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.

Jason T. Wiser

Grigor Asatryan

WarfarePlugins

holas84

Andrii Balashov

Christine

Get more social shares which can lead to more website traffic with the best WordPress social sharing plugin! Built by a group of social media marketing experts and world class developers who are obsessed with performance. Learn more at <a href="https://warfareplugins.com/?utm_medium=repository&utm_campaign=description&utm_source=wordpress_org&utm_content=repo_description" rel="friend nofollow ugc">Warfare Plugins</a>.
<h4>WordPress Sharing Plugin</h4>
Most WordPress social sharing plugins slow down your site, are not attractive, and don’t work the way you would hope. Social Warfare share buttons are both lightning fast and beautiful.
Not only will it never slow down your website like other sharing plugins, we give you the most attractive share buttons available that look great no matter what screen size or resolution.
<blockquote>
Social Warfare has boosted social shares by 300% without slowing down my blog. 
 Eddie Gear – Professional Blogger
</blockquote>
You can choose from the top social networks sharing buttons, including:
<ul>
<li>Facebook</li>
<li>Twitter</li>
<li>Pinterest</li>
<li>LinkedIn</li>
<li>Mix</li>
</ul>
You can also choose where you want the share buttons to show up. Choose from the following placement options:
<ul>
<li>Above the post content</li>
<li>Below the post content</li>
<li>Both above and below the post content</li>
<li>None (or) Manual placement</li>
</ul>
We also give you the ability to have floating share buttons follow your readers down the screen when static (non-floating) buttons are not in view. This way the reader will always have easy access to your share buttons, no matter where they scroll on your page.
<blockquote>
“This is by far the best looking social sharing plugin I have seen on the net!” 
 David Foster, Online Personality
</blockquote>
<h4>Popular Posts Widget based on Social Share Counts</h4>
Wouldn’t you love to show what your most popular posts are based on the number of social shares they’ve received? Social Warfare allows you to do just that.
You can even choose to display most your popular posts based on which social network they were popular on!
Social Warfare’s Popular Posts widget allows you to display and customize the look with:
<ul>
<li>Post thumbnail images</li>
<li>Image and text size</li>
<li>Custom visual themes</li>
<li>Custom date range</li>
</ul>
<h4>Click to Tweet Quotes</h4>
A simple and effective way to create tweetable quotes right inside your posts or pages. This has proven to increase the average number of tweets per article dramatically.
<h4>Use Shortcodes to Manually Place Social Share Buttons Anywhere</h4>
If you want to place buttons in the middle of an article, you can with our <code>[social_warfare]</code> shortcode.
What if you wanted to add share buttons to a page but actually have them share out a different page altogether (like being able to share your Subscribe page from your Thank You)? Social Warfare allows you to do this!
If you’re experienced with PHP, you can also hook Social Warfare into your theme templates for hyper customization.
<h4>Content Protection</h4>
We’ve built our highly demanded <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/frame-buster/" rel="ugc">Frame Buster</a> right into Social Warfare so that you are protected from content hijackers seeking to place their advertisements on top of your content without your permission.
<blockquote>
Social Warfare is by far the best social sharing plugin I’ve ever used. I recommend it to all of my clients. 
 Andrew Wilder, Marketing Consultant
</blockquote>
<h4>Premium Social Sharing Options</h4>
Social Warfare – Pro license holders also get access to the following social network share buttons:
<ul>
<li>Reddit</li>
<li>Tumblr</li>
<li>Yummly</li>
<li>WhatsApp</li>
<li>Pocket</li>
<li>Buffer</li>
<li>Hacker News</li>
<li>Flipboard</li>
<li>Email</li>
</ul>
In addition to the extra social networks, you can also reactivate, track and display Twitter tweet counts!
<h4>Pin All the Images</h4>
Enabling the Image Hover Pin Button will place a “Pin” button over top of every image inside of your content when a reader hovers their mouse over it. This makes every image on your page highly sharable to Pinterest!
<h4>Powerful Share Customization</h4>
Social Warfare is among the pioneers of customizing how your content is shared, particularly with Pinterest. The Social Warfare – Pro add-on allows you to decide exactly which image, title and description appears when your content is shared on sites like Facebook and LinkedIn. This also applies to any other networks that use Open Graph data for social shares.
On top of that, you can upload a custom Pinterest image and write a custom description so that when someone clicks the pin button, the exact image you’ve chosen shows up with exactly the description you’ve written. No more hoping that your readers choose the best image and write an optimal description for you!
In addition to that, you can also write a custom tweet for when someone clicks on the Twitter button. The exact tweet you wrote will be displayed in the Twitter share box and Social Warfare will automatically add the link to your content and your @username to the end of it.
These capabilities are what professional social media marketers and bloggers have been waiting for.
<h4>Social Warfare – Pro Sharing Options, Custom Design and Placements</h4>
Customize which sharing networks you display, how your buttons look and where they show up.
You can choose from 6 different button shapes, 8 different color themes plus the ability to choose custom colors for your buttons. The design combinations are unlimited.
You will also get 6 different Click to Tweet styles and an option to create your own style via your theme’s CSS.
<h4>Minimum Social Proof</h4>
If you would prefer to only show counts after a certain minimum number of shares has been met (to avoid “negative social proof”), you can do that as well. Or if you’d rather just have no counts showing at all, just turn them off altogether.
<h4>Share Recovery: Your Lost Share Counts Returned!</h4>
Have you ever changed permalink structures, domain prefixes, connection protocols (http-https) or just flat out changed domains and ended up losing all your social share counts?
We’ve built a tool right into Social Warfare called <a href="https://warfareplugins.com/support/recover-social-share-counts-after-changing-permalink-settings/?utm_medium=repository&utm_campaign=description&utm_source=wordpress_org&utm_content=repo_description" rel="friend nofollow ugc">Share Recovery</a> which allows you to get back your lost share counts if you’ve ever had to modify your permalink settings.
<h4>Social Authorship, Twitter Cards, Rich Pins and More</h4>
It’s nice to have your stuff shared on social media, it’s even nicer when you get mentioned in the social share! With Social Warfare you can ensure that your authorship is always in place, including:
<ul>
<li>Facebook author and publisher attribution</li>
<li>Facebook app link (advanced users)</li>
<li>Twitter publisher and author attribution</li>
<li>“via @username” added to the ends of tweets</li>
<li>“via @username” added to the ends of pin descriptions</li>
</ul>
You can also activate Twitter Cards (Large Image Cards) so that tweets sent from your site are always media rich and much more likely to get engagement.
Our plugin also ensures that your site is Rich Pin ready so that your Pins look as good as possible.
<h4>Link Shortening, Analytics Campaign and Button-click Tracking</h4>
Shorten shared links automatically using your own Bitly credentials so you can track how many clicks are occurring on your links.
Additionally, if you’re a Google Analytics user, you can set up Analytics tracking so that each shared link contains a networks specific UTM tracking code. This way you can track all inbound links that come as a direct result of Social Warfare shares.
You can also activate Event Tracking so that you can also see in Google Analytics exactly how many times your buttons are clicked.
It is without question that Social Warfare is the most powerful social sharing plugin available for WordPress. You get all these premium features while still benefitting from a super-fast, light-weight code base.
<h4>Third-Party Services</h4>
This plugin uses APIs from the following third-party services for sharing content. Please review their terms and privacy policies:
Bitly
Why and When We Use Bitly API: 
This plugin uses the Bitly API to shorten URLs for shared content. When a user enables the “URL Shortening” option in the plugin settings, the plugin will make requests to the Bitly API to generate shortened URLs.
Data Sent to Bitly: 
– URLs to be shortened 
– Authentication data (Bitly Access Token)
Impact on User Data: 
When using the Bitly API, URLs that users wish to shorten will be sent to Bitly’s servers. Users should be aware that the data is transmitted to Bitly, and they should review Bitly’s privacy policy to understand how their data is handled.
<ul>
<li><a href="https://bitly.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Bitly Service Link</a></li>
<li><a href="https://bitly.com/pages/terms-of-service" rel="nofollow ugc">Bitly Terms of Service</a></li>
<li><a href="https://bitly.com/pages/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">Bitly Privacy Policy</a></li>
</ul>
Warfare Plugins
Why and When We Use Warfare Plugins: 
This plugin integrates with the Warfare Plugins API to manage addon license keys and verify the validity of user subscriptions. The API is used when users register or unregister their plugin license.
Data Sent to Warfare Plugins: 
– License key 
– Site URL 
– Plugin version
Impact on User Data: 
When using the Warfare Plugins API, the license key and site URL are sent to the Warfare Plugins server to verify the subscription status. Users should be aware that their license key and site URL are transmitted to the server, and they should review Warfare Plugins’ privacy policy to understand how their data is handled.
<ul>
<li><a href="https://warfareplugins.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Warfare Plugins Service Link</a></li>
<li><a href="https://warfareplugins.com/privacy-policy" rel="nofollow ugc">Warfare Plugins Privacy Policy</a></li>
</ul>
Pinterest
Why and When We Use Pinterest: 
This plugin integrates with the Pinterest API to allow users to share content directly to their Pinterest boards. When a user clicks the Pinterest share button, the plugin will generate a request to Pinterest’s API to create a new pin.
Data Sent to Pinterest: 
– URL of the content to be shared 
– Description of the content (if provided) 
– Image URL (if specified)
Impact on User Data: 
When using the Pinterest API, the URLs, descriptions, and images that users wish to share will be sent to Pinterest’s servers. Users should be aware that this data is transmitted to Pinterest, and they should review Pinterest’s privacy policy to understand how their data is handled.
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.pinterest.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Pinterest Service Link</a></li>
<li><a href="https://policy.pinterest.com/terms-of-service" rel="nofollow ugc">Pinterest Terms of Service</a></li>
<li><a href="https://policy.pinterest.com/privacy-policy" rel="nofollow ugc">Pinterest Privacy Policy</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Notes</h3>
<h4>Testimonial</h4>
<blockquote>
Social Warfare is by far the best social-sharing-button plugin I’ve ever used. I recommend it to all of my clients. 
 Andrew Wilder, Consultant
It’s a beautiful, super lightweight, and highly customizable plugin. I love everything about it! 
 Rebekah Radice, Social Media Strategist
“This is BY FAR the best looking social sharing plugin I have seen on the net!” 
 David Foster, Online Personality
I use Social Warfare because it’s the only sharing plugin that can be customized to blend seamlessly with my branding. 
 Andrea Beltrami, Visual Marketer
Social Warfare has boosted social shares by 300% without slowing down my blog. 
 Eddie Gear – Professional Blogger
After installing Social Warfare I straight away saw an increase in social shares and traffic. 
 Robert Ryan, Professional Web Designer
</blockquote>

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