Starline Social Sharing Buttons

Starline Social Sharing Buttons is a WordPress plugin designed to add customizable social sharing buttons to posts, pages, and public custom post types. It addresses the need for website owners to facilitate content sharing across multiple social media platforms directly from their WordPress sites. The plugin supports eight popular social networks: Facebook, X (Twitter), LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Telegram, Pinterest, Reddit, and Email, enabling visitors to share content easily through these channels.

The plugin offers several display options, allowing buttons to appear inline, as a floating sidebar widget, or in a scroll-triggered popup. Placement is flexible, with choices including before or after the title, before or after content, both, or in the footer. Users can further personalize the appearance by uploading custom PNG, WebP, or SVG icons for each network. Starline Social Sharing Buttons is compatible with posts, pages, and any public custom post type, and provides a shortcode ([starsosh_share]) for manual button placement.

From a technical standpoint, the plugin is fully responsive and optimized for mobile devices, with touch-friendly targets. Accessibility features include ARIA labels, keyboard navigation, focus management, and reduced motion support. pot file for localization. The plugin uses vanilla JavaScript on the frontend and does not require jQuery or any external dependencies. To support SEO best practices, it automatically generates Open Graph meta tags (og:title, og:description, og:image) and Twitter Card tags, and will auto-disable itself if Yoast SEO, Rank Math, or SEOPress plugins are active to prevent conflicts.

In terms of privacy, Starline Social Sharing Buttons does not collect, store, or transmit personal data from the site or its visitors. No cookies, analytics, or tracking mechanisms are used, and all data transmission occurs only when a visitor clicks a share button, which opens the respective social network’s share URL. org. 4 or above.