Since the release of WordPress, developers have built too many social networking plugins. While the Floating Social Bar plugin is too useful for putting at the bottom of the article, I still like “Social Sharing by Danny.”
While Social Sharing by Danny is limited to Twitter, Facebook, and Google+, it is still useful and can be put at the bottom of the article. Most social sharing plugins are too ugly, heavy, complicated, or poorly coded, but this plugin aims to be different; simple, lightweight, and flexible.
The ‘Social Sharing by Danny’ plugin loads only two tiny files to add icons and a pop-up functionality to the shared links. This way, users do not have to leave your website after clicking a sharing option. Loading of both files can be disabled so that you can craft your own styles.
The key features of the “Social Sharing by Danny” plugin :
- Sharing links for Twitter, Facebook, and Google+
- Simple icon styles with a hover effect
- A simple script of just 600 bytes (not query dependent) will make the links open in a pop-up window.
- A shortcode and a template function to display the buttons anywhere you want.
- An overridable filter to set the condition for when to display the sharing links.
- Translation ready
The Social Sharing by Danny plugin offers two preset fixed sizes of social networking buttons, 16×16 pixels and 32×32 pixels. The plugin supports the latest WordPress version 3.9.1.