Simple X Buttons – Share, Follow, Mention & Hashtag for WordPress vs WP Review Slider

Simple X Buttons adds X (Twitter) buttons to your WordPress posts and pages — the right way. Why not use X’s official embed buttons? X’s embed infrastructure (platform.twitter.com/widgets.js) has been unreliable since 2023, hitting HTTP 429 rate limits at scale and causing embeds to fail silently or load slowly. X has not committed to fixing this. This plugin takes a different approach entirely. What are X Web Intents? Web Intents are plain URLs provided by X for sharing, following, mentioning, and more. They open a lightweight native X popup — no JavaScript SDK, no third-party cookies, no external scripts loaded on page load. You click, a popup opens, done. That means: No API key required — zero setup friction No external scripts — nothing loads until the user clicks No rate limits — static URLs, no API calls GDPR-friendly — no cookies or tracking on page load Fast — the plugin CSS is ~1 KB, loaded only when a button is on the page Four button types Share — opens X compose pre-filled with the post title, permalink, hashtags, and via handle Follow — opens X’s native follow dialog for your account Mention — opens X compose pre-filled with @yourhandle so visitors can tweet at you Hashtag — opens X compose pre-filled with #yourtag; optionally pulls in the post’s own tags automatically Features Auto-insert before and/or after post content — choose which buttons and which post types per placement Per-placement button control — show Share on all posts, Follow only on certain post types, etc. Post tags as hashtags — Share and Hashtag buttons can automatically pull the post’s tags (capped at 5 to keep tweets writable) 4 Gutenberg blocks — X Share, Follow, Mention, and Hashtag blocks with live editor previews 4 Shortcodes — [sxb-share], [sxb-follow], [sxb-mention], [sxb-hashtag] Template tags — sxb_share_button() and sxb_button_bar() for theme developers Three button styles — Dark, Outline, Ghost Popup or new-tab intent window Integration Four ways to add buttons to your site: Auto-insert (recommended): Enable a placement in Settings → Simple X Buttons. Buttons appear automatically on every matching post type. Shortcode: [sxb-share], [sxb-follow handle="yourhandle"], [sxb-mention handle="yourhandle"], [sxb-hashtag tag="travel"] anywhere in content. Block: Search for “X Share Button”, “X Follow Button”, “X Mention Button”, or “X Hashtag Button” in the Gutenberg block inserter. Template tag: or in theme templates. Compatibility WordPress 5.8 or higher PHP 7.2 or higher No API key required No external JavaScript loaded on page load Works with any theme

Display Facebook Reviews and Recommendations on Your WordPress Site in Under 2 Minutes. This plugin downloads your Facebook Page reviews and recommendations once and stores them in your WordPress database on your own server. Your site serves reviews locally for fast loading, better performance, and a smoother visitor experience. This plugin uses the official Facebook API — not illegal crawling or scraping methods used by some similar plugins. That means a more reliable, compliant way to show Facebook social proof on your site. You work hard for your 5-star reviews, ratings, and positive recommendations on your Facebook page. Now you can easily display them on your WordPress site to boost customer confidence and social proof. Facebook switched from a 1–5 star rating scale to Positive or Negative recommendations. This plugin includes a setting to save recommendations with a rating value so you can still display them as 5-star reviews when you want. Here’s a quick video demonstration of adding reviews in less than 2 minutes! Twitter (now X) support is included too! Search Twitter, download positive tweets about your business, and display them in a slider or grid alongside your Facebook reviews. How it Works Facebook: 1. Easily connect to our Facebook app with a couple of button clicks. 2. Click the Retrieve Reviews button to download your Facebook reviews and recommendations into your WordPress database. 3. Create a review template and paste the shortcode in a post, page, or widget area. Twitter (now X): 1. Search for tweets mentioning your business or service. 2. Click the download icon next to the tweets you want to save. 3. Display them using the same template and shortcode system. Feature List: Download Facebook Page reviews and recommendations and securely store them on your server for fast local loading. Uses the official Facebook API for a reliable, compliant connection. Create an engaging slider — like an image slider, but with Facebook reviews and Twitter tweets (now X). Prefer a grid or list? Display reviews in a responsive layout instead of a slider. Show Facebook recommendations as 5-star reviews or as positive recommendations. Download and display positive tweets from Twitter (now X). Create multiple templates for posts, pages, and widget areas. Display reviews using a shortcode, template function, or widget. Customize display options: show/hide stars, dates, border radius, background and text colors. Choose how many reviews per row and use multiple rows. Sort by date or show reviews randomly. Add custom CSS for further styling. Hide reviews or Twitter tweets that do not include text. Check out our other free versions! Google Yelp TripAdvisor Thumbtack WooCommerce Airbnb Upgrade to Pro for More Features: US Based customer support via email and a forum. Download your reviews from Yelp, TripAdvisor, Google, and 80+ other reviews sites! Group your reviews by language, tags, Post Id, or Categories so you can show exactly the review you want. Create a summary WooCommerce slider with your latest product reviews! Front end review submission form! Get email notifications when new low reviews are found. Hide certain reviews from displaying. Create a really cool summary badge! Manually add reviews to your database. Download all your reviews in CSV format to your computer. Access to 10 Review Template styles! Full control over review templates by using child themes. Advanced slider controls like: Autoplay, slide animation direction, hide navigation arrows and dots, adjust slider height for each slide. Change the minimum rating of the reviews to display. Allows you to hide low rating reviews. Use a minimum and maximum word count so you can hide short or long reviews. Add a read more link to long reviews which shows the rest of the review when clicked! Display reviews by a certain type or mix them all together on one slider (Facebook, Yelp, Google, TripAdvisor, manually input). Specify which Facebook page to display reviews from per a template. Individually choose which reviews you want to display per a template. Display a summary of your review ratings in a Google Search Result. You can automatically create the correct review snippet markup! Access to all new features we add in the future!