[New Plugin] "Simple Social Sharing" - Lightweight, NO Javascript / iframes [updated]

Question

Hello Q2A community,

Here is a cool plugin called simple social sharing. You may say, why another social sharing plugin. Well, this one is a bit different. It just has static links to posting your question on various social networking sites and especially the ones where you can promote your question in order to get answer.

It does not bloat your page by including the Javascript / iFrame heavy Facebook Like buttons, Twitter share buttons and the others. Simple, plain share links with relevant small images. There is also an admin panel where you can specify what to include and what social networks to skip.

Download Link

[UPDATED] Version - 1.3

1. Support for Widgets added - you can now add the share buttons to any part of Q2A using widgets

2. You can also turn off the default position of the sharing buttons (below the question) by going to Plugin Settings page.

Plugin - Screenshot 1:

 

Plugin - Screenshot 2:

 

Plugin - Screenshot 3:

 

Plugin Options / Admin Panel - Screenshot:

 

Download Link

 

Keep it short and simple

Comments

Great, really interesting. Should I remove my existing social network buttons before installing this? Where is the e-mail option?

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Yes you might want to disable your existing social network buttons plugins before installing this. Plugin updated with e-mail button feature, please download again using same link. Thanks.

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Thanks very much !
I think that q2a should have plenty of social plugins ! :-)
I've just downloaded and installed it.
May I be the first to open an issue ? :-)
If my q2a docroot is inside a subfolder :
http://www.mywebsite.com/q2a/
the plugin does not load the image.
My access.log says :
"GET /qa-plugin/simple-social-sharing/images/ma_share_buttons_full.png HTTP/1.1" 404

The right GET should be this one :
"GET /q2a/qa-plugin/simple-social-sharing/images/ma_share_buttons_full.png HTTP/1.1" 200

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Thanks for the feedback, sir :-) I have fixed this bug and updated the plugin. Its available for download on same link. Please let me know about your thoughts. Thanks.

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It's ok now ! :-)
Thank you very much

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Very nice job dkd903

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Very nice and light.
Generally speaking I like simple design.
In a next version :-) it would be nice to be able to choose among more social networking sites.
Thanks again

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Thanks @maxjtechno - I will add some more social network options soon.

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@dkd903: I have installed it but when I try to share it via facebook, it says:
Not Found

The requested URL /index.php was not found on this server.


P.S. What is the MAC OSX folder for? I am using Windows, shall I include that folder too?
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

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It is very nice how can I replace icon with text

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please tell us how to delete this plugin, idelete it but is still showing at the admin/layer page

Answer 1

that's a great plugin.

I have 2 suggestions:

1. add rel="nofollow" to links.
2. use a widget to show sharing buttons instead of a layer.

thanks.

Comments

Hello there. Thanks for your feedback. Really appreciate. I  have updated plugin with the nofollow suggestion and it can be downloaded from same link as shared above. I am working to make the share button on widget feature available in next version. Thanks.

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I have added widget support now. But also have kept the default functionality where the share icons show below question - this can be disabled using a new setting option in the Plugin's options panel. Thanks.

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that's great.

Answer 2

Update Available - Version - 1.3

1. Support for Widgets added - you can now add the share buttons to any part of Q2A using widgets

2. You can also turn off the default position of the sharing buttons (below the question) by going to Plugin Settings page.

For screenshots scroll up check first thread.

Download Link

Comments

How about adding some more social buttons and some css hovers.

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Looks great. Just one issue is that email subject lines and body text have plus symbols between words.

Just+like+this+string+of+text

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This has been updated now. Thanks.

Answer 3

Update Available:

1. Fix for Mail Link

Planned for next Update:

1. More icon choices

2. support for more social media websites

Comments

"More icon choices" Great! Perhaps make it easy for the images to be served via a CDN URL.

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Thanks, will make this too :-)

Answer 4

i am using this plugin but i need more social buttons. Like stumble upon.. Can you add this please ?

Answer 5

Hello is there any update to this plugin?

I recently install this plugin, and the icons are not showing, also the text are large.

I noticed the above link to download the plugin is dead and it redirect to a different site. 

Here is the link to the simple social sharing on GitHub https://github.com/mrzeeshanplus/q2a-simple-social-sharing

I will appreciate, which code to edit to enable it show the icons and reduce the text size.