2013-07-07

Super lightweight, simple, nice, modern looking and effective social sharing and following buttons and icons on your site without the extra burden….

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Version – 1.3.0

Description :

WordPress Social Media Feather is a super lightweight free social media WordPress plugin that allows you to quickly and painlessly add social sharing and following features to all your posts, pages and custom post types.

Now the only social sharing and bookmarking plugin with full support for the Retina and high resolution displays as used in iPad 5 and other devices!

The primary goal behind the plugin is to provide very lightweight WordPress social sharing and following that doesn’t add any unnecessary burden to your site and especially on your users.

What sets WordPress Social Media Feather aside from the plethora of other social sharing and following WordPress plugins is its focus on simplicity, performance and unobtrusive impact.

In order to achieve this the plugin makes no use of JavaScript and as a consequence it’s really fast while still providing all the social media functionality you might need.

By keeping load times at a minimum, you ensure that all the social sharing aspects of your site don’t interfere with those visitors who just want to access the content but are not interested in sharing on social platforms.

On the other hand, given the widespread focus on WordPress social media integration, your site will still provide social bookmarks to improve visibility of your posts and content and improve your overall global reach.

The WordPress social media sharing offered by the plugin includes all major social sharing providers like Facebook, Twitter, Google+, reddit, Pinterest, Linkedin and even e-mail.

The plugin also offers widgets for sharing and following buttons that you can place in any widgetized area in your site. Widgets also expose some settings to tweak appearance.

Features

Integrated WordPress social sharing

Full support for Retina and high resolution displays

WordPress social sharing and following widgets

Supports all major providers of social features

Sharing with Facebook, Twitter, Google+, reddit, Pinterest, Linkedin and e-mail

Following on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest, Linkedin, YouTube or RSS Feed

Each social provider can be enabled or disabled

Ability to select what services each provider will be exposed for

Full customization for titles and URLs for each provider

Super lightweight social sharing and following

Fast unobtrusive social bookmarks for your site

Comes with a default modern icon set

For further customization more social icons skins are available

Available skins can be customized with cool effects like fading and greying out social icons

Example Shortcodes

This shortcode will create a list of social sharing buttons to share content on your site:

This shortcode will create a list of social sharing buttons to share content on your site using the “Wheel” icons skin:

This shortcode will create a list of social sharing buttons to share content on your site using the “Wheel” icons skin with a size of 64 pixels:

The next shortcode will create a list of social following buttons that allow visitors to follow you:

The next shortcode will create a list of social following buttons that allow visitors to follow you, using the “Balloon” icons skin:

The next shortcode will create a list of social following buttons that allow visitors to follow you, using the “Balloon” icons skin with a size of 64 pixels:

Template Tags

If you don’t want to use shortcodes but instead prefer to use PHP directly, there are 2 PHP functions/template tags you can use.

For sharing buttons you can use:

For following buttons you can use:

Related Links:

WordPress Social Media Plugin Official Page

Extra Social Icons Skins

Grey Fade addon that can grey out and fade out any social icons set

Our own site where you can see social sharing and following in action

Stripefolio theme demo where you can see some of the social sharing and following features in action

The free Stripefolio WordPress portfolio theme the Official page for the theme in the above demo link

Installation :

Download the plugin

Simply go under the Plugins page, then click on Add new and select the plugin’s .zip file

Alternatively you can extract the contents of the zip file directly to your wp-content/plugins/ folder

Finally, just go under Plugins and activate the plugin

Screenshots :

An example of how the sharing or following buttons appear in the front-end at 64 pixel resolution

An example of how the sharing or following buttons appear in the front-end at 24 pixel resolution

An example of how the sharing or following buttons appear in the front-end using the Extra Social Icons addon

Showing how using the Grey Fade addon transforms the sharing or following buttons in the front-end

A demo of how providers can be customized in the back-end

An view of some of the settings that can be customized in the back-end

This shows the available social sharing and following widgets and their settings

Detail Here: – http://wordpress.org/plugins/social-media-feather/

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