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Posts Social Shares Count
Plugin that gives you shortcodes and PHP functions to count posts/pages shares on 6 social networks!
The facts
- Rating
- 3.7★ from 6
- Active installs
- 300+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 24 Nov 2015
- Added
- Sep 2014
- Requires WP
- 2.5.0
- Tested up to
- WP 4.3.34
- Downloads
- 7,868
Our analysis
AI-assistedPosts Social Shares Count is a WordPress plugin that allows you to display the number of shares for posts on various social media platforms. You can retrieve share counts using built-in PHP functions or shortcodes, making it easy to integrate into your site. This plugin is suitable for users who want to track and display social media engagement for their content.
Best for: This plugin is best for WordPress users looking to display social media share counts on their posts.
What it does well
- ✓Free to use from the WordPress.org directory
- ✓Provides share counts for multiple social media platforms
- ✓Supports both PHP functions and shortcodes for flexibility
- ✓Allows tracking of shares on Facebook, Pinterest, LinkedIn, and more
Where it falls short
- •Last updated in November 2015, which may affect compatibility
- •Limited to counting shares on specific platforms only
- •No support for Twitter share counts due to API changes
Verdict
Posts Social Shares Count offers a straightforward solution for tracking social media shares, but its age and limited platform support may be a concern for some users.
From the developer
Bishoy.A's own description of Posts Social Shares Count, lightly tidied.
About
You can use this plugin to get the number of shares for a given post by ID.
How to use
To count for example how many times the post or page has been shared on Facebook use the function echo pssc_facebook() in the loop or echo pssc_facebook( $post_id ) anywhere. This function will return the count integer for example 5 or 0.
Or you can use the shortcode [pssc_facebook] in the post you want to count shares for or [pssc_facebook post_id=””] for a specific post by ID.
Available Shortcodes
- [pssc_facebook]
- [pssc_pinterest]
- [pssc_linkedin]
- [pssc_delicious]
- [pssc_stumble]
- [pssc_gplus]
- [pssc_all]
Available Functions
- pssc_facebook()
- pssc_pinterest()
- pssc_linkedin()
- pssc_delicious()
- pssc_stumble()
- pssc_gplus()
- pssc_all()
Note that PHP functions needs to be echoed.
Change Log
- Version 1.4.1: Removed Twitter functions due Twitter’s disabling their count API.
- Version 1.4.0: Fixed some bugs and added Posts Social Shares Count to edit posts/pages/custom post types list view in admin (edit.php).
- Version 1.3.1: Fixed a bug with caching.
- Version 1.3: Added caching support and Added total shares count to post edit page.
- Version 1.2: Fixed a bug with functions without post ID usage.
- Version 1.1: Fixed a bug with pssc_all shortcode
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