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Lightweight Social Icons
Looking to add simple social icons to your widget areas? Choose the size and color of your icons, and then choose from 47 different social profiles.
The facts
- Rating
- 4.7★ from 63
- Active installs
- 30k+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 18 Mar 2020
- Added
- Aug 2014
- Requires WP
- 4.5
- Tested up to
- WP 5.4.21
- Downloads
- 466,871
Our analysis
AI-assistedLightweight Social Icons is a WordPress plugin that provides a widget for displaying social media profile icons on your site. It allows you to customise the appearance of the icons, including size, colour, and hover effects, using an icon font.
The plugin is suitable for users who want to showcase their social media presence easily and offers a variety of icons from popular platforms. It is designed for those looking for a simple solution to enhance their website's social media integration.
Best for: This plugin suits website owners wanting to integrate social media icons without heavy customisation.
What it does well
- ✓Customisable icon size and colours
- ✓Supports a wide range of social media icons
- ✓Allows for tooltips and new window links
- ✓Easy to use widget for quick setup
- ✓Lightweight and speed optimised
Where it falls short
- •No information on support or updates beyond March 2020
- •Limited to the icons provided in the plugin
Verdict
Lightweight Social Icons offers a straightforward way to add social media icons to your site, but it may not meet the needs of users looking for extensive customisation options.
From the developer
Tom's own description of Lightweight Social Icons, lightly tidied.
Lightweight Social Icons is an easy to use, lightweight social icon widget which lets you display your favorite social profile icons.
The icons use an icon font, meaning you can choose the size, border radius (roundess), color and hover color of your icons!
Check out GeneratePress, our awesome WordPress theme! (https://wordpress.org/themes/generatepress)
Features include:
- Choose your own order
- Icon size
- Border radius
- Background color
- Text/icon color
- Background color on hover
- Text/icon color on hover
- Open links in new window
- Enable/disable tooltips
- Alignment of icons
Included icons:
- Google+
- Flickr
- RSS
- Stumbleupon
- Tumblr
- Vimeo
- YouTube
- Github
- Soundcloud
- DeviantArt
- Phone
- Skype
- Dribbble
- Foursquare
- Spotify
- Digg
- Vine
- Codepen
- Delicious
- JSFiddle
- Stack Overflow
- WordPress
- Dropbox
- Steam
- Behance
- iTunes
- Yelp
- 500px
- AngelList
- Blog Lovin’
- Paper Plane (Newsletter)
- VK
- Bandcamp
- BitBucket
- Snapchat
- Trip Advisor
- Houzz
- Mixcloud
- Last.fm
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