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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This plugin shows Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest and other popular social share buttons above or below your posts. 
Easy customization of active buttons and position in the Settings menu.
In contrast to several other sharing plugin, this one aims to use only original code provided by any social network. 
There is no other service in the middle, you are not required to register or get a key to use it. Enjoy!
Facebook Like and Twitter social share buttons are loaded by default. 
Other buttons, including Digg, Facebook Share, Flattr, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Bitcoin, Litecoin, Stumbleupon, Youtube, Hyves, Print, Email, RSS, Reddit, Tipy, Tumblr, Buffer, SpecificFeeds, Draugiem.lv (Frype.com) can be added through the <code>Settings->Good old Share</code> menu.
Please be careful when selecting the <code>Show buttons in these pages</code> options : it can interact badly with other slide/fade/carousel/sidebar active plugins.
<h4>Shortcode</h4>
If you want to place the active buttons only in selected posts, use the [good_old_share] shortcode.
If you want to place only one share button, add the button attribute to the shortcode, e.g.:
<ul>
<li>[good_old_share button=”facebook_like”]</li>
<li>[good_old_share button=”twitter”]</li>
<li>[good_old_share button=”linkedin”]</li>
<li>[good_old_share button=”pinterest”]</li>
<li>[good_old_share button=”digg”]</li>
<li>[good_old_share button=”stumbleupon”]</li>
<li>[good_old_share button=”reddit”]</li>
<li>[good_old_share button=”flattr”]</li>
<li>[good_old_share button=”tumblr”]</li>
<li>[good_old_share button=”facebook_share”]</li>
<li>and so on…</li>
</ul>
Please note that in order to place single share buttons, they have to be active in the plugin settings page.
<h4>Selective disable</h4>
If you want to hide the share buttons inside selected posts, set a “good_old_share_disable” custom field with value “yes”.
To do so e.g. on a page: open the WordPress backend, go to Pages, click on the Page title to enter the Page edit screen. Then you can add the custom field, <a href="https://www.carriedils.com/how-to-create-custom-fields-in-wordpress/" title="How to Create Custom Fields in WordPress" rel="nofollow ugc">as explained here</a>.
<h4>Reference</h4>
This plugin gives you the features of the former 3.3 release of the “Really simple Share” plugin.
For more info: <a href="https://www.whiletrue.it/really-simple-share-wordpress-plugin/" title="www.whiletrue.it" rel="nofollow ugc">www.whiletrue.it</a>
Do you like this plugin? Give a chance to our other works:
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<li><a href="https://www.whiletrue.it/tilted-tag-cloud-widget-per-wordpress/" title="Tilted Tag Cloud Widget" rel="nofollow ugc">Tilted Tag Cloud Widget</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.whiletrue.it/reading-time-for-wordpress/" title="Reading Time" rel="nofollow ugc">Reading Time</a></li>
</ul>
Also, take a look at <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/really-simple-facebook-twitter-share-buttons/" title="Really simple Share" rel="ugc">the current version of Really simple Share</a>

Good old Share

Puts Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Tumblr and other social share buttons of your choice above or below your posts.

Lightning Simple Social Share vs Good old Share