AddToAny Share Buttons vs Async Social Sharing

The AddToAny Share Buttons plugin for WordPress increases traffic & engagement by helping people share your posts and pages to any service. Services include Facebook, Bluesky, Mastodon, Pinterest, WhatsApp, LinkedIn, Threads, Tumblr, Reddit, X, WeChat, and many more sharing and social media sites & apps. AddToAny is the home of universal sharing, and the AddToAny plugin is the most popular share plugin for WordPress, making sites social media ready since 2006. Share Buttons Standard share buttons — share each piece of content Floating share buttons — responsive & customizable, vertical & horizontal Counters — fast & official share counts in the same style Follow buttons — social media links to your Instagram, YouTube, Discord, Snapchat Image sharing buttons – share buttons for sharing images Vector share buttons & follow buttons — custom color SVG icons Custom share icons — use your own if you prefer Official buttons including the Facebook Like Button, Pinterest Save Button, and LinkedIn Share Button Universal email sharing makes it easy to share via Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Outlook.com (Hotmail), AOL Mail, and any other web or native apps Custom Placement & Appearance Before content, after content, or before & after content Vertical Floating Share Bar, and Horizontal Floating Share Bar As a shortcode, or a widget within a theme’s layout Programmatically with template tags Analytics Integration Google Analytics integration (access guide) for sharing analytics Track shared links with Bitly and custom URL shorteners Display share counts on posts and pages WordPress Optimized Loads asynchronously so your content always loads before or in parallel with AddToAny Supports theme features such as HTML5, widgets, infinite scroll, post formats Supports WooCommerce, multilingual sites, multisite networks, and accessibility standards AddToAny is free — no signup, no login, no accounts to manage Mobile Optimized & Retina Ready AddToAny gives users the choice in sharing from a service’s native app or from a web app Responsive Floating Share Buttons are mobile ready by default, and configurable breakpoints make floating buttons work with any theme AddToAny’s SVG icons are super-lightweight and pixel-perfect at any size, and AddToAny’s responsive share menu fits on all displays Automatic AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) support for social share buttons on AMP pages Customizable & Extensible Choose exactly where you want AddToAny to appear Easily customize sharing on your WordPress site Highly extensible for developers and designers Custom icons let you use any icons from any location (media uploads directory, CDN, etc.) Many more publisher and user features Wide Support Over 10 years of development Over 18 million downloads Translated into dozens of languages Ongoing support from the community This plugin always strives to be the best WordPress plugin for sharing. Development is fueled by your kind words and feedback. Share this plugin See also: The share buttons for all platforms The share buttons for WordPress.com AddToAny Blog | Privacy Policy

Simple social sharing plugin that loads the third-party scripts asynchronously and after the page loads to improve site performance. The plugin provides settings to load any of the following sharing widgets: Twitter Facebook Google+ Linkedin Hacker News Available display options include ability to display the sharing widgets on above or below content on pages, specific custom post types or blog and archive pages. Why is Asynchronous script loading better? Asynchronous loading allows multiple files to load parallel to each other. Instead of having to wait for Twitter to respond with their script, the browser moves on and starts fetching the next request. Dependencies WordPress 3.5+ Content worth sharing Contributors Welcome Submit a pull request on Github Upcoming Versions Wishlist Allow re-arranging of social widgets Credits Inspired by Stoyan Stefanov’s blog post “Social Button BFFs” HackerNews button code by Ilya Grigorik Author Rachel Baker 1.8.1 Fixed bug where plugin would cause a fatal error for PHP 5.2 and under by changing class initialization process. Added minor style fix for Facebook sharing widget alignment. 1.8.0 Added async_social_display() function to be used as a template tag to output the social sharing widgets anywhere theme developers desire within the loop. Added option to allow site administrators to enter their Facebook Application ID. Added option allowing site administrators to choose if the social sharing widgets should be output before or after the content. props @dustyf Changed settings screen to use WordPress default admin styles to fix checkbox display in WordPress 3.8+. Removed bloated admin stylesheet. Minor refactoring of plugin instance loading. Minor code formatting changes. 1.7.1 Fixed bug where “headers already sent” message was displayed upon plugin activation due to blank line at top of main plugin file. Enabled automatic plugin updates for WordPress 3.7 users. 1.7.0 Added option to display or hide sharing widgets from posts. Restructured file organization. Tested compatibility with 3.7 1.6.2 Fixed bug where previous plugin users could not disable the css without removing and then re-adding the plugin. Updated compatibility to support 3.5 1.6.1 Fixed bug where widgets were not displaying on pages if option was specified. Fixed bug where CSS styles for previous installations was still loading, even though the option to disable was selected. Expanded post-type multi-selection box area on plugin options page. Added instructions for selecting multiple post types from plugin options page. Tested with WordPress 3.5 RC2 1.6 Added option to prevent default CSS stylesheet from loading. Fixed bug where PHP Exception was thrown if post types array was empty. Tested with WordPress 3.5 Beta 3 1.5.1 Fixed bug that would cause content in RSS feeds to not display. Fixed bug where PHP Exception was thrown on pages if the display options were not set. 1.5.0 Added ability to display social widgets on pages. Added ability to select which custom post types will display the social widgets. Reworked async-share.js file. Now only the external social scripts that are selected to be displayed will be loaded. Improved display styles for social widgets. 1.2.0 Combined function for plugin’s script and style loading. Fixed bug that was generating a PHP error when no options were set. Tested with WordPress 3.4.1 1.1.0 Added Display Options to plugin to allow sharing widgets to be displayed on blog and archive pages. Fixed bug with Facebook fb-root div not being detected before script loaded. Updated license to GPLv3 1.0.1 Added lazy loading to async-share.js Fixed issue with plugin settings link 1.0 Initial release