Plain Social Sharing Buttons

Plain Social Sharing Buttons aim to bring to your site a lightweight and eye-catching floating bar of social sharing buttons.

The plugin is tested with WooCommerce and Elementor and works as expected. The produced HTML, is W3C validated.

Available Buttons

• Facebook
• Twitter
• Reddit
• LinkedIn
• Mastodon
• Diaspora
• Tumblr
• WhatsApp
• Email
• Text resizer

Plain Social Sharing Buttons work out of the box after installation and activation, but there are many options you can alter at the Settings > Plain Social Sharing page.

Available Options

• Choose on what devices the sidebar will appear (Desktop, Tablet, Mobile)
• Choose the kind of pages the sidebar will appear (Posts, Pages, Home, Attachments, Categories, etc.)
• Modify the appearance
• Modify the buttons’ text
• Cache the social shares counter, for better performance
• Hide the social shares counter below a minimum number of shares, to avoid negative social proof
• Text resizing for selectable parts of your site

New features will be added according to demand.

Minimum Requirements

• WordPress 3.1 or greater
• PHP version 5.3 or greater
• MySQL version 5.0 or greater

Recommended Requirements

• WordPress 4.6 or greater
• PHP version 7.3 or greater
• MySQL version 5.6 or greater

Installation

1. Install using the WordPress built-in Plugin installer, or Extract the zip file and drop the contents in the wp-content/plugins/ directory of your WordPress installation.
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
3. Go to Settings > Plain Social Sharing to alter the end-user appearance of the plugin

1. 

   Floating Sidebar Settings: You can perform a number of adjustments in the admin panel section

2. 

   Plugin General Settings: You can also set general social media and plugin appearance options

3. 

   Social Counter Settings: Adjust the way the social counter will work

4. 

   Uninstallation Options: Choose which settings and data to keep in case of uninstallation

5. 

   Outcome The outcome of the plugin with default settings, on a freshly installed wordpress site

0.6.0 – 2019-03-01

• Added WhatsApp to the available social networks
• Added a cache bypass system for the social counter. Now you can choose to display fresh social sharing stats even if you are using a caching system
• Added the option to keep your settings and data in case you uninstall the plugin.

0.5.0 – 2019-02-26

• Code refactoring
• Changes to the admin panel
• Html produced is now w3c validated
• Added Tumblr to the available social networks
• New ability to choose the container element for the text resizing

0.4.0 – 2019-02-24

• Code refactoring
• Added LinkedIn to the available social networks
• Added Mastodon to the available social networks
• Added Diaspora to the available social networks

0.3.1 – 2019-02-22

Test:

• The plugin was tested with wordpress version 5.1 and works as expected

Fix:

• In some occasions the facebook shares failed to be calculated
• Some minor code changes

0.4.0 – 2019-02-21

• Code refactoring for increased performance
• Added a support page for the admins
• Added LinkedIn sharing button
• Added Diaspora sharing button

0.3.1 – 2019-02-21

New:

• Feature: Social counter for posts and pages
• Feature: Fade-in the floating sidebar

0.2.0 – 2019-02-20

New:

• Revamped admin panel
• Feature: Choose the devices the floating bar will appear
• Feature: Choose the page types the floating bar will appear
• Feature: Choose between right and left alignment of the floating bar

0.1.0 – 2019-02-14

• Initial Public Release