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Social Share Buttons documentation

Setting it up, and how each part works: 14 sections, free to read before you buy.

  1. Getting startedInstall and activate the plugin, then open Social Share Buttons in the WordPress menu.
  2. Multisite networksNetwork-activate it and every site gets its own settings and its own share counts — nothing is shared between them.
  3. Choosing networksNetworks → Available Networks.
  4. How the buttons lookNetworks → Style.
  5. DisplayDisplay → Positions.
  6. Translated sitesWith WPML or Polylang, the words you type on the Networks screen (the heading, the copy confirmation, the X username, and the AI assistants' prompt and heading) can be…
  7. Turning them off for one postTo keep Social Share Buttons off one post, open it and tick Hide share buttons on this post in the Share buttons box in the editor's sidebar.
  8. Placing them yourselfIn the block editor, add the Share Buttons block wherever you want the buttons.
  9. Follow buttonsThe share buttons let a reader pass a page on.
  10. Counting sharesNetworks → Share Counts.
  11. Open Graph tagsNetworks → Open Graph Tags.
  12. Speed and privacyOne stylesheet and one script, together about 6KB as a browser downloads them (minified and compressed), loaded only on pages that actually show buttons and only after the page…
  13. Moving your settings to another sitePlacement → Import / Export.
  14. An admin without page loadsMoving between the plugin's screens does not reload the page, and neither does saving.

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