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Share This Image

By ILLID

E-commerce & Shopping /

Reviewed by Omar Dabbas

Trusted WordPress expert with 20+ years of experience evaluating plugins for the WP ecosystem.

Share This Image Review - In-Depth Analysis

Share This Image is a flexible image sharing plugin for WordPress. It allows users to share specific images with customizable content across popular social networks.

Performance Overview

WPS Score

6.7/10

User Rating

4.1/5 (based on 22+ reviews)

Active Installations

1,000+

Update Frequency

Average It is calculated using the weighted average of same category plugins.

Security Score

6.6 / 10 (Medium Risk) It is calculated using the weighted average of all versions.

What It Does

Share selected images with customizable content!

This plugin adds social sharing icons to each image in your site. Share This Image is a simple and flexible image sharing plugin for WordPress. It gives you great flexibility to promote your content to the most popular social networks and messengers.

With this plugin, users can share exactly the same image they want, select which images to share, and customize the content that accompanies the shared images. It also includes features for creating short links and supports Google Analytics.

The premium version offers additional sharing buttons, advanced content customization, and priority support. This plugin is designed for ease of use and compatibility across major browsers.

Comparing to Alternatives

Share This Image stands alone in its category with no close direct alternatives available, making it a unique choice for users seeking image sharing functionality.

Top alternatives

Strengths

Allows direct sharing of image assets across social platforms.
Flexible customization options to fit various site needs.
Responsive support with updates integrating well with page builders like Elementor.
Proven compatibility with major social networks such as Facebook and Twitter.
Good track record of support responsiveness over several years.

Weaknesses

Security history includes multiple vulnerabilities requiring updates.
Does not actually share images directly but shares the post link instead.
Some users find it redundant if they already use other social sharing plugins.
Limited clarity in functionality leading to user confusion.

User Sentiment Analysis

With a majority of high ratings but a small portion of low ratings, user feedback is generally positive but highlights some misunderstandings and functional limitations.

Positive highlights

An excellent tool for custom sharing of site images with responsive support (garethbowden).
Great support with fast and understanding help over several years (leventea).
Ability to customize shared URLs to suit needs (readysite).

Common complaints

Does not actually share the image but shares the post link, making it redundant if another social sharing plugin is used (SWEATe).

Weaknesses

Confusion about the plugin's actual functionality.
Perceived redundancy with other social media sharing plugins.
Some users find it difficult to use or understand.

Who Should Use This?

Best for

Users who need a plugin focused on sharing image assets directly on social media and appreciate responsive support and customization options.

Not ideal for

Those expecting true image sharing functionality rather than sharing post links, or users who already have comprehensive social sharing plugins installed.

Pricing & Value

Free version includes

The free version offers basic image sharing capabilities and customization options sufficient for many users.

Pro version

Premium features likely include enhanced customization, additional social platform integrations, and priority support.

Final Verdict

Share This Image offers a unique solution for sharing image assets with strong customization and support, making it valuable for users needing this specific functionality. However, its history of security vulnerabilities and the fact that it shares post links rather than images may limit its appeal.

Potential users should weigh the plugin's strengths against its limitations and security history, especially if they require true image sharing or already use other social sharing tools. Its lack of close alternatives highlights its niche position in the market.

Other Notable Features

Here are a few other notable features of this free Share This Image plugin.

Image sharing

Social buttons

WordPress plugin

Screenshots

FAQ

Share This Image ( STI ) is an image sharing plugin for WordPress. The main difference between this plugin and many other social sharing plugins is that STI specializes in image sharing and shares exactly selected images with fully customizable content like title, description and URL.
Here is a list of some main plugin features:

Exact image sharing.
Fully customizable url, image, title and description that you want to share.
Supports all most popular social networks/messengers.
Choose what images on what pages to share.
and many more…

Please visit features page for a full list of available features.

When sharing new image for title and description plugin first of all looks in ‘data-title’ and ‘data-summary’ attributes of image.

So you can set your fully customizable content by adding this attributes. It’s can look like that:

<img src="images/youre-cool-image.jpg" data-title="Title for image" data-summary="Description for image">

If image doesn’t have data attributes then plugin will use title attribute for title and attr attribute for summary.

<img src="images/youre-cool-image.jpg" title="Title for image" attr="Description for image">

If image doesn’t have data, title and attr attributes then will be used default title and description that you set in the plugin settings page.

Also it is possible to set shared image that can be different from image in the ‘img’ tag.

It’s can be done with help of ‘data-media’ attribute:

<img src="youre-image-to-display-on-page.jpg" data-media="youre-image-to-share.jpg">

Also you can change shared link.

By default plugin will share link to the page where your shared image in situated. But you can simply change this behavior.

Just add ‘data-url’ attribute with link that you want to be shared.

img src="images/youre-cool-image.jpg" data-url="http://your-link.com">

With the PRO plugin version you have the more advanced features in content customization. You can set priority for content sources, use special text variables and even customize sharing content individually for each sharing button.

Most common there is no need to use shortcode. Plugin will automatically work with all images that you have on your site.

But with shorcode it is very simple to share desired image with custom title and description.

All you need to do is add this shortcode inside your page or post content section

[sti_image image="http://your-image-to-display.jpg" shared_image="http://your-image-to-share.jpg" shared_title="Your-title" shared_desc="Your-Description"]

It is very simple and don’t need additional explanation.

No.

Plugin give ability to run it not only for images, but for any blocks of content.

Only one condition – this block must have data-media attribute with link to shared image.

For example – we have block with custom content inside. This block has class shared-box. So it is very easy to add sharing content for it.

<div class="shared-box" data-media="images/youre-cool-image.jpg" data-title="Title for image" data-summary="Description for image">    Youre custom content ( text, html or any other ) </div>

Don’t forget, that class name of block must be specified in plugin selector option. For example, if we want to share all images and this block then selector will be img, .shared-box.

That’s all! After this if any of your visitors hover on block with class name shared-box he will see appeared share box with social buttons.

Problem with the plugin like image galleries or grids is that they load its content dynamically and use JavaScript code for this. The Share This Image plugin works great with many of such types of plugins but sometimes the issues can still appear. In this case please try following steps:

Open the plugin settings page and check Buttons position option. If it is set to On image ( always show ) then change it to On image ( show on mouse enter ).
This steps requires some coding skills. The trick is to recall sharing buttons display method after the gallery/grid images are fully loaded.
Than just use following JavaScript code:

$(“img”).sti();

The trick here is to call that method only after the gallery/grid images are loaded. Usually such plugins have some JS triggers that are activated after the full load. So you need to know it and then the final code will looks like that:

$(document).on("custom-event-name", function(){     window.clearTimeout(timeoutID);         timeoutID = window.setTimeout( function() {         $("img").sti();     }, 1000 ); });