Highlight and Share – Unobtrusive and Lightweight Content Sharing
Changelog
6.0.1
Released 2026-03-09
New: Align headlines to the right. You can select inline positioning (link icon next to the last word) or absolute positioning (right of the headline).
New: Auto-truncate headline anchors (off by default). This will prevent super long headline anchors.
New: The sidebar options now reflect their state, even if a sharing option is disbabled, the post sidebar options win.
Fix: The social network settings cogs could lose their state if clicking around too fast.
Fix: Inline highlighting CSS wasn’t specific enough, preventing overrides.
Fix: Tooltips for social networks were overlapping.
Fix: Image sharing positioning (top right, bottom right) now respect the image’s dimensions.
6.0.0
Released 2026-03-06
New: Sharing tab reorganized, consolidating the sharing options into one tab, eliminating the Appearance and Block Editor tabs. Social Networks have been moved to a single panel, with advanced options tucked away for a cleaner appearance.
New: All tabs support a global save bar, making saving and discarding options much more intuitive.
New: Post sidebar for per-post disabling of Highlight and Share, including sharing, images, and headlines.
New (Text Sharing): Added Post Type exclusions to selection sharing.
New (Image Sharing): Can enable on archive excerpts and featured images.
New (Stats): New stats system that dispatches events if stats service is found. This allows for layered opt-in to GA4, GTM, and synthetic events. No personal information or cookies are sent, so there’s no need to update privacy policies.
New (Stats): The plugin detects GA4, dispatching events if found.
New (Stats): Google Tag Manager has been consolidated with GA4 and synthetic event firing.
New (Stats): The plugin fires synthetic events per social network, allowing for listeners and third-party integrations.
New (Stats): Filters has_stats_enabled and has_stats_enhanced control behavior. Stats are enabled by default and just show social network and click type (selection, cta, highlight, headline). has_stats_enhanced can be set to true to send page url, title, and text selection to stats tracking service.
New (Sharing Block): Theme system with built-in themes (Light, Dark, Bold, Royal, Legacy) replacing presets.
New (Sharing Block): Removing third-party locally-hosted fonts in favor of third-party solutions, reducing the plugin bundle size by 75%.
New (Sharing Block): Block variations let you insert a pre-themed Click to Share block (Light, Dark, Bold, Royal) from the inserter.
New (Sharing Block): Theme overrides for color, typography, and dimensions in the block editor for the new themes.
New (Sharing Block): Quick shortcut to the parent block from child blocks for quicker access to block settings.
New (Sharing Block): Custom Fonts plugin support; Adobe fonts removed from plugin in favor of third-party plugins.
New (Sharing Block): Core/Group allowed inside share content so any block can be nested via Group.
New (Headline Sharing): Ability to enable headline sharing is now available. Show a link icon next to available headings and allow quick copying and sharing of headlines. This compliments content sharing and is compatible with TOC plugins.
New (Headline Sharing): Select up to three social networks to share to in addition to copying.
New (Headline Sharing): Customize per post type and per page how headlines are enabled.
Bug fix (Sharing Block): Text alignment on mobile (align right).
Bug fix (Image Sharing): Image sharing for Web Share would error out when sharing an image.
Bug fix (Image Sharing): Improved page builder support and added loop detection to prevent timeouts.
Bug fix (Image Sharing): Fixed hover and focus states, adding better reliability to image sharing display.
Bug fix (Email Sharing): Emails can be enabled with only the mailto option if spam protection isn’t available.
5.3.5
Released 2025-12-17
Bug fix: Responsive styles were not saving or setting correctly in the Click to Share block.
Bug fix: Fixed sync values when changing screen size in the block editor iframe.
Code improvement: Removed defaultProps from React components to clear up deprecation warnings.
5.3.2
Released 2025-12-16
Bug fix: Block.json was still set to version 2. This has been updated to version 3.
Bug fix: Some build scripts werne’t included. Apologies.
5.3.1
Released 2025-12-16
New: Click to Share block is now at verison 3 of the block.json API.
Bug fix: Click to Share block would error out when switching responsive breakpoints in the block editor.
5.3.0
Released 2025-11-25
Security fix: Resolving Broken Access Control vulnerability in regards to email sending as reported by Patchstack.
Bug fix: email sending now requires either reCAPTCHA Enterprise or Turnstile enabled.
5.2.0
Released 2025-11-16
Security fix: Resolving XSS vulnerability in the plugin as reported by Patchstack.
5.1.1
Released 2025-07-24
Fixing translations loading too soon error.
Resolving PHP warnings when enabled for comments.
5.1.0
Released 2025-04-29
Added reCAPTCHA Enterprise to the emails tab to support the phasing out of reCAPTCHA 3.
Added Cloudflare Turnstile to the emails tab for an alternate spam solution.
New theme: Orbs.
5.0.4
Released 2025-04-22
Fixing a bug in email sending due to an invalid nonce value.
= 5.0.2
* Released 2024-11-28
* Bug fix: translations were loading too early in the plugin.
5.0.1
Released 2024-06-24
Bug fix: shortlinks were returning empty for some custom post types.
Bug fix: Image sharing was causing a few warnings if a parent node didn’t exist.
Bug fix: Other admin notices showing in HAS admin settings.
5.0.0 (Holly)
Released 2024-06-22
Named for Holly Jahangiri, who helped provide critical testing feedback.
Performance improvement: inlining critical styles and loading main styles in the footer for faster page rendering.
Layout fix: the way Highlight and Share was added to the page content has been changed for better compatibility with themes, particularly block-enabled themes.
