Shared Counts – Social Media Share Buttons

Shared Counts is a user-friendly WordPress plugin designed to help you integrate social sharing buttons on your website while keeping it fast and responsive. It retrieves and displays share counts from various social media platforms, providing social proof that can boost your content’s credibility and engagement. With its focus on simplicity, performance, and accurate data, Shared Counts is an excellent choice for site owners looking to encourage social sharing without compromising on site speed or user experience.

Features:

1. Fast Loading: Optimized for performance, Shared Counts ensures that social sharing buttons do not slow down your website, maintaining a smooth user experience.
2. Accurate Share Counts: Retrieves and displays accurate share counts from major social networks, including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and more.
3. Customizable Buttons: Provides a variety of button styles and options to match your site’s design and branding, allowing you to choose the look and feel that best fits your site.
4. Lightweight Code: Built with lightweight code to ensure minimal impact on your site’s load time and overall performance.
5. GDPR Compliant: Designed with privacy in mind, Shared Counts is GDPR compliant, ensuring that it respects user privacy and data protection regulations.
6. Cache Share Counts: Caches share counts to minimize the number of API requests, further enhancing site performance and speed.
7. Flexible Placement: Easily add social sharing buttons to posts, pages, or custom post types, with options to place them above or below content, or both.
8. Developer Friendly: Offers hooks and filters for developers to customize functionality and appearance according to specific needs and preferences.
9. Share Count Recovery: Retrieve and display lost share counts when changing permalinks or moving to HTTPS, ensuring continuity of your social proof.
10. Button Styles: Choose from several button styles, including icon-only, text-only, and icon with text, to fit seamlessly with your site’s design.
11. Shortcodes and Widgets: Use shortcodes and widgets to place social sharing buttons in sidebars, footers, or any other widgetized area of your site.
12. Responsive Design: Ensure that social sharing buttons look great and function well on all devices, including desktops, tablets, and mobile phones.
13. Social Proof: Display share counts to provide social proof, which can help build credibility and encourage more shares.
14. Ease of Use: User-friendly interface that makes it simple to set up and customize social sharing buttons without needing technical expertise.

    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.