WP Social Widget

February 19, 2024

WP Social Widget Plugin

A widget to add links of social networking sites.

WP Social Widget is a plugin which takes a simple, extendable approach to display links along with social icons to your social networking profiles in WordPress

You will find following widget with options:

  • Background Color
  • Background Hover Color
  • Icon Color
  • Icon Hover Color
  • Icon to circle
  • Input fields to input your social profile links

From ver 2.0.0, we also have added shortcode feature . You can use shortcode => [wpsw] to produce the social icons.
Before that you need to assign social link in the shortcode.
For example [wpsw background_color = "#ffffff" facebook="your_profile_url"]

Here are the parameters of the shortcode given below

  • background_color [default: #ffffff ]
  • background_hover_color [default: #000000 ]
  • icon_color [default: #000000 ]
  • icon_hover_color [default: #ffffff ]
  • target [default: _blank options: same as <a> tag’s target attribute ]
  • icon_circle [default: “no” | options: yes,no ]
  • title
  • facebook
  • twitter
  • behance
  • dribbble
  • flickr
  • foursquare
  • github
  • google
  • instagram
  • linkedin
  • mail
  • pinterest
  • rss
  • skype
  • soundcloud
  • stumbleupon
  • tumblr
  • vimeo
  • vine
  • vk
  • xing
  • yelp
  • youtube

Installation

  1. Download and activate the plugins
  2. Go to Appearance => Widgets
  3. Search for WP Social Widget and then add to your widget sidebar
  4. Choose the Options of your choice
  5. Input you social URL(s) in input boxes
  6. Click Save button

Or

  1. Put the plug-in folder WP Social Widget into [wordpress_dir]/wp-content/plugins/
  2. Go into the WordPress admin interface and activate the plugin
  3. Go to Appearance => Widgets, search for WP Social Widget and then add to your widget
  4. Choose the Options of your choice
  5. Input you social URL(s) in input boxes
  6. Click Save button

Have fun!!!

Screenshots

  1. 1 <strong>social icon in circle</strong>

    1 social icon in circle

  2. 2 <strong>social icon in square</strong>

    2 social icon in square

  3. 3 <strong>WP Social Widget screenshot</strong>

    3 WP Social Widget screenshot

FAQ

What does this plugin do?

  • The WP Social Widget takes a simple, extendable approach to display links and icons to your social networking profiles in WordPress.

Still have some questions ?

Please use support forum or you can directly mail us at
[email protected]

Changelog

2.2.6

change version
escaping attr in mail

2.2.5

fixes click event

2.2.4

escaping url

2.2.3

Added aria-label in a tags

2.2.2

change version

2.2.1

change version

2.2.0

Add Prefix in css to control only targeted color picker

2.1.4

Change ownership

2.1.3

Tested upto lastest WP

2.1.2

Added donation link

2.1.1

Added vk social icon(missing in shortcode)

2.1.0

change widget pool design

2.0.2

change version

2.0.1

remove target tag from mailto link

2.0.0

Added Shortcode feature
Minified CSS

1.2.1

Manage responsive column on widget setting

1.2

Fixed Box sizing issue

1.1.1

Bug fix: mail to attribute

1.1

Added target attribute to open link in new or same page

1.0.1

Bug fix : admin css path fixed

1.0

Initial version

Details

  • Version: 2.2.6
  • Active installations: 6,000
  • WordPress Version: 2.8
  • Tested up to: 6.4.5

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