May 22, 2023

Social Buttons Pack by BestWebSoft Plugin

Add social media buttons and widgets to WordPress posts, pages and widgets. FB, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn.

Powerful and easy-to-use social media plugin for WordPress which adds Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, LinkedIn buttons, badges and widgets to your website. Customize settings, change appearance and add buttons to your posts, pages, and widgets.

Increase shares and social media engagement today!

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Free Features

Automatically add:
- Facebook buttons
  - Follow
  - Like
  - Share
- Twitter buttons
  - Tweet
  - Follow
  - Hashtag
  - Mention
- Pinterest buttons
  - Save
  - Follow
- LinkedIn buttons
  - Share
  - Follow
- Instagram buttons
  - Follow
Choose buttons position:
- Before content
- After content
- Before and after
Add social buttons widgets:
- Pinterest
  - Pin
  - Board
  - Profile
Add social buttons via shortcode
Customize each button and widget with a number of options
Compatible with Multilanguage
Add custom code via plugin settings page
Compatible with latest WordPress version
Incredibly simple settings for fast setup without modifying code
Detailed step-by-step documentation and videos
Multilingual and RTL ready

Pro Features
All features from Free version included plus:
Display social buttons for certain pages and/or post types
Social buttons preview
Add Twitter Timeline
Facebook widget with the most liked posts
Сhange Facebook meta tags:
Image
Description
Enable Facebook Like option for:
Entire website
Single pages
Сonfigure all subsites on the network
Get answer to your support question within one business day (Support Policy)
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If you have a feature suggestion or idea you’d like to see in the plugin, we’d love to hear about it! Suggest a Feature

Documentation & Videos

Help & Support

Visit our Help Center if you have any questions, our friendly Support Team is happy to help — https://support.bestwebsoft.com/

Translation

Czech (cs_CZ) (thanks to Michal Kučera www.n0lim.it)
French (fr_FR) (thanks to Murat)
Indonesian (id_ID) (thanks to Nasrulhaq, www.al-badar.net)
Hungarian (hu_HU) (thanks to Peter Aprily www.aprily.com)
Russian (ru_RU)
Turkish (tr_TR) (thanks to Can Atasever)
Ukrainian (uk)

Some of these translations are not complete. We are constantly adding new features which should be translated. If you would like to create your own language pack or update the existing one, you can send the text of PO and MO files to BestWebSoft and we’ll add it to the plugin. You can download the latest version of the program for work with PO and MO files Poedit.

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Installation

Upload the folder social-buttons-pack to the directory /wp-content/plugins/.
Activate the plugin via the ‘Plugins’ menu in your WordPress admin panel.
You can adjust the necessary settings in your WordPress admin panel – “Social Buttons”.

View a Step-by-step Instruction on Social Buttons Pack Installation

Screenshots

Displaying Social Buttons in your post.
Displaying Pinterest Pin widget.
Displaying Pinterest Board widget.
Displaying Pinterest Profile widget.
Plugin settings page: Facebook.
Plugin settings page: Twitter.
Plugin settings page: Pinterest.
Plugin settings page: LinkedIn.
Plugin settings page: Instagram.
Adding widgets to the sidebar.
Adding Social Buttons shortcode to your post or page.

FAQ

How to adjust Social Buttons position on the page ?

In WordPress admin panel, please go to “Social Buttons” settings page and choose one of the listed positions: Before content or After content. Then click “Save Changes”.

How to change Facebook Button icon (“Profile URL”)?

In WordPress admin panel, please go to “Social Buttons” > “Facebook” and choose one of the listed options: Default Profile Button Image or Custom Profile Button Image. Then click “Save Changes”.
If you choose Custom Profile Button Image, you can upload your own picture. You should click “Choose file” and choose an image in your folder. Then click “Save Changes”.

After clicking Facebook Button icon, I see the Facebook Home page instead of the necessary account page

In WordPress admin panel, please go to “Social Buttons” > “Facebook” settings page and enter your Facebook ID or username. Then click “Save Changes”.
If you do not have the Facebook account yet, you should create it here. After the account is created, please follow the instructions above.

When people like and/or leave comments to my post, will this be displayed on my Facebook page?

No, it will not. The case is: Like for a WordPress site is a Like of a certain URL, but not the page content, while on Facebook it’s Like of the content, not the URL. I.e. these are two different things, and it is impossible to link them.
For more data on the Like button, please check the developers’ page (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/like-button).

If I install a new version of the plugin, will I lose all the likes I got on the previous version (I mean will they switch to zero on my website?)?

You will not lose them because they are stored on the Facebook server.

I’ve changed meta tags (image and description), but when I click “Share” button, all data stay the same (unchanged)

The case is, after the first circulation to the page, Facebook cache an information about it. These data from the cache are used during the next 24 hours.
That is why the changes are not displayed. You can wait for 24 hours and check changes, or you can forcibly update the information about your page on Facebook:
1. Go to https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object/
2. Enter a URL of your page in “Input URL” field and click “Fetch new scrape information” button

Can I control the order of the Twitter recommended accounts?

Only two accounts are displayed and by default the via user is shown first with the first related account shown afterwards. If the user is a follower of the via user the Share Box will instead show the first two related accounts the user isn’t a follower of. No accounts are displayed if the user follows all of the suggested accounts (via and related).

Pinterest Follow button is not displaying properly

In WordPress admin panel, please go to “Social Buttons” > “Pinterest” settings page and check if Pinterest username is correct.

Pinterest widget is not displaying

Check if widget URL is correct or pin/board/profile exists.

Why isn’t the counter of LinkedIn Share button displaуed in horizontal display mode?

It happens when your page or post isn’t shared.

I’ve added LinkedIn widgets to my sidebar. Why are they cropped?

Beсause the “Company Insider” widget has 633px width and other LinkedIn widgets have 300px width.

Why don’t LinkedIn widgets display on my site?

To display widgets, you must fill fields, such as ‘Public Profile URL’, ‘Company ID’ or ‘School ID’.

Why doesn’t LinkedIn widget ‘Member Profile’ display?

URL, which you add, should be public. It can be configured via “public profile settings” in your Linkedin account.

I have some problems with the plugin’s work. What Information should I provide to receive proper support?

Please make sure that the problem hasn’t been discussed yet on our forum (https://support.bestwebsoft.com). If no, please provide the following data along with your problem’s description:
– The link to the page where the problem occurs
– The name of the plugin and its version. If you are using a pro version – your order number.
– The version of your WordPress installation
– Copy and paste into the message your system status report. Please read more here: Instruction on System Status

Changelog

V1.1.8 – 30.06.2021

NEW: Instagram ‘Profile URL’ button has been added.
Update : All functionality was updated for WordPress 5.7.2
Update : BWS plugins section is updated.

V1.1.7 – 12.01.2021

NEW : Ability to add Twitter Timeline has been added.
Bugfix : Button intermittently showing/not showing has been fixed.
Bugfix : The compatibility with Graph API v6.0 has been fixed.
Bugfix : The problem with “Save” button displaying on image hover has been fixed.
Bugfix : The problem with “Pin” button displaying has been fixed.
Bugfix : The bug with resizing buttons has been fixed.
Bugfix : The bug with displaying the “Save” button when hovering over an image when selecting post or page has been fixed.
Update : Widgets was removed due to a change in the linkedin API.
Update : BWS plugins section is updated.

V1.1.6 – 26.12.2019

Update : We updated all functionality for wordpress 5.3.2.
Update : Google+1 buttons were deleted.
Update : BWS plugins section is updated.

V1.1.5 – 4.09.2019

Update: The deactivation feedback has been changed. Misleading buttons have been removed.

V1.1.4 – 31.08.2018

Bugfix: Bug with incorrect Facebook buttons displaying has been fixed.
Bugfix: Bug with incorrect Facebook buttons preview has been fixed.
Bugfix: Compatibility of Facebook buttons with Graph API v2.12 has been fixed.
NEW : Ability to change Facebook buttons align has been added.
NEW : Ability to change Facebook App ID has been added.
Bugfix : Compatibility of Facebook buttons with Multilanguage plugin by BestWebSoft has been fixed.
Update : The Czech language file has been updated.
Bugfix : The bug with Google+1 plugin general settings has been fixed.
NEW : Ability to change Google badge type has been added.
Update : Deprecated Google buttons option “Annotation” has been removed.
Bugfix : The bug with incorrect saving of the Pinterest plugin settings has been fixed.
Bugfix : The bug with incorrect saving of the custom image for Pinterest “Save” button has been fixed.
Update : Pinterest “Save” button functionality to display on the pop-up images has been updated.
Bugfix : The problem with “Save” button displaying on image hover has been fixed.
Update : Pinterest “Save” button is visible when JS is disabled.
Bugfix : Pinterest plugin options removal from the database when working on a multisite network has been fixed.
Bugfix : Compatibility of Pinterest buttons with Multilanguage plugin by BestWebSoft has been fixed.
Bugfix : LinkedIn Widgets menu has been fixed.
Bugfix : LinkedIn plugin options removal from the database when working on a multisite network has been fixed.
Bugfix : Compatibility of LinkedIn buttons with Multilanguage plugin by BestWebSoft has been fixed.
Bugfix : Facebook plugin options removal from the database when working on a multisite network have been fixed.
Bugfix : The problem with Pinterest plugin option switching on network settings page has been fixed.
Bugfix : The error with saving when JS is disabled and there is no user image for Pinterest “Save” button has been fixed.
Bugfix : The notice about blank location for the Pinterest “Subscribe” and “Save” buttons has been added
Bugfix : Twitter plugin options removal from the database when working on a multisite network has been fixed.

V1.1.3 – 11.08.2017

Bugfix : Errors which appeared with buttons displaying were fixed.

V1.1.2 – 10.08.2017

Update : The plugin settings page has been updated.
NEW : Ability to choose Facebook buttons size has been added.
Update : Default Facebook button appearance has been updated.
Bugfix : Bug with incorrect My Page Facebook button link was fixed.
NEW : Ability to set custom URL for LinkedIn Share button has been added.
Update : “Pin it” button has renamed as “Save”.
Update : Pinterest deprecated option “Button color” has been removed.
NEW : Ability to set custom language for Pinterest “Save” button has been added.
NEW : Ability to use the current site language for Pinterest button (Using Multilanguage by BestWebSoft) has been added.
NEW : Ability to add several hashtags and recommended authors has been added for Twitter Hashtag button.
Update : Twitter “Follow” button appearance has been updated.

V1.1.1 – 17.04.2017

Bugfix : Multiple Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability was fixed.
NEW : Czech language file.

V1.1.0 – 14.11.2016

Update : BWS plugins section is updated.

V1.0.9 – 29.08.2016

Update : All functionality for WordPress 4.6 was updated.

V1.0.8 – 13.07.2016

NEW : The Google Badge settings were added.
Update : Images size for meta property ‘og:image’ in Facebook Button has been changed.
Bugfix : The bug with excerpt when twitter button shows up has been fixed.

V1.0.7 – 07.06.2016

NEW : Pinterest buttons and widgets were added.
NEW : LinkedIn Widgets, ‘Share’ and ‘Follow’ Buttons were added.

V1.0.6 – 23.03.2016

NEW : Ability to add custom styles.
NEW : The Google+1 Share, Google+1 Follow, Google+1 Hangout Buttons were added.
NEW : The Google+1 Badge was added.
Update : Google+1 Button options ware changed.
Bugfix : The conflict in the RSS feed was fixed.

V1.0.5 – 20.01.2016

NEW: “Hashtag”, “Mention” Twitter buttons were added.
NEW: Options for twitter buttons were added: language, size, choosen URL, tweet text, via, tailoring, count.
Update: Shortcode [follow_me] was replaced by shortcode [twitter_buttons].

V1.0.4 – 11.12.2015

Bugfix : The bug with plugin menu duplicating was fixed.

V1.0.3 – 05.11.2015

NEW : A button for Social Buttons shortcode inserting to the content was added.
Update : Textdomain was changed.
NEW : Hungarian language file.
NEW : Ability to restore settings to defaults.
NEW : We added ‘Show Faces’, ‘Button layout’, ‘Layout width’, ‘Like button action’, ‘Color scheme’ options for Facebook buttons.
Update : Ability to use the current site language for Facebook and Google+1 buttons (Using Multilanguage by BestWebSoft).
NEW : Google+1 Annotation setting is added.

V1.0.2 – 07.07.2015

Update : The language files are updated in the plugin.
Update : BWS plugins section is updated.

V1.0.1 – 26.05.2015

Update : We updated all functionality for wordpress 4.2.2.

V1.0.0 – 23.04.2015

Update : We updated all functionality for wordpress 4.1.2.