=== Social Linkz - Lightweight and fast social media sharing plugin ===
Author: kaizencoders
Contributors: kaizencoders, mikeatkaizencoders
Author URI: https://www.kaizencoders.com
Plugin URI: http://wordpress.org/plugins/social-linkz/
Tags: sharing, social share, social media, share icons, share buttons
Requires at least: 5.0.0
Tested up to: 7.1
Stable tag: 1.9.1
Requires PHP: 5.6
License: GPL-3.0+
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses

Social Linkz plugin helps you easily share your content to social media.

== Description ==

Social Linkz is a simple, fast, and lightweight social sharing plugin. Add share buttons to your posts and pages, pick the networks you want, match them to your theme, and get back to writing.

=== Features ===

* **Light.** Inline SVG icons — no icon fonts, no third-party libraries, and nothing loaded on pages that have no share buttons on them.
* **Quick to set up.** One settings screen, no admin menu clutter. Switch on inline sharing, choose your networks, done.
* **Yours to style.** Button style, shape, size, alignment, layout, button and icon colours, hover colours and spacing.
* **Drag to reorder.** Arrange the networks in the order you want them shown.
* **Built for the block editor.** A Social Linkz Share block with its own design controls, and a `[social_linkz]` shortcode for everywhere else.
* **Short links.** Every share URL is shortened automatically when [URL Shortify](https://wordpress.org/plugins/url-shortify/) is installed.

=== What the free plugin does ===

* Inline share buttons on any post type you choose
* Facebook and X share buttons
* Social Linkz Share block for the block editor
* `[social_linkz]` shortcode
* Design controls: button style, layout, alignment, size, shape, button colour, button hover colour, icon colour, icon hover colour, inverse on hover and button spacing
* Compatible with the Gutenberg editor

=== List of platforms supported in the free plugin ===

* Facebook share button
* X (Twitter) share button

The premium plugin adds Buffer, Copy Link, Email, Flipboard, Hacker News, Line, LinkedIn, Mastodon, Messenger, Mix, Pinterest, Pocket, Print, Reddit, SMS, Subscribe, Telegram, Threads, Tumblr, VK, WhatsApp, Xing and Yummly — 25 share networks in all.

If there are any important social share networks not covered yet, please let us know!

In case of issues or questions please ask in the [Support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/social-linkz).

=== Premium Features ===

The free plugin already covers everyday sharing. The Premium plugin adds the places to share from, and the control over how it all looks:

* **23 more share networks** — Buffer, Copy Link, Email, Flipboard, Hacker News, Line, LinkedIn, Mastodon, Messenger, Mix, Pinterest, Pocket, Print, Reddit, SMS, Subscribe, Telegram, Threads, Tumblr, VK, WhatsApp, Xing and Yummly.
* **Floating share bar** — a rail down the side of the page on desktop that becomes a bar along the bottom on mobile. Left or right, screen and top offsets, show-on-scroll with a pixel or percentage threshold, and its own mobile breakpoint.
* **Highlight Share** — share buttons appear over any text a reader selects, confined to the post content so a selection in a menu or a comment does not trigger them.
* **Click to Post** — `[social_linkz_post tweet="..."]` renders a pull quote that shares itself, in three themes with an accent colour of your choosing.
* **Per-post settings** — override the share title and image, or switch off the inline buttons, the floating bar or highlight sharing, for a single post.
* **Placement control** — put the inline buttons above the content, below it, both, or nowhere at all and place them yourself with the shortcode. Show them in feeds. Hide them above or below a mobile breakpoint.
* **More design options** — Inverse, Bordered Label, Bordered Button, Minimal Label and Minimal button styles; Rounded and Circular shapes; one to six column layouts; button labels, optionally hidden on mobile.
* **Any post type** — show share buttons on the custom post types your site registers, not just posts and pages.
* **Accounts** — your X and Mastodon handles for `via @you` credit, a Facebook app ID for Messenger sharing, and a Subscribe link.
* Premium support

=== Integrations ===

> ➡️ [URL Shortify](https://wordpress.org/plugins/url-shortify)
> Social Linkz integrates with URL Shortify to generate short links and share it on different social networks.

Do you want us to integrate your WordPress plugin with Social Linkz❓❓❓ [Let us know](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/social-linkz/). We would love to integrate your WordPress plugins. We will check the possibility of integration and if it matches, we will integrate your plugins too.

=== Translations ===

Does Social Linkz speak your language? If not, [translate “Social Linkz” into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/social-linkz/).

=== DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS/ FEEDBACK/ FEATURE REQUEST/ BUG REPORT❓===

Feel free to create a ticket [here](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/social-linkz/). We love to communicate with you and reply to all your queries.

=== Spread The Word ❤️ ===

If you like Social Linkz, please leave us a [⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/social-linkz/reviews/#new-post) review and also spread the word about it via Facebook and Twitter. That helps fellow website owners assess Social Linkz easily and benefit from it!

=== What's Next ===

If you like this plugin then consider checking out our other solutions:

[URL Shortify](https://wordpress.org/plugins/url-shortify/) - Simple, Powerful and Easy URL Shortener Plugin For WordPress.

> URL Shortify helps you beautify, manage, and share any URL on or off of your WordPress website. Create links that look how you want using your domain name! It’s a Simple, Easy & Elegant self hosted alternative to Bitly, TinyURL, Cuttly, Pretty Links, URL Shortener By My Theme Shop, Rebrandly, BL.Link, Short.io, and many other SaaS URL Shortener services.

[Zapify](https://wordpress.org/plugins/zapify/) - Automate WordPress in one sentence: when this happens, do this.

> A self hosted alternative to Zapier and Make. Pick a trigger — an order completes, a form is submitted — pick an action, and Zapify runs it on your own server. 23 free triggers and 18 free actions, incoming and outgoing webhooks, a visual builder, and run logs that show you exactly what happened. No per-task pricing and no monthly quotas.

[Magic Link](https://wordpress.org/plugins/magic-link/)

> Simple, Easy and Secure one click login for WordPress. No more passwords, no more lost passwords, no more password resets. Just one click login.

[Update URLs](https://wordpress.org/plugins/update-urls/) - Quick and Easy way to search old links and replace them with new links in WordPress.

> If you move your WordPress website to a new domain name, you will find that internal links to pages and references to images are not updated. Instead, these links and references will point to your old domain name. Update URLs fixes that problem by helping you change old urls and links in your website.

[Logify](https://wordpress.org/plugins/logify/)

> Simple & Easy to use activity log plugin for monitor & record system changes

== Installation ==

**The easy way..**

1. Go to WordPress Dashboard. Locate Plugins -> Add New
2. Search **Social Linkz** plugin using the search option
3. Find the plugin and click Install Now button
4. After installation, click on Activate Plugin link to activate the plugin.

**The hard way..**

1. Download the plugin [social-linkz.zip](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugins/social-linkz.zip)
2. Go to WordPress Dashboard. Locate Plugins -> Add New
3. Click on the Upload Plugin link from the top
4. Upload the downloaded **social-linkz.zip** file and click on Install Now
5. After installation, click on Activate Plugin link to activate the plugin.

== Screenshots ==

1. Inline Sharing Options

2. Display Settings

3. Design Settings

4. Share Counts [PRO]

5. Call To Action [PRO]

== Upgrade Notice ==

= 1.9.1 =

* Fixes the Enable Floating Bar and Enable Highlight Share switches, which were drawn on top of their own description, and the Social Networks pickers on those two tabs, which could not be selected. Recommended for PRO users.
* Fix: The Enable Floating Bar and Enable Highlight Share switches were drawn on top of their own description. The switch field printed the description inside the element the track and the knob are positioned against, which pushed the track onto a second line and left the knob sitting over the text. **PRO**
* Fix: Social Networks could not be selected on the Floating Bar and Highlight Share tabs. Every tab is rendered into the page at once, and all three tabs gave their network checkboxes the same ids, so clicking a network on either tab silently toggled the matching one on Inline Content instead. **PRO**

== Changelog ==

= 1.9.1 - 2026-09-09 =

* Fix: The Enable Floating Bar and Enable Highlight Share switches were drawn on top of their own description. The switch field printed the description inside the element the track and the knob are positioned against, which pushed the track onto a second line and left the knob sitting over the text. **PRO**
* Fix: Social Networks could not be selected on the Floating Bar and Highlight Share tabs. Every tab is rendered into the page at once, and all three tabs gave their network checkboxes the same ids, so clicking a network on either tab silently toggled the matching one on Inline Content instead. **PRO**

= 1.9.0 - 2026-08-29 =

* New: Floating share bar. A rail down the side of the page on desktop that becomes a bar along the bottom on mobile, with show-on-scroll, breakpoints, alignment and offsets, and a per-post opt-out. **PRO**
* New: Highlight Share. Share buttons appear over any text a reader selects, confined to the post content so a selection in a menu or a comment does not trigger them. **PRO**
* New: Click to Post. `[social_linkz_post tweet="..."]` renders a pull quote that shares itself, in three themes with an accent colour. The character budget is measured against what X actually counts, and a quote that has to be shortened is cut on a word boundary. **PRO**
* New: Per-post settings. Override the share title and image, or switch off the inline buttons, the floating bar or highlight sharing, for a single post. **PRO**
* New: Accounts settings for the X and Mastodon handles, the Facebook app ID and the Subscribe link. The share links have always read these, but nothing ever wrote them, so `via=`, Messenger and the Subscribe button were silently never configured.
* New: `[social_linkz]` shortcode. The "Don't Add To Content (Shortcode)" button position has always named a shortcode that was never registered, so choosing it switched the buttons off with no way to put them back.
* New: Social Linkz screens carry their own footer, with the plugin name, version, the KaizenCoders signature and quick links, in place of the WordPress credit line and the core version nag. WordPress's own footer is left untouched everywhere else.
* New: Campaign-driven upgrade banner for free users. One offer at a time, shown only once share buttons are actually switched on and the plugin has been installed long enough to have been useful, and dismissible per campaign per user.
* Update: Other Products has moved out of Tools to a menu item of its own. Plugin names, icons and descriptions now come from WordPress.org rather than a hardcoded list, and Install, Activate and Deactivate happen on the screen instead of sending you to the plugin installer.
* Update: Removed the Tools screen. Other Products was the only thing on it, and it was reachable by any subscriber.
* Update: .POT file.

= 1.8.10 =

* Update: WordPress 7.1 compatibility.

= 1.8.9 =

* Update: WordPress 6.8.2 compatibility.

= 1.8.8 =

* Update: WordPress 6.8.1 compatibility.

= 1.8.7 =

* Update: WordPress 6.7.1 compatibility.

= 1.8.6 =

* Fix: Add Gutenberg Block Social for Social Share.
* New: Add Assets.
* Update: .POT file

= 1.8.5.1 =

* Fix: Integration issue.
* Update: Plugin Assets.

= 1.8.5 =

* New: Generate Short URL using URL Shortify.
* Update: .POT file

= 1.8.4.1 =

* Fix: Network sortable issue.
* Fix: Color picker issue.
* Fix: Loading of dashboard issue.
* Update: .POT file.

= 1.8.4 =

* Fix: Loading of dashboard issue.
* Update: .POT file.

= 1.8.3 =

* Fix: Color picker issue.

= 1.8.2 =

* Fix: Social Network button color issue.
* New: Additional Social networks.
* New: Add additional button styles.
* New: Add additional button layouts.
* Update: .POT file.

= 1.8.1 =

* Add: Additional social sharing settings for display & design.
* Add: Add 20+ social sharing options. **PRO**
* Add: Add call to actions. **PRO**
* Add: Add social share count. **PRO**
* Update: .POT file.

= 1.8.0 =

* Add: Admin settings panel.
* Add: Facebook & Twitter share.
* Update: Remove dependency of other frameworks.
* Update: Security Enhancements.
* Update: .POT file.
* Update: WordPress 6.6.2 compatibility.