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Social Media Widget

By Blink Web Effects

Communication & Messaging / Email Newsletter & Broadcasting

Social Media Widget Review - In-Depth Analysis

The Social Media Widget allows you to add links to your social media profiles with customizable icons. Choose from various sizes, styles, and animations to enhance your sidebar.

Performance Overview

WPS Score

6.68/10

User Rating

3.9/5 (based on 84+ reviews)

Active Installations

30,000+

Update Frequency

Average It is calculated using the weighted average of same category plugins.

Security Score

3 / 10 (Low Risk) It is calculated using the weighted average of all versions.

What It Does

The Social Media Widget is a simple sidebar widget that enables users to input their social media profile URLs and display icons on their website. These icons link to various social media platforms and open in a new browser window.

This widget supports numerous social media sites, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and more. You can select from multiple icon sizes and styles, ensuring a perfect fit for your site's design.

Additionally, the widget offers animation options, allowing icons to fade in, scale, or bounce. You can also customize hover text and decide whether to use the nofollow attribute in your links.

Other Notable Features

Here are a few other notable features of this free Social Media Widget plugin.

Social media widget

Social media icons

Social media links

Screenshots

FAQ

The easiest way to include translating the Social Media widget is to install the qTranslate Plugin then using the following (example) code in the “Widget Title” and “Image Caption” text fields:

<!--:nl-->Volg ons<!--:--><!--:en-->Follow us<!--:--><!--:fr-->Suivre nous<!--:-->

Use the README.txt for that plugin for more usage.

Contributors and developers

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

Blink Web Effects

noahkagan

Free Version

WPS

6.68

Average

Pro version

Ratings

3.9 out of 5 | 84

Version

4.0.9

Last updated

1 year ago

Active installations

30,000+

WordPress version

6.4.8 or higher

PHP version

or higher

Languages

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Social Media Widget Review - In-Depth Analysis

Performance Overview

What It Does

Other Notable Features

Screenshots

FAQ

Contributors and developers

Ratings

Reviews (84)

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Contributors & Developers

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Changelog

Security Status

Secure

No Unpatched Vulnerabilities

Known Vulnerabilities (2)

WPS

6.68

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