terriblestudio

chazz0x0

<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.

Scott Weaver

scottstorebloom

socialmediafeather

<p><a href="http://socialmediafeather.com/" title="Lightweight WordPress social sharing and following" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress Social Media Feather</a> is a lightweight free social media WordPress plugin that allows you to quickly and painlessly add social sharing and following features to all your posts, pages and custom post types.</p>
<p>The plugin supports adding of social buttons for sharing or following (that is, social buttons that link to your social network profiles pages). The social media buttons can easily and automatically be added to all your posts, pages or any other <strong>custom post types</strong>.</p>
<p>One of the few social sharing and bookmarking plugin with full support for the <strong>Retina and high resolution displays</strong> as used in the iPad, iPhones and other devices!</p>
<p>What sets WordPress Social Media Feather aside from the plethora of other social sharing and following WordPress plugins is its focus on simplicity, performance and social sharing impact. Social share buttons and links to your social pages are fast to setup with automatic display or social widgets.</p>
<p>Given the widespread focus on WordPress social media integration, your site will still provide social bookmarks and share buttons to improve visibility of your posts and content and improve your overall global reach on social platforms.</p>
<p>The <strong>WordPress social media sharing</strong> offered by the plugin includes all major social sharing buttons providers like Facebook, Twitter, reddit, Pinterest, tumblr, Linkedin and even e-mail.</p>
<p>It will show social buttons that your users can click to share to facebook or tweet your posts and pages on your site or submit it to reddit or publish it on tumblr and all other social sharing networks.</p>
<p>The <strong>WordPress social media following</strong> offered by the plugin includes all major social network providers and tools like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Linkedin, YouTube, tumblr, instagram, flickr, foursquare, vimeo or RSS.</p>
<p>Our social media plugin also offers widgets for sharing and following buttons that you can place in any widgetized area in your site and the widgets also expose some settings and parameters to tweak the appearance of the social buttons. The plugin also provides shortcodes that can be used for the same purpose, creating both share and follow buttons and allowing selection of visibility of different social media networks or reordering how the various social networks appear (see example shortcodes at the bottom).</p>
<p>You can disable automatic rendering of social icons for specific posts by using <em>Custom Fields</em>. Simply set a custom field of <code>synved_social_exclude_share</code> to “yes” (without quotes) to disable rendering of sharing buttons on the post/page or <code>synved_social_exclude_follow</code> to “yes” (without quotes) to remove following buttons from the post or alternatively <code>synved_social_exclude</code> to disable both. The <em>Custom Fields</em> editor needs to be enabled on your post/page edit screen by clicking at the top right where it says “Screen Options”.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Integrated WordPress social sharing for all your posts</li>
<li>Full support for <strong>Retina</strong> and high resolution displays</li>
<li>WordPress social sharing and following widgets</li>
<li>Supports all major providers of social features</li>
<li>Sharing with Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Pinterest, Tumblr, Linkedin and E-mail</li>
<li>Following on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Linkedin, YouTube, Tumblr, Instagram, Flickr, Foursquare, Vimeo or RSS Feed</li>
<li>Each social provider can be enabled or disabled</li>
<li>Ability to select what services each provider will be exposed for</li>
<li>Full customization for titles and URLs for each provider</li>
<li>Fast unobtrusive social bookmarks for your site</li>
<li>Comes with a default modern icon set</li>
<li>For further customization more <a href="http://socialmediafeather.com/products/extra-social-icons/" title="Add 8 extra social icon skins to the Social Media Feather plugin!" rel="nofollow ugc">social icons skins</a> are available. Free from the version 1.8.2!</li>
<li>Available skins can be customized with cool effects like <a href="http://socialmediafeather.com/products/grey-fade-effect/" title="Customize any of the available social icon skins with 2 cool effects!" rel="nofollow ugc">fading and greying out</a> social icons</li>
<li>If you like them, you can get <a href="http://socialmediafeather.com/products/light-prompt/" title="Nice lightweight social sharing counters using the Light Prompt addon" rel="nofollow ugc">social sharing counters</a> that load dynamically, only when necessary, thus not weighing in on visitors who don’t use them</li>
</ul>
<h4>Example Shortcodes</h4>
<p>This shortcode will create a list of social sharing buttons to share content on your site:<br />
    [feather_share]</p>
<p>This shortcode will create a list of social media sharing buttons to share content on your site, only showing Twitter and Facebook, in that specific order:<br />
    [feather_share show=”twitter, facebook” hide=”reddit, pinterest, linkedin, tumblr, mail”]</p>
<p>You can change the order of displayed buttons by changing the order of keywords:<br />
    [feather_share show=”twitter, facebook” hide=”reddit, pinterest, linkedin, tumblr, mail”]</p>
<p>This shortcode will create a list of social sharing buttons to share content on your site using the “Wheel” icons skin:<br />
    [feather_share skin=”wheel”]</p>
<p>This shortcode will create a list of social media sharing buttons to share content on your site using the default icon skin with a size of 64 pixels:<br />
    [feather_share size=”64″]</p>
<p>You can add a custom CSS class to your share buttons using the “class” attribute:<br />
    [feather_share class=”myclass”]</p>
<p>You can combine all the parameters above to customize the look, for instance using the “Wheel” icon skin at a size of 64 pixels and only showing Twitter and Facebook, in that specific order:<br />
    [feather_share skin=”wheel” size=”64″ show=”twitter, facebook” hide=”reddit, pinterest, linkedin, tumblr, mail”]</p>
<p>The next shortcode will create a list of social following buttons that allow visitors to follow you:<br />
    [feather_follow]</p>
<p>The next shortcode will create a list of social following buttons that allow visitors to follow you, using the “Balloon” icons skin:<br />
    [feather_follow skin=”balloon”]</p>
<p>You can add a custom CSS class to your social profiles buttons using the “class” attribute:<br />
    [feather_follow class=”myclass”]</p>
<p>The next shortcode will create a list of social media following buttons that allow visitors to follow you, using the “Balloon” icons skin with a size of 64 pixels:<br />
    [feather_follow skin=”balloon” size=”64″]</p>
<p>You can specify a manual URL to be used for the sharing buttons:<br />
    [feather_share url=”http://www.example.org”]</p>
<h4>Template Tags</h4>
<p>If you don’t want to use shortcodes but instead prefer to use PHP directly, there are 2 PHP functions/template tags you can use.</p>
<p>For sharing buttons you can use:<br />
    if (function_exists(‘synved_social_share_markup’)) echo synved_social_share_markup();</p>
<p>For following buttons you can use:<br />
    if (function_exists(‘synved_social_follow_markup’)) echo synved_social_follow_markup();</p>
<h4>Related Links:</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://socialmediafeather.com/" title="WordPress Social Media Feather � lightweight WordPress social sharing and following" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress Social Media Plugin Official Page</a></li>
<li><a href="http://socialmediafeather.com/products/extra-social-icons/" title="Add 8 extra social icon skins to the Social Media Feather plugin!" rel="nofollow ugc">Extra Social Icons Skins</a></li>
<li><a href="http://socialmediafeather.com/products/grey-fade-effect/" title="Customize any of the available social icon skins with 2 cool effects!" rel="nofollow ugc">Grey Fade addon that can grey out and fade out any social icons set</a></li>
<li><a href="http://socialmediafeather.com/products/light-prompt/" title="Add counters for social shares using Light Prompt" rel="nofollow ugc">Light Prompt that adds counts for social shares</a></li>
</ul>
<p>By downloading and installing this plugin you are agreeing to the <a href="http://socialmediafeather.com/privacy/" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a> and <a href="http://socialmediafeather.com/privacy/" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Service</a>.</p>


Social Media Feather

Lightweight, modern looking and effective social media sharing and profile buttons and icons. All your social media needs in 1 easy package!

Social Bridge vs Social Media Feather