Shared Counts

Shared Counts

Shared Counts adds social media sharing buttons that look great and keep your site loading fast.

Shared Counts is a WordPress social media share buttons plugin. Sharing buttons increase traffic and engagement by helping readers share your posts and pages to their friends on social media.

Included Buttons

• Facebook Share Button
• Pinterest Pin Button
• Yummly Button
• Twitter Tweet Button (using the third-party Twitcount.com API)
• Email Sharing
• Share Count Total
• Print Button
• LinkedIn Share Button

Facebook, Pinterest, Yummly, and Twitter buttons support social count display and tracking.

Basic Usage

In Settings > Shared Counts you can select where the share buttons can appear automatically (Before Content, After Content, Before & After Content). When editing a post, you can use the checkbox in the "Shared Counts" box in the right column to disable the automatic buttons on this specific post.

You can use the [shared_counts] shortcode to manually display the buttons.

Styling and Display

We include many share button styling options, so you can pick the perfect look for you site. Additionally, you can automatically insert the share buttons before and/or after the post content. Want granular or manual control? No problem! You can also use the [shared_counts] shortcode to insert them inside your content as you see fit.

HTTP Recovery / Upgrading to HTTPS

We provide a one-click option to retrieve both HTTP and HTTPS share counts, ensuring you don't lose your share counts when upgrading your website to HTTPS.

GDPR

Unlike other social sharing tools, this plugin does not use cookies, tracking scripts, or store any user data.

Performance

Shared Counts was created with site performance in mind, even at large scale. It is used on several large websites that get tens of millions of page views each month. Our unique and creative caching methods have a minimal affect on site overhead. Leveraging the SharedCount.com API, we can retrieve (almost) all share counts in a single request.

Developers

Additionally, Shared Counts was built to be developer friendly! We provide very liberal usage of hooks and filters. Everything is customizable and the possibilities are near limitless. Unlike other plugins all data (counts) are stored and cached in post_meta which makes it easy to access for extending (e.g. fetch top 10 most shared posts on your site). We have extensive documentation on our website and we're also on GitHub.

Add On Plugins

• Shared Counts - Pinterest Image - Upload a separate image for Pinterest sharing
• Shared Counts - Cache Status - Build and check the status of the Shared Counts cache

Customization

For details on this please see the Shared Counts website and our GitHub wiki.

Bugs

If you find an bug or problem, please let us know by creating an issue.

Contributions

Contributions are welcome!

1. Open an Issue on GitHub.
2. Fork Shared Counts on GitHub.
3. Create a new branch off of develop; branch name should be issue/### to reference the issue.
4. When committing, reference your issue and provide notes/feedback.
5. Send us a Pull Request with your bug fixes and/or new features.

What it adds

• Shortcodes: [shared_counts]

Installation

1. Download the plugin from GitHub. or from WordPress.org.
2. Activate plugin.
3. Go to Settings > Shared Counts to configure.

We recommend you sign up for a free account at SharedCount.com, which lets you receive share counts from all services (except Twitter) with a single API query. Alternatively, you can select "Native" as the count source and select which services you'd like to query. If you select all 5 native service queries, then you will have 5 separate API queries every time share counts are updated.

If you would like to include Twitter share counts, you can sign up for a free account at twitcount.com.

Screenshots

1. Available styles

Install

composer require meteorgpl-plugin/shared-counts

The vendor’s license checks are intact: activate the plugin in WordPress with a license key bought from the vendor.

License

Declared license: GPL-2.0-or-later. The code is redistributed under the license the vendor declared in the plugin’s own headers. License profile: gpl-full.

Artwork, fonts, media and documents that may be licensed separately are not redistributed; the licensing page explains what is replaced or removed, and the security tab lists it per version. Support and update entitlement come with the license you buy from the vendor.