Mohammed Kateregga

Joan Namunina

<p>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.</p>
<p><strong>Lightning Fast Features:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><strong>8 Popular Social Networks</strong>: Facebook, Twitter/X, LinkedIn, Pinterest, WhatsApp, Telegram, Reddit, and Email</li>
<li><strong>Zero External Dependencies</strong>: No external JavaScript or CSS libraries – blazing fast loading</li>
<li><strong>Ultra Lightweight</strong>: Less than 2KB total footprint</li>
<li><strong>GDPR Compliant</strong>: No tracking, no cookies, no personal data collection</li>
<li><strong>Privacy First</strong>: Share URLs generated client-side only when clicked</li>
<li><strong>Customizable Design</strong>: Choose between rounded or square button styles</li>
<li><strong>Flexible Display</strong>: Show on posts, pages, or use shortcodes anywhere</li>
<li><strong>Translation Ready</strong>: Fully internationalized and ready for translation</li>
<li><strong>Developer Friendly</strong>: Clean, well-documented code following WordPress standards</li>
</ul>
<p>** Why Choose Lightning Simple Social Share?**</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Performance First</strong>: No external dependencies mean faster page loads</li>
<li><strong>Privacy Focused</strong>: No tracking scripts or data collection</li>
<li><strong>Clean Code</strong>: Follows WordPress coding standards and best practices</li>
<li><strong>Accessible</strong>: Proper HTML structure and keyboard navigation</li>
<li><strong>Responsive</strong>: Looks great on all devices</li>
<li><strong>Lightning Fast & Simple</strong>: Easy setup with blazing-fast performance</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Usage:</strong></p>
<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>
<p>Lightning Simple Social Share follows WordPress coding standards and best practices:</p>
<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>
<p><strong>Hooks Available:</strong><br />
* <code>lsss_share_networks</code> – Filter available social networks<br />
* <code>lsss_button_html</code> – Filter individual button HTML<br />
* <code>lsss_container_class</code> – Filter container CSS classes</p>
<p>For support, feature requests, or contributions, please visit the plugin’s GitHub repository.</p>


Lightning Simple Social Share

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

vaakash

<p>WP Socializer is one of the best social media sharing plugin to add social sharing icons, sticky/floating share bar, follow my social profile icons, mobile share bar and selected text share popups easily to your WordPress site.</p>
<p>Plugin is really fast, simple and easy to use. It works excellently on mobile devices as it is completely responsive and adapts to small screens devices out of the box.</p>
<p>It supports all the latest and popular social media platforms (50+) like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp, LinkedIn and much more. It also displays share count for Facebook and Pinterest.</p>
<h3>Insert Share and Follow Me Buttons Anywhere</h3>
<p>WP Socializer is feature rich with which you can display share/follow buttons anywhere. This allows you to encourage visitors to share and follow your content.</p>
<ul>
<li>Inline – Share icons (above/below post content)</li>
<li>Floating share bar (stick to content, window, scroll)</li>
<li>Follow icons</li>
<li>Selected text share bar</li>
<li>Shortcodes</li>
<li>Widgets</li>
</ul>
<h3>55+ Popular Social Network Icons Out-Of-The Box</h3>
<p>WP Socializer includes all the popular social network icons you need to add sharing and follow buttons on your website for FREE!</p>
<ul>
<li>Facebook, X, Pinterest, WhatsApp, LinkedIn, Instagram, Email, SMS, Phone, Copy link, <strong>Comments button</strong> and more</li>
<li><strong>More icons</strong> – Add to favorites, Behance, Bitbucket, Blogger, CodePen, Comments, Delicious, DeviantArt, Digg, Dribbble, Facebook messenger, Flickr, Github, Google, Hacker News, Medium, PayPal, PDF, Pocket, Print, Reddit, RSS, Short link, Snapchat, Soundcloud, StackOverflow, Quora, Telegram, Tumblr, Vimeo, VKontakte, wechat, Xing, Yahoo! Mail, Youtube, Weibo, Line, Mix, Odnoklassniki, Renren, Skype, Telephone/call button, Houzz, Etsy, Discord, Patreon, Viber, TikTok, Flipboard, Mastodon, Threads, Native OS share menu (Web share API), Podcast, Bluesky</li>
</ul>
<h3>Multiple Icon Shapes, Sizes and Colors to Choose from</h3>
<p>Customize the social icons with a variety of options. This helps you match the style of your website and look good.</p>
<ul>
<li>2 layouts</li>
<li>4 icon sizes</li>
<li>7 icon shapes</li>
<li>7 hover effects</li>
<li>Pick any icon color</li>
<li>Pick any background color</li>
<li>Alignment options</li>
<li>Custom text, hover text, icon image</li>
</ul>
<h3>Popular Widgets Ready to Use</h3>
<p>Encourage visitors to follow your social profile by displaying widgets like Facebook page, Twitter feed and Follow me icons on your sidebar – all out of the box. You don’t need to have separate plugins now.</p>
<ul>
<li>Facebook widget (Page timeline)</li>
<li>Twitter widget (Twitter feed)</li>
<li>Follow me icons (Profile icons widget)</li>
<li>Pinterest widget (Board, Profile, Pin widget)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Responsive and Works on any device</h3>
<p>You can configure simple rules to decide how the social icons should behave on smaller and wider screens easily.</p>
<ul>
<li>Automatically move floating sharebar to the bottom of the screens</li>
<li>Show/Hide inline share icons in smaller devices</li>
<li>Show/hide follow icons in smaller devices</li>
<li>Custom responsive width</li>
</ul>
<h3>Insert share icons on specific pages</h3>
<p>Sometimes you might not need to display sharing icons in all the pages of your website. With WP Socializer you can create rules to decide where the icons should be shown.</p>
<ul>
<li>Show on all pages</li>
<li>Show on specific pages</li>
<li>Hide on specific pages</li>
<li>Show/hide on specific custom post types</li>
<li>Hide on home page</li>
</ul>
<h3>Share counter</h3>
<p>Display individual and total share counts for social networks like Facebook and Pinterest.</p>
<ul>
<li>Facebook like/share count</li>
<li>Pinterest count</li>
<li>Comments count</li>
<li>Total count</li>
<li>Recover share count from http/https</li>
</ul>
<h3>⚡ More features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Beautiful, powerful yet easy to use.</li>
<li>Lightweight and very fast. Does not affect website performance.</li>
<li>GDPR complaint.</li>
<li>Works with Gutenberg.</li>
<li>Works with Woocommerce.</li>
<li>Works with custom post types.</li>
<li>Works with any theme.</li>
<li>No registration required and completely local.</li>
<li>Friendly support.</li>
<li>No-nonsense!</li>
</ul>
<h3>💎 PRO version</h3>
<p><a href="https://www.aakashweb.com/wordpress-plugins/wp-socializer/?utm_source=readme&utm_medium=custom-icons&utm_campaign=wpsr-pro" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>Create Custom Icons</strong></a> – You can create and add custom icons for any new social network to share or add a icon to follow your social profile URL.</p>
<ul>
<li>Pick any color for the icon.</li>
<li>Custom icon image, fontawesome icon</li>
<li>Use the icon in all the features</li>
<li>Use in shortcodes</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="https://www.aakashweb.com/wordpress-plugins/wp-socializer/?utm_source=readme&utm_medium=sharing-information&utm_campaign=wpsr-pro" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>Customize Share URL, Title, Tweet Text</strong></a> – If you want to change share URL or set a different tweet text for a post, then you can do that with WP Socializer PRO. This allows you to customize what information is shared for each post.</p>
<ul>
<li>Twitter tweet text</li>
<li>Share URL</li>
<li>Share title</li>
<li>Short URL</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="https://www.aakashweb.com/wordpress-plugins/wp-socializer/?utm_source=readme&utm_medium=bitly&utm_campaign=wpsr-pro" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>Share Short Links with Bit.ly</strong></a> – By default the full URL of the post will be used for sharing. Now, using Bit.ly your users can share short links of your posts and pages.</p>
<ul>
<li>Share short links</li>
<li>Set custom short link</li>
<li>Track clicks on Bit.ly dashboard.</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="https://www.aakashweb.com/wordpress-plugins/wp-socializer/?utm_source=readme&utm_medium=google-analytics&utm_campaign=wpsr-pro" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>Tracking Clicks with Google Analytics</strong></a> – With WP Socializer PRO, you can track clicks happening on the share icons, follow icons using Google Analytics. You can see how users are interacting with your share icons directly on Google Analytics dashboard.</p>
<ul>
<li>Track clicks on all features</li>
<li>Supports Universal Analytics</li>
<li>Supports Google Analytics 4</li>
<li>Supports Google Tag manager</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="https://www.aakashweb.com/wordpress-plugins/wp-socializer/?utm_source=readme&utm_medium=get&utm_campaign=wpsr-pro" rel="nofollow ugc"><strong>Check out WP Socializer – PRO</strong></a></p>
<h3>Plugin links</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wpdemos.aakashweb.com/blog/wp-socializer/" rel="nofollow ugc">Live demo</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.aakashweb.com/forum/discuss/wordpress-plugins/wp-socializer/" rel="nofollow ugc">Support Forum</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.aakashweb.com/docs/wp-socializer/" rel="nofollow ugc">Documentation</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.aakashweb.com/wordpress-plugins/wp-socializer/" rel="nofollow ugc">Homepage</a></li>
</ul>


WP Socializer – Simple & Easy Social Media Share Icons


After support notified me of the existence of the tiktok follow (as stated and which by mistake I had not found) I changed the review to 5 stars. The plugin does what it's supposed to


Works fine

Simple & easy plugin to add social media sharing icons, buttons like Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Instagram & more

Lightning Simple Social Share vs WP Socializer – Simple & Easy Social Media Share Icons