Social Media and Share Icons (Ultimate Social Media)byUltimatelySocial

Version: 2.8.5

Share buttons and share icons plugin for social media sharing on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Whatsapp, Pinterest etc.

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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 more 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 8.1.12 compatible WP Hive automated test found the plugin fully compatible with the latest version of PHP
Latest WordPress 6.3 compatible WP Hive automated test found the plugin fully compatible with the latest version of WordPress
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 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 8.1.12 & WordPress 6.3.
The database server is MySQL 10.6.10 and the default PHP memory limit is 512M.

11M

Total Downloads

100K

Active Installation

9 years

On WordPress

0.0%

Growth Rate

26

Support Thread

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About Social Media and Share Icons (Ultimate Social Media)

Description

Social media plugin which let’s you add share icons for RSS, Email, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Instagram, Youtube, ‘Share’ (covering 200+ other social media platforms) and upload custom share icons of your choice. This free plugin has a lot to offer. Even more can be found in the Premium Plugin, please watch this short video: See all features of the....

This free plugin has a lot to offer. Even more can be found in the Premium Plugin, please watch this short video:

See all features of the Premium plugin.

The free social media plugin includes the following features:

Pick from 16 different designs for your social media share icons
Give several actions to one social media share icon (e.g. your facebook share icon can lead visitors to your Facebook page, and also give visitors the opportunity to like your page)
Decide to give your social media icons an animation (e.g. automatic shuffling, mouse-over effects) to make your visitors aware of the share icons, increasing the chance that they follow/share your blog
Make your social media icons ‘float’ or ‘sticky’
Allow visitors to subscribe to your blog by Email
Add ‘counts’ to your social media buttons
Decide to display a pop-up (on all or only on selected pages) asking people to follow/share you via your social media icons
Decide to display sharing-buttons and social media icons at the end of every post
Select from many other customization features for your socialmedia icons!

For GDPR compliance, please have a look at our Social Media GDPR Compliance page.

The social media plugin is very easy to use as it takes you through all the steps:

Step 1: Choose which social media icons you want to display
Step 2: Define what actions your social media icons should perform
Step 3: Pick design & animation options for your social media icons
Step 4: Add counts to your social media icons (optional)
Step 5: Select from various other social share options, e.g. make your social media icons ‘float’
Step 6: Add sharing/linking icons next to each blog post (optional)
Step 7: Add a customized pop-up asking people to follow or share (optional)
Step 8: Add a subscription form on your site (optional)

In case of issues or questions please ask in the Support forum.

We hope you’ll enjoy the free social media plugin!

New Premium Plugin

We released a Premium Plugin with many more exciting features:

Many more social networks supported, including Snapchat share buttons, Whatsapp share buttons, Yummly share buttons, Phone button, Yelp share buttons, Soundcloud share buttons, Skype share buttons Flickr share buttons, Blogger share buttons, Reddit share buttons, Vimeo share buttons, Tumblr share buttons, Xing share buttons, Vkontakte share buttons (VK), Telegram share buttons, Amazon share buttons, Goodreads share buttons, Angies list share buttons, Steam share buttons, Twitch share buttons, Spotify share buttons, Odnoklassniki share buttons (OK), Buffer share buttons, Weibo share buttons, Pocket share buttons, Meneame share buttons, Frype share buttons, LiveJournal share buttons, Patreon share buttons, Dloky share buttons, Discord share buttons, Github share buttons, WordPress buttons, Etsy share buttons, Better Business Bureau share buttons, Digg share buttons, Delicious share buttons, Print share buttons, and many other share buttons!
More design styles to make your social share icons look really cool & matching the design of your website
Themed design styles, e.g. if you have a website about cats you can pick from social media logos which look like cats etc.
Better social sharing and following features, e.g. you can define the Tweet-texts better (e.g. pull the post titles into your Tweets automatically), let people follow you on Facebook directly without leaving your site etc.
Place the social icons on specific pages, i.e. you can define on which pages the icons to the social media sites should not show
Position the social icons by anchor and margins, i.e. you can define the margins where your share icons should be displayed (from top/bottom/left/right), and then have them floating, or stick, still visible when user scrolls down or not etc.
Optimized for mobile – you can define separate selections for your social network icons for mobile
More functions for email icon, such as Share (by email), Contact you, Link to a certain page etc.
Social media counters optimized to encourage more social media sharing from your visitors
More pop up options which contain your social media buttons, e.g. define a limit to how often the pop-up is shown to the same user, show pop-up only when people try to leave your website etc.
Friendly support in case you’re stuck
Many more settings and options for your social media network icons

Have a look at the Premium Plugin features

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Performance

Memory Usage

Average memory usage is196.27 KB
This is less than99%plugins

Page Speed

Average page loading time is increased by 0.35 s
This is slower than76%plugins

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Average Change

+ 0.35s

/(front page)

+ 0.08s

/wp-admin/edit-comments.php

+ 0.32s

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

+ 0.27s

/wp-admin/edit.php

+ 0.56s

/wp-admin/index.php

+ 0.2s

/wp-admin/media-new.php

+ 0.18s

/wp-admin/options-discussion.php

+ 0.25s

/wp-admin/options-writing.php

+ 0.29s

/wp-admin/post-new.php

+ 0.44s

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

+ 1.4s

/wp-admin/upload.php

- 0.12s

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+ 196.27KB

/ (front page)

+ 21.39KB

/wp-admin/edit-comments.php

+ 23.58KB

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

+ 25.92KB

/wp-admin/edit.php

+ 30.91KB

/wp-admin/index.php

+ 23.29KB

/wp-admin/media-new.php

+ 22.63KB

/wp-admin/options-discussion.php

+ 23.97KB

/wp-admin/options-writing.php

+ 22.75KB

/wp-admin/post-new.php

+ 26.52KB

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

+ 26.51KB

/wp-admin/upload.php

+ 22.41KB

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Database Tables

The plugin has added 0 additional options to your WordPress.

WP-Options

The plugin has added 50 additional options to your WordPress website.

Errors

Pagespeed Optimization

This plugin increases page loading time by 0.35s

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[21-Aug-2023 22:34:56 UTC] PHP Deprecated: strpos(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($haystack) of type string is deprecated in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 7127
[21-Aug-2023 22:34:56 UTC] PHP Deprecated: str_replace(): Passing null to parameter #3 ($subject) of type array|string is deprecated in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 2182
[21-Aug-2023 22:35:07 UTC] PHP Deprecated: strpos(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($haystack) of type string is deprecated in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 7127

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Social Media and Share Icons (Ultimate Social Media)byUltimatelySocial

Version : 2.8.5

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11M

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5268

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About Social Media and Share Icons (Ultimate Social Media)

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New Premium Plugin

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