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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George Ciobanu

Deepak Ghimire

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Rene Hermenau

Surya Prasad Khanal

<h4>MashShare – The Social Media Share Buttons Ecosystem (Twitter count supported with [Social Network Add-On])</h4>
A free Social Media Share Buttons and icons Plugin, professional and highly customizable ecosystem for social media sharing and optimizing your valuable content.
Important for EU users: MashShare is DSGVO compliant! 
No IP data or any other personal data is sent to third parties or collected at all.
Stop slowing down your website and prevent ranking loss. 
Other social share buttons are often using external scripts which are increasing loading times. 
MashShare is using NO external script dependencies. All code is loaded directly from your website and MashShare ensures your and your visitor’s privacy! 
<ul>
<li>New: Most Social Shared Posts Widget</li>
<li>New: Async social share count aggregation for Share Buttons</li>
<li>New: Dashboard for total share buttons social share count on posts screen</li>
<li>New: Short URL integration for social share buttons</li>
<li>New: Support for Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) when using the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/amp/" rel="ugc">official WordPress AMP plugin</a></li>
</ul>
Installation 
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It gives you per default a large total social share button counter beside three large prominent social share buttons for your Twitter tweets, Facebook social share, and the option to place a prominent subscribe button for your news feed and mailing list. 
These services are free per default including great support. 
There is no need to create an account! 
We also offer free Add-Ons for specifying social sharing image, title, description, and Twitter hashtags and think this is satisfying for most website owners who need a free and effective working social sharing solution.
If you need social share buttons fore Whatsapp, Pinterest, Mail, 
Print, Linkedin, Odnoklassniki, etc., you get them on the Add-On Marketplace.
MashShare can also be used in conjunction with other third-party social share buttons vendors!
Free and paid Add-Ons available for:
<ul>
<li>More Social Share Buttons</li>
<li>YouTube Video Share Popup</li>
<li>Social Share Button Responsive</li>
<li>Sticky social share bar</li>
<li>Social Sharing Optimization</li>
<li>Google Analytics</li>
<li>and more…</li>
</ul>
<a href="https://www.mashshare.net?utm_source=wp-plugin-repo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=after-features-info-link" rel="nofollow ugc">Demo</a> | <a href="https://www.mashshare.net/downloads?utm_source=wp-plugin-repo&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=get-addons" rel="nofollow ugc">More Add-Ons >></a>
<h4> Social Media Share Buttons</h4>
This Social Media share buttons plugin in active development and will be updated regularly – Please do not rate negative before we tried to solve your issue.
<h4>Main Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>High-Performance Social Share Buttons for the most common social networks</li>
<li>High-Resolution lossless vector font share icons</li>
<li>Show the Total Social Media Share count at a glance</li>
<li>Object and transient caches to provide incredibly fast execution speed of Social Media Share Button Icons</li>
<li>Shortcodes</li>
<li>Extensible with many <a href="https://www.mashshare.net/downloads" rel="nofollow ugc">Add-Ons</a> (Google Analytics, More Social Networks, Responsive, YouTube Video Share and more…)</li>
<li>Developer friendly with several filters and actions.</li>
<li>Highly customizable</li>
<li>Smart (virtual) social share button count function. Add virtual shares to new articles. Use psychological aspects to increase real shares.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Recent Changes and New Features:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Social Media Share Buttons and Icons with Improved performance</li>
<li>Option to disable Social Media social share button count completely (no SQL queries will be generated any longer)</li>
<li>Shortcode option to disable social share counts</li>
<li>Checking if curl is working on the server</li>
<li>Option to disable social share count cache for testing purposes</li>
<li>Use of sharp and crisp clear font Social Media Icons instead Social Media Icons images</li>
<li>Button ‘extra content’ for content slider subscribe forms or any other content New: Use a link for the Subscribe button instead of the toggle dropdown</li>
<li>Complete rewrite of CSS for easier modifications</li>
<li>Improved MashShare Social Media Share Button extension system</li>
<li>Improved backend, new MashShare Social Media Share Button Add-On page</li>
<li>Multi-language capable, *.po files</li>
<li>Change color of share counts via setting</li>
<li>Count up animation for share buttons counts (Does not work for shortcodes and on blog pages)</li>
<li>HTML5 Tag < aside > wrapped around to tell search engines that the social share buttons are not part of the content</li>
<li>Plus button moves to end of social share buttons when activated and does not stay longer in place.</li>
<li>Drag and drop sort order of social share buttons services.</li>
<li>Enable desired Social Media share buttons Icons with one click</li>
<li>Choose which Social Media network should be visible all the time This one will be large-sized by default. Other Social Media networks are behind the plus sign</li>
<li>Three different effective social share button styles – Less is more here</li>
<li>Choose border radius of the Social Media buttons</li>
<li>Keep settings when social share buttons are uninstalled – optional</li>
<li>Custom CSS field for the individual styling of the social media share buttons</li>
</ul>
 Social Media Add-Ons available for 
<ul>
<li>Whatsapp (Whatsapp button is shown only on mobile devices)</li>
<li>Pinterest</li>
<li>Digg</li>
<li>Linkedin</li>
<li>Reddit</li>
<li>Vk / VKontakte</li>
<li>Print</li>
<li>Buffer</li>
<li>Weibo</li>
<li>Pocket</li>
<li>Xing</li>
<li>Tumblr</li>
<li>Mail</li>
<li>ManageWP</li>
<li>Meneame</li>
<li>Odnoklassniki</li>
<li>Frype / Draugiem</li>
<li>Skype</li>
<li>Flipboard</li>
<li>Hackernews</li>
<li>Threads (New)</li>
<li>Mastodon (New)</li>
</ul>
<h4>High Performance</h4>
MashShare Social Media ecosystem is coded well and developed for high performance. It´s making full use of available persistent and non-persistent caching techniques. 
MashShare loads only the Javascript and PHP object classes it needs at the moment of execution, making it small and fast, and easily extensible by a third-party developer.
<h4>How fast is MashShare?</h4>
We published benchmarks of using MashShare compared with other plugins here: 
https://www.mashshare.net/mashshare-proven-fast-benchmark/
Shortcodes
<ul>
<li>Use <code>[mashshare]</code> anywhere in pages or post’s text to show the buttons and total social share count wherever you like. 
Social Share Buttons will be shown exactly on the place where you copy the shortcode in your content.</li>
</ul>
There are more parameters available:
<ul>
<li>Embed social share buttons in pages or posts: <code>[mashshare]</code></li>
<li>Buttons without sharecount: <code>[mashshare shares="false"]</code></li>
<li>Sharecount only: <code>[mashshare buttons="false"]</code></li>
<li>Social share buttons alignment: <code>[mashshare shares="false" buttons="true" align="left|right"]</code></li>
<li>Shortcode in template files via php: <code>echo do_shortcode('[mashshare]');</code></li>
<li>Custom url: <code>[mashshare url="http://www.google.de"]</code></li>
<li>
Custom social share text: <code>[mashshare text="This is my custom social share text"]</code>
</li>
<li>
For manual insertion of the Social Share Buttons in your template files use the following PHP code on the place you like to see the social share buttons:<code>echo do_shortcode('[mashshare]');</code> 
Configure the Social Media Share buttons sharing function in the settings page of the plugin.
</li>
<li>Change the color of MashShare count with the setting option.</li>
</ul>
Full SEO third party plugin support 
MashShare integrates with <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/" rel="ugc">All in One SEO Pack</a> and <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/" rel="ugc">WordPress SEO by Yoast</a>. 
Any description and title which is defined in Yoast open graph settings will be used by MashShare Open Graph Settings
<h4>How does it work?</h4>
MashShare makes use of public available API endpoints that are delivered by social networks. It periodically checks for the total count of all your Facebook and Twitter shares and cumulates them. It then shows the total number beside the social share and Social Media Icons. 
No need to embed dozens of external slow loading scripts into your website.
<h4>How to install and setup?</h4>
Install it via the admin dashboard and to ‘Plugins’, click ‘Add New’ and search the plugins for ‘MashShare’. Install the plugin with ‘Install Now’. 
After installation go to the settings page Settings->MashShare and make your changes there.
<h3>Official Site</h3>
<ul>
<li>https://www.mashshare.net</li>
</ul>

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