Nobs • Share Buttons Plugin

Add smart designed buttons after/before your posts (or wherever you want) to allow visitors to share your content (includes no JavaScript mode & counters). Buttons are Retina/HDPI-ready, translation-ready and come with useful options and hooks. Totally GDPR compliant, and accessibility and performance friendly. Includes a Gutenberg block.

Select your favorites social networks among a little list.
Display an optional sharings counter.
You’re done!

You can donate to support

• Donate what you want with Paypal
• Buy Me a Coffee (you can even subscribe for exclusive content, like sneak peek, free license, exclusive info, etc.)
• Flattr this thing!

Please, use the support forum to tell me bugs encountered, and be patient, remember it’s a free product build on my spare time

Social networks supported:

• Diigo
• Evernote
• Facebook
• LinkedIn
• Mix
• Pinterest
• Pocket
• Reddit
• Tumblr
• Twitter
• Viadeo
• Weibo
• WhatsApp
• VKontakte
• Native Share API (for mobile devices, mostly, allowing to share with your favorite applications)
• Future supported Networks here

Other actions supported:

• Send by Mail (mailto: or multi-recipient lightbox form)
• Print (buttons are not printed 😜)
• Add to bookmark

Plugin Options:

• 8 graphic templates available (reworked)
• Compact option for smaller icons
• Choose to display only the social network icon
• Choose from all available networks
• Open links in a new window (deactivated by default)
• Add your Twitter account name to add “via” while sharing
• Choose to display buttons only on certain type of post (compatible with Custom Post Type)
• Choose to hide buttons only on certain posts directly in the edit page (metabox).
• Choose to display buttons at the bottom, the top of the content, or both (or just with shortcode or template function)
• Customize mail texts (subject and body), or mail in a lightbox
• Display a sharing counter (optional)
• Use shortcode [juiz_sps] or [juiz_social] wherever you want
• Use the Gutenberg Block wherever you need. (no settings available yet for this block)
• For developers: A lot of hooks are available for markup customization (or add some things)
  • A hook is available and offers you the opportunity to add the buttons you need
  • Use template function juiz_sps() or get_juiz_sps() in your code
  • Contribute by creating you own button Skins easily.

Available Languages:

• Deutsch (thank to Dennis Schmitz!)
• English
• French
• Japanese (thank to 半月 (Hangetsu)!)
• Russian (thank you Fandia!)
• Serbian (thank to Borisa Djuraskovic!)
• Spanish (thank to Roberto Castiñeira!)
• Turkish (thanks to Hakaner!)

🏁
You can contribute to translating in your own language! Thank you for your help 💕

Full Documentation available.

This tool if made on my spare time for free, so if you say “it’s broken”, please tell me why, how, what so I can help you 😊 (better than a bad rating that won’t make things better)

Before adding a bad rating, please open a support ticket to solve your issue. I’m here to help.

Other plugins

Find my plugins at https://profiles.wordpress.org/creativejuiz/

You can use one of both method :

Installation via your WordPress website

1. Go to the admin menu ‘Plugins’ -> ‘Install’ and search for ‘Nobs • Share Buttons’
2. Click ‘install’ and activate it
3. (optional) Configure the Plugin in Settings

Manual Installation

1. Download the plugin (it’s better :p)
2. Unzipjuiz-social-post-sharer folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
3. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
4. It’s finished !

1. 

   Default Themes available

2. 

   After a post

3. 

   The new 1.3.0 Black theme and sharings counter

4. 

   The metabox to hide buttons on a post

5. 

   New themes: Brands Colors & Material Design

6. 

   New admin panel for Nobs.

7. 

   New networks panel you can now order with drag n' drop.

8. 

   Gutenberg's block in action

Find a complete documentation on this official documentation

2.3.3

• Network renamed: Twitter becomes X
• Bug fix
  • PHP 8.3 error fixed

2.3.2

• Bug fix
  • Fixes a bug on the Mail button which in some case could display a 500 error message.

2.3.1

• Bug fix
  • Fixes a Notice error message introduced in v2.2.0 in the Widgets option page that did happen in some cases. (thank Nico ;p)

2.3.0

• Third-Parties
  • Nobs is now compatible with WP Job Manager. This plugin uses the content of WordPress differently than other plugins. A Specific development have been made to reflect the option available in Nobs for this CPT.

2.2.0

• Gutenberg
  • Adds a new block that displays the buttons wherever you need keeping your global settings.
  • Yes, I’m working on a way to customize buttons and options directly into the block, in the meantime you can still use the shortcode for more specific needs.

2.1.4

• Counters
  • Fixes a bug that occures sometimes on new posts with 0 Shares and the global counter activated (JS Error in the console, but the count is taken into account)

2.1.3

• ShareAPI Button
  • Uses now post_excerpt in prior of post_content
  • If you have a bug with button not displayed, try filling the Excerpt field in your Posts. You might have a plugin messing with the first lines of your post, use the excerpt to get a short description of your post content.

2.1.2

• PHP 8 Compatibility
  • Fix of deprecated declaration (see PHP 8 Issue)

2.1.1

• Bug fix
  • JS Error fixed in some cases with the Share API Button (issue)

2.1.0

• Drops support for WordPress < 4.6
• Translation support
  • Removes the translation folder to make it handled by the community (Translate in your language)
  • Adds support for Polylang and WPML on the text field all over the plugin options.
• Great help from Sebastien SERRE of the Polylang team.

2.0.2

• Bug Fix: Upgrade Notice wouldn’t be removed. It’s now fixed. Sorry for the pushy behavior, not on purpose, I promise!

2.0.1

• Bug Fix: In very rare cases, the Theme folder can be unexisting and make the plugin display a PHP error. Issue fixed.

2.0.0

Recommended: Save Nobs Share Buttons’ settings after updating this plugin.

• Tested on WordPress 5.6
• New feature
  • Add or remove more easily custom buttons (Network API) – Documentation
  • Create your own buttons Skin with the starter kit and this documentation. Do it in your theme or in a separate plugin.
  • Email button now open a little form in a lightbox instead of mailto: protocole
  • New button: Evernote
  • New button: Mix (replace Stumbleuppon)
  • New button: WhatsApp
  • New button: Diigo
  • New button: Pocket
  • Compact mode added
  • Option to deactivate default CSS (not recommended if you don’t know what this is)
• Admin
  • Administration interface redesign
  • Script and Styles in external files (force refresh if bugs occure)
• Removed
  • Removes LinkedIn counter because LinkedIn doesn’t offer a count anymore. See this
  • Removes Twitter counter because Twitter doesn’t offer a count anymore. See this
  • Replace old school counting system by an independent internal one.
• All new brand plugin files structure
• New hooks: see revamped documentation.html file inside the plugin folder.
• Fixes
  • Fav/bookmark button JS error on Firefox (chrome is undefined)
  • Buttons are not printed if you use your browser print function (or the JSPS print button)
• Thanks for their help
  • To jeherve
  • To sebastienserre
  • To MarieComet
  • To audrasjb

1.4.11

• Tested up to WP 5.5.3
• Prepares the next major version: 2.0.0
• Fixes PHP Notice (create_function deprecated)
• Fixes issue in Multisite where setting were not well initiated.

1.4.10

• Tested up to WP 5.2.3
• New hook juiz_sps_twitter_nickname to change the Twitter Username

1.4.9

• Compatible with Dark Mode plugin.
• Tested up to WP 4.9.8

1.4.8

• Security Update: Fixes XSS vulnerability.

1.4.7

• Compatibility on network (multisite) thanks to Marie Comet (Marie Comet)

1.4.6

• Tested up to WordPress 4.6
• Facebook counter is back thanks to Jean-Baptiste (from Whodunit)

1.4.5

• Fixes a weird bug when you select Pinterest and “Open in new window” option: networks that follow the Pinterest button will open in a new window now! (thanks to Éric‘s report)
• Fixes a bug in Safari (Chrome undefined message)

1.4.4

• Translation
  • Error fixed with an untranslatable english string
• Fixes
  • Google+ and StumbleUpon counters fixed
  • CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION PHP error fixed

1.4.3

• Compatibility
  • Tested up to WordPress 4.5 (I took advance that time!)
  • Tested up to PHP 7 (Did you try that version? The Fast And Furious version of PHP)
• Features
  • Twitter counter is back from the death thanks to NewShareCounts Services, a third-party that try to bring back your preciouuuus… counter. Golum!

1.4.2

• Tested in WordPress 4.4.1
• Networks:
  • New Fav button
  • New Print button
• Security:
  • Better translation controls
• Support info:
  • No more support for this plugin version 1.1.0 (0,2% of plugin users)
• Better URL encode (hope so)

1.4.1

• Tested in WordPress 4.4
• Interface:
  • Better dashicons support for your custom post types
  • Some CSS reworks on admin settings
  • “Metro”, “Modern” and “Black” styles are now Retina-ready
  • Button styles CSS updated (each one)
• Engine:
  • Code rewrite to follow WordPress convention
  • Buttons are optionnaly added to excerpt (deactivated by default, see doc)
• Networks:
  • New Delicious button
  • New Tumblr button
  • New Reddit button

1.4.0

• Tested in WordPress 4.3.1
• Code rewrite to follow WordPress convention
• Explicit Text Domain for better translation (coming with translate.wordpress.org)
• Bug fix when you select option “Total Only” for counters

1.3.9

• Tested in WordPress 4.3.0
• Notice PHP fixed in admin area.

1.3.8

• Better Viadeo support
• Should include a better HTTPS support:
  • thank you to evelyette
  • thank you to Adam

1.3.7

• Tested up to WordPress 4.1.1
• New style “Brands Colors” available (7 themes available now)
• New themes and “Black” theme by Fandia support Retina and HDPI screens (font-icons)
• Some little bugs in other styles fixed
• RTL languages compatibility
• Note: Plurk, Appnet and Flattr buttons should coming…

1.3.6.1

• Russian Translation update (Thank you Fandia!)
• Tested in WordPress 4.0
• New plugin icons
• Style 6 URL update (Fandia’s website, sorry :p)

1.3.6

• Some page admin improvements
• Fixes
  • Notice PHP removed (thanks to Daniel Roch)
  • Some other improvements (thanks to Julien Maury)

1.3.5

• Readme.txt updated
• Translation
  • New Japanese support, thank you 半月 (Hangetsu)!
  • New Serbian support, thank you Borisa Djuraskovic!

1.3.4

• We lose our nice 1.3.3.7 version number :/
• Fixes
  • bug fix on e-mail button when post title use HTML tags (XSS – Thank you Julio)
  • bug fix on hidden sentence when post title use HTML tags (XSS – Thank you Julio)
• New
  • Spanish translation by Roberto Castiñeira! Thank you guy!

1.3.3.7

• WordPress 3.9.x compatibility
• Bug fixes
  • remove PHP Warning in some cases in post/page/cpt edit pages
  • remove notice error in translation (more info)
  • remove notice in debug mode and with Pinterest option activated (more info)
• Improvements
  • Add “title” parameter for Weibo API (thank you Aili!)
  • HTML tag for “total count” is customizable (it was an LI element)
  • New hook juiz_sps_share_name_for_{network} to adjust networks name-text (more info)
  • New hook juiz_sps_use_default_css to remove default CSS request (you can use your own CSS)
  • New in Shortcode : use the url parameter to share “permalink”, “siteurl” or “customurl” instead of current URL
  • New in Template function : use the $url_to_share parameter to share “permalink”, “siteurl” or “customurl” instead of current URL
• New
  • Counters option: display sub-totals only, total only or both
  • Deutsch translation by Dennis Schmitz

1.3.3

• Bug fix for Tony’s style buttons (lake of rules for VK social network)
• Bug fix for Facebook counters (little JS error)
• Readme updated

1.3.2

• Bug fix when your theme has wp_autop activated on your content (thank you Jérémy).

1.3.1

• Typo fix on CSS files (Metro styles only)
• Bug fix on Pinterest button when target option is activated (find on Firefox by synthview)

1.3.0

• New feature: choose directly in the edit page of a post if you want to hide buttons (just a box to check)
• New feature: optional counter available (needs JavaScript) – CSS improved for that – Note it’s in beta test
• New feature: optional “force Pinterest sniffing for image” feature (needs JavaScript)
• New: russian network VKontakte
• New: black style by Fandia!
• Translation: new Turkish language (thanks to Hakaner!)
• Translation: new Russian language (thanks to Fandia!)
• New hook: juiz_sps_intro_phrase_text to help you change (see the documentation)
• New hook: juiz_sps_hide_intro_phrase (see the documentation)
• New hook: juiz_sps_share_text_for_{network} (see the documentation)

1.2.4

• IMPORTANT: bug fix for Pinterest button’s users (thanks to jamesdodd)
• IMPORTANT: hook juiz_sps_the_permalink replaced by juiz_sps_the_shared_permalink
• New hook: juiz_sps_the_shared_permalink_for_{network} (see the documentation)

1.2.3

• Removes new Facebook API because of the complexity of use for the user (old API always works)

1.2.2

• New: Facebook and Pinterest new API integrated
• New hook to remove rel="nofollow" on links
• New hook to customize container element (div by default)
• New hook to remove intro sentence, or its container tag
• New: to perform customization, you can use %%title%% (insert the post title), %%siteurl%% (insert the site URL) or %%permalink%% (insert the post URL) variables
• Bug fix: you can now use shortcode or template function only by choosing option “I’m a ninja, I want to use the shortcode only!”
• Translation updates (French, English)

1.2.1

• [juiz_sps] shortcode added (you now have [juiz_social] and [juiz_sps])
• CSS improvement for themes not really well thought 😉

1.2.0

• New social networks available : weibo
• CSS improvement
• Documentation available! (see the bottom of settings page)
• New hooks and template functions available (see the documentation)

1.1.4

• New choice: displaying button on all lists of articles (blog, archive, tag, search result, etc.)
• Admin page improvement
• New dynamic classes on HTML generated code
• Partial documentation available with plugin (see the footer links)

1.1.3

• Bug fix on new style

1.1.2

• New hook for developper (can now hook shared url)
• Styles: New optionnal style for buttons (thanks to Tony)
• Styles: bug correction for Chrome
• Styles: little margin added before and after line of buttons

1.1.1

• Styles bug correction

1.1.0

• Add your Twitter account name to add “via” during a share
• Choose to display button only on certain type of post
• Choose to display button at the bottom, the top of the content, or both
• Some hooks are available for markup customization (or add some things)
• Customize mail texts (subject and body)

1.0.1

• Performance enhancement (thank you Julio)
• Some typos corrected

1.0.0

• The first beta version