CollectSocials puts your social posts and customer reviews on your WordPress\nsite, in a design you control. You build a feed once in the hosted CollectSocials\nstudio, paste its id and embed token into Settings \u2192 CollectSocials, and place it\nanywhere with a block or a shortcode.<\/p>\n\n
What sets it apart is how little the page waits on. On a schedule you choose, the\nplugin copies each feed's posts, its design and the renderer script into your own\nsite, and from then on serves every page view from your own domain. Nothing on\nthe page calls out to CollectSocials, no view counter ticks down, and the feed\nstill renders on the day a social network has an outage. The photos and videos\nare the one exception, and worth stating plainly: those are still served by the\nsocial network from its own CDN \u2014 as they are in every plugin of this kind \u2014 so\nduring an outage you keep the layout, the captions and the links, and the\npictures are the part that can go missing.<\/p>\n\n
A single feed can mix as many of these as your plan allows:<\/p>\n\n
Feeds are assembled in the CollectSocials studio from three layers (layout, card\ntemplate and theme) across 40 layouts, including grid, masonry, carousel\nand mosaic. Colours, fonts, spacing, borders,\nheaders and separate mobile styling are all editable. The plugin then renders the\ndesign you published through the same renderer a hosted embed uses, so there is\nno second set of styles to keep in sync inside your theme.<\/p>\n\n
Worth being plain about, because it is unusual: all 16 themes, the theme builder\nand every built-in card template are on the free plan. Styling is not the part we\nhold back. Layouts are where free stops \u2014 it covers seven of the 40 (grid, list,\ncarousel, masonry, mosaic, slider and stagger) and paid plans open the rest.<\/p>\n\n
Three sources, a daily refresh, all 16 themes plus the theme builder, seven of\nthe 40 layouts, every built-in card template, and unlimited plugin-served views.\nBecause the plugin serves feeds from your own site, page\nviews never count against a quota \u2014 a busy WordPress site can stay on the free\nplan indefinitely. Every platform listed above is available on free except X\n(Twitter)<\/strong>, which is premium. Paid plans (Pro, Business, Scale) add the\nremaining layouts, the custom card builder, more sources, a faster refresh and\nhigher limits. There is nothing to buy inside WordPress: the\nplugin is free and works with whichever plan your account is on, and upgrades\nhappen on collectsocials.com.<\/p>\n\n New posts are collected upstream on your CollectSocials plan's schedule \u2014 daily\non the free plan. The plugin re-syncs that cached data on the WordPress interval\nyou pick: hourly, twice daily or daily. It defaults to twice daily rather than\ndaily because the photos and videos in a feed are served by the social networks\nthemselves, from links that expire after a day or two. A sync does not mint new\nlinks \u2014 it copies whatever was collected upstream \u2014 but the shorter interval\nmeans your site starts serving newly collected links sooner, instead of holding\na day-old copy of them. Syncing more often than your plan collects simply\nre-reads the same data, so this is not a real-time feed, and we would rather say\nso here than have you find out later.<\/p>\n\n The same CollectSocials account powers embeds on any website, so a feed you build\nfor WordPress works wherever else you need it.<\/p>\n\n How it works \/ data disclosure:<\/strong> this plugin connects to your CollectSocials\naccount (collectsocials.com) using the feed id + embed token you paste into\nSettings \u2192 CollectSocials. On the schedule you choose it downloads your feed's\nposts and design into this site's database, and a copy of the widget renderer\nscript into your uploads folder, then serves every page view locally. No visitor\ndata is sent to CollectSocials, and no part of a page load calls CollectSocials.\nThe images and videos inside a feed are the exception every social feed plugin\nshares: they are hosted by the social network and load from its CDN, so a\nvisitor's browser does request those files from that network. A free\nCollectSocials account is required: https:\/\/collectsocials.com\/?ref=wordpress\nThe service's terms of use are at https:\/\/collectsocials.com\/terms-of-service and\nits privacy policy is at https:\/\/collectsocials.com\/privacy-policy<\/p>\n\n Attribution is optional and off by default.<\/strong> Settings \u2192 CollectSocials has an\nunticked checkbox, \"Show a small 'Powered by CollectSocials' link under my\nfeeds\". Leave it alone and no credit link is added to your site \u2014 every part of\nthe plugin behaves identically either way. Tick it only if you would like to\ncredit the plugin, and untick it whenever you change your mind. (If branding is\nswitched off for your CollectSocials plan, no link is added regardless of the\ncheckbox.) Worth knowing if you have seen our website say otherwise: a hosted\nembed on the free plan does carry a \"Powered by\" link. The plugin does not,\nbecause it renders from your own site \u2014 the checkbox is the only thing that adds\none here, on any plan.<\/p>\n\n\n Yes. The plugin is free, and CollectSocials has a free plan \u2014 3 sources, a\ndaily refresh, all 16 themes plus the theme builder, seven of the 40 layouts,\nand unlimited plugin-served views \u2014 that a live site can run on. Paid plans add\nthe remaining layouts, the custom card builder, more sources, a faster refresh,\nhigher limits and the premium X (Twitter) platform.<\/p><\/dd>\nHow often it updates<\/h4>\n\n
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