The Display Rules panel allows you to control where content sharing is enabled. This primarily controls text selection sharing.
Display Rules Panel in the Content Sharing Tab
Configuring Content Sharing Per Post Type
By default, content sharing is enabled for all post types in Highlight and Share. You can exclude post types via the "Excluded Post Types" setting.
Excluded Post Types Option for Content Sharing
You can still selectively enable or disable text sharing via sidebar settings when editing a post.
Sidebar Settings to Disable or Enable Social Sharing via a Highlight or Text Selection
Enable on Content Areas (Content, Excerpt, and Comments)
Enable Highlight Sharing on Post Content, the Post Excerpt, and the Comments Section
A useful setting is the ability to disable text selection on the main content area. Use this if you have content enabled in post types but would like to skip the content area when sharing.
You can also allow text and social sharing on excerpts, and enable it for the comments section.
If you have a page builder, these settings may have no effect. In that case, you'll need advanced selectors.
Enable or Disable for Mobile Devices
Most mobile devices already have content sharing when highlighting text, but you can enable Highlight and Share's additional networks on mobile devices by default. If you wish to disable Highlight and Share on mobile devices, uncheck this option.
Enable Text Selection on Mobile Devices
Setting a Sharing Prefix and Suffix
Setting a Sharing Prefix and Suffix
For social networks with text sharing enabled, you can wrap the text in a prefix and suffix, for example, a quotation mark, a parenthesis, or other punctuation.
Here's an example post with the prefix and suffix shown:
Suffix and Prefix Shown for Text Sharing
Enabling Shortlinks
You can find the Shortlinks setting in the Display Rules panel under Content Sharing.
Shortlinks Option for Content Sharing
Shortlinks let you share a shorter version of a URL. You will need a shortlink service installed, such as Jetpack, for this to work.
Shortlink Visible When Sharing Text
The shortlink will display for any social network that allows URL sharing, which is most of them. Here are some compatible WordPress services for shortlinks.
