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Fast Social Share Buttons

Lightweight social share buttons that load only where they're used: inline, floating sidebar and mobile bar, with near-zero PageSpeed impact.

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Choose and reorder networks, with a live preview of your buttons.

Fast Social Share Buttons adds share buttons to your posts without slowing them down. Pages that don't show buttons load nothing from the plugin at all. Pages that do get a few kilobytes of CSS inlined in the page, one small deferred script that doesn't need jQuery, and an SVG sprite with only the icons you use. There are no share counts, so there are no calls to third-party APIs either.

Choose from 22 networks, including Facebook, X, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Reddit, WhatsApp, Bluesky, Threads and Mastodon, plus email, copy link, print and your phone's own share menu. Put buttons above and below your content, in a floating sidebar that appears once the in-content buttons scroll away, and in a share bar on phones, then pick the shape, colors, size and labels to match your site.

Moving from Social Warfare? Turn on compatibility and your old [social_warfare] and [clickToTweet] shortcodes keep working. Settings live under Content Powered > Fast Social Share Buttons, and updates arrive through the normal WordPress Updates screen.

Features

  • Loads only where it's used. No CSS or JavaScript on pages without share buttons.
  • Tiny footprint. Inlined CSS, a small deferred script with no jQuery, and one SVG sprite.
  • 22 networks. Including Bluesky, Threads, Mastodon, WhatsApp, SMS, copy link and the native share menu.
  • Four placements. Above and below the content, a floating sidebar and a mobile share bar, per post type.
  • Your look. Square, rounded, pill or circle buttons in brand colors, grey, outline or dark, in three sizes.
  • No share counts. No third-party API calls or tracking scripts.
  • Shortcode, block and widget. Place buttons anywhere, plus a click-to-tweet quote box.
  • Per-post control. Hide the buttons on a post, or set custom share text and a Pinterest image.
  • Social Warfare compatible. Old [social_warfare] and [clickToTweet] shortcodes keep working.
  • UTM tagging. Optionally tag shared links so social traffic is easy to spot in analytics.
  1. Click Download above to save fast-social-share-buttons.zip. Leave it zipped.
  2. In your WordPress dashboard, go to Plugins > Add New Plugin and click Upload Plugin.
  3. Choose the ZIP and click Install Now, then Activate Plugin.

To update later, upload a newer ZIP the same way. WordPress offers to replace the installed version and keeps your settings.

Will It Slow Down My Site?

It's built not to. Pages without share buttons load nothing from the plugin. Where buttons do appear, the stylesheet is a few kilobytes inlined in the page head, so there's no extra file to download; the script is small, deferred and doesn't need jQuery; and the floating sidebar and mobile bar aren't built until they're about to be shown. There are no share counts, so there are no calls to third-party APIs.

Which Networks Are Included?

Facebook, X, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Reddit, WhatsApp, Telegram, Bluesky, Threads, Mastodon, Tumblr, Hacker News, Flipboard, Buffer, VK, XING and LINE, plus SMS, email, copy link, print and your device's own share menu. Tick the ones you want and drag them into order.

Can I Switch From Social Warfare?

Yes. Turn on the Social Warfare compatibility setting and the plugin handles the [social_warfare] and [clickToTweet] shortcodes, so older posts keep their buttons and quote boxes after you deactivate Social Warfare.

How Do I Get Updates?

Through the normal WordPress Updates screen. The plugin checks our GitHub releases twice a day, and when there's a new version you can update it with one click or turn on auto-updates from the Plugins screen.

Where Are the Settings?

In your dashboard under Content Powered > Fast Social Share Buttons. If you use other Content Powered plugins, they share the same menu.

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