Boost Traffic & Engagement

Increase traffic and engagement by allowing readers to easily share your posts and pages on social media.

Stylish Share Buttons

Choose from a variety of share button styles to match your site's design and automatically insert them before or after your content.

Retain Share Counts

One-click option to retrieve both HTTP and HTTPS share counts, ensuring you don't lose any share counts when upgrading your website.

GDPR Compliant

This plugin does not use cookies, tracking scripts, or store any user data, making it compliant with GDPR regulations.

Author’s Site

1.5.0
– Changed: Replaced server side email with a mailto link to remove the possibility of spam, see #131
– Changed: Updated the Twitter logo to X, see #129
– Changed: Removed jQuery dependency, see #113
– Changed: Use esc_url() for sharing links, see #130

1.4.0
– Added: Only update share count if larger than currently saved service count (prevents zero counts when API is down), see #51
– Added: Accessibility improvements around email share modal, see #112
– Changed: Allow theme file editor to work if Count Source is set to ‘none’, see #120
– Changed: Updated Native Facebook counts to work with new Facebook API, see #98
– Changed: Dashboard widget only appears if there are posts with share counts, see #83
– Changed: Ensure input fields are full width in email modal, see #77
– Changed: Fixed edge case where buttons show 0 count when source set to “None”, see #81
– Changed: Improved fancy style in small areas, see #58

1.3.0
– Added: Filter for changing services used by location: shared_counts_display_services.
– Added: Admin bar stats.
– Added: Support for Twitter counts using TwitCount.com, props @robert-gillmer.
– Added: Automatic social share tracking with Google Analytics.
– Added: Add support for fastcgi_finish_request when updating counts.
– Added: Specific services can be defined in shortcode via services attribute (comma separated).
– Changed: Pass post_id to needs_updating method.
– Changed: Removed support for Google+ and StumbleUpon (RIP).
– Changed: Default letter-spacing to normal on button labels.
– Changed: Hide Total Counts button if empty and “Hide Empty Counts” setting is enabled.
– Fixed: Pinterest JS API conflict.
– Fixed: Multiple spaces between some CSS classes inside markup.
– Fixed: Twitter URL encoding issue with special characters in text.
– Fixed: Email counts not tracking, props @thartl.
– Fixed: Showing “Preserve HTTP Counts” setting when Count Source is None.
– Fixed: Enabling various settings by default on initial save.
– Fixed: When sorting posts by share count in the admin, posts with zero shares are now included.
– Fixed: Data attributes are filterable.

1.2.0
– Added support for Pinterest Image add-on plugin
– “Hide empty counts” checkbox now works correctly
– Pinterest “Pin it” JS no longer modifies our pinterest button
– Metabox is now always visible, allowing you to disable share buttons even if not collecting counts

1.1.1
– Internal “prime the pump” method now includes all supported post types. Can be used with this plugin to view the status of the cache and mass update posts.
– Improved compatibility with Genesis theme framework.

1.1.0
– Added Yummly share count support/tracking.
– Added Proper rel tags for share buttons for security and SEO.
– Added caching via transient for Most Shared Content admin dashboard widget.
– Removed code for LinkedIn/Google+ share counts, as they are no longer supported.
– Added available buttons setting description to indicate which buttons support share counts.
– Fixed reCAPTCHA issue in the email sharing modal.
– Fixed encoded characters in the “From Name” email setting.

1.0.1
– Email sharing modal can now be closed by clicking outside the modal or pressing the ESC key.
– The minified stylesheet has been rebuilt. It was missing some styles.

1.0.0
– Initial release.

DDoS because of your plugin

By Pexle Chris (pexlechris) on May 7, 2024

I have installed your plugin version 1.4.1 in my website and because of nonce validation lack in hook wp_ajax_nopriv_shared_counts_email, my server was down for a whole day!!

The logs? DDoS Attack in wp-admin/admin-ajax.php with POST these data:

Array
(
    [action] => shared_counts_email
    [postid] => 
    [recipient] => 272935984@qq.com
    [name] => 开沪立送58礼金- www.13033.top -ぃAG视讯豪华厅，直播美女陪您决战到天亮，大额无忧；
    [email] => info@bmw.com
    [validation] => 
    [nonce] => 
)

Using nonces in ajax requests is fundamental principle of WordPress development...

not supported on Zeever Theme

By wellwisherasad on April 3, 2024

It was not supported on Zeever theme and the social share buttons was spread all over the post content multiple instances of social share buttons was displayed and there was no other option to fix it.

Great support

By theglobe001 on December 20, 2022

Great support! It was not even a problem with the plugin, but Bill helped me grandly. Thanks again!

Great Support

By worleyrh on September 13, 2022

The developers reached out immediately to resolve my concerns. The plugin works very well on the sites I put them on.

Very Nice But

By tradesouthwest (tradesouthwest@gmail.com) on March 20, 2022

This is a very nice plugin to have but, there is no clear or intuitive way to set it up. It seems like the questions in the Setting panel are good questions to have as options but when you go to use the plugin meta boxes in the individual post's editor, there is no clear way to "do anything" with the plugin. I believe it is lacking the simple instructions as to what each functionality or button is supposed to do. It will say ADD URL, for example, in the post editor metabox. And there is not a way of knowing what the url is or where it is going or what it is going to do if you enter the url. Then it has a widget to add a new image which, I assume is going to be used as the image that is SENT to social media but, that too is unclear as to what the image "does." Very ambiguous and lacks the UI/UX needed to use in confidence.

Great und lightweight plugin

By Bettina (bettinag) on August 31, 2021

Works best with my theme. No errors in code or problems with caching. It's a shame that it is no longer being developed and that the last update was some time ago. Thank you!

Effective and simple to use

By Mak (makolyte) on October 11, 2020

Good and effective plugin. I use it to simply show the good looking social buttons but don't display counts (to improve page speed). Very easy to configure.

Easy to use

By cengoguven on May 31, 2020

Easy to use and does what it says. Works perfect! Thank you

Your Plugin not working Properly

By sohag on September 21, 2019

Your Plugin not working Properly. Share count show after Refresh bu why

SO HAPPY WITH THIS PLUGIN!

By treeflips on August 22, 2020

It was either gonna be Shared Counts or Social Warfare. I felt Shared Counts was cheaper, written just as well, very easy to work with. We did some crazy custom stuff. - saved HTTP and HTTPS counts - even changed permalink structure, and had it make calls to the old structure as well. So basically we were able to combine 3 counts: - old permalink structure in HTTP - old permalink structure in HTTPS - new permalink structure in HTTPS I'm happy camper. Counts are even cached so as to avoid slowing down your site under heavy load. Love you guys!!!

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