A simple, lightweight jQuery plugin that provides a considered approach to social sharing, allowing for complete control of styling (no iframes) and supporting share counts for both Facebook and Twitter.

Currently in pre-release, feedback and issues welcome.

Include script after the jQuery library:

<script src="/path/to/share.js"></script>

Any link on a site can become sharable through the use of the following data tags:

<a href="#share" 
   data-share="twitter" 
   data-url="https://github.com/scottsanders/share.js" 
   data-message="Finally, a simple solution to social sharing" 
   data-via="scottsanders">share.js</a>

Then in your jQuery call the plugin as follows:

jQuery('a[data-share]').share();

The data attributes currently supported by the plugin are:

data-share : The social network you want to share on, currently supports facebook, twitter, whatsapp, email and print

data-url : The url to be shared, used to retrieve share count, defaults to page url

data-message : The default text of the shared message, supported by twitter, whatsapp, and email

data-via : The twitter username to include with the shared message, only supported by twitter

data-popup : The sharing screen shows in a popup window rather than redirecting, defaults to true

data-count : Determines whether or not to show the share count on this specific share link, defaults to true

This plugin supports the following options:

jQuery('a').share({
  threshold: 0,
  abbreviate: true,
  counts: true
});

threshold : Hides the sharing count until a certain number of shares has been reached

abbreviate : Abbreviates large numbers when sharing is high, so 15101 shares become 15k.

counts : Determines whether to show share counts, can be overwridden per share link with data-count

Scott Sanders