KaizenCoders

Mike L

Sed Lex

<p>Social Linkz is a simple, fast, and lightweight social sharing plugin.</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Blazing fast. Scripts don’t run where they shouldn’t and it uses inline SVG icons without the overhead of third-party libraries.</li>
<li>Easy UI with no admin menu clutter. Enable inline share buttons, floating, or both. Pick from 24+ different networks and match your site’s branding in seconds.</li>
<li>Numerous social share platforms (see a list of them below)</li>
<li>Many placement options before or after posts, floating over your website’s pages, via widget, via shortcode, (top right, bottom left etc.)</li>
<li>The possibility to give several actions to one social share button (e.g. your Facebook icon can lead visitors to your Facebook page, and also show a Facebook button to share your page on social media)</li>
<li>Share counts</li>
<li>Rearrange Order of social share icons</li>
<li>Lots of other customization options for your social share buttons</li>
<li>Compatible with Gutenberg editor</li>
</ul>
<h4>List of platforms supported in the free plugin</h4>
<ul>
<li>Facebook share icon</li>
<li>Twitter share icon</li>
<li>Email icon</li>
<li>RSS icon</li>
<li>Instagram share icon</li>
<li>Youtube share icon</li>
<li>Pinterest share icon</li>
<li>LinkedIn share icon</li>
<li>Houzz share icon</li>
<li>OK icon</li>
<li>Telegram icon</li>
<li>VK icon</li>
<li>WeChat icon</li>
<li>Weibo icon</li>
</ul>
<p>If there are any important social share networks not covered yet, please let us know!</p>
<p>In case of issues or questions please ask in the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/social-linkz" rel="ugc">Support forum</a>.</p>
<h3>Premium Features</h3>
<p>The free plugin already provides tons of options for social sharing (as outlined above). In our Premium Plugin, even more is possible. Some examples for additional features in the Premium Plugin:</p>
<ul>
<li>More social share buttons (the icon pack includes an Instagram button, Snapchat button, Yummly button, Print button, Whatsapp button, Yelp button, Soundcloud button, Skype button, Flickr button, Share button, Blogger button, Digg button, Reddit button, Vimeo button, Tumblr button, Xing button, vk button, Telegram button, Amazon button, Spotify button and many more badge, see list above)</li>
<li>More (default) design styles for your social share icons</li>
<li>Themed design styles for your social share buttons (e.g. if you have a site about cats, you can pick from cat-themed buttons etc.)</li>
<li>Better sharing & following features (tailored tweet texts, allow people to follow you directly on your page etc.)</li>
<li>Place the social share icons on specific pages</li>
<li>Optimized for mobile sharing and buton display</li>
<li>More functions for email icon to connect with you</li>
<li>More lightbox / popup options (e.g. limit how often the popup is shown to the same user)</li>
<li>Premium support</li>
<li>Many more settings & options</li>
</ul>
<h3>Integrations</h3>
<blockquote>
<p>➡️ <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/url-shortify" rel="ugc">URL Shortify</a><br />
  Social Linkz integrates with URL Shortify to generate short links and share it on different social networks.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Do you want us to integrate your WordPress plugin with Social Linkz❓❓❓ <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/social-linkz/" rel="ugc">Let us know</a>. We would love to integrate your WordPress plugins. We will check the possibility of integration and if it matches, we will integrate your plugins too.</p>
<h3>Translations</h3>
<p>Does Social Linkz speak your language? If not, <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/social-linkz/" rel="nofollow ugc">translate “Social Linkz” into your language</a>.</p>
<h3>DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS/ FEEDBACK/ FEATURE REQUEST/ BUG REPORT❓</h3>
<p>Feel free to create a ticket <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/social-linkz/" rel="ugc">here</a>. We love to communicate with you and reply to all your queries.</p>
<h3>Spread The Word ❤️</h3>
<p>If you like Social Linkz, please leave us a <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/social-linkz/reviews/#new-post" rel="ugc">⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐</a> review and also spread the word about it via Facebook and Twitter. That helps fellow website owners assess Social Linkz easily and benefit from it!</p>
<h3>What’s Next</h3>
<p>If you like this plugin then consider checking out our other solutions:</p>
<p><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/url-shortify/" rel="ugc">URL Shortify</a> – Simple, Powerful and Easy URL Shortener Plugin For WordPress.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>URL Shortify helps you beautify, manage, and share any URL on or off of your WordPress website. Create links that look how you want using your domain name! It’s a Simple, Easy & Elegant self hosted alternative to Bitly, TinyURL, Cuttly, Pretty Links, URL Shortener By My Theme Shop, Rebrandly, BL.Link, Short.io, and many other SaaS URL Shortener services.</p>
</blockquote>
<p><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/magic-link/" rel="ugc">Magic Link</a></p>
<blockquote>
<p>Simple, Easy and Secure one click login for WordPress. No more passwords, no more lost passwords, no more password resets. Just one click login.</p>
</blockquote>
<p><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/update-urls/" rel="ugc">Update URLs</a> – Quick and Easy way to search old links and replace them with new links in WordPress.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>If you move your WordPress website to a new domain name, you will find that internal links to pages and references to images are not updated. Instead, these links and references will point to your old domain name. Update URLs fixes that problem by helping you change old urls and links in your website.</p>
</blockquote>
<p><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/utilitify/" rel="ugc">Utilitify</a> – Supercharge Your WordPress Site With Power Pack WordPress Utilities</p>
<blockquote>
<p>It’s a simple & neat plugin which helps you to customize your WordPress setup in a very elegant way.</p>
</blockquote>
<p><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/logify/" rel="ugc">Logify</a></p>
<blockquote>
<p>Simple & Easy to use activity log plugin for monitor & record system changes</p>
</blockquote>


Social Linkz – Lightweight and fast social media sharing plugin

Social Linkz plugin helps you easily share your content to social media.

socialtech

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 Linkz – Lightweight and fast social media sharing plugin vs Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons