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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.

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socialdude

<p><strong>Try it out on your free dummy site: Click here => <a href="https://tastewp.com/plugins/ultimate-social-media-icons" rel="nofollow ugc">https://tastewp.com/plugins/ultimate-social-media-icons</a></strong><br />
(this trick works for all plugins – just replace “wordpress” with “tastewp” in the plugin’s WP repo URL)</p>
<p>Social media plugin which let’s you add share icons for RSS, Email, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Instagram, Youtube, ‘Share’ (covering 200+ other social media platforms) and upload custom share icons of your choice.</p>
<p>This free plugin has a lot to offer. Even more can be found in the Premium Plugin, please watch this short video:</p>
<span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xaZ8m5zSYRg?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span>
<p>See <a href="https://www.ultimatelysocial.com/usm-premium/" rel="nofollow ugc">all features of the Premium plugin</a>.</p>
<p>The free social media plugin includes the following features:</p>
<ul>
<li>Pick from 16 different designs for your social media share icons</li>
<li>Give several actions to one social media share icon (e.g. your facebook share icon can lead visitors to your Facebook page, and also give visitors the opportunity to like your page)</li>
<li>Decide to give your social media icons an animation (e.g. automatic shuffling, mouse-over effects) to make your visitors aware of the share icons, increasing the chance that they follow/share your blog</li>
<li>Make your social media icons ‘float’ or ‘sticky’</li>
<li>Allow visitors to subscribe to your blog by Email</li>
<li>Add ‘counts’ to your social media buttons</li>
<li>Decide to display a pop-up (on all or only on selected pages) asking people to follow/share you via your social media icons</li>
<li>Decide to display sharing-buttons and social media icons at the end of every post</li>
<li>Select from many other customization features for your socialmedia icons!</li>
</ul>
<p>For GDPR compliance, please have a look at our <a href="https://ultimatelysocial.com/gdpr/" rel="nofollow ugc">Social Media GDPR Compliance page</a>.</p>
<p>The social media plugin is very easy to use as it takes you through all the steps:</p>
<ul>
<li>Step 1: Choose which social media icons you want to display</li>
<li>Step 2: Define what actions your social media icons should perform</li>
<li>Step 3: Pick design & animation options for your social media icons</li>
<li>Step 4: Add counts to your social media icons (optional)</li>
<li>Step 5: Select from various other social share options, e.g. make your social media icons ‘float’</li>
<li>Step 6: Add sharing/linking icons next to each blog post (optional)</li>
<li>Step 7: Add a customized pop-up asking people to follow or share (optional)</li>
<li>Step 8: Add a subscription form on your site (optional)</li>
</ul>
<p>In case of issues or questions please ask in the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/ultimate-social-media-icons" rel="ugc">Support forum</a>.</p>
<p>We hope you enjoy the free social media plugin!</p>
<h4>New premium social share plugin</h4>
<p>We released a premium social share plugin with many more exciting features:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Many more social networks</strong> supported, including Snapchat share buttons, Whatsapp share buttons, Yummly share buttons, Phone button, Yelp share buttons, Soundcloud share buttons, Skype share buttons Flickr share buttons, Blogger share buttons, Reddit share buttons, Vimeo share buttons, Tumblr share buttons, Xing share buttons, Xhenta, Vkontakte share buttons (VK), Telegram share buttons, Amazon share buttons, Goodreads share buttons, Angies list share buttons, Steam share buttons, Twitch share buttons, Spotify share buttons, Odnoklassniki share buttons (OK), Buffer share buttons, Weibo share buttons, Pocket share buttons, Meneame share buttons, Frype share buttons, LiveJournal share buttons, Patreon share buttons, Dloky share buttons, Discord share buttons, Github share buttons, WordPress buttons, Etsy share buttons, Better Business Bureau share buttons, Digg share buttons, Delicious share buttons, Print share buttons, and many other share buttons!</li>
<li><strong>More design styles</strong> to make your social share icons look really cool & matching the design of your website</li>
<li><strong>Themed design styles</strong>, e.g. if you have a website about cats you can pick from social media logos which look like cats etc.</li>
<li><strong>Better social sharing and following features</strong>, e.g. you can define the Tweet-texts better (e.g. pull the post titles into your Tweets automatically), let people follow you on Facebook directly without leaving your site etc.</li>
<li><strong>Place the social icons on specific pages</strong>, i.e. you can define on which pages the icons to the social media sites should not show</li>
<li><strong>Position the social icons by anchor and margins</strong>, i.e. you can define the margins where your share icons should be displayed (from top/bottom/left/right), and then have them floating, or stick, still visible when user scrolls down or not etc.</li>
<li><strong>Optimized for mobile</strong> – you can define separate selections for your social network icons for mobile</li>
<li><strong>More functions for email icon</strong>, such as Share (by email), Contact you, Link to a certain page etc.</li>
<li><strong>Social media counters optimized</strong> to encourage more social media sharing from your visitors</li>
<li><strong>More pop up options</strong> which contain your social media buttons, e.g. define a limit to how often the pop-up is shown to the same user, show pop-up only when people try to leave your website etc.</li>
<li><strong>Friendly support</strong> in case you’re stuck</li>
<li><strong>Many more settings and options</strong> for your social media network icons</li>
</ul>
<p>Have a look at the <a href="https://www.ultimatelysocial.com/usm-premium/" rel="nofollow ugc">Premium Plugin features</a></p>


Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons


Nothing banner after banner sliding in asking if you want this and that.  Nothing but a crap plugin lasted 30 seconds in my site,


Annoying and Spammy


So since it keeps on pushing me writing a review, while I just wanted to deactivate one icon, so here goes: If you're looking for a plugin that puts social media icons on your site, wherever you want it, and add share buttons to your posts, this plugin will do it. But it will constantly remind you it's doing that. 



The settings page is terrible, it tries to be easy to use for non-technical users and puts all the setting on one page, wizard-style. Which is fine for initial configuration but if you want to change anything afterwards it does take a while to find a particular settings in this colorful candyland of a settings page. Why is every radio button 50px high and the buttons 50% of your vw? Why is the font so big? I don't know but you will surely train your scroll finger with this plugin. 



Bottom line: it does what it says it does, for free, mostly. It will constantly try to upgrade you to the premium version in the most annoying ways possible. I'm going to replace this as soon as I find something better.


Does the job but terribly annoying and messy


Horrible plugins that takes the option to deactivate without a reason. I don't like these plugins.


Unable to deactivate

Share buttons and pop up share icons for social media sharing

Social Bridge vs Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons