Nazim Husain

<p>Lightshare is a very lightweight social sharing plugin built with performance in mind. It provides essential social sharing functionality without the bloat commonly found in other sharing plugins.</p>
<h3>Key Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Lightweight and fast – minimal impact on page load times</li>
<li>Support for major social networks</li>
<li>Clean, modern design with multiple style options</li>
<li>Share count display (where available)</li>
<li>Customizable button placement</li>
<li>Mobile-friendly and responsive</li>
<li>No third-party scripts loaded by default</li>
<li>Support for custom post types</li>
<li>Shortcode support for manual placement</li>
</ul>
<h3>Performance First</h3>
<p>Lightshare is built with performance as a top priority:</p>
<ul>
<li>Minimal CSS/JS footprint</li>
<li>SVG icons instead of icon fonts</li>
<li>Internal click tracking for counts (no API calls)</li>
<li>Assets are only enqueued when needed</li>
<li>No third-party tracking scripts</li>
</ul>
<h3>Shortcode</h3>
<p>You can manually place sharing buttons anywhere using the shortcode:</p>
<pre><code>[lightshare]
</code></pre>
<p>With custom options:</p>
<pre><code>[lightshare networks="facebook,twitter,linkedin" style="rounded"]<h3>Block</h3>
</code></pre>
<p>Lightshare includes a block for the block editor:</p>
<ul>
<li>Block name: “Lightshare Buttons”</li>
<li>Allows selecting networks (comma-separated), label visibility, and label text</li>
<li>Rendered server-side for accurate output</li>
</ul>
<h3>Developer Friendly</h3>
<ul>
<li>Well-documented code following WordPress coding standards</li>
<li>Extensible through filters and actions</li>
<li>Clean, semantic HTML output</li>
<li>Customizable through CSS classes</li>
</ul>
<h3>External services</h3>
<p>Lightshare does not call third-party APIs in the background. External requests only happen when a visitor clicks a share button. When a share button is clicked, the destination service receives the share data in the URL query string (for example: current page URL, page title, and for Pinterest also an image URL when available).</p>
<p>The plugin can connect to these third-party services:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Facebook (<code>facebook.com</code>) for sharing links.<br />
Data sent on click: page URL.<br />
Terms: https://www.facebook.com/terms.php<br />
Privacy: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy/</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>X / Twitter (<code>twitter.com</code>) for sharing links/text.<br />
Data sent on click: page title and page URL.<br />
Terms: https://x.com/en/tos<br />
Privacy: https://x.com/en/privacy</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>LinkedIn (<code>linkedin.com</code>) for sharing links.<br />
Data sent on click: page URL.<br />
Terms: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/user-agreement<br />
Privacy: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>WhatsApp (<code>api.whatsapp.com</code>) for sharing links/text.<br />
Data sent on click: page title and page URL.<br />
Terms: https://www.whatsapp.com/legal/terms-of-service<br />
Privacy: https://www.whatsapp.com/legal/privacy-policy</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Pinterest (<code>pinterest.com</code>) for creating pins from your page.<br />
Data sent on click: page URL, page title, and featured image URL (if available).<br />
Terms: https://policy.pinterest.com/en/terms-of-service<br />
Privacy: https://policy.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Reddit (<code>reddit.com</code>) for sharing posts.<br />
Data sent on click: page URL and page title.<br />
Terms: https://www.redditinc.com/policies/user-agreement<br />
Privacy: https://www.reddit.com/policies/privacy-policy</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Bluesky (<code>bsky.app</code>) for sharing links/text.<br />
Data sent on click: page title and page URL.<br />
Terms: https://bsky.social/about/support/tos<br />
Privacy: https://bsky.social/about/support/privacy-policy</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>OpenAI ChatGPT (<code>chat.openai.com</code>) for opening a prefilled prompt.<br />
Data sent on click: generated prompt text that includes the page title and page URL.<br />
Terms: https://openai.com/policies/terms-of-use/<br />
Privacy: https://openai.com/policies/privacy-policy/</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Google Search AI mode (<code>google.com</code>) for opening a prefilled query.<br />
Data sent on click: generated prompt text that includes the page title and page URL.<br />
Terms: https://policies.google.com/terms<br />
Privacy: https://policies.google.com/privacy</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Perplexity (<code>perplexity.ai</code>) for opening a prefilled query.<br />
Data sent on click: generated prompt text that includes the page title and page URL.<br />
Terms: https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/legal/terms-of-service<br />
Privacy: https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/legal/privacy-policy</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>xAI Grok (<code>x.com</code>) for opening a prefilled query.<br />
Data sent on click: generated prompt text that includes the page title and page URL.<br />
Terms: https://x.com/en/tos<br />
Privacy: https://x.com/en/privacy</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Email client (<code>mailto:</code>) for composing an email draft.<br />
Data sent on click: page title (as subject) and page URL (as body) passed to the visitor’s local email client.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>Support</h3>
<p>For support, feature requests, or bug reports, please visit the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/lightshare/" rel="ugc">plugin support forum</a>.</p>
<h3>License</h3>
<p>This plugin is free software, released under the GPLv2 or later.</p>
<h3>Privacy Policy</h3>
<p>Lightshare does not collect personal data. When visitors click a share button, they are sent to the selected third-party sharing service (for example, Facebook, X, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Reddit, WhatsApp, BlueSky, or the AI services listed above). No third-party scripts are loaded by the plugin itself.</p>


Lightshare – Lightweight Social Sharing

A lightweight, high-performance social media sharing plugin for WordPress that won't slow down your site.

Fernando García

<h4>Add totally custom, responsive and fast Click to tweet boxes to your WordPress site.</h4>
<h4>Reve Click2Tweet is totally free, superfast and very light-weight (only 58Kb!).</h4>
<h3>How to use</h3>
<p>Simply insert the shortcode <code>[revec2t]</code> in any post, page or HTML/text widget. To add it you can use the Reve Click2Tweet classic editor button, if option is enabled (by default).</p>
<p>The shortcode will be replaced by the linkable box that allows your visitors to share any content on Twitter.</p>
<p>You can use the following attributes into the shortcode: text, url, hashtags, via, label, icon and short.</p>
<p>All attributes are optional. If you don’t set the text, the shortcode will display the URL to share. Also, you can set manually the URL, or the shortcode will generate the current page URL.</p>
<p>The attributes hashtags, via, label, icon and short allows you to custom each shortcode. If set, they will overwrite the saved options. Also, if you use the special value 0 to any attribute, the saved option will be deactivated.</p>
<p>Usually you only need to use the text attribute to set the text of the tweet, and allow the shortcode to do the rest.</p>
<h3>Some examples</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<p>[revec2t] : The simplest example. As you don’t set the text, the current page URL will be shown in its place.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>[revec2t text=”Text of the tweet”] : The recommended use. Displays the box with the text, the current URL and the saved options.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>[revec2t text=”Text of the tweet” url=”http://…”] : To use a custom URL. Note that URLs must be valid.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>[revec2t text=”Text of the tweet” label=”Click here”] : Changes the default call to action label.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>[revec2t text=”Text of the tweet” hashtags=”hashtag1,hashtag2″] : Sets the hashtags of the tweet, or changes the default hashtags parameter, if set.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>[revec2t text=”Text of the tweet” via=”twitter_user”] : Sets or changes the default via parameter.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>[revec2t text=”Text of the tweet” via=”0″ hashtags=”0″] : Disables the default via and hashtags parameters, if set in options.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>About the Twitter API</h3>
<p>Note that the Twitter API will receive and validate all the submitted params. So, is a best practice to test each shortcode when it is published, especially if the text or the URL are too long.</p>
<p>Currently the maximum length of a tweet is 280 characters, including the text, the URL, the via parameter, the hashtags and the blanks.</p>
<h3>Need help?</h3>
<ul>
<li>For help use the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/reve-click2tweet/" rel="ugc">WordPress Support</a>.</li>
<li>Also you can <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/reve-click2tweet/reviews/#new-post" rel="ugc">write a review</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Contribute development</h3>
<p>You can contribute as follow:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/reve-click2tweet/reviews/" rel="ugc">If you like this plugin, give us a five stars rating clicking here.</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="http://www.promostudio.es/support-revec2t" rel="nofollow ugc">If you make this plugin profitable, give us any Paypal donation clicking here.</a></p>
</li>
</ul>


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