Fixed an issue where custom button and icon colors on the Share Buttons block were not applied when selected from the theme palette.
Updated share and follow block inspector controls to use ToggleGroupControl instead of the deprecated ButtonGroup component.
Improved license and update API request handling to reduce how often sites contact the Novashare server, including longer update check caching, cached license status checks, and a staggered retry delay after failed update requests.
1.6.8 – 07.30.2026
Added new Link Shortener configuration option with Bitly and Custom options. When custom is selected, the novashare_short_link_url filter can be used to return generated short link URLs.
Renamed previous Enable Bitly option to Enable Link Shortening.
Added novashare_short_link_generated action for short link integrations (novashare_bitly_link_generated kept for backwards compatibility).
Added a missing capability check to the refresh share counts AJAX action.
Added a missing nonce check to license key save, activate, deactivate, and remove actions.
Added ABSPATH checks to plugin include files where needed.
Hardened sanitization for color and custom CSS field output.
Improved escaping and sanitization for meta box fields and various frontend links and attributes.
Fixed a block editor error that could occur when a previously selected network was no longer available.
Fixed Click to Post blocks spanning full width in the block editor.
Fixed W3C validation issues with certain network share links.
Adjusted image upload preview thumbnails in the plugin settings to match WordPress admin input heights across versions.
Removed Yummly share network from the plugin, as the service is no longer active.
1.6.7 – 06.17.2026
Added new share and follow buttons for MeWe.
Added new follow buttons for Cash App, Ko-fi, and Venmo.
Added new Share button window options for Button Color and Icon Color.
Adjusted novashare_ai_network_text filter to allow the text to be changed per network.
Added WP-CLI support for managing plugin license key activation and importing a settings configuration.
1.6.6 – 03.12.2026
Added new share and follow buttons for Gab.
Added new novashare_share_link_target filter.
Updated Mastodon share link to use their new official share landing workflow.
Made plugin UI styles adjustments in preparation for WordPress 7.
Made improvements to visual transitions during hard reloads in the plugin UI.
Fixed an issue in the post meta UI where images were expanding beyond their containers on some sites.
Fixed multiple plugin UI HTML warnings for incorrect label target IDs.
Removed some old redundant tooltip styles from the admin stylesheet.
1.6.5 – 01.19.2026
Fixed an issue where the Social Media Title meta box field was not saving new values correctly.
1.6.4 – 01.01.2026
Added new share button for Mistral AI.
Made some minor adjustments to various network SVG viewBox values to be more consistent throughout the plugin.
Changed hidden Pinterest images to use image thumbnails for the src attribute instead of the full image to save on overall load.
Made some changes to the Novashare Details meta box UI to be more consistent and improve selected image visibility.
Updated EDD plugin updater class to version 1.9.4.
Fixed a PHP warning that would sometimes show up when checking for post short links.
1.6.3 – 10.21.2025
Added new AI share buttons for Claude and Google AI.
Added new novashare_ai_network_text filter.
Added support to set the Novashare license key via wp-config.php using the NOVASHARE_LICENSE_KEY constant.
Removed Pocket share network from the plugin, as they have shut down.
1.6.2 – 08.25.2025
Added new AI share buttons for ChatGPT, Grok, and Perplexity which link to a prompt that will summarize the shared post's content.
Added follow button support for Nextdoor.
Updated Nextdoor brand colors.
Adjusted copy button URL to work with existing novashare_permalink filter when displayed on single posts.
Fixed multiple PHP warnings coming from the follow widget class.
Fixed an issue where floating bar icons were not centering properly when fill available space option was being used.
Reverted Facebook share button mobile URL to use web link to be more compatible with all platforms.
Updated our staging site license key exception list with additional formats.
1.6.1 – 06.30.2025
Added new novashare_page_builders filter.
Added new Pinterest image pin options for Image Placement to control which images get pin buttons added. The novashare_pinterest_image_excluded filter that was previously used for whitelisting will still work for the time being, but that will now be managed in the UI going forward.
Started work on moving more universal style properties like button size and button margin to CSS variables.
Refactored specific portions of the main frontend stylesheet, reducing the file size by 7.69%. We recommend that you clear all cache layers (Unused/Critical CSS, server cache, CDN cache) after updating.
Cleaned up and removed redundant inline style overrides for inline content buttons.
Adjusted admin UI JavaScript to allow for child options to have multiple controllers of different types.
Fixed an issue where floating bar buttons were being added to the Bricks editor UI.
Fixed an issue where Facebook share button was not working correctly on mobile.
1.6.0 – 04.10.2025
Added share button support for Nextdoor network.
Added new Total Share Count and Network Share Count options to share button section with additional frontend styles to display the total share count at the top of the share window.
Adjusted total share count calculations to display the combined total regardless of network selection if the share button is being used.
Deployed a secondary API that can be used when the client has issues communicating with our licensing server (usually due to firewalls).
1.5.9 – 03.05.2025
Added new location follow button.
Added support for image pin buttons to appear on images inside Bricks editor content.
Added dynamic label font size for follow buttons relative to the overall size set for the buttons.
Fixed an issue where the follow block height would not always display correctly in the editor.
Fixed a display error that could sometimes happen with certain follow block networks.
Fixed an issue where Pinterest image content was returning blank when no global post data was available.
Fixed multiple display issues with highlight buttons that could happen with specific setups.
Moved the show on scroll load event to an event listener to prevent conflicts with other onload events.
Updated our staging site license key exception list with additional formats.
1.5.8 – 01.28.2025
Added new Show Labels control to the follow buttons block.
Updated all blocks to API version 3 to support rendering the block inside the post editor iframe.
Fixed multiple deprecated UI element warnings showing up in the block editor.
Fixed a missing anchor link pointing to the license tab in our plugin settings UI.
Fixed an issue where additional CSS classes set in the advanced section of the share buttons block were not added to the HTML output.
Fixed an encoding issue with certain Pinterest descriptions when added to page images for the image grid via JavaScript.
Some minor code refactoring and style cleanup.
Removed trailing empty block style in the main stylesheet that was previously used to fix a block editor enqueuing issue.
