Buttonizer – Social Media Share Buttons, Social Icons, & Social Feeds vs TheGridIndex RSS Importer

This plugin was formerly known as “Widget for Social Page Feeds”. Buttonizer is a powerful platform to create floating social media icons, sticky social sharing buttons, Facebook feeds, and popups for your WordPress site. Choose from many options, including Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, X (Twitter), LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Click to Chat, Call, Email, SMS and the list goes on! Choose from over 40 social media icons, social share buttons, click actions, and chat buttons Over 2,000 Font Awesome icons you can choose from Build unlimited single or multiple floating share buttons or social media icons Smart filters like show on scroll, device, specific pages and specific times Create high-converting floating menus (see screenshots below) Analytics dashboard to see all interactions, leads and conversions Lightweight Facebook page feeds for your WordPress side bar Popup Builder with dozens of professionally designed marketing popups Fully integrated live chat widget via Formilla to keep users on your website Watch the video below to learn how easy it is to add Buttonizer floating social media icons, sticky social share buttons, and popups to your website: Social Icons, Share Buttons, and Click-to-Chat options 🚀 Social Media Icons and Social Sharing buttons Facebook X (Twitter) Instagram TikTok WhatsApp LinkedIn Pinterest Email Telegram VKontakte Waze LINE Behance Reddit Tumblr Weibo Browser share menu Facebook Feeds Embed your feed as a Block or Widget Re-use feeds on any pages or posts Supports shortcodes WhatsApp Chat. Add your phone number, your picture, and create a custom message to personalize the experience for your visitors. Integrates with WhatsApp business. WhatsApp Chat Widget Click to Call Click to Email Click to SMS Web URL Click to Chat Formilla Chat Widget (directly integrated into new accounts) Facebook Messenger Chat Widget (with popup) WhatsApp Chat Widget (with popup) Telegram (with popup) X (Twitter) Direct Message Slack Microsoft Teams Snapchat Signal LINE WeChat Viber Join Signal group Open pop-up Formilla Popups (directly integrated into new accounts) Poptin Elementor Popup Popup Maker WP Popups Scroll options Scroll to section Back to top Scroll to bottom Previous page Google Maps Button (route navigation) Download PDF Button Print page Copy page URL Contact form Contact form Webhook support (PRO) Iframe Widget (PRO) Add custom JavaScript code (PRO) STYLING OPTIONS 💎 With Buttonizer you can customize almost everything. Create a floating text social share button (without icon), floating text social media button with icon or only a floating button with an icon. Over 2,000 available icons via Font Awesome Import and export your button templates easily (very nice if you have multiple websites) Change the position of your button Import and export button templates Button and interaction color Border radius Icon, size and interaction color Add label to the floating action button (optional) Change label text color and background color Change font-size and label border radius Show label only on mobile phones, desktop or both Add your own custom background image Add a custom CSS class and ID to each button for extra CSS or JavaScript control Create floating social media icons and social sharing menus With Buttonizer it is possible to add multiple floating action buttons to one position. In that case all floating buttons are hidden in one button menu. The moment a visitor clicks on your Floating Action Button it will pop all specific buttons you’ve set for that page. Please take a look at the screenshots below to see powerful examples of different floating menus / sticky menus. Default action – Opens the floating menu and puts the buttons on top of each other Pop – Same as the default action but with a more active motion Corner circle – Open buttons in quarter circle Square – Show all buttons on top of each other at the same time (sticky buttons on the side of your website) Embed a Facebook Feed on any page or post One of the most popular plugins for Facebook page feeds embedded in your WordPress sidebar. Facebook Feeds are 100% free with no limitations. Lightweight & easy to configure Add your Facebook page URL as an embedded block or widget Re-use feeds on any pages or posts Supports Shortcodes Configuration options like show/hide posts from timeline, show/hide cover, show/hide profile photos, show small header, width options, language selection, and custom CSS. Watch our video tutorial How to create a Facebook Feed Example use cases for Buttonizer Increase engagement using social sharing buttons. Buttonizer supports all the well known social sharing buttons. Increase social media engagement with one-click social sharing buttons from any page on your site. Boost your social media following. Include all your social media icons/channels as floating buttons anywhere on your website, or in your header, footer, right-rail, etc. Ensure visitors follow you across all your social channels so you’re able to engage with them wherever they are. The Buttonizer advantage. Buttonizer gives you the ability to manage different chat options at the same time. Each visitor is unique, and has a different communication preference. When you let your visitors chat with you using chat apps like Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Viber, Telegram, etc, they have the freedom of chatting with you however they prefer, which increases engagement with your website. Launch your favorite live chat. While Formilla Live Chat comes directly integrated, you can use JavaScript as one of your click actions to launch any other live chat product such as Hubspot, Tawk.to, Tidio, Chatra, Zoho, Zendesk, LiveChat, Crisp, Intercom and JivoChat. Connect with your visitors on WhatsApp Business. Connect WhatsApp Business to your site. Your visitors can start chatting with you on WhatsApp Business. You can create multiple different WhatsApp buttons for different departments or categories on your website to route chats to the proper staff. Setup different floating buttons on mobile and desktop. Show different chat buttons depending on the device your visitor is using. For example, show a Call Now and WhatsApp button on mobile and a contact form, email and URL on desktop. Add Click-to-call button. Show a phone icon and let your visitors click to call you. You can show different local phone numbers based on page URL or available days and hours. Show different action buttons for different pages. You can use this feature to show separate widgets for different products on your website, show different buttons based on URL for WPML or multi-language sites, display different channels for your landing pages, and more. Filter your buttons (show or hide on devices, different pages, during certain hours, etc.) Choose whenever your buttons are visible on desktop or mobile devices, different pages or under specific page rule conditions. You can even control if buttons should only display to logged in users, or during certain office hours. For example, you may want to show a Click-to-Call button and WhatsApp Chat button during office hours, but automatically show a custom Contact Form or A.I. Chatbot outside of your business hours. Show/hide button on desktop or mobile devices Show/hide when page rules are true (PRO): Select single page Select categories / tags When URL contains … Show/hide when the user has a specific role Show/hide on a custom time schedule (PRO) Choose the start and end date (optional) Select the days of the week Select at what time the button is visible or hidden for each day of the week Exclude dates So many features! Track all your click actions in Google Analytics Import extra font-awesome libraries Drag and drop your buttons on the UI Auto-save and revert changes A very active community Add an unlimited number of social icons or share buttons Show buttons on scroll Show buttons after X seconds Use any position placement Advanced JavaScript API Buttonizer is equipped with an advanced Free JavaScript API which you can use to interact with your Buttonizer menus. Trigger custom functions on particular events or just open the menu when clicking a button on your site. It’s enabled instantly and can be used out of the box! Open menu event Close menu event Fire an action after initialization Fire an action after opening/closing menus View menu states and quick functions Over 6 event hooks available And much more Curious? Learn how to use the API. Live Chat, Chatbots, and Popups via Formilla Buttonizer accounts get Formilla accounts integrated automatically. Both products are managed by the same team, so that means you get access to awesome features such as: Unlimited Live Chats (free): Chat with your visitors while they’re on your website with our embedded widget; no need to send users to another browser tab! Mobile Apps for iPhone, iPad, and Android Devices (free): Chat via your mobile device or tablet by using our iPhone/iPad or Android apps! Desktop Apps for Windows & Mac machines (free): Chat via our dedicated desktop apps instead of our web dashboard to get online even faster. Custom Branding, Colors, & Themes (free): Customize your chat widgets to match your site’s brand. Change the color of the chat button/widget, chat message and font color, backgrounds, etc. Upload your own online and offline live chat images to use in your header, footer, etc. to encourage customers to live chat! Multi-Language Support and Custom Text (free): Customize the text of your chat button/widget in any language of your choice! Easily customize the English text or modify it to read in Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, Polish, Chinese, Indonesian, and many more! Popup Builder (free with tiered limits): Popup Builder with dozens of professionally designed marketing popups. Multiple popup types including lightbox/modals, corner widgets, and website bars. Announce a special sale, offer a coupon code, or market virtually anything to your visitors. Real-time Visitor Monitoring: See the number of active visitors on your website in real-time, including the buttons they click! View the visitor’s country, recently viewed web pages, referring site (e.g. did they come from a Google search, etc.), are they new vs. returning, IP address, OS in use (Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, etc.), browser, and more. Live Chat visitor monitoring is a paid feature and comes with our Premium package. A.I. Chatbots: A.I. Chatbots leverage ChatGPT’s incredible Artificial Intelligence technology to dramatically reduce support time. Chatbots can automatically respond to common visitor questions around the clock (paid feature add-on). Check out our ChatGPT Chatbots tutorial to learn more. Custom Chatbots: Chatbots work around the clock to automatically qualify leads, book meetings, and provide information about your products or services to customers, even without having to chat with a live person! Chatbots can be added to any Premium package as a paid feature add-on. Check out our Custom Chatbots tutorial to learn more. Proactive Chat: Enable proactive chat to trigger automatically after a defined number of seconds (Premium packages). You can also configure a chatbot to do the same, with even more control over the user flow. For example, a chatbot can proactively popup to engage visitors and qualify them as leads before speaking with a live agent. This works with multiple types of custom chatbots you can create for your business. One more thing! Need support or have a question? Check our Community and our knowledge base! Would you like private support? Create a private support ticket here. Buttonizer works great with all themes and page builders including Divi, Elementor, WPBakery, Visual Composer, WPBakery, Beaver, SiteOrigin, Gutenberg, Oxygen, WooCommerce, Zion and more

TheGridIndex RSS Importer pulls headlines from external RSS feeds into WordPress as posts. Designed to pair with The Grid Index theme but works as a standalone importer with any theme. About the name. “TheGridIndex” is a coined product name owned by Fifth Avenue Photographic (the plugin author) and is also the name of a companion WordPress theme by the same author. The plugin is not affiliated with any unrelated project, dataset, or service that happens to share the words “grid” or “index” in its name. Use of the companion theme is optional — the plugin works as a standalone importer with any theme. Features: 47-feed curated catalog (News, World, Tech, Business, Science) — toggle on with one click Custom feeds — paste any RSS URL on the Feeds tab Per-feed check interval (5 min / 15 min / 30 min / hourly) Configurable post status (publish / draft / pending) Granular post categories — feeds map to News/World/Tech/Business/Science alongside the catch-all RSS category Featured image extraction from feed enclosures, media:thumbnail, media:content, or first content image Minimum image width filter Persistent GUID dedupe ledger — re-runs never create duplicates, even after posts are deleted Duplicate detector with bulk merge tool Feed health monitoring — flags feeds that fetch successfully but import nothing (silent failures) Embedded knowledge base with 15 FAQ entries Per-post source attribution meta for theme integration When The Grid Index theme is active, imported posts automatically display: Source attribution chip in the article hero “Read at [Source]” CTA button below the hero The “Hide comments on imported RSS posts” Theme Option (if enabled) takes effect External services This plugin is an RSS feed importer. To do its job, it must connect to external (third-party) RSS feed URLs that you choose to enable. No feed is fetched until you explicitly enable it — either by toggling a feed on from the Catalog tab or by pasting a custom RSS URL on the Feeds tab. If you enable no feeds, the plugin makes no outbound requests. What is sent, when, and why: When a feed you have enabled is due for a check (per the global cron and that feed’s individual interval — 5 min / 15 min / 30 min / hourly), or when you click “Import Now,” “Force re-import 24h,” or a per-row “Fetch” button, the plugin makes a standard HTTP GET request from your WordPress server to the feed’s URL. That request includes: The feed URL you enabled (target of the request). A standard browser-style User-Agent header (used because some publishers’ WAFs reject WordPress’s default User-Agent). Standard HTTP headers (Accept, Accept-Encoding) added by the WordPress HTTP API. Your server’s outbound IP address (visible to the publisher in their access logs, as with any HTTP request). No personal data about your site visitors is sent. No analytics, no telemetry, no user-identifying information. The plugin does not phone home to the plugin author or to any service the author controls. Outbound caching. Successful and failed fetches are cached locally on your WordPress site via the standard SimplePie/WordPress transient cache to reduce redundant requests. No fetched content is sent off your server. Custom feeds you add. If you paste your own RSS URL into the Feeds tab, the plugin fetches that URL on the same schedule. You are responsible for ensuring you have the right to import from that source and for reviewing that source’s terms. Curated catalog publishers. The plugin ships with a catalog of 47 RSS feeds offered as a convenience. Each publisher operates independently of this plugin and its author. Use of each publisher’s feed is governed by that publisher’s own terms of service and privacy policy. How to reach each publisher’s current legal pages. Each publisher operates their own legal pages on their own domain. The URLs publishers use for these pages change periodically — they reorganize sites, migrate to new help centers, move to consolidated parent-company legal portals (e.g. Condé Nast, Yahoo, NBCUniversal, Dow Jones, Disney/Paramount). Rather than hard-code per-publisher URLs that go stale, this readme lists each publisher’s home page, which is the canonical, stable entry point. Every publisher’s site footer carries links labeled “Terms” / “Terms of Use” / “Terms of Service” and “Privacy” / “Privacy Policy” / “Privacy Notice” that go to their current legal pages — those footer links are the publisher’s own source of truth and stay current as the publisher updates their policies. If you want to review a publisher’s terms before enabling their feed, open that publisher’s home page and use the footer links. Reasoning for this presentation choice: an earlier version of this readme hard-coded direct terms/privacy URLs for every publisher; within a single review cycle, 12 of those URLs already 404’d because publishers had moved their legal pages. Pointing to home pages eliminates this rot for both users reading this readme today and for any future reviewer. The table below lists every publisher the plugin can connect to (catalog feeds plus the activation-time starter feeds), grouped by category: News The New York Times — https://www.nytimes.com/ BBC — https://www.bbc.com/ The Guardian — https://www.theguardian.com/ NPR — https://www.npr.org/ Al Jazeera — https://www.aljazeera.com/ Google News — https://news.google.com/ USA Today — https://www.usatoday.com/ The Washington Post — https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ABC News (US) — https://abcnews.go.com/ (operated by Disney; legal pages are reached via the Disney/ABC site footer) CBS News — https://www.cbsnews.com/ (operated by Paramount; legal pages are reached via the CBS/Paramount site footer) Politico — https://www.politico.com/ NBC News — https://www.nbcnews.com/ (operated by NBCUniversal; legal pages are reached via the NBC/NBCUniversal site footer) The Hill — https://thehill.com/ ProPublica — https://www.propublica.org/ Time — https://time.com/ Bloomberg (Politics and Technology feeds) — https://www.bloomberg.com/ LA Times — https://www.latimes.com/ Tech TechCrunch — https://techcrunch.com/ The Verge (Vox Media) — https://www.theverge.com/ (legal pages governed by Vox Media; reached via the Verge site footer) Ars Technica (Condé Nast) — https://arstechnica.com/ (legal pages governed by Condé Nast; reached via the Ars Technica site footer) Wired (Condé Nast) — https://www.wired.com/ (legal pages governed by Condé Nast; reached via the Wired site footer) Engadget (Yahoo) — https://www.engadget.com/ (legal pages governed by Yahoo; reached via the Engadget site footer) Hacker News — https://news.ycombinator.com/ (feed served via the hnrss.org community bridge — bridge home: https://hnrss.github.io/) 9to5Mac — https://9to5mac.com/ MIT Technology Review — https://www.technologyreview.com/ ZDNet (Red Ventures) — https://www.zdnet.com/ (legal pages governed by Red Ventures; reached via the ZDNet site footer) Business Financial Times — https://www.ft.com/ Harvard Business Review — https://hbr.org/ Fast Company — https://www.fastcompany.com/ (legal pages governed by Mansueto Ventures; reached via the Fast Company site footer) Forbes — https://www.forbes.com/ Wall Street Journal (Dow Jones; feed publishes headlines, full articles paywalled) — https://www.wsj.com/ (legal pages governed by Dow Jones; reached via the WSJ site footer) MarketWatch (Dow Jones) — https://www.marketwatch.com/ (legal pages governed by Dow Jones; reached via the MarketWatch site footer) CNBC (NBCUniversal) — https://www.cnbc.com/ (legal pages governed by NBCUniversal; reached via the CNBC site footer) Science Science Daily — https://www.sciencedaily.com/ NASA (US government, public domain content) — https://www.nasa.gov/ World Deutsche Welle — https://www.dw.com/ France 24 — https://www.france24.com/ CBC News (Canada) — https://www.cbc.ca/news ABC News (Australia) — https://www.abc.net.au/news AI / Vendor blogs (starter feeds, not in the curated 47-feed catalog) OpenAI — https://openai.com/ Google AI Blog (Alphabet) — https://blog.google/ Hugging Face — https://huggingface.co/ Listing above does not imply endorsement or affiliation. If a publisher you want to use is not in the catalog, you can add their RSS URL manually via the Feeds tab; the same disclosure (HTTP GET with browser-style User-Agent) applies.