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Wix Pro Gallery: Enabling Social Sharing from Your Gallery

Enable social sharing from your gallery so that your visitors can share their favorite items on their social networks and generate traffic back to your site. Visitors can share their favorites via Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Pinterest and email.

Enabling social sharing from your gallery

Enable social sharing from your gallery to various social media and email in just one click.

To enable social sharing:

Go to your editor.
Click the pro gallery element on your page.
Click Settings.
Click the Settings tab.
Click the Social sharing toggle to enable it.

Social sharing from the main gallery view

Visitors can share their favorite gallery items from your main gallery view by simply hovering over the item and clicking the social share icon

Wix Pro Gallery: Enabling Social Sharing from Your Gallery

. A pop-up appears with Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Pinterest and email icons that take the visitor directly to that social media address.

Social sharing from the Expand Mode

Once you enable social sharing in your gallery, the social share icon

also appears in your Expand Mode at the top left of the window. This way visitors can share directly from the Expand Mode without going back to the main gallery view.

FAQs

Click a question below to learn more about managing your gallery:

Why are my social share icons missing?

For Social share icons to be visible, you must apply a hover overlay to your gallery. You can set the transparency to 0 if you don't want the overlay to be visible. If you choose a partial overlay, make sure to set its size to 40% or more.

Can I customize the design of the social share icons in the Wix Pro Gallery?

No. Currently, it is not possible to customize the design of the social share icons in the Wix Pro Gallery, or add additional ones. If that is something you'd like to see in the future, you can vote for that feature.

Can I track gallery items that have been shared by my site visitors?

No. Currently, it is not possible to track and analyze information on gallery items that have been shared by your site visitors. If that is something you'd like to see in the future, you can vote for that feature.

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