Floating Social Share Icons and Social Share buttons – Next Previous Post Links – FL

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 90% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

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1. ★★★★★ sachsongngu

   7mo ago

   awesomweeeee

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2. ★★★★★ mfmuller

   2.6y ago

   I’ve been using this plugin for years and just purchased an additional premium lifetime license. It is a remarkably elegant solution and is very customizable. I had occasion to contact Danish with what turned to be a simple issue and an error entirely on my end. I look forward to future versions. Great job and thank you again!

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3. ★★★★★ led69

   2.8y ago

   Perfect since the PHP correction, no more errors.Good navigation options

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4. ★★★★★ manuelabis070566

   3.5y ago

   Excellent plugin!

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5. ★★★★★ Srinivas M

   3.8y ago

   For position change, it needs to be upgraded

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6. ★★★★★ lbarron

   4.3y ago

   I think this is great so far and am excited to see more options. I’d like maybe some options for custom post types or even category selections- but works great!

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7. ★★★★★ excelaccountancy

   4.4y ago

   Found this plugin very helpful and amaing

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8. ★★★★★ Hans Konings

   4.7y ago

   I have Floating Links installed on two websites: The free version on my photo blog The premium version on my personal blog On both sites with both versions I run into this problem: as soon as I enable the Home icon AND change the icon to one of the others available, there’s no link anymore to the homepage. The icon has stopped working. There’s no indication whatsoever that it is actually linked to the homepage. And then I cannot revert to the default situation which did work in the first place. On the personal blog the Random icon keeps linking only to the two most recent articles. All the older articles, dating back to 1997 are ignored. I feel this plugin needs a lot of debugging. I regret having bought a Premium licence which doesn’t add that many extra features over the free version. Apart from this, the plugin has the looks of abandonware. The developer cannot be contacted about these issues, because his contact form produces an error. Nor does he answer anymore to the many unresolved issues on this forum. Money not well spent. I’m sorry. This topic was modified 4 years, 7 months ago by Hans Konings. This topic was modified 4 years, 7 months ago by Hans Konings. This topic was modified 4 years, 7 months ago by Hans Konings.

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2 disclosed vulnerabilities on record for this plugin, all fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

1. Medium · 6.1 Freemius SDK <= 2.5.9 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via fs_request_get ↗
   2023-07-18 CVE-2023-33999 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects 3.4.0 - 3.6.0 Patched in 3.6.1
2. Medium · 6.3 Freemius SDK <= 2.4.2 - Missing Authorization Checks ↗
   2022-03-04 CVE-2022-4974 Missing Authorization Affects < 3.6.0 Patched in 3.6.0

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0

Translated into 4 languages, 1 at 90% or more

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2025-10-20 300+ → 200+ down after 2 days in tier
2. 2025-10-18 200+ → 300+ up after 2 days in tier
3. 2025-10-16 300+ → 200+ down after 12 days in tier
4. 2025-10-04 200+ → 300+ up after 5 days in tier
5. 2025-09-29 300+ → 200+ down after 6 days in tier
6. 2025-09-23 200+ → 300+ up after 1 days in tier
7. 2025-09-22 300+ → 200+ down after 291 days in tier
8. 2024-12-05 400+ → 300+ down after 1 days in tier

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• Grow for WordPress 10K+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags C
• XPoster – Share to Bluesky and Mastodon 10K+ installs · 3.8★ · 2 shared tags B
• Storefront Product Sharing 4K+ installs · 3.9★ · 2 shared tags D
• Nobs • Share Buttons 3K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags B
• Crafty Social Buttons 900+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags D
• T Tilt Social Share Widget 300+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags D

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Floating Social Share Icons and Social Share buttons – Next Previous Post Links – FL: 200+ active installs, 4.7★ (73 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/floating-links