Ben Werdmuller, a developer and startup founder, has recently launched ShareOpenly, a method of adding sharing links to your website content but for the modern, open, social web.

You know all those “share to Facebook” / “share to Twitter” links you see all over peoples’ websites? They’re all out of date.

Social media has evolved over the last year, yet nobody has “share to” links for Mastodon, Bluesky, Threads, etc. There have been a few attempts to create “share to Mastodon” buttons, but they haven’t taken the larger breadth of the new social media landscape into account.

So I’ve built a prototype, which I’ve called ShareOpenly.

ShareOpenly announcement

Now, a WordPress plugin is available to add this feature quickly and easy to your site. Indeed, scroll down to the bottom of this post and you’ll see it in action!

It was submitted to the wordpress.org directory today, but there is currently a month delay on submissions. So, if you’d like to try it in the meantime, you can find it on Github, and download version 1.0. If you do give it a whirl, please make use of the repo issues to let me know if any issues you experience or ideas that you have to improve it further.

I should add too that I’ve been working with Ben on this, and this should be considered an official plugin for it (indeed, the README for the plugin states this to be the case), which he has given permission for.

Install, activate and try out a brand new list of sharing options for your site!