Social Butterfly: Sleek Social Media Sharing Plugin for WordPress
Social Butterfly is a sleek and attractive social media sharing plugin for WordPress, offering users a unique, compact and enticing way to share your content. The plugin is lightweight, secure, and allows for easy integration above and below content on all posts (customizable in plugin settings) as well as simple post override settings (ex: show or hide social butterfly on individual posts).
Demo
Hover, click and share!
Documentation
Social Butterfly makes it so easy for admins to use, it should have been called Simple Butterfly! Once the plugin has been installed and activated, simply navigate to the plugin settings page (accessible from Settings > Social Butterfly or the Settings link on the plugins admin page under the Social Butterfly plugin) and then:
1) Select the networks you would like to include.
2) Customize style settings.
3) Select whether to include Social Butterfly automatically on all posts above the content, below the content, or both.
Note: Social Butterfly allows you to override these default display settings on individual post edit pages. Selecting the “Override all individual post settings with these new settings” option here will override all custom post settings. If you want to maintain your existing post override settings (for example, to hide Social Butterfly on certain posts) then *do not select this option*.
Custom Post Settings
Let’s say you want to include the plugin on all your posts except for a couple. Maybe your “Terms of Use” is a post and you don’t really want to include Social Butterfly here. The best way to do this is to set your default options on the plugin settings page to include Social Butterfly on all posts, then override this setting on the individual posts where you don’t want Social Butterfly to be included:
1) Navigate to the edit page of the post.
2) Select “Override default settings on this post”. Checking this box will enable the options below.
3) Set Social Butterfly to show or not show on this particular post.
4) Save your post. That’s all!
Download
Free from WordPress.org: https://wordpress.org/plugins/social-butterfly
Source Code
GitHub: https://github.com/website101/Social-Butterfly
Version Info
Upcoming Features
Social Butterfly has just emerged from its cacoon. We’re working hard on adding new and exciting features including:
- Resizable. Make social butterfly bigger for more impact.
- Support for pages. Include Social Butterfly on pages as well as posts.
- More Networks! Tell us which networks you want to see.
- Suggest a feature. Let us know what you’d like to see in Social Butterfly.
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Bug Reports & Feedback
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Dude, really cool plugin, but we need to be able to change the color!
It’s listed as an upcoming feature, but in the meantime, you can edit the plugin CSS easily! That’s what I did.
Can I ask how you changed the color? I need specific instructions, I am new to CSS editing:)
Thanks!
Mark
Hey Mark, thanks for checking out the plugin!
We’ve just released version 1.07 which allows you to easily change the colors right from the settings page!
Thanks, and as always, let us know if you have any more questions or feature requests!
LOVE this widget, thank you! One idea which might be cool: what if the widget ‘slides’ out instead of snapping out? Not really a new feature or function.. just a little touch.. thanks again!
Cool. Social Butterfly looks like a neat addition to my WordPress site. I can’t lie… using WP has been a lifesaver. One of the best places to start learning web 101.
Really cool plugin. One thing that concerns me is more visual feedback is required when facebook link is clicked.
I’m anxious to use this, but I’d like to customize the app to have OTHER sites too. Great plugin though.
Sleek and well-designed plugin, Neil! Looks great on my site and can’t wait for the updates you are adding to make it even more social.
Does exactly as advertised – thank you. Shortcode?
Dear SB Team:
We love this plugin and are planning to use it. Two quick questions:
1) I know we can change the color but can we also change the font used for the word SHARE?
2) is there a way to add a share by email icon?
Many many thanks!!
jessica
Doesn’t work on Pages, wish it did so I could use it!
wow so beautiful social butons thanks you so much for sharing :”D