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.

Scott Weaver

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Make it easy for your audience to share your content across 40+ of the most popular social channels including Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter, and Pinterest.
The free plugin includes the following features:
<ul>
<li>Configure your buttons to stay anchored on the sidebar as visitors scroll or inline near your headline or product on the page for ideal visibility</li>
<li>Customize the design including the alignment, size, and color (unlimited options) to match your brand</li>
<li>Increase social shares with our responsive, lightweight, code which loads asynchronously and won’t slow down your site.</li>
<li>Select your preferred language from over 15 options (English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Dutch, Arabic, Bengali, Hindi, Turkish, and Vietnamese).</li>
<li>Page and post editor controls which give you the power to enable or disable your buttons on specific posts and pages regardless of your default settings.</li>
</ul>
Start expanding the reach of your content organically and grow the audience of your WordPress website with the ShareThis Share Buttons plugin.
<h3>WordPress Features</h3>
Inline Share Buttons
<ul>
<li>Enable or disable inline share buttons at the top and bottom of post and page bodies.</li>
<li>Pixel perfect placement with top and bottom margin controls.</li>
<li>Shortcode and PHP snippets.</li>
<li>Page and post editor controls let you enable or disable inline share buttons on specific posts and pages regardless of your default settings.</li>
</ul>
Sticky Share Buttons
<ul>
<li>Enable or disable sticky share buttons on the home page, all pages, all posts, custom posts, author pages, as well as tag and category archives.</li>
<li>Exclude sticky share buttons on specific pages and category archives with a searchable page exception.</li>
<li>Page and post editor controls let you enable or disable sticky share buttons on specific posts and pages regardless of your default settings.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Privacy</h3>
By creating an account with ShareThis, you agree to our <a href="https://sharethis.com/publisher-terms-of-use/" rel="nofollow ugc">terms of use</a> which includes the ability to keep track of user interactions with our buttons. You can read our privacy policy here: <a href="https://sharethis.com/privacy/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://www.sharethis.com/privacy/</a>
Questions? Submit an inquiry through our support forum and our team will be happy to assist.

ShareThis Share Buttons

Works brilliantly with a few minor tweaks.

Awesome.

I will not register to use your plugin.


Seems everything is working as expect and working fine.



Everything seemed to be working as expected and functioning smoothly; however, despite their popularity, I did not find the options to share on Instagram and TikTok. I anticipate that these sharing options will be added in the next update. 



Best Regards


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