Open Graphite vs Social Sharing (by Danny)

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.

Open Graphite lets you control how your WordPress content is viewed when shared on social media. Typically when one of your pages is shared on social media (Facebook for example), the platform will use the first image and text it can find on the page. This is usually not ideal and often truncates the content into something nonsensical, resulting in the page being less likely to be engaged with. Open Graphite solves this problem, by allowing you to customise the image, title and description of any of your pages that are shared on social media, all without compromising the original content. How to use For the homepage… Go to Open Graphite (admin side menu) Set your homepage title, description, image and object type Enter a Facebook app ID (optional) Enter a Twitter username (optional) Choose a Twitter card type Select which post types to enable for For posts and pages… Create a new post or page (or edit an existing one) Scroll down to the Open Graphite metabox Enter your desired title, description, image and object type Premium Support While the free version of Open Graphite is supported in the WordPress support page, one-on-one priority support is given to Open Graphite Pro license holders. Open Graphite Pro has additional features, such as: The ability to use with any custom post type Force Facebook to automatically and immediately update your title, description or featured image when you make edits Mobile and desktop previews for Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin WooCommerce product support Pinterest specific options Enhanced Slack sharing Enable automatic defaults for titles, descriptions, featured images and object types Open Graph content indicators Limit the number of characters for titles and descriptions (prevent your titles and descriptions getting truncated) Open graph check tool Additional open graph options Priority support