Social Warfare – Pro

Social Warfare Pro extends the Social Warfare sharing extension for WordPress. Its controls cover where share buttons appear, what information accompanies a share, and how share counts and related publishing tools are displayed.

Place buttons in post layouts

The main add-on works with Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn, and Mix. Pro includes Reddit, Tumblr, Yummly, WhatsApp, Pocket, Buffer, Hacker News, Flipboard, and Email. Choose which networks to show, then place static buttons above or below a post, in both positions, or manually. Floating buttons can follow readers when static buttons are outside the visible area.

Shortcodes let you place buttons within posts or pages, including buttons that share a different URL from the page they appear on. Developers familiar with PHP can also connect the plugin to theme templates.

Set the details attached to a share

For Facebook, LinkedIn, and other services that use Open Graph data, choose the picture, title, and description shown with a share. Pinterest can use a dedicated image and custom description. The Image Hover Pin Button places a Pin control over content images when a reader hovers over them.

For Twitter shares, write custom text. Social Warfare adds the content link and your @username to the share box. The plugin can also enable Twitter Cards and support Rich Pins.

Style buttons and manage counts

Choose from six button shapes and eight color themes, or set custom button colors. Click to Tweet has six styles, with the option to make a custom style through your theme’s CSS. You can show share counts, conceal them, or show them only after a chosen minimum is reached. Pro also lets you reactivate, track, and display Twitter tweet counts.

Share Recovery is intended for cases where counts were lost after changing permalink structures, domain prefixes, connection protocols such as HTTP or HTTPS, or domains.

Use share activity in publishing tools

The Popular Posts widget identifies popular content by overall share counts or counts from a selected network. Customize its thumbnails, image and text sizes, visual theme, and date range. Click to Tweet quotes can be added inside posts or pages.

Frame Buster helps protect content from hijackers who place advertisements over it without permission. The plugin also supports link shortening with your own Bitly credentials, network-specific UTM tracking for Google Analytics, and event tracking for share-button clicks.

Set up and check compatibility

Install and activate Social Warfare Pro in WordPress, then configure networks, button design and placement, count display, and share details. Add Click to Tweet elements or manual placements where needed, then review the buttons and share settings before publishing.

The plugin listing notes that it has not been tested with the latest three major WordPress releases, so compatibility with current WordPress versions may require checking.