Mashshare Share Buttons

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Social Media Share Buttons for Twitter, Facebook and other social networks. Highly customizable Social Media ecosystem

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MashShare – The Social Media Ecosystem (Twitter count supported with Social Network Add-On) A free Social Media Plugin, professional and highly customizable ecosystem for social media sharing and optimizing of your valuable content. Important for EU users: MashShare is DSGVO compliant! No IP data or any other personal data is send to third parties or collected at all. Stop slowing down your website and prevent ranking loose. Other social buttons are often using external scripts which are increasing loading times. MashShare is using NO external script dependencies. All code is loaded directly from your website and MashShare ensures yours and your visitors privacy! New: Most Shared Posts Widget New: Async share count aggregation New: Dashboard for total share count on posts screen New: Short URL integration New: Support for Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) when using the official WordPress AMP plugin Installation It gives you per default a large total share counter beside three large prominent Share Buttons for your Twitter tweets, Facebook share and the option to place a prominent subscribe button for your news feed and mailing list. This services are free per default including great support. There is no need to create an account! We also offer free Add-Ons for specifing social sharing image, title, description and twitter hashtags and think this is satisfying for most website owners...

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Minimal impact on memory usage The memory usage of this plugin is less than the average memory usage of other plugins on WordPress.org + 200KB. Check FAQ for more.
Minimal impact on pagespeed The impact of this plugin on PageSpeed is less than the average impact of other plugins on WordPress.org + 1000 milliseconds
No PHP errors, warning, notices WP Hive automated test found no PHP error while activating this plugin on our server
No Javascript issues WP Hive automated test found no JavaScrip error while activating this plugin on our server
Latest PHP 7.2.16 compatible The latest version of the plugin is compatible with the latest PHP version
Latest WordPress 5.5 compatible The latest version of the plugin is compatible with the latest PHP version
Optimized database footprint The plugin creates less than 50 database tables
No activation errors WP Hive automated test found no activation error while activating this plugin on our server
No resource errors WP Hive automated test found no resource error/s while trying this plugin on our server
Frequently updated The plugin was not updated at least once in the last 90 days

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The test sites are hosted on Apache/2 server and they are tested on PHP 7.2.16 & WordPress 5.5.
The database server is MySQL 8.0.15 and the default PHP memory limit is 256MB.

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About Mashshare Share Buttons

Description

MashShare – The Social Media Ecosystem (Twitter count supported with Social Network Add-On)

A free Social Media Plugin, professional and highly customizable
ecosystem for social media sharing and optimizing of your valuable content.

Important for EU users: MashShare is DSGVO compliant!
No IP data or any other personal data is send to third parties or collected at all.

Stop slowing down your website and prevent ranking loose.
Other social buttons are often using external scripts which are increasing loading times.
MashShare is using NO external script dependencies. All code is loaded directly from your website and MashShare ensures yours and your visitors privacy!

New: Most Shared Posts Widget
New: Async share count aggregation
New: Dashboard for total share count on posts screen
New: Short URL integration
New: Support for Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) when using the official WordPress AMP plugin

Installation

It gives you per default a large total share counter beside three large
prominent Share Buttons for your Twitter tweets, Facebook share and the option

to place a prominent subscribe button for your news feed and mailing list.
This services are free per default including great support.
There is no need to create an account!

We also offer free Add-Ons for specifing social sharing image, title, description and twitter hashtags and think this is satisfying for most website owners who need a free and effective working social sharing solution.

If you need services like Whatsapp, Pinterest, Mail,
Print, Linkedin, Odnoklassniki etc., you get them on the Add-On Marketplace.

MashShare can also be used in conjunction with other third-party share buttons vendor!

Free and paid Add-Ons available for:

More Social Share Buttons
YouTube Video Share Popup
Share Button Responsive
Sticky Share bar
Social Sharing Optimization
Google Analytics
and more…

Demo | More Add-Ons >>

Social Media Share Buttons

This Social Media share buttons plugin in active development and will be updated on a regular basis – Please do not rate negative before we tried to solve your issue.

Main Features

High Performance Social Media Icons – easy to use – Share Buttons for the most common networks
High Resolution lossless vector font share button icons
Show the Total Social Media Share count at a glance
Object and transient caches to provide incredibly fast execution speed of Social Media Icons
Shortcodes
Extensible with many Add-Ons (Google Analytics, More Social Networks, Responsive, YouTube Video Share and more…)
Developer friendly with several filters and actions.
Highly customizable
Smart (virtual) share count function. Add virtual shares to new articles. Use psychological aspects to increase real shares.

Recent Changes and New Features:

Social Media Icons with Improved performance
Option to disable Social Media share count completely (no sql queries will be generated any longer)
Shortcode option to disable share counts
Checking if curl is working on the server
Option to disable share count cache for testing purposes
Use of sharp and crisp clear font Social Media Icons instead Social Media Icons images
Button ‘extra content’ for content slider subcribe forms or any other content New: Use a link for the Subscribe button instead the toggle drop down
Complete rewrite of CSS for easier modifications
Improved MashShare Social Media extension system
Improved backend, new MashShare Social Media Add-On page
Multi language capable, *.po files
Change color of share counts via setting
Count up animation for share buttons counts (Does not work for shortcodes and on blog pages)
HTML5 Tag < aside > wrapped around to tell search engines that the share buttons are not part of the content
Plus button moves to end of share buttons when activated and does not stay longer in place.
Drag and drop sort order of share buttons services.
Enable desired Social Media share buttons Icons with one click
Choose which Social Media network should be visible all the time This ones will be large sized by default. Other Social Media networks are behind the plus sign
Three different effective share button styles – Less is more here
Choose border radius of the Social Media buttons
Keep settings when share buttons are uninstalled – optional
Custom CSS field for individual styling of the social media share buttons

Social Media Add-Ons available for

Google / G+
Whatsapp (Whatsapp button is shown only on mobile devices)
Pinterest
Digg
Linkedin
Reddit
Stumbleupon
Vk / VKontakte
Print
Delicious
Buffer
Weibo
Pocket
Xing
Tumblr
Mail
ManageWP
Meneame
Odnoklassniki
Frype / Draugiem
Skype
Flipboard
Hackernews

High Performance

MashShare Social Media ecosystem is coded well and developed for high performance. It´s making full use of available persistant and non persistant caching techniques.
MashShare loads only the Javascript and php object classes it needs at the moment of execution, making it small and fast and easy extensible by third party developer.

How fast is MashShare?

We published benchmarks of using MashShare compared with other plugins here:
https://www.mashshare.net/mashshare-proven-fast-benchmark/

Shortcodes

Use [mashshare] anywhere in pages or post’s text to show the buttons and total share count wherever you like.
Share Buttons will be shown exactly on the place where you copy the shortcode in your content.

There are more parameters available:

Embed Share Buttons in pages or posts: [mashshare]
Buttons without sharecount: [mashshare shares="false"]
Sharecount only: [mashshare buttons="false"]
Share buttons alignment: [mashshare shares="false" buttons="true" align="left|right"]
Shortcode in template files via php: echo do_shortcode('[mashshare]');
Custom url: [mashshare url="http://www.google.de"]
Custom share text: [mashshare text="This is my custom share text"]
For manual insertion of the Share Buttons in your template files use the following php code on place you like to see the share buttons:echo do_shortcode('[mashshare]');
Configure the Share buttons sharing function in the settings page of the plugin.
Change the color of MashShare count with setting option.

Full SEO third party plugin support
MashShare integrates with All in One SEO Pack and WordPress SEO by Yoast.
Any description and title which is defined in Yoast open graph settings will be used by MashShare Open Graph Settings

** GitHub **
Follow the development and improve MashShare.
You find us on GitHub at: https://github.com/mashshare/MashShare

** Languages **

MashShare has been translated into many languages:

English
German
Spanish
Turkish
Italy
Portuguese (Brazil)

Please help to translate the share button plugin into more languages:
https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/mashsharer

How does it work?

MashShare makes use of public available API endpoints which are delivered by social networks. It periodically checks for the total count
of all your Facebook and Twitter shares and cumulates them. It than shows the total number beside the Share and Social Media Icons.
No need to embed dozens of external slow loading scripts into your website.

How to install and setup?

Install it via the admin dashboard and to ‘Plugins’, click ‘Add New’ and search the plugins for ‘MashShare’. Install the plugin with ‘Install Now’.
After installation goto the settings page Settings->MashShare and make your changes there.

Official Site

https://www.mashshare.net

Performance

Memory Usage

Average memory usage is 317.42 KB
This is less than 83% plugins

Page Speed

Average page loading time is increased by 0.04 s
This is faster than 99% plugins

Speed Test Benchmark Learn more how we collect the data

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Average Change

+ 0.04s

/(front page)

- 0.07s

/wp-admin/edit-comments.php

+ 0.01s

/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category

+ 0.01s

/wp-admin/edit.php

- 0s

/wp-admin/index.php

- 0.09s

/wp-admin/media-new.php

- 0.02s

/wp-admin/options-discussion.php

+ 0.15s

/wp-admin/options-writing.php

- 0.01s

/wp-admin/post-new.php

+ 0.42s

/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page

+ 0.23s

/wp-admin/upload.php

- 0.16s

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Memory Usage Benchmark Learn more how we collect the data

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Change

Average Change

+ 317.42KB

/ (front page)

+ 11.69KB

/wp-admin/edit-comments.php

+ 37.44KB

/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category

+ 37.66KB

/wp-admin/edit.php

+ 47.14KB

/wp-admin/index.php

+ 46.9KB

/wp-admin/media-new.php

+ 45.54KB

/wp-admin/options-discussion.php

+ 45.58KB

/wp-admin/options-writing.php

+ 33.83KB

/wp-admin/post-new.php

+ 43.61KB

/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page

+ 41.55KB

/wp-admin/upload.php

+ 45.52KB

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