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WP Social Widget

Description

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:

  • Dath cúil
  • 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

Screenshots

  • 1 social icon in circle
  • 2 social icon in square
  • 3 WP Social Widget screenshot

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

  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!!!

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
wearecatchsquare@gmail.com

Reviews

27 Márta, 2020
Its a good plugin I like it. simple but the logos are the old versions. There are no different types of Facebook logos, instagram and youtube are old logos, and when you change colors it will not show on my wordpress version. Give it a boost please.
9 Deireadh an tSamhraidh, 2017
Really helped me with one of my personal projects, very clear instructions and examples and easy to configure.
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Contributors & Developers

“WP Social Widget” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

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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