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Jamie Social Icons
Share your posts & pages with your favourite social sites - Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus, Pinterest And LinkedIn and now trackable with your Goo …
The facts
- Rating
- 4.4★ from 7
- Active installs
- 200+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 2 Apr 2013
- Added
- Mar 2012
- Requires WP
- 3.1
- Tested up to
- WP 3.5.2
- Downloads
- 38,503
Our analysis
AI-assistedJamie Social Icons is a WordPress plugin that allows you to add social media sharing icons to your posts and pages. You can choose from various platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Google Plus, and LinkedIn, and display these icons either automatically or manually using shortcodes or template code.
This plugin is suitable for users who want to enhance their site's social sharing capabilities and track interactions through Google Analytics and Facebook Insights. It is particularly useful for bloggers and content creators looking to increase their visibility and engagement on social media.
Best for: This plugin suits bloggers and content creators looking to enhance social sharing on their WordPress sites.
What it does well
- ✓Allows addition of social icons at top or bottom of posts/pages
- ✓Supports multiple social platforms including Facebook and Twitter
- ✓Integration with Google Analytics for tracking interactions
- ✓Shortcode and template code options for flexibility
- ✓Ability to align icons and add text before them
Where it falls short
- •Last updated in April 2013, may lack support for newer WordPress versions
- •Limited to the specified social media platforms
- •Future updates are still in progress
Verdict
Jamie Social Icons provides basic functionality for adding social sharing options but may require attention due to its age and limited updates.
From the developer
martiniboy's own description of Jamie Social Icons, lightly tidied.
Show social icons at the top or bottom of post/page or adding the Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Google Plus and Linkedin buttons manually.
This plugin allows you to add the social share icons on your page and/or post. You can choose which social icons to show on the options page from a choice of FACEBOOK’s Facebook like/Facebook recommend, GOOGLE’s Google Plus, TWITTER’s Tweet this, PINTEREST’s pin this and LINKEDIN’s share on Linked in. Get your wordpress site found by the search engines by letting your readers share it with there social friends/followers – expose your site to more people will result in more viewers.
Track the social interaction with the social icons within your google anlaytics. To see which posts/pages are bring your site the most traffic
Now with Integration with Facebook insights to be able to track all inetegration with your website and Facebook click here to find out more
Features
- Choose to show automatically at the top and/or bottom of each post and or page or manually with the shortcode or template code
- You can add
<?php echo get_jamie_social_code(); ?>in template to show automatically on selected template - TinyMCE : Button integration for easy adding the social icons to specific posts/page/custom posts which addds shortcode
- Shortcode – manullay add shortcode to post
[jamiesocial] - Integration With Google Analytics
- Integration with Facebook Insights
- Ability to align the icons to the left, center or right
- Ability to add text before the icons
- In the process of creating ability to Localize the plugin
Future Updates/Work In Progress
- Ability to add automatically to CPT
- Add automatically to blog feed/excerpt page
- Add StumbleUpon
For more detailed instructions and any other requests click here
Tagged as
purpose
Analytics & Tracking
topic
Social Media & Feeds
Facebook
Twitter
Linkedin
Google Plus
Social
Social Icons
Google
Share
Pinterest
feature
Shortcodes
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