Social media links, sharing settings, and meta tags for Plone sites, edited on content and shown by Volto.
An editor keeps the site's profiles in an ordered list on the site root.
Every page shows them as icons, in the footer or in a Follow Us block, and carries the head tags that tell social networks how to render it when shared.
Status: alpha, tested with Plone 6.1 and 6.2, and with Volto 19.4.1.
Compatibility has the full matrix.
Social Media support for Plone#
Social media links, sharing settings, and meta tags for Plone sites, edited on content and shown by Volto.
An editor keeps the site's profiles in an ordered list on the site root. Every page shows them as icons, in the footer or in a Follow Us block, and carries the head tags that tell social networks how to render it when shared.
Status: alpha, tested with Plone 6.1 and 6.2, and with Volto 19.4.1. Compatibility has the full matrix.
Warning
This documentation was written with Claude Opus 5, following the Plone documentation style skill.
Two add-ons, installed together#
Package
Is
Gives you
plonegovbr.socialmediaA Plone backend add-on
The behaviors that store the settings and the links, and the profile that enables them on the site root.
@plonegovbr/volto-social-mediaA Volto frontend add-on
The table that edits the links, the icons, the Follow Us block, and the head tags.
Install the backend first, then the frontend.
Add social links to a development site and show them on a page.
Start here if the package is new to you.
Install the packages, set the links, add a network, style the icons.
Directions toward a result.
Why the settings live on content, and why networks live in the frontend.
Understanding, away from the keyboard.
The behaviors, the REST API, the profiles, and everything the Volto add-on registers.
Technical description of the machinery.
Every component the Volto add-on ships, rendered with its props.
Built from this repository and published beside these pages.
What it gives you#
Settings on the site root. The site's links and sharing settings are fields of the site root, edited in its own form, and served with every page.
Sections with their own links. Enable the settings behavior on a folderish content type, and a section speaks for itself.
Links edited as a table. Every link is a row, by network and title, with a handle to drag it into place.
Icons wherever you need them. A footer slot, a Follow Us block, a view widget, and components to render the links anywhere else.
Head tags from the same data.
twitter:siteandog:article:publisherfollow the X and Facebook links, with no username typed twice.What you need#
Plone
6.1 or 6.2
Python
3.11 to 3.14
Frontend
Volto, developed against 19.4.1