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Good old Share

Puts Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Tumblr and other social share buttons of your choice above or below your posts.

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Tested up to WordPress 7.1
Current version1.1.2
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 7.1
Minimum stackWP 2.9 · PHP 7.4
Directory statusactive
Last directory update14 Aug 20262mo ago
Active installations60Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org rating5.0 / 5 from 4 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records Good old Share version 1.1.2 as active, updated 2mo ago and tested up to WordPress 7.1.

Overview

About this plugin

This plugin shows Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest and other popular social share buttons above or below your posts.

Easy customization of active buttons and position in the Settings menu.

In contrast to several other sharing plugin, this one aims to use only original code provided by any social network.

There is no other service in the middle, you are not required to register or get a key to use it. Enjoy!

Facebook Like and Twitter social share buttons are loaded by default.

com) can be added through the Settings->Good old Share menu.

Please be careful when selecting the Show buttons in these pages options: it can interact badly with other slide/fade/carousel/sidebar active plugins.

Shortcode

If you want to place the active buttons only in selected posts, use the [good_old_share] shortcode.

:

  • [good_old_share button=”facebook_like”]
  • [good_old_share button=”twitter”]
  • [good_old_share button=”linkedin”]
  • [good_old_share button=”pinterest”]
  • [good_old_share button=”digg”]
  • [good_old_share button=”stumbleupon”]
  • [good_old_share button=”reddit”]
  • [good_old_share button=”flattr”]
  • [good_old_share button=”tumblr”]
  • [good_old_share button=”facebook_share”]
  • and so on…

Please note that in order to place single share buttons, they have to be active in the plugin settings page.

Selective disable

If you want to hide the share buttons inside selected posts, set a “good_old_share_disable” custom field with value “yes”.

g. on a page: open the WordPress backend, go to Pages, click on the Page title to enter the Page edit screen. Then you can add the custom field, as explained here.

Reference

3 release of the “Really simple Share” plugin.

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WordPress.org metadata

Plugin tags

Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.

  • share buttons
  • facebook
  • linkedin
  • twitter
Compatibility & maintenance

Compatibility & maintenance

Tested with WP 7.1

Marked as tested with the current WordPress 7.1 release.

Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to7.1
Minimum requirementsWordPress 2.9 · PHP 7.4
Update activity14 Aug 20262mo ago

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