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Social Counter

Description

Simple yet powerful tool to show social networks statistic. It supports: Facebook, Twitter and Google Plus.

Allows to customize the colors and format of the counter using visual controls in the admin panel.

Features:

  • Extremely easy set up. Copy/paste the URL of the social network. No use of API keys and tokens (more info below).
  • Fully responsive, retina ready and compatible with mobile devices.
  • Supports the 3 major social networks: Facebook, Twitter, Google+. More to come!
  • Set the order of enabled social networks.
  • Cache setting.
  • Use it as a widget and as a shortcode.
  • Practically null impact on page loads.
  • Free updates and support.
  • Import/Export settings to easily transfer configurations.
  • For feature requests, please contact us.

API keys and tokens:

This plugin does NOT require you to create any key or token to display the counter of your Facebook page, Twitter and Google Plus accounts.

The only information needed is the id, name or simply the URL of the social network, and that’s it.

Support:

Screenshots

  • Sample widget.
  • General admin.
  • Advanced admin.
  • Import/Export admin.
  • Usage panel.

Installation

  1. Go to the WordPress admin panel.
  2. Click Plugins, then Add New, then Upload Plugin.
  3. Select the downloaded zip file, install it and activate it.
  4. A new entry will appear under the Plugins main menu: Social Counter.
  5. Set options at will.
  6. Either go to the Widgets admin page, or use the shortcode on your pages, posts and any other WordPress resource.

FAQ

Will this plugin slow down my website?

No, it won’t. The plugin uses a smart cache system that stores count in the database and update it after the time set in the admin panel.

Reviews

Yune 20, 2018
This plugin works great… thanks for this plugin go ahead…
Aprailu 18, 2018
The facebook api in other plugins is very frustrating. this plugin is very easy and nice with no need for api.
Otoba 8, 2016
Very fast and customizable plugin, good work. Would be great if can add YouTube 🙂
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Contributors & Developers

“Social Counter” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

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Interested in development?

Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.

Changelog

2.0

Release date: October 8th, 2016

  • This plugin has been now acquired by Prisna Ltd.
  • Completely redesign.