Nazim Husain

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.
<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>
Lightshare is built with performance as a top priority:
<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>
You can manually place sharing buttons anywhere using the shortcode:
<pre><code>[lightshare]
</code></pre>
With custom options:
<pre><code>[lightshare networks="facebook,twitter,linkedin" style="rounded"]<h3>Block</h3>
</code></pre>
Lightshare includes a block for the block editor:
<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>
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).
The plugin can connect to these third-party services:
<ul>
<li>
Facebook (<code>facebook.com</code>) for sharing links. 
Data sent on click: page URL. 
Terms: https://www.facebook.com/terms.php 
Privacy: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy/
</li>
<li>
X / Twitter (<code>twitter.com</code>) for sharing links/text. 
Data sent on click: page title and page URL. 
Terms: https://x.com/en/tos 
Privacy: https://x.com/en/privacy
</li>
<li>
LinkedIn (<code>linkedin.com</code>) for sharing links. 
Data sent on click: page URL. 
Terms: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/user-agreement 
Privacy: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy
</li>
<li>
WhatsApp (<code>api.whatsapp.com</code>) for sharing links/text. 
Data sent on click: page title and page URL. 
Terms: https://www.whatsapp.com/legal/terms-of-service 
Privacy: https://www.whatsapp.com/legal/privacy-policy
</li>
<li>
Pinterest (<code>pinterest.com</code>) for creating pins from your page. 
Data sent on click: page URL, page title, and featured image URL (if available). 
Terms: https://policy.pinterest.com/en/terms-of-service 
Privacy: https://policy.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy
</li>
<li>
Reddit (<code>reddit.com</code>) for sharing posts. 
Data sent on click: page URL and page title. 
Terms: https://www.redditinc.com/policies/user-agreement 
Privacy: https://www.reddit.com/policies/privacy-policy
</li>
<li>
Bluesky (<code>bsky.app</code>) for sharing links/text. 
Data sent on click: page title and page URL. 
Terms: https://bsky.social/about/support/tos 
Privacy: https://bsky.social/about/support/privacy-policy
</li>
<li>
OpenAI ChatGPT (<code>chat.openai.com</code>) for opening a prefilled prompt. 
Data sent on click: generated prompt text that includes the page title and page URL. 
Terms: https://openai.com/policies/terms-of-use/ 
Privacy: https://openai.com/policies/privacy-policy/
</li>
<li>
Google Search AI mode (<code>google.com</code>) for opening a prefilled query. 
Data sent on click: generated prompt text that includes the page title and page URL. 
Terms: https://policies.google.com/terms 
Privacy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
</li>
<li>
Perplexity (<code>perplexity.ai</code>) for opening a prefilled query. 
Data sent on click: generated prompt text that includes the page title and page URL. 
Terms: https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/legal/terms-of-service 
Privacy: https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/legal/privacy-policy
</li>
<li>
xAI Grok (<code>x.com</code>) for opening a prefilled query. 
Data sent on click: generated prompt text that includes the page title and page URL. 
Terms: https://x.com/en/tos 
Privacy: https://x.com/en/privacy
</li>
<li>
Email client (<code>mailto:</code>) for composing an email draft. 
Data sent on click: page title (as subject) and page URL (as body) passed to the visitor’s local email client.
</li>
</ul>
<h3>Support</h3>
For support, feature requests, or bug reports, please visit the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/lightshare/" rel="ugc">plugin support forum</a>.
<h3>License</h3>
This plugin is free software, released under the GPLv2 or later.
<h3>Privacy Policy</h3>
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.

Lightshare – Lightweight Social Sharing

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

rohanpawale

<a href="http://techlunatic.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Author Site</a>| 
<a href="http://techlunatic.com/2011/08/social-share-elite-wordpress-plugin/" rel="nofollow ugc">Plugin Home Page</a>
This plugin is the most efficient way to integrate the important social share buttons like twitter, facebook like, google +1 (plus one), LinkedIn and stumbleupon in three different position and styles.
<ul>
<li>
Automatically display the social share buttons Above the post, below the post, both above and below or floating left side of post.
</li>
<li>
Flat/Round border style with/without background color. All easily configurable through settings.
</li>
<li>
Javascript is by default loaded in footer (recommended). This is the most efficient way to load scripts for social share buttons. This will make sure that your site contents are loaded first and the script loading do not interfere with them. Also site loading speed is better by doing so which is an important criteria for SEO. 
Option to load the script in header as well, if you wish to.
</li>
<li>
Left side floating option is the latest trend these days. The top and left spacing can be configured according to your site layout. Using simple CSS and not ajax for better performance. Also floating bar can be fixed on that position or absolute and can be configured easily through settings.
</li>
<li>
Option to display on home page, static pages, category, tag, archive pages.
</li>
<li>
Shortcode [sse_social_share] which can be inserted in test for any post or pages to display the socail share bar.
</li>
<li>
Add a custom field “disable_social_share” with value “yes” to disable social share for specific pages or posts.
</li>
<li>
Facebook Like thumbnail will now display thumbnail specific to the post or page.
</li>
<li>
Adjust width of individual social share button configure count display.
</li>
<li>
Option to manually display the share box at any position.
</li>
<li>
Support for buffer app included
</li>
</ul>

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