Crafty Social Buttons vs Social Sharing (by Danny)

This plugin adds a set of social buttons to your website, and includes craft-related social sites like Ravelry, Etsy, Craftsy and Pinterest as well as other major social networks, including WhatsApp. Support for sharing to WhatsApp is also provided on mobile devices. You can choose from nine different button styles to match your theme. You can have the share buttons automatically added to the top or bottom of each post, and can position the link buttons using either a widget, a shortcode or a template action hook. You can use the share button and link button functions either separately, or together: Share Button mode allows you to put a set of buttons at the top or bottom of each post. Each button will share that post with that particular service. I.e., clicking the facebook icon will open a window for the user to share your post on their Facebook page. Not all services support sharing, for instance, you can’t share via Etsy or Craftsy. Link Button mode lets you configure the buttons to link directly you your profiles on the social networks. I.e. clicking the facebook icon will take the user to your facebook page, clicking the Etsy icon will take them to your Etsy shop. These are designed to be included in either your header, sidebars or footer, as they are not specific to a post. These can be easily included by adding the Social Link Button widget to the area where you want the buttons to appear. Supported social services include: Craftinoo (link only) Craftsy (link only) Dawanda (link only) Digg Ebay (link only) Email (share only) Etsy (link only) Facebook Flickr (link only) Google+ Instagram (link only) LinkedIn Pinterest Ravelry Reddit Specific Feeds (link only) Stumble Upon Tumblr Twitter Vimeo VK YouTube WhatApp (share only, only on mobile) Xing You can also choose exactly which services you want separately for each mode, so you can can have Share Buttons for Ravelry, Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter and Email, but have Link Buttons for Google+, Craftsy, Pinterest and your Etsy shop. For more information, see the plugin website at http://sarahhenderson.github.io/Crafty-Social-Buttons/ Future Editions These are the things currently in the pipeline: Adding the ability to share/link to Flipboard, Goodreads and 500px Additional options for layout and style of the buttons Shortcode options for more manual control of the buttons (Anything else? You tell me!)

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.