Minimal Share Buttons

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 84% 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. ★★★★★ tshhopov

   9mo ago

   Thanks for your work and the plugin provided for the community!

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2. ★★★★★ clickforcharity.net

   2.3y ago

   Thanks for making something that is good but not full of silliness that seems to make thousands download it. The few who care about not leaking users’ data to data selling corporations will appreciate it as well as its low use of resources. I am surprised to see that although the few support requests of the last few years seem to have no replies yet the plugin is still being updated. Still it’s better than not updating at all.

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3. ★★★★★ Samot80

   4.2y ago

   Cansado de utilizar plugins pesados que afectan los resultados en Google. Este es perfecto aunque me gustaría que se pudiera añadir Wahtasapp para compartir

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4. ★★★★★ Tyler Tork

   4.7y ago

   Supported social networks currently are: Native share dialog (don’t know what this does, no apparent effect in Firefox on Windows) Facebook Twitter Google Plus (why?) LinkedIn Pinterest Reddit Email There’s no control over appearance — icons are black squares with transparent cutouts. You can elect to display share buttons on all posts or none, all pages or none, all “templates” or none. There’s not an option to disable on specific pages, but you can disable for pages generally and use the “Share” block or their shortcode to insert the buttons on pages where you do want it.

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5. ★★★★★ thiagoalencar

   6.4y ago

   I miss share via WhatsApp.

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6. ★★★★★ Atanas Antonov

   6.8y ago

   Very fast, very easy to use and modify, no users tracking, no GDPR compliance needed This topic was modified 6 years, 8 months ago by Atanas Antonov. Reason: Add more details

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7. ★★★★★ dimal

   7.1y ago

   Light and Simple. No spying also. What is needed are some options. 1. Display or not the :Share This: and it is also huge letters 2. Show this before or after the Content of the post (now only after) 3. Some priority settings, so the Sharing doesn’t show before other plugins or after them

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8. ★★★★★ stardaug

   7.8y ago

   Works well. Simple. Would like to see control for where the share icons are placed; top of post or page or on the bottom etc. For my theme, it adds share icons for each widget in footer (when pages is selected) which isn’t desirable. Individual post/page control of displaying icons would be good to. A very good light weight plugin overall.

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

1. Medium · 6.4 Minimal Share Buttons <= 1.7.3 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via align Parameter ↗
   2025-05-29 CVE-2025-5259 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 1.7.3 Patched in 1.7.4

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.8.1

Translated into 2 languages, 2 at 90% or more

Growth timeline

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

1. 2025-07-19 90+ → 100+ up after 4 days in tier
2. 2025-07-15 100+ → 90+ down after 11 days in tier
3. 2025-07-04 90+ → 100+ up after 6 days in tier
4. 2025-06-28 100+ → 90+ down after 302 days in tier
5. 2024-08-30 90+ → 100+ up after 92 days in tier
6. 2024-05-30 100+ → 90+ down after 37 days in tier
7. 2024-04-23 90+ → 100+ up after 2 days in tier
8. 2024-04-21 100+ → 90+ down after 48 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).

• OG — Better Share on Social Media 30K+ installs · 4.8★ · 3 shared tags A
• Social Media Feather 10K+ installs · 4.5★ · 3 shared tags A
• ShareThis Share Buttons 10K+ installs · 3.6★ · 3 shared tags B
• WP Socializer – Simple & Easy Social Media Share Icons 10K+ installs · 4.4★ · 3 shared tags C
• Social Sharing Plugin – Kiwi 4K+ installs · 4.0★ · 3 shared tags B
• Social Share Buttons & Analytics Plugin – GetSocial.io 2K+ installs · 4.4★ · 3 shared tags C

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Minimal Share Buttons: 100+ active installs, 4.6★ (9 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/minimal-share-buttons