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WP Social Widget

by catchsquare

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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:

  • 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
  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!!!

  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

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

good but old

By sarcasius on March 27, 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.

Simple, clean, social icons

By mikefinestcity on April 30, 2019

I love these social icons on my landing page. They're simple and elegant. Just what I was looking for.

conflict with color box

By intuitiveagencia on February 1, 2018

nice view of the social icon but your plugin is in conflict with de color box #hexa of wordpress clic for the conflict

So Simple, So Custom!

By mynerdywebguy on July 22, 2017

This widget is a thing of beauty! I put it on any websites that might care to share =)

Simple and Elegant

By subashkc1 on July 9, 2017

Really helped me with one of my personal projects, very clear instructions and examples and easy to configure.

Best

By wanbli77 on October 12, 2016

Best

Simple & cool

By zamaan on September 3, 2016

Thanks for the nice little plugin. 5 star given for your hard work.

Awesome Plugin

By Kanchha Kaji Prajapati on September 3, 2016

This plugin has awesome features and works really well.
Well done!

Really Useful

By rubalcrest (RubalShrestha) on September 3, 2016

A very useful plugin for adding links to social networks with proper options in the back end. Thumbs up for you guys. !!!

Great plugin

By Sudeep Balchhaudi (meissudeep) on September 3, 2016

Really an awesome plugin.
Great Work guys, Exactly the type of plugin I was looking for. working like a charm for me.

2.3.1

escaping attr

2.3

Added nonce in widget form

2.2.8

escaping attr

2.2.7

change version
escaping attr in mail

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

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