Overview

What it does for you

Socials keeps each site’s approved social profiles and follow/share defaults in one place. Editors can then add an explicit Socials block to a page for accessible follow links or page-specific share links.

The package does not add social links to a theme automatically. It also avoids social SDKs, tracking scripts, remote assets, and popup JavaScript on public pages.

Where to find it

Open Growth > Socials. You need the install-generated View:SocialsPage permission, and the Site selector only lists sites your account is allowed to manage.

Configure a site

Select the site before making changes.
Under Social profiles, choose Add social profile, pick a network (or Custom link), and enter the handle or address for that network. Each finished profile collapses to a short summary of its network, destination, and whether it is shown.
Reopen a profile to reorder it, hide it from visitors, or give it a custom public label. Custom links always need a label; registered networks only show the label field when you ask for one.
Under Appearance and preview, set the follow label style and link target. Sharing uses a recommended set of the networks that support sharing; turn on Choose the share networks myself to pick exact networks, label style, and link target.
The follow and share previews sit beside those controls and update from your unsaved changes.
Select Save Socials. The action reports unsaved, saving, saved, and error states. Changing Site with unsaved changes asks whether to save, discard, or stay.

Registered networks can appear once per site. A custom link needs a public label and an HTTP or HTTPS URL. Saving an invalid or duplicate profile does not partially replace the site’s existing configuration.

Add links to a page

Add the Socials block through the page’s block or layout editor, then choose Follow or Share mode.

Follow uses All enabled site profiles by default. Select Choose profiles to pick named profiles and destinations belonging to the current site. An empty selection intentionally displays no site profiles; up to ten custom links can still appear. Removed or disabled selections show a warning and must be replaced or cleared before saving.
Share uses the current page’s canonical URL and title. Choose specific networks in the block or inherit the site’s defaults.
Both modes can inherit the site’s label and link-target defaults or override them for that block. You can also set a heading and alignment.

The block renders nothing when it has no valid links. A share block also renders nothing when the current page has no canonical URL or title.

Good to know

The follow preview updates from unsaved profiles and defaults. The share preview uses the selected site’s canonical homepage and is unavailable until that page has both a canonical URL and title.
During installation, legacy site social links are imported only when that site has no Socials profiles. Existing legacy metadata is retained for rollback, so review imported profiles before publishing a block.
Disabled, invalid, or unknown profiles are omitted from public output instead of breaking the page.
Public follow and share links are ordinary anchors with safe relationship attributes; no visitor data is sent to a social network until the visitor follows a link.

For developers: see the README.