Highlight and Share – Unobtrusive and Lightweight Content Sharing

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 59% 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. ★★★★★ wpuser53

   2.3y ago

   I really love this plugin (and some others from the creators). The support is perfect, couldn’t be better.

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2. ★★★★★ gauchoc

   3.6y ago

   The plugin developer did a really good job

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3. ★★★★★ richardsan

   3.9y ago

   Easy to use and lightweight sharing plugin for WordPress website

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4. ★★★★★ Alex Navarro IA

   4.7y ago

   Muy completo y muy interesante. Lo estoy incluyendo en varios proyectos. Lo recomiendo. This topic was modified 4 years, 7 months ago by Alex Navarro IA.

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5. ★★★★★ collin54111

   5.1y ago

   This plugin is AMAZING! I am absolutely psyched about it. Never have I installed a plugin that was this fast to install and customize. Thank you! One cool thing to add would be to add custom colors.

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6. ★★★★★ chriskal

   5.5y ago

   It is a small, fast, good coded and very useful plugin. It did not slow down my website in any way, which is what most free plugins I know do very often. Furthermore, it is very simple to use, works out of the box and can be easily customized in the way you need it to work. For me, as an example, I don’t like big, colorful buttons screaming “Share me! Share me” right in front of the reader’s face. Others see it the other way round. With this plugin, it is easy to choose between different ways of popping up buttons. It provides the highlighted text to Twitter, Facebook and others, next to a link to the website and a “via” tag. It is fast, easy to understand (for me for setting it up and for the user of the website for sharing some text) and absolutely useful. Best of all is the support. I had a little suggestion for a feature, and it was implemented within hours, I had a very friendly email contact and the update to a newer version came ultrafast. I absolutely can recommend the work of Ronald Huereca. He has other useful plugins on his website, too, which I don’t need, but I guess they are as good, simple and useful as this.

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7. ★★★★★ smaffulli

   5.6y ago

   It does exactly what you need, easy to configure, no nagging screens, easy configuration, stays out of the way and just works. Thank you! Well done.

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8. ★★★★★ HollyJahangiri

   5.6y ago

   And thanks to Ronald’s quick fix workaround, works with Elegant Themes Divi – perfectly! I love it.

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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 · 5.3 Highlight and Share <= 5.2.0 - Missing Authorization ↗
   2025-12-15 CVE-2025-67586 Missing Authorization Affects <= 5.2.0 Patched in 5.3.0
2. Medium · 6.4 Highlight and Share – Social Text and Image Sharing <= 5.1.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2025-09-22 CVE-2025-58260 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 5.1.1 Patched in 5.2.0

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0.1

Translated into 3 languages, 0 at 90% or more

Growth timeline

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

1. 2026-07-21 800+ → 700+ down after 1 days in tier
2. 2026-07-20 700+ → 800+ up after 1 days in tier
3. 2026-07-19 800+ → 700+ down after 188 days in tier
4. 2026-01-12 900+ → 800+ down after 1 days in tier
5. 2026-01-11 800+ → 900+ up after 13 days in tier
6. 2025-12-29 900+ → 800+ down after 157 days in tier
7. 2025-07-25 1K+ → 900+ down

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).

• Social Sharing Plugin – Sassy Social Share 100K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags B
• Super Web Share – Native Social Sharing Button 2K+ installs · 4.6★ · 2 shared tags A
• Social Rocket – Social Sharing Plugin 1K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags B
• Social Share Button 1K+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags B
• W WP Social Share 60+ installs · 3.9★ · 2 shared tags D
• WP-Socialight 20+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags D

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Highlight and Share – Unobtrusive and Lightweight Content Sharing: 700+ active installs, 4.9★ (29 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/highlight-and-share