Sharable Entries

[liamdefty]

to be merged after milestone/1.7

A sharable link will be a link the the post with a hash of the entry id. When a user visits a url with a hash we will check if the entry id exists and jump to it on the front end using a similar approach and API to the jump to key events.

As it is more up to the theme developer to decide what social links they would like we do not include any on the actual entries by default. However here is a simple example of creating a share link to twitter:

add_filter( 'comment_text', function( $content, $comment ) {
	if ( $comment->comment_type === 'liveblog' ) {
		$share_link = get_permalink( $comment->comment_post_ID ).'#'.$comment->comment_ID;
		return $content.'<a href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url='.urlencode( $share_link ).'">Share to Twitter</a>';
	} 

	return $content;
}, 10, 2 ); 

[philipjohn]

Could we add the URL to each entry in a menu like the one I suggested on #328 for easy copying?

[liamdefty]

@philipjohn This makes sense to do. Our designer, Ollie, suggested that we could follow a similar format to twitter where the date/time is a link to the entry, meaning you could copy the url from here.

What are your thoughts?

[philipjohn]

Great idea!

[philipjohn]

Just a note that the failing tests are fixed in #344