Description
WORDPRESS SOCIAL SHARING PLUGIN
Social9 is the leading social growth service provider that helps you drive more traffic and increase engagement by leveraging the power of social media. Read more about us here.
82% of users consider buying or trying products and services based on their friends’ recommendations. With a social share, you give users the tools to share your content, product details, and other information with their own networks.
More than 22 billion shares are viewed each and every day on the internet, with sharing becoming an increasingly important part of every website owner’s marketing strategies.
You can have Social9 up and running within minutes.
We are providing a high-end UX/UI within our product. Our easy to use interface, configuration panel make Social9 the leading choice for high-end users who are looking for a social sharing plugin. We are also providing Analytics along with the Social Plugin. For this, You need to login into the Social9.com and you can use social analytics for free!
Social9 is designed in a way that it won’t slow down your website. unlike other social sharing plugins. We have spent months making sure Social9 performance was top-notch and we are regularly maintaining and updating it to make sure performance should increase.
SOCIAL SHARE
Quickly add beautiful and highly customizable social share buttons with simples installation steps. Choose from most popular social networks and actions.
- Facebook Share Buttons
- Twitter Share Buttons
- LinkedIn Share Buttons
- Mix Share Buttons
- Email – Makes it easy to share via Gmail, Yahoo or any other email app
- Print – Easily allow your visitors to print your content
- Copy Link – Allows your visitors to copy the current page URL in one click and quickly share with friends.
- Display individual and/or total share counts
- Easily edit share button labels and maximize engagement
- Display different share buttons for mobile/desktop screens
- Page-level control
Grow your social following with social follow buttons and fan counters. Easily allow users to follow your brand across your preferred social media channel.
- Tumblr
- Mix
- Display counters
- Plenty of customization options
SHARE BUTTONS PLACEMENT
Choose where you would like to show your share buttons:
- Inline share buttons: share buttons before content, share buttons after content, or both before & after content
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Floating Sidebar Share Buttons – Vertical share bar, fixed to the left or right with plenty customization options available to the share buttons
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Popup Share Buttons – Show share buttons in the pop-up and place pop-ups anywhere as per your need on your website
HIGHLY CUSTOMIZABLE
We understand all sites have their own style so we made it easy to customize your share buttons to match your site’s design.
- Change share buttons order
- Change share buttons labels
- Show/Hide share buttons labels
- Multiple share button shapes
- Show share count for each social network
- Show total share count
- Disable share buttons on selected individual pages
LIGHTWEIGHT & FAST LOAD
- Loads lighting fast so it doesn’t slow down your website
FULLY RESPONSIVE & RETINA READY
As you’d expect, Social9 is a 100% mobile responsive social sharing plugin, so no matter the screen size, your social sharing tools will look great on all devices (mobile, tablet, laptop, and desktop). Super-lightweight SVG icons load fast and look crisp at any size.
We created Social9 to give everyone access to all the powerful tools they would need to have a successful social media strategy. Take a look at the screenshots below to see why designers, developers, bloggers, small business owners, and more choose Social9 – Social Sharing plugin!
Step-by-step installation documents
Social9 also provides social plugins for Joomla, Drupal, Magento, PrestaShop, Vanilla Forum, osCommerce, Zen Cart, X-cart, vBulletin, BlogEngine and DotNetNuke! Learn more .
Important links
- Social9 website: https://www.social9.com
- Product page: https://docs.social9.com/install/wordpress/
Please share your comments and feedback at feedback@social9.com
Screenshots
Installation
Step-by-step installation documents
After downloading the plugin, you will find Open Social Share located under Plugins.
Activate your plugin in WordPress by clicking on “Activate”.
For a step-by-step installation guide please follow this:
WordPress installation and configuration
Configuring the Widget
- After activating the Open Social Share plugin, you’ll notice a new icon located on the admin menu called Social Sharing. Click on it to open the plugin settings.
- If new to Open Social Share you’ll be asked to activate this plugin using your email address.
- Once you’ve activated the plugin you’ll be presented with the plugin options.
- These options allow you to enable or disable horizontal and vertical sharing widgets and the placement of widgets. Here, you can also select sharing providers to display (up to 8) and use the rearrange section to modify the order of the first theme selection.
- If ever you find yourself wanting to return to default click on the Reset Options.
- The horizontal sharing shortcode is [Social9_Share] and is located for reference under the Advanced Settings Tab.
Technical Support Questions
FAQ
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What is Social Sharing?
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Social sharing allows users to share your web content on his/her social networks i.e. amongst his/her friends resulting in increased referral traffic!
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How much do you charge for the plugin?
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Our plugin is FREE to download and feel free to use on your WordPress, BuddyPress, bbPress and any other WP based systems. For advanced features, enterprise level support and custom solutions, we offer premium packages as well.
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Can you help me set up Social Sharing on my website?
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Yes, the Social9 Team can assist you with implementing Social Sharing. Please contact us here and one of our experts will get back to you.
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Where can I get support?
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Our knowledge base is available here.
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My website is not in English, what should i do?
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Simplified Social Sharing plugin is available only in english at this time. Please let us know at feedback@social9.com if you would like us to add any other language.
Reviews
Contributors & Developers
“Open Social Share” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
ContributorsTranslate “Open Social Share” into your language.
Interested in development?
Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.
Changelog
5.1
- Added Inline Widget.
— Added Pages Selection Options
— Added Position Selection Options - Added Floating Widget.
— Added Pages Selection Options
5.0
— implemented New Easy UI design.
4.2
— Minor bug fix.
4.1
— Fixed bugs.
— Improved plugin performance.
— Code optimization.
4.0
- Added Advance Setting options
— Added desired email message
— Added desired email subject
— Added email content read only
— Added short URL option during sharing
— Added Facebook App ID
— Added Total Share to display the total share count on your website
— Added open all providers in a single window
— Added Custom Popup Window Size
— Added desired Twitter handle to mention during a Twitter share
— Added desired Twitter hash tags to be used during a Twitter share
— Added custom options for sharing interface
— Added Facebook Page Url
3.5.1
- Added shortcode support
3.5
- Added option to delete plugin settings on plugin deletion
- UI improvements in plugin options page
- Enhanced Social Sharing to support mobile devices
- Added option to include plugin Javascript code in website footer
- Responsive sharing widgets
- Added extra options to customize the sharing widget
- Enhanced Admin user interface
- Improved performance of the sharing interface
- Enhanced Debug Error Reporting
- Quick & Easy Activation
- Support added for WordPress 4.3.0
- Custom post type sharing added
- Improved multisite performance
3.0
- Support added for WordPress 4.3.0
- Custom post type sharing added
- Improved multisite performance
2.8
- Improved functionality and optimization
- Improved Theme compatibility
2.7.1
- Fixed multisite bug
- Improved post/page sharing features
2.7
- Performance improvements
- Improved Activation process
- Updated style sheet and resposive theme
2.6
- Enhanced Debug Error Reporting
- Quick & Easy Activation
- Disable sharing fix per page/post
2.5.1
- Alignment fixes for vertical sharing
- Styling fixes in social sharing widget
2.5
- Responsive sharing widgets
- Added extra options to customize the sharing widget
- Enhanced Admin user interface
- Improved performance of the sharing interface
- Compatible with WordPress 4.0
2.1
- Improvement in Admin UI and content updates for better understanding
- Directory restructuring for code optimization
- Resolved user registration issues
- Improved widget functionality
2.0
- Enhanced Social Sharing to support mobile devices
- Added option to include plugin Javascript code in website footer
1.9
- UI improvements in plugin options page
1.8
- Added option to delete plugin settings on plugin deletion
1.7
- ‘has_cap was called with an argument that is deprecated’ PHP notice fixed
1.6
- Issues in user login/registration resolved
- Plugin options will not get reset on changing API Key.
1.5
- Activation from admin
1.1
- Admin UI Improvement
1.0
- Initial release