Divi Social Sharing Buttons Maker

Instagram does not support any kind of social sharing. It is not like other social networks. It’s simply not possible, so that is why there is no feature for Instagram in our plugin.

Elegant Themes, the company that creates Divi, originally created a totally separate social sharing plugin called Monarch that is available with your Elegant Themes membership. But to be honest, it’s not very useful for Divi users. I can think of some majorly lacking features compared to our Divi Social Sharing Buttons Maker module.

• There is no Divi module
• It is very limited in how and where you can add the icons
• There are no design customization options
• The plugin seems forgotten without updates
• It is complicated to use
• There is no integration with Divi
• There are not even any shortcodes
• No layout options
• No responsive settings
• No social sharing options for custom image, title, text, or links

We encourage you to check out Monarch feature comparison table to see all the differences!

In general, our plugin will work fine if you are only using the Divi Builder plugin with another theme. However, it may not be optimal because some of our settings are located in the backend in the Divi Theme Options, and the “Theme Options” are only in the Divi Theme and not their Divi Builder plugin. However, only a few of the settings are located there, so in most cases it would work fine with the plugin.

Our plugin is fully optimized for performance, and we set high standards for all our plugins. We tested this plugin on pages, posts, and Divi Theme Builder templates and did not see any difference in page load time whether our module was used or not. However, obviously there are hundreds of factors to consider in website performance, and any plugin would technically need to load code. The great thing about our plugin is that there are no API share counts to affect the performance, and the JavaScript to open the sharing dialog only runs when you click a button.

The WordPress “Featured Image” on the page or post is the default image that gets shared when you click one of the buttons. This is handled by something called open graph meta tags, which are added by SEO plugins. Our plugin has settings to share that default image, or to add your own custom image directly in the module, either for all social networks or even set a different image per social network.

Absolutely, we love adding new features that benefit the users and add value to our products. If you have any good ideas for new features or suggestions for new social networks, just contact us to let us know which social networks or other features you would like to see added in future updates!

We do not have any feature for tracking shares at this time. There are several important factors to consider here. First, that kind of feature would require API connections to each social media platform, and that will negatively affect your page performance. Secondly, the share count may have negative effects on your visitors. For example, imagine you write a great blog post and are very proud of it, but later after several months, you realize your post says zero shares or a very low share count. To your visitors, it could look like nobody cares if the numbers are lower than they think is a good count, which could demoralize them and cause them not to share and leave the page instead.

For these reasons, share counts may not be as important as you would first think, and could end up having various negative consequences. The hassle, performance, and subconscience negative comprises do not seem worth it. Let us know if you disagree and convince us to add them!