Matthew Barby

This WordPress plugin was originally developed so that I could track how many social shares my content was getting. I didn’t just want to know the stats for the content I published on my own website, but also the numerous articles that I’d written in other online publications. The result was my Social Footprint plugin.
After using the plugin for over a year I decided that it was too useful to keep to myself. That said, I didn’t want to charge people to use it so I’ve offered this out for free, forever.
Uploading your content into the plugin couldn’t be easier. Simply click on the ‘Import WordPress Posts’ button and the plugin will pull through all the posts on your site and then gather social share stats for them. You can then arrange the columns in ascending/descending order to quickly see your top and worst performing content.
When it comes to sourcing the right stats for you, I’ve set the plugin up so that you can choose which social networks you will get stats for. Stats for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, Pinterest, StumbleUpon and Reddit are all currently supported by the plugin.
As I mentioned, it’s not just your WordPress content that you can analyse. There’s a built-in feature that allows you to add in URLs from any website and gather instant stats on their social media performance. There’s even a bulk upload option where you can import a list of URLs from a Windows .csv file.

Social Footprint

Analyse the virality of your content across a range of social networks.

Jan-Peter

The “original” share buttons automatically transmit data of your visitors to the social network sites as soon as they visit your website. They do not need to click on a share button for this and therefore have no choice, if they want their data to be send. The German computer magazine c’t has developed “Shariff” <code>(ʃɛɹɪf)</code> that follows the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR – Regulation (EU) 2016/679). This plugin adapts the Shariff concept and provides an easy to use solution for WordPress. We currently support 29 services in 25 languages: Bitcoin, Buffer, Diaspora, Facebook, Flipboard, LinkedIn, mailto, Mastodon, MeWe, Odnoklassniki, Patreon, PayPal, PayPal.me, Pinterest, Pocket, Printer, Reddit, RSS, SMS, Stumbleupon, Telegram, Threema, Tumblr, Twitter, VK, Wallabag, Weibo, WhatsApp, Xing.
For more information about the Shariff project check out the original <a href="https://github.com/heiseonline/shariff" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub project</a> and read about the project itself <a href="http://ct.de/shariff" rel="nofollow ugc">c’t information page</a> (in German).
You can automatically add share buttons to posts, pages, the main blog page, product sites and many more as well as use it as a widget or add the shortcode <code>[shariff]</code> manually to your pages or themes.

Shariff Wrapper

Shariff provides share buttons that respect the privacy of your visitors and follow the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Social Footprint vs Shariff Wrapper