Medium like popover menu to share on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or by email any text selected on the page.
As of April 2026, Selection Sharer by Hans van Gent is a WordPress email plugin with 2.0K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 21 reviews. It has been downloaded 32K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.5+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Last updated 9 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are down 40% this week. Top alternative: WP Mail SMTP by WPForms – The Most….
Selection Sharer makes it super easy for your readers to share your content and drive new visitors to your site. With Selection Sharer, any visitor on your website/blog can easily
highlight any part of your content and share it immediately on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or via email. Ultimately, the more your readers share, the more new traffic your site will get.
When a visitor highlights some text on your WordPress website they will be presented by a Medium like popover menu to share their highlighted content. This plugin supports both desktop (with a pop-over) as well as mobile devices (with a pop-under). This plugin is made possible by the excellent work done by @xdamman and is based on his code.
I was looking for some select-and-share plugin like in Medium and here I have it. It would be great if the Facebook sharing widget opened in a new window but I’m not complaining. This is a free plugin after all! Thanks for your great effort.
This was exactly what I was looking for. Simple and clean. Only the large social networks.
Works great!
Thank you very much!
great
| WordPress | 2.5+ requiredTested up to 4.4.34 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Finally got some time to look into the IE11 issue, made a small adaptation in the code. Thanks a lot, Alex for the helpful tips there!
While we’re smashing bugs, smashed another one as well. Hope you like it!
In the meantime, we’re working heavily on a different plugin, which features this as part of a more sophisticated suite to help you generate leads from your website called Inbound Rocket, be sure to check it out!
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