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<p>Social Bridge is a WordPress plugin that connects your website with social media platforms, importing comments, likes, and shares from social posts to display them on your WordPress site.</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Integrates WordPress with Bluesky and Mastodon</li>
<li>Supports plugin extensions for additional platforms</li>
<li>Imports comments, likes, and shares from social media posts</li>
<li>Displays social interactions as WordPress comments</li>
<li>Shows shares as pingbacks</li>
<li>Includes a block and shortcode to display user like avatars</li>
<li>Periodic synchronization via WordPress cron</li>
<li>Custom meta boxes in post editors to link social media posts</li>
</ul>
<h3>Configuration</h3>
<h3>Bluesky Integration</h3>
<ol>
<li>Go to Settings <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Social Bridge and click on the Bluesky tab</li>
<li>Enter your Bluesky handle (e.g., username.bsky.social)</li>
<li>Generate an App Password in your Bluesky account settings and enter it in the plugin settings</li>
<li>Save changes</li>
</ol>
<h3>Mastodon Integration</h3>
<ol>
<li>Go to Settings <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Social Bridge and click on the Mastodon tab</li>
<li>Enter your Mastodon instance URL (e.g., https://mastodon.social)</li>
<li>Generate an access token in your Mastodon preferences under Development <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Applications</li>
<li>Enter the access token in the plugin settings</li>
<li>Save changes</li>
</ol>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<h3>Connecting Social Media Posts</h3>
<ol>
<li>When creating or editing a post/page, you’ll see platform-specific meta boxes in the sidebar</li>
<li>Paste the URL of your social media post in the appropriate field</li>
<li>Update the post</li>
<li>The plugin will automatically sync comments, likes, and shares from the social media post</li>
</ol>
<h3>Manual Sync</h3>
<ol>
<li>Edit a post that has connected social media posts</li>
<li>In the Social Interactions meta box, click the Sync button next to a platform</li>
<li>The plugin will immediately import any new interactions</li>
</ol>
<h3>Comment Appearance</h3>
<p>In Settings <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Social Bridge, you can configure how social media comments appear:</p>
<ul>
<li>Fully integrated: Comments look like native WordPress comments</li>
<li>Styled differently: Comments retain their social media identity but appear in the same section</li>
<li>Separate section: Social media comments appear below WordPress comments</li>
</ul>
<h3>Extending the Plugin</h3>
<p>Social Bridge supports extensions for additional social media platforms. Developers can create add-on plugins that register new platform integrations using the provided API.</p>
<p>To create an extension:</p>
<ol>
<li>Create a new plugin that depends on Social Bridge</li>
<li>Create a class that extends <code>Social_Bridge_Integration</code></li>
<li>Implement the required abstract methods</li>
<li>Register your integration using the <code>social_bridge_integrations</code> filter</li>
</ol>
<p>Example:</p>
<pre><code>`php
</code></pre>
<p>// Register a new integration<br />
function my_plugin_register_integration($integrations) {<br />
    $integrations[‘twitter’] = new My_Twitter_Integration();<br />
    return $integrations;<br />
}<br />
add_filter(‘social_bridge_integrations’, ‘my_plugin_register_integration’);<br />
    `</p>
<h3>External Services</h3>
<p>Social Bridge includes built-in integration for two social media platforms: Bluesky and Mastodon.<br />
When enabled, Social Bridge interacts with the APIs of these platforms to retrieve data<br />
from social media posts specified by authors on your site.</p>
<p>These integrations do not transmit any user data from your site to the third-party<br />
platforms. However, they will use the authentication or API credentials you provide<br />
in the Social Bridge settings to access the respective platforms.</p>
<p>The plugin will only communicate with these platforms when explicitly configured to<br />
do so—such as when a post on your site includes social media links in the Social Interactions metabox.</p>
<p>After configured both in the plugin settings and on individual posts, Social Bridge will routinely<br />
re-communicate with these platforms, in order to update its cache of social media comments, likes and shares.</p>
<p>You can review Bluesky’s privacy policies <a href="https://bsky.social/about/support/privacy-policy" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a><br />
and <a href="https://bsky.social/about/support/network-services-privacy-policy" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a>.</p>
<p>For Mastodon, each server maintains its own privacy policy. You should review the policy<br />
of the specific server you use. As an example, the mastodon.social policy is<br />
available <a href="https://mastodon.social/privacy-policy" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a>.</p>


Social Bridge

Social Bridge integrates WordPress with social media platforms and allows for comment synchronization.

AddToAny

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<p>The AddToAny Share Buttons plugin for WordPress increases traffic & engagement by helping people share your posts and pages to any service. Services include Facebook, Bluesky, Mastodon, Pinterest, WhatsApp, LinkedIn, Threads, Tumblr, Reddit, X, WeChat, and many more sharing and social media sites & apps.</p>
<p>AddToAny is the home of universal sharing, and the AddToAny plugin is the most popular share plugin for WordPress, making sites social media ready since 2006.</p>
<h4>Share Buttons</h4>
<ul>
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<li><strong>Custom</strong> share icons — use your own if you prefer</li>
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</ul>
<h4>Custom Placement & Appearance</h4>
<ul>
<li>Before content, after content, or before & after content</li>
<li>Vertical Floating Share Bar, and Horizontal Floating Share Bar</li>
<li>As a shortcode, or a widget within a theme’s layout</li>
<li>Programmatically with template tags</li>
</ul>
<h4>Analytics Integration</h4>
<ul>
<li>Google Analytics integration (<a href="https://www.addtoany.com/ext/google_analytics/" rel="nofollow ugc">access guide</a>) for sharing analytics</li>
<li>Track shared links with Bitly and custom URL shorteners</li>
<li>Display share counts on posts and pages</li>
</ul>
<h4>WordPress Optimized</h4>
<ul>
<li>Loads asynchronously so your content always loads before or in parallel with AddToAny</li>
<li>Supports theme features such as HTML5, widgets, infinite scroll, post formats</li>
<li>Supports WooCommerce, multilingual sites, multisite networks, and accessibility standards</li>
<li>AddToAny is free — no signup, no login, no accounts to manage</li>
</ul>
<h4>Mobile Optimized & Retina Ready</h4>
<ul>
<li>AddToAny gives users the choice in sharing from a service’s native app or from a web app</li>
<li>Responsive Floating Share Buttons are mobile ready by default, and configurable breakpoints make floating buttons work with any theme</li>
<li>AddToAny’s SVG icons are super-lightweight and pixel-perfect at any size, and AddToAny’s responsive share menu fits on all displays</li>
<li>Automatic <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/amp/" rel="ugc">AMP</a> (Accelerated Mobile Pages) support for social share buttons on AMP pages</li>
</ul>
<h4>Customizable & Extensible</h4>
<ul>
<li>Choose exactly where you want AddToAny to appear</li>
<li>Easily <a href="https://www.addtoany.com/buttons/customize/wordpress" rel="nofollow ugc">customize sharing</a> on your WordPress site</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/add-to-any/#faq" rel="ugc">Highly extensible</a> for developers and designers</li>
<li>Custom icons let you use any icons from any location (media uploads directory, CDN, etc.)</li>
<li>Many more publisher and user features</li>
</ul>
<h4>Wide Support</h4>
<ul>
<li>Over 10 years of development</li>
<li>Over 18 million downloads</li>
<li>Translated into dozens of languages</li>
<li>Ongoing support from the community</li>
</ul>
<p>This plugin always strives to be the best WordPress plugin for sharing. Development is fueled by your kind words and feedback.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.addtoany.com/share#url=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fplugins%2Fadd-to-any%2F&title=AddToAny%20Sharing%20Plugin%20for%20WordPress" title="Share" rel="nofollow ugc">Share</a> this plugin</p>
<p>See also:</p>
<ul>
<li>The <a href="https://www.addtoany.com/buttons/" rel="nofollow ugc">share buttons</a> for all platforms</li>
<li>The <a href="https://www.addtoany.com/buttons/for/wordpress_com" rel="nofollow ugc">share buttons for WordPress.com</a></li>
</ul>
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AddToAny Share Buttons

Share buttons for WordPress including the AddToAny button, Facebook, Bluesky, Mastodon, WhatsApp, Pinterest, Reddit, many more, and follow icons too.

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