Social Media Share Buttons – Socialized

An example of the social media sharing buttons being displayed vertically along the left side of the post content.

An example of the social media sharing buttons being displayed veritcally along the right side of the post content.

An example of the social media sharing buttons being displayed horizontally across the top of the post content.

An example of the social media sharing buttons being displayed horizontally across the bottom of the post content.

The default appearance of the social media sharing buttons using images. There is no hover state.

The default appearance of the social media sharing buttons using FontAwesome icons. When active, focused, or hovering over a button, the icon animates to be rounded. E.g. the Bluesky button. Title attributes offer accessibility.

The default appearance of the social media sharing buttons as text links. When active, focused, or hovering over a button, the button animates the background and text colors to swap.

The Socialized plugin metabox when creating/editing a post. This screenshot shows it with [Gutenberg] Blocks enabled but it is also compatible with Classic WordPress.

The display settings allows you to control where you want the buttons to display in regards to the content, what type of button to use, and whether or not you want to load FontAwesome.

The Sharing Platforms settings allows you to individually disable or enable the sharing buttons.

The Link Tracking settings allows you to customize the <code>utm_campaign</code> parameter and other related settings.

The Advanced Settings allows you to address a known bug with sticky elements, whether to use the shortlinks, and define which post types to apply this functionality to.

The backend also features a list of all sharable items and their current analytics if you don't have an external one being used.

The about page in the backend.

If adding the plugin to an existing site, this button will generate shortlinks for all of those posts. Also useful if modifying which post types to apply this to.

Acquisition report in Google Analytics identifies sources of traffic from the people that arrived by clicking on links shared by users on their respective platforms. Traditionally, when people share the default URL or permalink, this traffic goes untracked.