WHATSAPP share button in Concrete 5
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Hello Concreters,
One of the development idea fell upon while I was working with Share This Page Block(http://documentation.concrete5.org/editors/in-page-editing/block-areas/add-block/share-
Now it has Google plus, facebook, twitter etc but no Whatsapp. I would like to add a Whatsapp share button as well. I found an awesome tutorial about how to add a Whatsapp share button using Jquery (http://w3lessons.info/2015/03/14/how-to-share-content-on-whatsapp-using-jquery/).
But I have no clue which and which files I will have to edit. I made a quick glance over view.php of Share This Page block files. But thats not the place I should stick my hands:P.
How can I achieve this ? I would like extend this Share This Page Block with Whatsapp share feature !!
--Jeevs--
When Legend of The Desert, is naked out by Cactus
Lean heads down, RainLusty flowers !!
One of the development idea fell upon while I was working with Share This Page Block(http://documentation.concrete5.org/editors/in-page-editing/block-areas/add-block/share-
Now it has Google plus, facebook, twitter etc but no Whatsapp. I would like to add a Whatsapp share button as well. I found an awesome tutorial about how to add a Whatsapp share button using Jquery (http://w3lessons.info/2015/03/14/how-to-share-content-on-whatsapp-using-jquery/).
But I have no clue which and which files I will have to edit. I made a quick glance over view.php of Share This Page block files. But thats not the place I should stick my hands:P.
How can I achieve this ? I would like extend this Share This Page Block with Whatsapp share feature !!
--Jeevs--
When Legend of The Desert, is naked out by Cactus
Lean heads down, RainLusty flowers !!
You might be better off trying to modify the free add-on:https://www.concrete5.org/marketplace/addons/social-share-lite1...
Hi jeevanism,
The version of Font Awesome that comes with concrete5 does not include the WhatsApp icon. Without the icon and because it relies on a specific mobile app, I don't believe it would be a good candidate for the Share This Page block. Testing it would require having access to all the major smartphones which would make it hard to submit to the marketplace.
Something like this would be a better candidate as a custom block shared on GitHub. With WhatsApp being very popular in many countries, I believe it could be useful.
The tutorial makes WhatsApp sharing seem fairly straightforward. The problem is I can't find any official WhatsApp documentation on how it should be properly done.
The version of Font Awesome that comes with concrete5 does not include the WhatsApp icon. Without the icon and because it relies on a specific mobile app, I don't believe it would be a good candidate for the Share This Page block. Testing it would require having access to all the major smartphones which would make it hard to submit to the marketplace.
Something like this would be a better candidate as a custom block shared on GitHub. With WhatsApp being very popular in many countries, I believe it could be useful.
The tutorial makes WhatsApp sharing seem fairly straightforward. The problem is I can't find any official WhatsApp documentation on how it should be properly done.
