Social Sharing (by Danny) vs Social Photo Fetcher

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.

EOL Notice This plugin has been sunset as of 5/21/2026. Big thank you to all the users who have contributed over the past 16 years – this was not an easy decision, but unfortunately, Facebook’s aggressive stance towards developers has just made it too difficult for a solo dev to maintain. Please see here for details & a full explanation. Description Social Photo Fetcher (previously called “Facebook Photo Fetcher”) allows you to quickly and easily generate WordPress photo galleries from Facebook albums. The idea was inspired by Fotobook, though its approach is fundamentally different: while Fotobook’s emphasis is on automation, this plugin allows a great deal of customization. With it you can create galleries in any Post or Page you like, right alongside your regular content. You do this simply by putting a “magic HTML tag” in the post’s content – much like WordPress Shortcode. Upon saving, the tag will instantly be populated with the Facebook album content. Presentation is fully customizable via parameters to the “magic tag” – you can choose to show only a subset of an album’s photos, change the number of photos per column, show photo captions, and more. Plus, Social Photo Fetcher doesn’t limit you to just your own albums: it can create galleries from fanpages as well. Features: Uses Facebook’s API to instantly create WordPress photo galleries from Facebook albums. Galleries are fully customizable: you can import complete albums, select excerpts, random excerpts, album descriptions, photo captions, and more. Galleries can be organized however you like: in any post or page, alone or alongside your other content. Simple PHP template function allows programmers to manually embed albums in any template or widget. Built-in LightBox: Photos appear in attractive pop-up overlays without the need for any other plugins. Admin panel handles all the setup for you: Just login and you’re ready to start making albums. No custom database tables required; galleries live in regular post content. For a Demo Gallery, see the plugin’s homepage. Donate Many hours have gone into developing & maintaining this plugin, far beyond my own personal needs. If you find it useful, please consider making a donation to help support its continued development. Privacy This plugin uses the Facebook API to fetch photo albums from Facebook. Facebook’s security rules require that apps must authorize from one specific, known location. In order comply with this requirement, when you first authorize the plugin from its admin panel, a Facebook dialog will be initiated via my own authentication server. The dialog itself is shown directly by Facebook, and Facebook handles the entire login process – no personal information will be transferred via my server, as Facebook only supplies a single-use token which I then hand back to your site to be stored. This is what the plugin uses in order to fetch the photos. For more information about how the Facebook authorization process works, please see Facebook’s documentation. Usage of this plugin means the site administrator is consenting to Facebook’s data policy. Fetched album data will be stored in your WordPress database, in posts or pages of your choosing. It can be removed by deleting those posts or pages. You are solely responsible for the security and protection of the fetched data, as it resides on and is hosted within your own WordPress site. Support Please direct all support requests here