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Creates a widget showing the most recent essay data from HeroPress. Optionally renders featured image, title, contributor, and date.
<h3>Usage</h3>
Use the normal widget admin UI to drag the widget into your sidebar.
The data fetcher caches the data for 12 hours.

HeroPress Recent Essay Widget

Creates a widget showing the most recent essay data from HeroPress.  Optionally renders featured image, title, contributor, and date.

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Try it out on your free dummy site: Click here => <a href="https://tastewp.com/plugins/ultimate-social-media-icons" rel="nofollow ugc">https://tastewp.com/plugins/ultimate-social-media-icons</a> 
(this trick works for all plugins – just replace “wordpress” with “tastewp” in the plugin’s WP repo URL)
Social media plugin which let’s you add share icons for RSS, Email, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Instagram, Youtube, ‘Share’ (covering 200+ other social media platforms) and upload custom share icons of your choice.
This free plugin has a lot to offer. Even more can be found in the Premium Plugin, please watch this short video:
<iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xaZ8m5zSYRg?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe>
See <a href="https://www.ultimatelysocial.com/usm-premium/" rel="nofollow ugc">all features of the Premium plugin</a>.
The free social media plugin includes the following features:
<ul>
<li>Pick from 16 different designs for your social media share icons</li>
<li>Give several actions to one social media share icon (e.g. your facebook share icon can lead visitors to your Facebook page, and also give visitors the opportunity to like your page)</li>
<li>Decide to give your social media icons an animation (e.g. automatic shuffling, mouse-over effects) to make your visitors aware of the share icons, increasing the chance that they follow/share your blog</li>
<li>Make your social media icons ‘float’ or ‘sticky’</li>
<li>Allow visitors to subscribe to your blog by Email</li>
<li>Add ‘counts’ to your social media buttons</li>
<li>Decide to display a pop-up (on all or only on selected pages) asking people to follow/share you via your social media icons</li>
<li>Decide to display sharing-buttons and social media icons at the end of every post</li>
<li>Select from many other customization features for your socialmedia icons!</li>
</ul>
For GDPR compliance, please have a look at our <a href="https://ultimatelysocial.com/gdpr/" rel="nofollow ugc">Social Media GDPR Compliance page</a>.
The social media plugin is very easy to use as it takes you through all the steps:
<ul>
<li>Step 1: Choose which social media icons you want to display</li>
<li>Step 2: Define what actions your social media icons should perform</li>
<li>Step 3: Pick design & animation options for your social media icons</li>
<li>Step 4: Add counts to your social media icons (optional)</li>
<li>Step 5: Select from various other social share options, e.g. make your social media icons ‘float’</li>
<li>Step 6: Add sharing/linking icons next to each blog post (optional)</li>
<li>Step 7: Add a customized pop-up asking people to follow or share (optional)</li>
<li>Step 8: Add a subscription form on your site (optional)</li>
</ul>
In case of issues or questions please ask in the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/ultimate-social-media-icons" rel="ugc">Support forum</a>.
We hope you enjoy the free social media plugin!
<h4>New premium social share plugin</h4>
We released a premium social share plugin with many more exciting features:
<ul>
<li>Many more social networks supported, including Snapchat share buttons, Whatsapp share buttons, Yummly share buttons, Phone button, Yelp share buttons, Soundcloud share buttons, Skype share buttons Flickr share buttons, Blogger share buttons, Reddit share buttons, Vimeo share buttons, Tumblr share buttons, Xing share buttons, Xhenta, Vkontakte share buttons (VK), Telegram share buttons, Amazon share buttons, Goodreads share buttons, Angies list share buttons, Steam share buttons, Twitch share buttons, Spotify share buttons, Odnoklassniki share buttons (OK), Buffer share buttons, Weibo share buttons, Pocket share buttons, Meneame share buttons, Frype share buttons, LiveJournal share buttons, Patreon share buttons, Dloky share buttons, Discord share buttons, Github share buttons, WordPress buttons, Etsy share buttons, Better Business Bureau share buttons, Digg share buttons, Delicious share buttons, Print share buttons, and many other share buttons!</li>
<li>More design styles to make your social share icons look really cool & matching the design of your website</li>
<li>Themed design styles, e.g. if you have a website about cats you can pick from social media logos which look like cats etc.</li>
<li>Better social sharing and following features, e.g. you can define the Tweet-texts better (e.g. pull the post titles into your Tweets automatically), let people follow you on Facebook directly without leaving your site etc.</li>
<li>Place the social icons on specific pages, i.e. you can define on which pages the icons to the social media sites should not show</li>
<li>Position the social icons by anchor and margins, i.e. you can define the margins where your share icons should be displayed (from top/bottom/left/right), and then have them floating, or stick, still visible when user scrolls down or not etc.</li>
<li>Optimized for mobile – you can define separate selections for your social network icons for mobile</li>
<li>More functions for email icon, such as Share (by email), Contact you, Link to a certain page etc.</li>
<li>Social media counters optimized to encourage more social media sharing from your visitors</li>
<li>More pop up options which contain your social media buttons, e.g. define a limit to how often the pop-up is shown to the same user, show pop-up only when people try to leave your website etc.</li>
<li>Friendly support in case you’re stuck</li>
<li>Many more settings and options for your social media network icons</li>
</ul>
Have a look at the <a href="https://www.ultimatelysocial.com/usm-premium/" rel="nofollow ugc">Premium Plugin features</a>

Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons


Nothing banner after banner sliding in asking if you want this and that.  Nothing but a crap plugin lasted 30 seconds in my site,


Annoying and Spammy


So since it keeps on pushing me writing a review, while I just wanted to deactivate one icon, so here goes: If you're looking for a plugin that puts social media icons on your site, wherever you want it, and add share buttons to your posts, this plugin will do it. But it will constantly remind you it's doing that. 



The settings page is terrible, it tries to be easy to use for non-technical users and puts all the setting on one page, wizard-style. Which is fine for initial configuration but if you want to change anything afterwards it does take a while to find a particular settings in this colorful candyland of a settings page. Why is every radio button 50px high and the buttons 50% of your vw? Why is the font so big? I don't know but you will surely train your scroll finger with this plugin. 



Bottom line: it does what it says it does, for free, mostly. It will constantly try to upgrade you to the premium version in the most annoying ways possible. I'm going to replace this as soon as I find something better.


Does the job but terribly annoying and messy


Horrible plugins that takes the option to deactivate without a reason. I don't like these plugins.


Unable to deactivate

Share buttons and pop up share icons for social media sharing

HeroPress Recent Essay Widget vs Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons