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WP-Socialight

By Roee Yossef - Savvy.co.il
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Description

About WP-Socialight

WP-Socialight is a simple, lightweight social share plugin that will increase the interaction on your website. It adds social share buttons to your posts & homepage. The plugin designed for both RTL and LTR Sites.

Only major social networks are currently availiable:

  1. Facebook
  2. Twitter
  3. Linkedin
  4. Google+
  5. Buffer
  6. Mail
  7. Whatsapp (will appear only in mobile)

Website

http://savvy.co.il/

Blog (Hebrew)

http://he.savvy.co.il/blog

Installation

Installation

  1. In your WordPress Dashboard go to “Plugins” -> “Add Plugin”.
  2. Search for “WP-Socialight”.
  3. Install the plugin by pressing the “Install” button.
  4. Activate the plugin by pressing the “Activate” button.
  5. Go to “WP-Socialight” Settings section on the wordpress admin panel and choose your settings.

Minimum Requirements

  • WordPress version 4.0 or greater.
  • PHP version 5.2.4 or greater.
  • MySQL version 5.0 or greater.

Recommended Requirements

  • The latest WordPress version.
  • PHP version 5.6 or greater.
  • MySQL version 5.5 or greater.

FAQ

Why can’t i see the Whatsapp button?

Whatsapp share button will appear only in mobile.

How can i chhose the mail address for the mail button?

Unfortunately you cant. The mail used is the website admin email which appear under Settings > General in WordPress dashboard.

Reviews

the lightest sharing plug there is

arnonalex November 18, 2016
made by a code artist

Great Plugin!

roeeyossef November 18, 2016
I worked hard on the plugin to make it super light and super fast.. enjoy!
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Contributors & Developers

“WP-Socialight” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors
  • roeeyossef

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Changelog

2.4

Fixed issue where the homepage URL wasn’t not fetched correctly
Automatically detect LTR or RTL sites.

2.3

Fix minor design issue in WP-Socialight options page.

2.2

BUGFIX – fixed a bug where the plugin generates twice the html on certain scenarios.
added icons to the plugin options page.

2.1

Remove the use of admin email

2.0

Fix W3 validation errors
Added support for sharing via mail
Add support for pages and not just posts

1.1

Settings page translation.
Icon added to the plugin.

Meta

  • Version: 2.4
  • Last updated: 6 years ago
  • Active installations: 40+
  • WordPress Version: 4.0 or higher
  • Tested up to: 4.7.25
  • Language:
    English (US)
  • Tags:
    socialsocial mediasocial networksocial shareSocial Share Buttons
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Contributors

  • roeeyossef

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