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Description

Social Sharing By Danny

The simplest sharing links possible for Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.

Most WordPress plugins that add social sharing functionality are too ugly, heavy, complicated or poorly coded for my liking. This plugin aims to be better: simple, efficient and flexible.

No script dependencies

From itself, the buttons are actually plain text links which require no external scripts. It makes no sense to load over 50 kilobytes of scripts and styles for a functionality 95% of your users will not use.

Simple, yet pretty and user-friendly

You can have the plugin load two very small files to add icons and a pop-up functionality to the sharing links. This way, users do not have to leave your website after clicking a sharing option. Both files are optional and you are free to craft your own styles.

Features

Sharing links for Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn
Simple icon styles with a hover effect
Simple script of just 426 bytes (with no additional dependencies) which will make the various sharing links open in a pop-up window.
A shortcode and a template function to display the buttons anywhere you want.
An overridable filter to customize when and where to display the sharing links.
Translation ready

Translations

Is the plugin not translated into your language? You can contribute your translations using the translation editor here on WordPress.org.

About the author

Danny van Kooten has been building WordPress plugins since 2010. He is also the developer behind Mailchimp for WordPress and Koko Analytics.

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Installation

Installing the plugin

In your WordPress admin panel, go to Plugins > New Plugin, search for Social Sharing by Danny and click “Install now”
Alternatively, download the plugin and upload the contents of dvk-social-sharing.zip to your plugins directory, which usually is /wp-content/plugins/.
Activate the plugin.
Go to Settings > Social Sharing to choose the post types, social networks, icon styles and pop-up behavior.

Additional Customization

Have a look at the frequently asked questions section for some examples of additional customization.

FAQ

Does this plugin load external social media scripts?

No. The sharing buttons are plain links by default, so the plugin does not load external scripts from social networks.

Which social networks are supported?

The plugin supports sharing links for Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. You can choose which social sharing buttons to show from the plugin settings.

Can I choose where the sharing buttons appear?

Yes. By default, the sharing buttons are added to posts. You can enable them for other public post types from Settings > Social Sharing.

Can I use my own CSS for the sharing buttons?

Yes. You can disable the default icon stylesheet from the plugin settings and style the social sharing links in your theme.

Can I display the sharing buttons using a shortcode?

Yes, you can use the following shortcode (eg. inside posts or pages).

[dvk_social_sharing]

Can I display the sharing buttons using a template function?

Yes, you can use the following PHP function from your template files.

<?php echo dvk_social_sharing(); ?>

I want more control over when to show the sharing options

Use the dvkss_display filter to show the links in more places.

Example 1: will add the sharing links to everything possible

add_filter('dvkss_display', '__return_true');

Example 2: will add the sharing links to all single posts, pages and other post types.

function my_display_condition() {
 return is_singular();
}

add_filter('dvkss_display', 'my_display_condition');

Shortcode and function arguments

element (string)

The element to use as the wrapping element. Defaults to p, a paragraph element.

twitter_username (string)

The Twitter username to add to tweets. This will override the value from the settings page.

social_options (comma separated string)

The social media buttons to show. You can also use this to change the order of the buttons. Defaults to twitter, facebook. Possible values are twitter, facebook and linkedin.

before_text (string)

The text to show before the links. This will override the value in the settings page.

twitter_text (string)
facebook_text (string)
linkedin_text (string)

The texts for the different links. Defaults to the string set in the translation file.

Reviews

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Lightweight, elegent, non obtrusive custom styling ready. If light, fast and simple is your game this plugin is fot you. I would really kiss people behind this plugin.

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I am enjoying playing with WordPress.

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Great plugin. Fast and minimal. Worked just great.

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Great plugin

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I’d been looking high and low for a simple, minimalist social sharing plugin and finally found it in Social Sharing by Danny! Unlike the vast majority of the other social sharing plugins out there, Danny’s frees you of the unwanted bells and & whistles that just needlessly suck up resources and complicate things. This plugin is reliable, flexible, beautiful, and super-easy to implement. Best of all, the developer, Danny, is incredibly responsive and receptive to new ideas. In fact, I recently suggested a new feature and boom – literally within hours Danny had it integrated into the plugin and working perfectly. Thank you Danny!

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Finally a plugin that doesn’t use the wrong image for posting to Facebook and keeps all the options on facebook available. I can chose my page or my profile to post to. Love it.

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Contributors & Developers

“Social Sharing (by Danny)” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

“Social Sharing (by Danny)” has been translated into 6 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.

Translate “Social Sharing (by Danny)” into your language.

Interested in development?

Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.

Changelog

1.3.12 – Jun 19, 2026

Bump the minimum requirements to WordPress 4.5 and PHP 7.4.
Build social sharing URLs using WordPress URL helpers and escape the generated output.
Improve escaping and text domain usage in admin and front-end templates.
Add Composer-based PHPCS and PHPStan tooling with GitHub Actions checks.
Run PHP syntax, PHPCS and PHPStan checks before creating a release package.
Update release package exclusions for the new development tooling.
Improve readme FAQ with user-facing answers about external scripts, supported networks, display options and custom CSS.
Improve readme screenshot captions and installation steps.
Remove outdated Google Plus references from the readme FAQ.

1.3.11 – Jun 1, 2026

Implement some general hardening measures.
Bump tested WordPress version to 7.0.

1.3.10 – Feb 13, 2026

Link to x.com instead of twitter.com
Ensure settings are autoloaded correctly.
Use short array syntax everywhere.
Explicitly specify number of accepted arguments for all hooks.

1.3.9 – Oct 16, 2024

Address PHP warning introduced by version 1.3.8.

1.3.8 – Oct 11, 2024

Escape shortcode arguments before outputting to prevent stored XSS from users with edit_post capability. Thanks to Peter Thaleikis for the responsible disclosure.

1.3.7 – Oct 1, 2024

Remove Google Plus as an option, since it has long been shut down.
Add defer attribute to pop-up script tag.
Improved sanitization of settings.
Disallow the use of <a> elements in the before_text setting if user lacks unfiltered_html capability.
Get rid of ES6 code in JavaScript files, to support older browsers.

1.3.4 – Dec 23, 2022

Rewrite admin JavaScript to no longer require jQuery.
Minor PHP improvements.
Improved minification of all CSS and JS assets.

1.3.3 – Dec 31, 2019

Remove unused LinkedIn parameters.
Switch to WordPress.org managed translations.

1.3.2 – March 23, 2018

Minor code optimisations
Added linkedin_text shortcode argument to FAQ.

1.3.1 – October 26, 2017

Misc. textual improvements.

1.3 – October 4, 2017

Additions

Added LinkedIn.

1.2.7 – January 6, 2017

Improvements

Use https:// protocol for sharing links.
Use SVG icons.

Additions

Add “large” icon size option.
Choose social network options from settings page.
Added Italian translations, thanks to Alessandro Guidi.

1.2.6 – March 29, 2016

Fixes

Apostrophes in titles not properly escaped in sharing URL’s. Thanks Robin Aldenhoven!

1.2.5 – January 26, 2015

Improvements

Minor improvements to pop-up script

Additions

Added Finnish (fi_FI) translations, thanks to Ari-Pekka Koponen

1.2.4 – November 17, 2014

Improvements

Wrapped link text in element so it can be hidden using CSS
Improvements to pop-up JavaScript

1.2.3 – September 4, 2014

Improvements

Added minified scripts and option to load minified version
Some textual improvements

1.2.2 – April 30, 2014

Fixes

Fixed not being able to save all “auto add to ..” checkboxes unchecked

1.2.1 – April 29, 2014

Additions

Added German translations, thanks Andreas Kuhl!

Improvements

Wrapped non-translatable strings in translation calls.
Updated Dutch translations

1.2 – March 19, 2014

Additions

Added option to automatically add sharing options to all registered post types
Added Spanish translations, props to Luciano A. Ferrer.

Improvements

Disabled Pop-up JS by default until we figure out a cross-browser compatibility fix.

1.1 – February 19, 2014

Added: Slovenian translations, thanks to Domen Hrabar, Viking Marketing
Improved: direct file access security

1.0.9 – December 30, 2013

Added: Danish translation, thanks to Finn Hoelgaard!
Added: Russian translation, thanks to Nikita!
Improved: Pop-up script now waits for full page load.

1.0.6 – December 20, 2013

Improved: Pop-up JS now used addEventListener to enable multiple event listeners (like a Google Analytics plugin) attaching to the sharing links.

1.0.5 – December 9, 2013

Added: French translations, thanks to Said
Improved: All backend strings are now translatable
Improved: Prevented direct access or search engine indexing of plugin files
Improved: Facebook URL sharing parameters

1.0.4 – December 2, 2013

Improved: Minified pop-up script to 480 bytes.
Improved: Removed image attribute from Facebook Share URL. FB will now pick up og:image meta tags.

1.0.3 – November 25, 2013

Fixed: undefined index notice when saving options.

1.0.2 – November 20, 2013

Added: Dutch translation
Added: Option to change the text that shows before the sharing links.

1.0.1 – November 20, 2013

Fixed: Added settings link to plugins overview page
Fixed: “tweet about” option in admin now tweets about the correct plugin.

1.0 – November 17, 2013

Initial release.

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Description

Social Sharing By Danny

No script dependencies

Simple, yet pretty and user-friendly

Screenshots

Installation

Installing the plugin

Additional Customization

FAQ

Does this plugin load external social media scripts?

Which social networks are supported?

Can I choose where the sharing buttons appear?

Can I use my own CSS for the sharing buttons?

Can I display the sharing buttons using a shortcode?

Can I display the sharing buttons using a template function?

I want more control over when to show the sharing options

Shortcode and function arguments

Reviews

Contributors & Developers

Interested in development?

Changelog

1.3.12 – Jun 19, 2026

1.3.11 – Jun 1, 2026

1.3.10 – Feb 13, 2026

1.3.9 – Oct 16, 2024

1.3.8 – Oct 11, 2024

1.3.7 – Oct 1, 2024

1.3.4 – Dec 23, 2022

1.3.3 – Dec 31, 2019

1.3.2 – March 23, 2018

1.3.1 – October 26, 2017

1.3 – October 4, 2017

1.2.7 – January 6, 2017

1.2.6 – March 29, 2016

1.2.5 – January 26, 2015

1.2.4 – November 17, 2014

1.2.3 – September 4, 2014

1.2.2 – April 30, 2014

1.2.1 – April 29, 2014

1.2 – March 19, 2014

1.1 – February 19, 2014

1.0.9 – December 30, 2013

1.0.6 – December 20, 2013

1.0.5 – December 9, 2013

1.0.4 – December 2, 2013

1.0.3 – November 25, 2013

1.0.2 – November 20, 2013

1.0.1 – November 20, 2013

1.0 – November 17, 2013

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