing, headline sharing, and for those wanting a comprehensive Click to Share block/shortcode with inline highlighting supported.

The plugin is built with flexibility and performance in mind. Most features are optional and can be enabled or disabled depending on your needs. This makes Highlight and Share a great solution for blogs, news sites, documentation sites, and long-form content where readers may want to reference specific sections or quickly copy and share passages.

Show social media networks upon text selection (a text highlighter). This provides an unobtrusive way to allow content highlighting without getting in a user’s way. With shortcuts like Copy and Email, Highlight and Share can become part of an essential timesaving workflow for a user who needs quick shortcuts to common items like Web Share and other content highlighter shortcuts.
Show Pinterest and Webshare on images. With image sharing enabled, Highlight and Share will seamlessly integrate Pinterest and Webshare on any found images. With features like skipping the leading image, you’ll find that Image Sharing is intuitive and useful for your users.
Show sharing options with headline sharing. Headline sharing allows users to bookmark certain headlines and revisit them later. Additional networks like Webshare or X can provide additional context such as sharing the headline itself.
A Click to Share Block/Shortcode is included. An easy-to-use Click to Share block is included, with setup available in seconds. The Content Sharing networks display above the share box when clicked, providing an easy way to share the quote.
Set up email sharing with easy spam protection integration. Set up emails with spam protection from Akismet, Cloudflare Turnstile, and Google reCAPTCHA Enterprise.

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Quick Links

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If you have a feature request, please post in the support forum.

Available Features

Highlight and Share at its core is a content highlighter, but it has many other sharing features, most of which are opt-in.

Show social networks on text highlight (content highlight).
Add an inline highlight to text and show social networks on click. An optional tooltip shows on hover explaining the highlight.
An easy to use Click to Share block is included, and can be disabled if needed.
A comprehensive Click to Share shortcode is included.
Image sharing via Pinterest and the Web Share API is included. You can select which post types it’s enabled for, and also enable it on a per post basis via a post’s sidebar settings.
Enable or disable individual networks for content sharing. Reorder the networks, change the theme, or even choose a custom theme for matching your site’s design.
Use advanced selectors to choose how content highlighting works, which makes Highlight and Share a powerful tool when combined with your favorite page builder.
Customize the appearance of inline highlighting, including the background and text colors.
Enable social networks in the comments section when highlighting text.
Enable or disable on main content and excerpts. Selectively disable on a per post type basis, or enable in a post’s sidebar settings.
Translate the labels and tooltips into your language, or just change up the text.
Customize the Twitter/X username used.
Enable hashtags on posts/pages
Email protection via Akismet, Cloudflare Turnstile, and reCAPTCHA Enterprise

integrations

Block Editor: Native support for Adobe Fonts with free Custom Adobe Fonts plugin.
Block Editor: Native support for Local Google Fonts via free Custom Fonts plugin.
Block Editor: Compatible with Blocksy Companion Pro Local Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts extensions.
Block Editor: Compatible With SimpleTOC.

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External services

Highlight and Share does not send any data to an external service unless one of the optional email features below is enabled.

Cloudflare Turnstile (optional, email sharing)

When Turnstile is enabled in the Email Settings tab, the email form loads the Turnstile script from https://challenges.cloudflare.com/turnstile/v0/api.js and shows the Turnstile widget. Cloudflare receives the visitor’s IP address and browser details when the widget loads. When the form is submitted, your site sends the Turnstile secret key and the visitor’s Turnstile token to https://challenges.cloudflare.com/turnstile/v0/siteverify to confirm the check. See Cloudflare’s terms and privacy policy.

Google reCAPTCHA Enterprise (optional, email sharing)

When reCAPTCHA Enterprise is enabled in the Email Settings tab, the email form loads https://www.google.com/recaptcha/enterprise.js with your site key, and Google receives the visitor’s IP address and browser details. When the form is submitted, your site sends the reCAPTCHA token and your site key, using your API key, to https://recaptchaenterprise.googleapis.com/v1/projects/YOUR_PROJECT_ID/assessments to get a risk score. See Google’s terms and privacy policy.

Akismet (optional, email sharing)

When Akismet spam protection is enabled and the Akismet plugin is active, the sender’s name and email address are passed to the Akismet plugin to check the email for spam. Highlight and Share itself does not contact Akismet. The Akismet plugin sends the check to the Akismet service (Automattic) and adds the visitor’s IP address and user agent. See Akismet’s terms and Automattic’s privacy policy.

Highlight and Share – Unobtrusive and Lightweight Content Sharing