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Web Stories option to disable/hide share button
- Dominant language
- JavaScript
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Description
## Describe the new feature or change to an existing feature you'd like to see
A user of the Web Stories WordPress plugin requested to hide/remove the share button in the story player. Submitting this as a feature request since disabling sharing is not possible by default.
## Additional context
See the following related issues in the Web Stories WordPress forum:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-i-remove-the-share-button/
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-i-hide-the-share-button/
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/twitter-linkedin-at-the-end-of-the-story/
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-can-i-add-custom-css-to-story-page/#post-14250792
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by tracing the Web Stories story-player entry point that renders the share button, then review the three linked WordPress forum reports and the issue discussion for expected behavior. Done should provide a documented way to hide or remove the share button while preserving the default sharing behavior when the option is not used.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- frontend, web-dev
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100