Social Media Shortcodes
Registers shortcodes for your posts, pages, or post types that display user profile links to various social media websites.
5(2 reviews)
·30 active installs·Updated 6 months agoAs of April 2026, Social Media Shortcodes is a WordPress shortcodes plugin with 30 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 2 reviews. It has been downloaded 9.4K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.2+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Top alternative: Column Shortcodes.
5/52 reviews
30active installs
9.4K+total downloads
14 yearssince 2012
Overview
This plugin registers shortcodes for the following websites, social service on the left, format for the shortcode on the right:
Service / shortcode version
- Blogger [blogger]
- BookHype [bookhype]
- Colourlovers [colourlovers]
- DeviantArt [deviantart]
- Digg [digg]
- Dribbble [dribbble]
- Etsy [etsy]
- Facebook [facebook]
- Flickr [flickr]
- Flipboard [flipboard]
- GitHub [github]
- Goodreads [goodreads]
- HackerNews [hackernews]
- IMDb [imdb]
- Instagram [instagram]
- Last.FM [lastfm]
- LinkedIn [linkedin]
- Myspace [myspace]
- Patreon [patreon]
- Pinterest [pinterest]
- Reddit [reddit]
- Slideshare [slideshare]
- SpaceHey [spacehey]
- Soundcloud [soundcloud]
- TikTok [tiktok]
- Twitch [twitch]
- Twitter [twitter]
- Vimeo
- X [x]
- Yelp [yelp]
- YouTube
All examples updated for v1.1
Example 1:
[twitter name="JoeSomeone" text="some text you wa…Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 5.2+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | 5.6+ required |
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.3.2
- Updated: Link text escaping for security issues.
Contributors
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