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NewLightweight social share buttons and follow icons with blocks, shortcodes, floating and mobile bars, and private local click stats.
ShareLane - Social Share & Follow Buttons — Fast, private social share buttons and follow icons. No trackers, no jQuery, no external requests.
ShareLane adds clean, accessible share buttons and follow icons to your WordPress site without loading a single third-party script. Share links simply open the network's own share page, so there are no tracking pixels, no external fonts and no cookies.
Place buttons before or after your content, as a floating side bar or as a bottom bar on phones. Style them with four looks, three shapes and three sizes, check the result in a live preview, and reorder the networks with one click. Everything is also available as Gutenberg blocks, shortcodes and theme template tags.
Automatic placement. On the Share buttons tab choose the post types and switch on "Before content", "After content", "Floating side bar" and/or "Mobile bottom bar". Buttons appear on single posts and pages of the selected types.
Blocks. In the editor add "Share Buttons" or "Follow Icons" from the Widgets category. The block settings override your global design for that one block. If you place a block manually, the automatic buttons are not added a second time on that page.
Shortcodes. [sharelane], [sharelane networks="x,facebook" style="outline" shape="circle" size="l" labels="0" heading="Share this"] and [sharelane_follow networks="instagram,youtube" size="l"]. Attributes: networks, style (solid, outline, soft, minimal), shape (square, rounded, circle), size (s, m, l), color (brand, mono, custom), labels (1 or 0), heading, align (start, center, end).
Theme template tags. <?php sharelane_share_buttons(); ?> and <?php sharelane_follow_icons(); ?>. Both accept an array of the same options as the shortcode.
Hide buttons on one post. Edit the post and tick "Hide share buttons on this post" in the ShareLane box.
Click statistics. Switch on "Count share clicks locally" in the Behaviour & privacy section of the Share buttons tab. The Stats tab then lists your most shared posts and how often each network was used. Counts are plain numbers stored in post meta. No IP address or personal data is saved. A visitor is limited to one count per post and network every 30 seconds.
sharelane-social-share), organised in namespaced PHP classesreadme.txt in WordPress.org format, a full HTML documentation page in docs/ and a CHANGELOG.mdlicense.txt (GNU GPL v2) and a translation template in languages/The gallery shows the plugin running on a private test site ("Fieldnotes") with sample posts and sample statistics, not a public demo. There is no hosted live demo for this plugin.
Third-party product and network names mentioned are trademarks of their respective owners. This plugin is an independent product and is not affiliated with or endorsed by them.
Additional package and setup details from the author. The purchase options and marketplace license terms govern your order.
The plugin source is licensed under the GNU General Public License v2 or later (see license.txt), as for every WordPress plugin. What you buy here is the packaged, supported release: the download, updates published on this listing and author support through the marketplace.
These marketplace licence terms describe who the support and update entitlement covers. They do not take away the rights the GPL grants you.
Tags: Social Share Share Buttons Follow Icons Social Media Gutenberg Lightweight GDPR
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Common questions about this listing.
No. The buttons are plain links that open each network's own share page when clicked. There are no tracking pixels, external scripts or web fonts, which also keeps your page fast and simplifies GDPR work.
No. The front-end script is small vanilla JavaScript and only loads on pages where buttons are shown.
No. The networks removed their public count APIs. ShareLane offers optional local click totals so you can see how often your own visitors used each button.
Automatically before or after the content, as a floating bar at the left or right edge, as a bottom bar on phones, with the Gutenberg block, with a shortcode or in your theme with a template tag.
Yes. Tick the networks you want and use the arrows to set the order. The live preview on the Design tab follows your choices.
Yes. Automatic placement and shortcodes work with any editor. Page builders that offer a shortcode or HTML widget can use [sharelane].
Tick "Hide share buttons on this post" in the ShareLane box on the edit screen.
Every button is a real link with a text label (or an accessible name when labels are hidden), has a visible keyboard focus state and respects the reduced-motion preference.
Yes. The markup is the same for every visitor. Click statistics are sent with a small background request that is not cached.
Yes. Text is wrapped for translation and a ShareLane .pot file is included in the languages folder.
By default the settings and statistics are removed on deletion. You can keep them by switching off "Delete all ShareLane data when the plugin is deleted" on the Follow icons tab. Deactivating never deletes anything.
The icons are simplified original drawings, not official logos. Network names are trademarks of their owners and ShareLane is not affiliated with or endorsed by any of them.
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Current v1.0.0
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Camille Broussard Reviewed v1.0.0
Added this to a content site that needed share buttons and follow icons without loading a third-party script. The floating side bar, the mobile bottom bar, and the Gutenberg blocks cover the placements I use. Click counts stay in the local leaderboard, which mattered more to me than a flashy network. About 10 KB of CSS and JS, and no jQuery.
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