Mohammed Kateregga

Joan Namunina

Lightning Simple Social Share is a fast light-weight social sharing plugin for WordPress. With zero external dependencies and lightning-fast performance, it adds beautiful social media share buttons without slowing down your site.
Lightning Fast Features:
<ul>
<li>8 Popular Social Networks: Facebook, Twitter/X, LinkedIn, Pinterest, WhatsApp, Telegram, Reddit, and Email</li>
<li>Zero External Dependencies: No external JavaScript or CSS libraries – blazing fast loading</li>
<li>Ultra Lightweight: Less than 2KB total footprint</li>
<li>GDPR Compliant: No tracking, no cookies, no personal data collection</li>
<li>Privacy First: Share URLs generated client-side only when clicked</li>
<li>Customizable Design: Choose between rounded or square button styles</li>
<li>Flexible Display: Show on posts, pages, or use shortcodes anywhere</li>
<li>Translation Ready: Fully internationalized and ready for translation</li>
<li>Developer Friendly: Clean, well-documented code following WordPress standards</li>
</ul>
** Why Choose Lightning Simple Social Share?**
<ul>
<li>Performance First: No external dependencies mean faster page loads</li>
<li>Privacy Focused: No tracking scripts or data collection</li>
<li>Clean Code: Follows WordPress coding standards and best practices</li>
<li>Accessible: Proper HTML structure and keyboard navigation</li>
<li>Responsive: Looks great on all devices</li>
<li>Lightning Fast & Simple: Easy setup with blazing-fast performance</li>
</ul>
Usage:
<ol>
<li>Configure settings under Settings > Lightning Share</li>
<li>Buttons automatically appear on posts/pages (configurable)</li>
<li>Use <code>[lightning_simple_share]</code> shortcode anywhere</li>
<li>Developers can use <code>do_shortcode('[lightning_simple_share]')</code> in templates</li>
</ol>
<h3>Developer Notes</h3>
Lightning Simple Social Share follows WordPress coding standards and best practices:
<ul>
<li>All output is properly escaped</li>
<li>User input is sanitized and validated</li>
<li>Follows WordPress naming conventions</li>
<li>Uses WordPress APIs exclusively</li>
<li>Translation ready with proper text domains</li>
<li>Hooks and filters for extensibility</li>
</ul>
Hooks Available: 
* <code>lsss_share_networks</code> – Filter available social networks 
* <code>lsss_button_html</code> – Filter individual button HTML 
* <code>lsss_container_class</code> – Filter container CSS classes
For support, feature requests, or contributions, please visit the plugin’s GitHub repository.

Lightning Simple Social Share

Ultra-fast, lightweight social media share buttons with zero dependencies. Privacy-focused and GDPR compliant social sharing for WordPress.

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Buttonizer

This plugin was formerly known as “Widget for Social Page Feeds”.
Buttonizer is a powerful platform to create floating social media icons, sticky social sharing buttons, Facebook feeds, and popups for your WordPress site.
Choose from many options, including Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, X (Twitter), LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Click to Chat, Call, Email, SMS and the list goes on!
<ul>
<li>Choose from over 40 social media icons, social share buttons, click actions, and chat buttons</li>
<li>Over 2,000 Font Awesome icons you can choose from</li>
<li>Build unlimited single or multiple floating share buttons or social media icons</li>
<li>Smart filters like show on scroll, device, specific pages and specific times</li>
<li>Create high-converting floating menus (see screenshots below)</li>
<li>Analytics dashboard to see all interactions, leads and conversions</li>
<li>Lightweight Facebook page feeds for your WordPress side bar</li>
<li>Popup Builder with dozens of professionally designed marketing popups</li>
<li>Fully integrated live chat widget via Formilla to keep users on your website</li>
</ul>
Watch the video below to learn how easy it is to add Buttonizer floating social media icons, sticky social share buttons, and popups to your website:
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<h4>Social Icons, Share Buttons, and Click-to-Chat options 🚀</h4>
<ul>
<li>Social Media Icons and Social Sharing buttons
<ul>
<li>Facebook</li>
<li>X (Twitter)</li>
<li>Instagram</li>
<li>TikTok</li>
<li>WhatsApp</li>
<li>LinkedIn</li>
<li>Pinterest</li>
<li>Email</li>
<li>Telegram</li>
<li>VKontakte</li>
<li>Waze</li>
<li>LINE</li>
<li>Behance</li>
<li>Reddit</li>
<li>Tumblr</li>
<li>Weibo</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Browser share menu</li>
<li>Facebook Feeds
<ul>
<li>Embed your feed as a Block or Widget</li>
<li>Re-use feeds on any pages or posts</li>
<li>Supports shortcodes</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>WhatsApp Chat. Add your phone number, your picture, and create a custom message to personalize the experience for your visitors. Integrates with WhatsApp business.</li>
<li>WhatsApp Chat Widget</li>
<li>Click to Call</li>
<li>Click to Email</li>
<li>Click to SMS</li>
<li>Web URL</li>
<li>Click to Chat
<ul>
<li>Formilla Chat Widget (directly integrated into new accounts)</li>
<li>Facebook Messenger Chat Widget (with popup)</li>
<li>WhatsApp Chat Widget (with popup)</li>
<li>Telegram (with popup)</li>
<li>X (Twitter) Direct Message</li>
<li>Slack</li>
<li>Microsoft Teams</li>
<li>Snapchat</li>
<li>Signal</li>
<li>LINE</li>
<li>WeChat</li>
<li>Viber</li>
<li>Join Signal group</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Open pop-up
<ul>
<li>Formilla Popups (directly integrated into new accounts)</li>
<li>Poptin</li>
<li>Elementor Popup</li>
<li>Popup Maker</li>
<li>WP Popups</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Scroll options
<ul>
<li>Scroll to section</li>
<li>Back to top</li>
<li>Scroll to bottom</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Previous page</li>
<li>Google Maps Button (route navigation)</li>
<li>Download PDF Button</li>
<li>Print page</li>
<li>Copy page URL</li>
<li>Contact form
<ul>
<li>Contact form Webhook support (PRO)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Iframe Widget (PRO)</li>
<li>Add custom JavaScript code (PRO)</li>
</ul>
<h4>STYLING OPTIONS 💎</h4>
With Buttonizer you can customize almost everything. Create a floating text social share button (without icon), floating text social media button with icon or only a floating button with an icon.
<ul>
<li>Over 2,000 available icons via Font Awesome</li>
<li>Import and export your button templates easily (very nice if you have multiple websites)</li>
<li>Change the position of your button</li>
<li>Import and export button templates</li>
<li>Button and interaction color</li>
<li>Border radius</li>
<li>Icon, size and interaction color</li>
<li>Add label to the floating action button (optional)</li>
<li>Change label text color and background color</li>
<li>Change font-size and label border radius</li>
<li>Show label only on mobile phones, desktop or both</li>
<li>Add your own custom background image</li>
<li>Add a custom CSS class and ID to each button for extra CSS or JavaScript control</li>
</ul>
<h4>Create floating social media icons and social sharing menus</h4>
With Buttonizer it is possible to add multiple floating action buttons to one position. In that case all floating buttons are hidden in one button menu. The moment a visitor clicks on your Floating Action Button it will pop all specific buttons you’ve set for that page. Please take a look at the screenshots below to see powerful examples of different floating menus / sticky menus.
<ul>
<li>Default action – Opens the floating menu and puts the buttons on top of each other</li>
<li>Pop – Same as the default action but with a more active motion</li>
<li>Corner circle – Open buttons in quarter circle</li>
<li>Square – Show all buttons on top of each other at the same time (sticky buttons on the side of your website)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Embed a Facebook Feed on any page or post</h4>
One of the most popular plugins for Facebook page feeds embedded in your WordPress sidebar. Facebook Feeds are 100% free with no limitations.
<ul>
<li>Lightweight & easy to configure</li>
<li>Add your Facebook page URL as an embedded block or widget</li>
<li>Re-use feeds on any pages or posts</li>
<li>Supports Shortcodes</li>
<li>Configuration options like show/hide posts from timeline, show/hide cover, show/hide profile photos, show small header, width options, language selection, and custom CSS.</li>
</ul>
Watch our video tutorial <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGWh0oNpSis" rel="nofollow ugc">How to create a Facebook Feed</a>
<h4>Example use cases for Buttonizer</h4>
<ul>
<li>
Increase engagement using social sharing buttons. Buttonizer supports all the well known social sharing buttons. Increase social media engagement with one-click social sharing buttons from any page on your site.
</li>
<li>
Boost your social media following. Include all your social media icons/channels as floating buttons anywhere on your website, or in your header, footer, right-rail, etc. Ensure visitors follow you across all your social channels so you’re able to engage with them wherever they are.
</li>
<li>
The Buttonizer advantage. Buttonizer gives you the ability to manage different chat options at the same time. Each visitor is unique, and has a different communication preference. When you let your visitors chat with you using chat apps like Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Viber, Telegram, etc, they have the freedom of chatting with you however they prefer, which increases engagement with your website.
</li>
<li>
Launch your favorite live chat. While Formilla Live Chat comes directly integrated, you can use JavaScript as one of your click actions to launch any other live chat product such as Hubspot, Tawk.to, Tidio, Chatra, Zoho, Zendesk, LiveChat, Crisp, Intercom and JivoChat.
</li>
<li>
Connect with your visitors on WhatsApp Business. Connect WhatsApp Business to your site. Your visitors can start chatting with you on WhatsApp Business. You can create multiple different WhatsApp buttons for different departments or categories on your website to route chats to the proper staff.
</li>
<li>
Setup different floating buttons on mobile and desktop. Show different chat buttons depending on the device your visitor is using. For example, show a Call Now and WhatsApp button on mobile and a contact form, email and URL on desktop.
</li>
<li>
Add Click-to-call button. Show a phone icon and let your visitors click to call you. You can show different local phone numbers based on page URL or available days and hours.
</li>
<li>
Show different action buttons for different pages. You can use this feature to show separate widgets for different products on your website, show different buttons based on URL for WPML or multi-language sites, display different channels for your landing pages, and more.
</li>
</ul>
<h4>Filter your buttons (show or hide on devices, different pages, during certain hours, etc.)</h4>
Choose whenever your buttons are visible on desktop or mobile devices, different pages or under specific page rule conditions. You can even control if buttons should only display to logged in users, or during certain office hours. For example, you may want to show a Click-to-Call button and WhatsApp Chat button during office hours, but automatically show a custom Contact Form or A.I. Chatbot outside of your business hours.
<ul>
<li>Show/hide button on desktop or mobile devices</li>
<li>Show/hide when page rules are true (PRO):
<ul>
<li>Select single page</li>
<li>Select categories / tags</li>
<li>When URL contains …</li>
<li>Show/hide when the user has a specific role</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Show/hide on a custom time schedule (PRO)
<ul>
<li>Choose the start and end date (optional)</li>
<li>Select the days of the week</li>
<li>Select at what time the button is visible or hidden for each day of the week</li>
<li>Exclude dates</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h4>So many features!</h4>
<ul>
<li>Track all your click actions in Google Analytics</li>
<li>Import extra font-awesome libraries</li>
<li>Drag and drop your buttons on the UI</li>
<li>Auto-save and revert changes</li>
<li>A very <a href="https://community.buttonizer.pro/" rel="nofollow ugc">active community</a></li>
<li>Add an unlimited number of social icons or share buttons</li>
<li>Show buttons on scroll</li>
<li>Show buttons after X seconds</li>
<li>Use any position placement</li>
</ul>
<h4>Advanced JavaScript API</h4>
Buttonizer is equipped with an advanced Free JavaScript API which you can use to interact with your Buttonizer menus. Trigger custom functions on particular events or just open the menu when clicking a button on your site. It’s enabled instantly and can be used out of the box!
<ul>
<li>Open menu event</li>
<li>Close menu event</li>
<li>Fire an action after initialization</li>
<li>Fire an action after opening/closing menus</li>
<li>View menu states and quick functions</li>
<li>Over 6 event hooks available</li>
<li>And much more</li>
</ul>
Curious? <a href="https://community.buttonizer.pro/knowledgebase/435" rel="nofollow ugc">Learn how to use the API</a>.
<h4>Live Chat, Chatbots, and Popups via Formilla</h4>
Buttonizer accounts get Formilla accounts integrated automatically. Both products are managed by the same team, so that means you get access to awesome features such as:
<ul>
<li>
Unlimited Live Chats (free): Chat with your visitors while they’re on your website with our embedded widget; no need to send users to another browser tab!
</li>
<li>
Mobile Apps for iPhone, iPad, and Android Devices (free): Chat via your mobile device or tablet by using our iPhone/iPad or Android apps!
</li>
<li>
Desktop Apps for Windows & Mac machines (free): Chat via our dedicated desktop apps instead of our web dashboard to get online even faster.
</li>
<li>
Custom Branding, Colors, & Themes (free): Customize your chat widgets to match your site’s brand. Change the color of the chat button/widget, chat message and font color, backgrounds, etc. Upload your own online and offline live chat images to use in your header, footer, etc. to encourage customers to live chat!
</li>
<li>
Multi-Language Support and Custom Text (free): Customize the text of your chat button/widget in any language of your choice! Easily customize the English text or modify it to read in Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, Polish, Chinese, Indonesian, and many more!
</li>
<li>
Popup Builder (free with tiered limits): Popup Builder with dozens of professionally designed marketing popups. Multiple popup types including lightbox/modals, corner widgets, and website bars. Announce a special sale, offer a coupon code, or market virtually anything to your visitors.
</li>
<li>
Real-time Visitor Monitoring: See the number of active visitors on your website in real-time, including the buttons they click! View the visitor’s country, recently viewed web pages, referring site (e.g. did they come from a Google search, etc.), are they new vs. returning, IP address, OS in use (Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, etc.), browser, and more. Live Chat visitor monitoring is a paid feature and comes with our Premium package.
</li>
<li>
A.I. Chatbots: A.I. Chatbots leverage ChatGPT’s incredible Artificial Intelligence technology to dramatically reduce support time. Chatbots can automatically respond to common visitor questions around the clock (paid feature add-on). Check out our <a href="https://www.formilla.com/blog/getting-started-with-a-helper-chat-bot" rel="nofollow ugc">ChatGPT Chatbots</a> tutorial to learn more.
</li>
<li>
Custom Chatbots: Chatbots work around the clock to automatically qualify leads, book meetings, and provide information about your products or services to customers, even without having to chat with a live person! Chatbots can be added to any Premium package as a paid feature add-on. Check out our <a href="https://www.formilla.com/blog/how-to-create-custom-chat-bots" rel="nofollow ugc">Custom Chatbots</a> tutorial to learn more.
</li>
<li>
Proactive Chat: Enable proactive chat to trigger automatically after a defined number of seconds (Premium packages). You can also configure a chatbot to do the same, with even more control over the user flow. For example, a chatbot can proactively popup to engage visitors and qualify them as leads before speaking with a live agent. This works with multiple types of custom chatbots you can create for your business.
</li>
</ul>
<h4>One more thing!</h4>
Need support or have a question? <a href="https://community.buttonizer.pro/" rel="nofollow ugc">Check our Community</a> and <a href="https://community.buttonizer.pro/knowledgebase" rel="nofollow ugc">our knowledge base!</a>
Would you like private support? <a href="https://community.buttonizer.pro/tickets" rel="nofollow ugc">Create a private support ticket here</a>.
Buttonizer works great with all themes and page builders including Divi, Elementor, WPBakery, Visual Composer, WPBakery, Beaver, SiteOrigin, Gutenberg, Oxygen, WooCommerce, Zion and more

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