Title: Social Shares Author: Waterloo Plugins Published: June 21, 2014 Last modified: November 10, 2015 --- Search plugins This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress. ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/social-shares.svg) # Social Shares By [Waterloo Plugins](https://profiles.wordpress.org/waterloo-plugins/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/social-shares.zip) * [Details](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/social-shares/#description) * [Reviews](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/social-shares/#reviews) * [Installation](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/social-shares/#installation) * [Development](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/social-shares/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/social-shares/) ## Description Social Shares uses the Facebook and Twitter APIs to fetch the total number of shares for each of your posts. The number of shares is stored in your database for any plugins to use. Social Shares can optionally display the number of shares on your posts. The number of shares is styleable. You can use the shortcode `[social_shares]` anywhere in your posts. In addition, you can sort your posts by the number of shares. You can make a page that displays your posts with the most shares. Simply add `?sort_shares=desc` or`? sort_shares=asc` to the end of any WordPress URL to sort by the number of shares. ## Screenshots * [[ * Options page. ## Installation This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working. #### Using The WordPress Dashboard 1. Navigate to the ‘Add New’ in the plugins dashboard 2. Search for ‘social_shares’ 3. Click ‘Install Now’ 4. Activate the plugin on the Plugin dashboard #### Uploading in WordPress Dashboard 1. Navigate to the ‘Add New’ in the plugins dashboard 2. Navigate to the ‘Upload’ area 3. Select `social_shares.zip` from your computer 4. Click ‘Install Now’ 5. Activate the plugin in the Plugin dashboard ## FAQ Will you add other services? Yes. I plan on adding Google+, LinkedIn, Reddit, Digg, and possibly other services to get shares from. Will this slow down my site? No. When users visit your site, the plugin fetches the shares from your database. Unlike other social button plugins, this plugin does not need to load buttons from other websites. Also, to fetch the share count, this plugin fetches shares periodically in the background and stores it in your database. ## Reviews There are no reviews for this plugin. ## Contributors & Developers “Social Shares” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ Waterloo Plugins ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/waterloo-plugins/) [Translate “Social Shares” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/social-shares) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/social-shares/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/social-shares/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/social-shares/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/social-shares/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 1.0 * Initial release #### 1.0.1 * Added shortcode * Improved readme #### 1.1.0 * Added option to hide share count from search engines * Improved readme #### 1.1.1 * Compatibility for 4.1 #### 1.1.2 * Improved readme ## Meta * Version **1.1.3** * Last updated **11 years ago** * Active installations **30+** * WordPress version ** 3.0 or higher ** * Tested up to **4.4.34** * Language * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/social-shares/) * Tags * [facebook](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/facebook/)[like](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/like/) [share](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/share/)[social](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/social/) [twitter](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/twitter/) * [Advanced View](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/social-shares/advanced/) ## Ratings 5 out of 5 stars. * [ 2 5-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/social-shares/reviews/?filter=5) * [ 0 4-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/social-shares/reviews/?filter=4) * [ 0 3-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/social-shares/reviews/?filter=3) * [ 0 2-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/social-shares/reviews/?filter=2) * [ 0 1-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/social-shares/reviews/?filter=1) [Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/social-shares/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/social-shares/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ Waterloo Plugins ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/waterloo-plugins/) ## Support Got something to say? 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