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Social media share urls enhanced by Kentico macros

July 25, 2015

Requirements of nearly every website ask us to incorporate links for sharing content on social media. There are tools out there which generates these links for us. But what if we want to generate them automatically on our websites?

In this short article I will provide you with Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+ share urls enhanced by Kentico macros which you can place in your template and let them generate automatically.

https://twitter.com/home?status={% UrlEncode(CurrentDocument.DocumentName)#%}%20{% UrlEncode(CurrentDocument.AbsoluteUrl)#%}

http://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u={% CurrentDocument.AbsoluteURL #%}

https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url={% CurrentDocument.AbsoluteURL #%}&title={% UrlEncode(CurrentDocument.Name)#%}&summary=&source=

https://plus.google.com/share?url={% CurrentDocument.AbsoluteURL #%}