Title: Seed Social
Author: Seed Webs
Published: <strong>May 7, 2016</strong>
Last modified: August 6, 2024

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

![](https://ps.w.org/seed-social/assets/icon-256x256.jpg?rev=3086884)

# Seed Social

 By [Seed Webs](https://profiles.wordpress.org/seedthemes/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/seed-social.2.0.6.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/seed-social/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/seed-social/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/seed-social/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/seed-social/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/seed-social/)

## Description

Just upload this plugin to WordPress and activate it. The plugin will add social
sharing buttons under post content.

You can enable each social network and change settings via Settings  Seed Social.

Official development of Seed Social is on GitHub, with official stable releases 
published on WordPress.org. The GitHub repo can be found at https://github.com/SeedThemes/
seed-social. Please use the Support tab for potential bugs, issues, or enhancement
ideas.

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * Desktop Version
 * [[
 * Mobile Version
 * [[
 * Settings

## Installation

 1. Upload the plugin files to the `/wp-content/plugins/seed-social` directory, or 
    install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress

## FAQ

### How to disable some social networks

 * Go to Settings  Seed Social.

### Image not shown on social network / facebook post?

 * Go to Settings  Seed Social and enable Open Graph. Or use Yoast SEO / All in 
   one SEO plugin.
 * After setup, go to https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/ put your link
   and click Scrape Again button.

### How to add buttons manually in template files?

 * Add `seed_social()` function after “The Loop” in template files, such as page.
   php, single.php or archive.php.
 * `if(function_exists('seed_social')) {seed_social();}`

### How to add buttons manually in content?

 * Add this short code in the content box (Visual Editor or WYSIWYG Editor.)
 * `[seed_social]`

### Can you suggest CSS to align buttons center?

 * You can add this CSS code in Appearance  Customize  Additional CSS
 * `.seed-social {
    text-align: center; }

### Can you suggest CSS to make buttons rounded?

 * You can add this CSS code in Appearance  Customize  Additional CSS
 * `.seed-social a {
    min-width: 40px; width: 40px; height: 40px; border-radius:
   50%; } .seed-social i { width: 20px; height: 20px; background-size: 100%; } .
   seed-social span.text, .seed-social span.count { display: none; }

## Reviews

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ed32f7879f2aa62464aa227904bdde79a4fe57af6c6d5a6d9f7a67e8a24fe811?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Very good](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/very-good-7336/)󠁿

 [sw38](https://profiles.wordpress.org/swd38/) June 19, 2024

Please keep developing. Cheer!

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/67a14a50e8c84dd819c2ddf4ad8f9305c421db76f7a945f77a97407062099514?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[ใช้งานง่าย แค่ลงก็ใช้ได้เลย](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/%e0%b9%83%e0%b8%8a%e0%b9%89%e0%b8%87%e0%b8%b2%e0%b8%99%e0%b8%87%e0%b9%88%e0%b8%b2%e0%b8%a2-%e0%b9%81%e0%b8%84%e0%b9%88%e0%b8%a5%e0%b8%87%e0%b8%81%e0%b9%87%e0%b9%83%e0%b8%8a%e0%b9%89%e0%b9%84%e0%b8%94/)󠁿

 [itpeek](https://profiles.wordpress.org/itpeek/) May 21, 2019

เบามาก ใช้งานง่ายมาก สุดยอดมากครับ

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/94d70dd62e9b56f0b862fa70d81b931be8a97d1a959d4e378230411da923010a?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[ขอบคุณครับ](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/%e0%b8%82%e0%b8%ad%e0%b8%9a%e0%b8%84%e0%b8%b8%e0%b8%93%e0%b8%84%e0%b8%a3%e0%b8%b1%e0%b8%9a-2/)󠁿

 [weerachart](https://profiles.wordpress.org/weerachart/) April 11, 2018

ขอบคุณครับ

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/f6d9d98b2d89915749083f13ba9874a7a5863acedf86c5832fb3299f1aa114a6?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[This plugin deserves to be the best social plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/this-plugin-deserves-to-be-the-best-social-plugin/)󠁿

 [polamin](https://profiles.wordpress.org/polamin/) September 12, 2017

Seriously this plugin is super easy to setup one click and done. Everything you 
want finished no need to do or config anything

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/6086a436362cf318121eef67a30cf326f3a4f331db19d77b925b3a747c4a7d16?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[เรียบง่ายและใช้งานดีมาก](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/%e0%b9%80%e0%b8%a3%e0%b8%b5%e0%b8%a2%e0%b8%9a%e0%b8%87%e0%b9%88%e0%b8%b2%e0%b8%a2%e0%b9%81%e0%b8%a5%e0%b8%b0%e0%b9%83%e0%b8%8a%e0%b9%89%e0%b8%87%e0%b8%b2%e0%b8%99%e0%b8%94%e0%b8%b5%e0%b8%a1%e0%b8%b2/)󠁿

 [donuzz5](https://profiles.wordpress.org/donuzz5/) February 23, 2017

เรียบง่ายและใช้งานดีมาก ที่สำคัญคือมี Line เหมาะสำหรับผู้ใช้ในประเทศที่ใช้ Line

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/667239f7fe8b12a9404ca36515cb950530a72877215580fb80744c48332e9e15?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[ดีงาม](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/%e0%b8%94%e0%b8%b5%e0%b8%87%e0%b8%b2%e0%b8%a1-1/)󠁿

 [folkdo](https://profiles.wordpress.org/folkdo/) September 3, 2016

เจ๋งมากครับ คลีนๆ ดี ชอบ

 [ Read all 11 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/seed-social/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

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

Contributors

 *   [ Seed Webs ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/seedthemes/)
 *   [ Seed Webs ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/seedwebs/)

[Translate “Seed Social” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/seed-social)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/seed-social/), check
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/seed-social/), or subscribe
to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/seed-social/) by
[RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/seed-social/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 2.0.6

 * Date: 15 May 2024
 * Tweak: Change Twitter to X icon

#### 2.0.5

 * Date: 21 Feb 2023
 * Fix: Unable to save button text.
 * Fix: Fix “Facebook API” to be able to get count shared to show.

#### 2.0.4

 * Date: 9 Nov 2022
 * Fix: Sanitize all settings. Security issues when using unfiltered_html on multisite.

#### 2.0.3

 * Date: 7 Nov 2022
 * Fix: Sanitize Settings. Security issues when using unfiltered_html on multisite.

#### 2.0.2

 * Date: 21 Feb 2021
 * Tweak: Inline SVG instead of CSS. Make it easier to override style.
 * Fix: Remove url parameters for correct shared count

#### 2.0.1

 * Date: 18 Nov 2020
 * Tweak: Rename JS and CSS files. Make it easy for people who can’t clear cache.

#### 2.0.0

 * Date: 13 Nov 2020
 * New: Rewrite JS in Vanilla JS. No jQuery needed.
 * New: Rewrite CSS, now using SVG base64 CSS background. No icon fonts loaded.
 * New: Support Facebook Graph API v9.0. Require App ID and App Secret.

#### 1.4.0

 * New: Facebook API v2.12, will be available until May 1, 2020. (If using v3.2,
   our plugin need App ID).
 * Tweak: Remove Google Plus (Shut down on April 2, 2019).
 * Tweak: Align center on mobile.

#### 1.3.5

 * Fix: Facebook Deprecated Sharer URL.

#### 1.3.4

 * Fix: “Google Plus” Misspelled.

#### 1.3.3

 * Fix: Empty button text.

#### 1.3.2

 * Fix: Support PHP5.3

#### 1.3.1

 * New: Buttons can be disabled on any Post/Page.
 * New: Button text can be changed.
 * Tweak: Buttons CSS on bbPress topic.

#### 1.3.0

 * New: Support bbPress topic.
 * New: Change buttons CSS, easier to modify.
 * New: Example CSS in readme.
 * Tweak: Settings description.
 * Fix: Position setting disappeared if WooCommerce is not activate.
 * Fix: Support PHP7.
 * Fix: Some mobile browsers don’t close properly.

#### 1.2.9

 * New: Add CSS Classes for button positions (-top, -bottom, -product-summary, -
   product-content).
 * Tweak: Settings description.
 * Fix: Conflict with Flatsome theme.
 * Fix: Wrong WooCommerce position setting names.

#### 1.2.8

 * New: Woocommerce positions.
 * Tweak: remove Woocommerce and Seed Confirm post types.

#### 1.2.7

 * New: Google Plus share count.

#### 1.2.6

 * Fix: Close window after shared on Facebook (Mobile Chrome).

#### 1.2.6

 * New: hide on some WooCommerce pages by default. (Cart, Checkout, Account pages.)
 * Fix: Facebook has more space than others. Now we can use inline-block and align-
   center.

#### 1.2.5

 * Tweak: use post title when share to Line for mobile.
 * Tweak: use share + comment in Facebook button.

#### 1.2.4

 * Tweak: use new Facebook Graph API.

#### 1.2.3

 * Fix: use San-Serif font instead of theme font in sharing buttons.

#### 1.2.2

 * New: Positions options.
 * New: short code [seed_social].

#### 1.2.1

 * Fix: hide the buttons in archive pages.

#### 1.2.0

 * New: Post Types options.

#### 1.1.0

 * New: options page (Settings  Seed Social).

#### 1.0.0

 * Change to new FB Share URL.
 * Increase the priority to avoid conflct with Page Bullder by SiteOrigin.

#### 0.9.2

 * First public version.

## Meta

 *  Version **2.0.6**
 *  Last updated **2 years ago**
 *  Active installations **6,000+**
 *  WordPress version ** 4.5 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.6.5**
 *  PHP version ** 5.3 or higher **
 * Tags
 * [facebook](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/facebook/)[line](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/line/)
   [share](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/share/)[social](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/social/)
   [twitter](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/twitter/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/seed-social/advanced/)

## Ratings

 4.9 out of 5 stars.

 *  [  10 5-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/seed-social/reviews/?filter=5)
 *  [  1 4-star review     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/seed-social/reviews/?filter=4)
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## Contributors

 *   [ Seed Webs ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/seedthemes/)
 *   [ Seed Webs ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/seedwebs/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/seed-social/)

## Donate

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 [ Donate to this plugin ](https://seedwebs.com/)