Beautiful “like” buttons with counters for popular social networks: Facebook, Twitter, LiveJournal, etc. Uses jQuery.

• Easy to install.
• Beautiful and all in one style.
• Won’t explode your page’s layout.

Use interactive builder to generate the code.

Or install via Bower: $ bower install social-likes.

All buttons in a row.

<ul class="social-likes">
	<li class="facebook" title="Share link on Facebook">Facebook</li>
	...
</ul>

All buttons in a column.

<ul class="social-likes social-likes_vertical">
	<li class="facebook" title="Share link on Facebook">Facebook</li>
	...
</ul>

One button with a counter (summ of all the networks). Opens popup with like buttons in vertical layout. Use data-single-title attribute to change button title.

<ul class="social-likes social-likes_single" data-single-title="Share me!">
	<li class="facebook" title="Share link on Facebook">Facebook</li>
	...
</ul>

If you want to remove button titles add social-likes_notext class to make it looks better.

<ul class="social-likes social-likes_notext">
	<li class="facebook" title="Share link on Facebook"></li>
	...
</ul>

Options define via HTML data attributes or JavaScript parameters object.

url

URL of shareable page. Current page by default.

title

Title for Twitter, Vkontakte and LiveJournal. Current page’s title by default.

html

HTML code for LiveJournal button. By default tag with link to current page.

counters

Disables “likes” counters when “no”. Default: “yes”.

zeroes

Show counters even when number is 0. Default: “no”.

single-title

Share button title for “single button” mode. Default: “Share”.

Examples:

<ul class="social-likes" data-url="http://landscapists.info/" data-title="Landscapists of Russia">
	…
</ul>

<ul class="social-likes social-likes_single" data-single-title="This is Sharing!">
	…
</ul>

$('.social-likes').socialLikes({
	url: 'https://github.com/sapegin/social-likes/',
	title: 'Beautiful “like” buttons with counters for popular social networks',
	counters: true,
	singleTitle: 'Share it!'
});

You can specify via (site’s Twitter) and related (any other Twitter you want to advertise) values for <li class="twitter">:

<li class="twitter" data-via="sapegin" data-related="Landscapists">Twitter</li>

You should specify an image URL via data-media attribute on <li class="pinterest">:

<li class="pinterest" data-media="http://example.com/image/url.jpg">Pinterest</li>

Could be useful on dynamic (AJAX) websites.

<ul id="share">
	<li class="facebook">Facebook</li>
	...
</ul>

$('#share').socialLikes();

You can dynamically replace URL, title and Pinterest image without reinitialization.

<ul id="share2" class="social-likes" data-url="http://example.com/" data-title="My example">
	<li class="facebook">Facebook</li>
	...
</ul>

$('#share2').socialLikes({
	url: 'http://github.com/',
	title: 'GitHub',
	data: {
		media: 'http://birdwatcher.ru/i/userpic.jpg'  // Image for Pinterest button
	}
});

By default counters for any uniqe URL requested only once. You can force new request with forceUpdate option:

$('#share2').socialLikes({
	forceUpdate: true
});

Triggers for every counter.

$('.social-likes').on('counter.social-likes', function(event, service, number) {
	// service: facebook, twitter, etc.
});

Triggers after all counters loaded.

$('.social-likes').on('ready.social-likes', function(event, number) {
	// number is total number of shares
});

Triggers after popup window opened.

$('.social-likes').on('popup_opened.social-likes', function(event, service, win) {
	// win is popup window handler (window.open())
});

Triggers after popup window closed.

$('.social-likes').on('popup_closed.social-likes', function(event, service) {
	$(event.currentTarget).socialLikes({forceUpdate: true});  // Update counters
});

You can find some custom buttons in contrib folder.

Define socialLikesButtons hash:

var socialLikesButtons = {
	surfingbird: {
		popupUrl: 'http://surfingbird.ru/share?url={url}',
		popupWidth: 650,
		popupHeight: 500
	}
};

If you know the social network search page's url, you can make a link to results of searching in this network. There are search urls for Twitter and VKontakte by default.

var socialLikesButtons = {
	twitter: {
		...
		searchUrl: 'https://twitter.com/search?src=typd&q={url}'
	}
};

Add some CSS:

.social-likes__button_surfingbird {
	background: #f2f3f5;
	color: #596e7e;
	border-color: #ced5e2;
	}
.social-likes__icon_surfingbird {
	background: url(http://surfingbird.ru/img/share-icon.png) no-repeat 2px 3px;
	}

And use in like any other button:

<li class="surfingbird">Surf</li>

See sources (src folder) for available options and class names and contrib folder for custom buttons examples.

You can use Open Graph. It works for Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest and Vkontakte).

You can add additional Twitter data using Twitter Card. You have to approve every type of Twitter Card.

<meta property="og:type" content="article">
<meta property="og:url" content="{page_url}">
<meta property="og:title" content="{title}">
<meta property="og:description" content="{description}">
<meta property="og:image" content="{image_url}">
<meta name="twitter:card" content="summary">
<meta name="twitter:site" content="@SiteTwitter">
<meta name="twitter:creator" content="@sapegin">

If you’re experincing any problems with meta data try Open Graph Debugger and Twitter Card Validator.

See wiki.

In most cases if you don’t see counters it’s because social networks APIs return zeroes. You could check API requests results in Network tab in your browser’s developer tools:

Double check that you use canonical URLs (without extra parameters such as utm_source). You can change URL via data-url option.

If you’re sure that it’s a bug please file an issue and provide a link to a page with non-working counter.

The changelog can be found in the Changelog.md file.

The MIT License, see the included License.md file.