Async Social Sharing vs Social Sharing (by Danny)

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

Social Sharing By Danny The simplest sharing links possible for Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. Most WordPress plugins that add social sharing functionality are too ugly, heavy, complicated or poorly coded for my liking. This plugin aims to be better: simple, efficient and flexible. No script dependencies From itself, the buttons are actually plain text links which require no external scripts. It makes no sense to load over 50 kilobytes of scripts and styles for a functionality 95% of your users will not use. Simple, yet pretty and user-friendly You can have the plugin load two very small files to add icons and a pop-up functionality to the sharing links. This way, users do not have to leave your website after clicking a sharing option. Both files are optional and you are free to craft your own styles. Features Sharing links for Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn Simple icon styles with a hover effect Simple script of just 426 bytes (with no additional dependencies) which will make the various sharing links open in a pop-up window. A shortcode and a template function to display the buttons anywhere you want. An overridable filter to customize when and where to display the sharing links. Translation ready Translations Is the plugin not translated into your language? You can contribute your translations using the translation editor here on WordPress.org. About the author Danny van Kooten has been building WordPress plugins since 2010. He is also the developer behind Mailchimp for WordPress and Koko Analytics.