After dipping my toes into the Fediverse for the past few months, I wanted the Jetpack plugin to be there to help bloggers who wanted to interact more with the Fediverse on their sites.
Jetpack includes Sharing buttons that can be handy for your readers to quickly share your posts to their Social Network of choice ; adding a Mastodon button seemed like a no-brainer!
Car sharing services are more and more popular in Hungary. We now also have scooter sharing!
After figuring out a nice little challenge in the Jetpack support forums last week, I wanted to share the results with you.
First of all, I need to thank Aquif Shaikh for his question in the original thread. This thread required a bit more digging than usual, and I love a good challenge.
The question was actually quite simple: how to add UTM tracking to the Jetpack sharing buttons. If you’re not familiar with UTM tracking, you’ll want to check this generator. UTM tracking allows you to track specific URLs in Google Analytics.
Let’s get started.
A few days ago I explained how to add hashtags to the tweets sent out by Jetpack Publicize. But what about the tweets your read can send using the Jetpack Sharing buttons at the bottom of your posts?
Here is how to get tags from your posts, and add them as hashtags to the twitter sharing button. As always, you’ll want to paste that code in a functionality plugin.
function jeherve_custom_sharing_title() {
$post = get_post();
if ( empty( $post ) ) {
return;
} else {
// Create sharing title
$sharing_title = get_the_title( $post->ID );
// Get the tags
$post_tags = get_the_tags( $post->ID );
if ( ! empty( $post_tags ) ) {
// Create list of tags with hashtags in front of them
$hash_tags = '';
foreach( $post_tags as $tag ) {
$hash_tags .= ' #' . $tag->name;
}
// Add tags to the title
$sharing_title .= $hash_tags;
}
return $sharing_title;
}
}
add_filter( 'sharing_title', 'jeherve_custom_sharing_title', 10, 3 );
Hat tip to Ryan for the idea!