Social-Media-Share-Buttons & Social-Sharing-Icons

Änderungsprotokoll

2.8.6

• Tested with WordPress 6.4-beta & PHP 8.2
• Now icons are disabled in page builders
• Improved copy icon functionality to support more systems
• Replaced twitter icon with X
• Changed default colors for X
• Updated carrousel module for PHP 8.2 and resolved conflicts
• Improved overall compatiblity with PHP 8.2

2.8.5

• Forced „Try it out“ module to be disabled by default, user can still enable it manually.

2.8.4

• Fixed important issues reported by Rafie M

2.8.3

• Removed unused modules
• Updated all shared modules to their latest versions
• Tested with WP 6.3 RC
• Improved PHP 8+ compatibility

2.8.2

• Tested with WP 6.2.2
• Adjusted text inputs
• Removed unused modules
• Updated carrousel module

2.8.1

• Tested with WP 6.2
• Added mastodon icons and support
• Fixed display bugs
• Adjusted plugin compatibility with third-party plugins
• Fixed share counts
• Fixed social pop-up icons not displaying
• Adjustment of flat icons
• Allow to show other icons on popup banner
• Fixed offset PHP errors

2.8.0

• Adjusted PHP compatibility

2.7.9

• Added black-friday theme (only for that period)
• Tested up to WordPress 6.1.1

2.7.8

• Fixed issues with after post icons
• Plugin tested with WordPress 6.1 @ PHP 8.1

2.7.7

• Added: support for no-opener tag on links
• Added: support for twitter:image tag

2.7.6

• Update: make twitter and facebook icons crawlable
• Update: enable sharing of homepage for certain icons
• Fixed: issue of plugin breaking the widget page

2.7.5

• New: Added mouse-over effects for the responsive icons, sticky bar icons and original icons – similar as it works now with the round icons
• Fixed: Some minor fixes

2.7.4

• Update: Check WordPress 5.9.3 compatibility
• Update: Tooltip remain open when click on round icons
• Fixed: Some minor fixes

2.7.3

• Update: Check WordPress 5.9.1 compatibility
• Fixed: Optimize CSS/JS code
• Fixed: Some minor fixes

2.7.2

• Check PHP 8.1 compatibility
• Fixed: Widget loading issue Admin > Widgets
• Fixed: Some minor fixes

2.7.1

• Update: Check WordPress 5.9 compatibility
• Fixed: Fix new version update string offset notice.
• Fixed: Some minor fixes

2.7.0

• New: Added Background color option for Flat icon style
• New: Added a new tab „Get advice for more shares & traffic“
• Update: Check WordPress 5.8.3 compatibility
• Update: Update Facebook API
• Update: Footer banner
• Fixed: Some minor fixes

2.6.9

• Update: Banners
• Fixed: Optimize CSS/JS code
• Fixed: Some minor fixes

2.6.8

• New: Added Snapchat, Reddit, Facebook Messenger, TikTok sharing platform.
• New: Added VK sharing option in Q2
• New: Added ‚Sticky bar‘ features
• New: Added new Animated Icons, Flat Squared and Icons Only style for icon theme
• New: Added horizontally/vertically icons alignments option in floating icons, widget, shortcode
• New: Added Pinterest and share count in Responsive icons
• New: Added Language for like, share and subscribe buttons (Facebook, Twitter, Youtube) in Q6
• Update: WordPress 5.8.2 compatibility
• Update: Instagram and FB Messenger icons for some icon themes
• Update: Popup shown option for On some pages
• Fixed: Share counter display issue for Q3
• Fixed: Duplicate localize script
• Fixed: Fix some errors shown on W3C Markup Validation
• Fixed: Some minor fixes

2.6.7

• Check PHP 8.0 compatibility
• Change unserialize to maybe_unserialize
• Update Instagram icons
• Fix transaltion issues
• Some minor fixes

2.6.6

• Vulnerability fix
• Some minor fixes

2.6.5

• Plugin Translation added
• Tooltip issue fixed

2.6.4

• Responsive icon refresh issue fixed
• Added carrousel

2.6.3

• Fixed responsive icons issue with table of contents.
• Fixed Shuffle option not saving.
• Fixed Facebook original icons share to new tab.
• Updated Youtube icons.
• Fixed Mobile icons not working when shuffle is selected.
• Whatsapp mouse hover text corrected.

2.6.2

• Updated to WordPress 5.6 compatibility
• Updated to PHP 8 compatibility
• Pop up feature added

2.6.1

• Updated Instagram icons

2.6.0

• Added Whatsapp share.
• Fixed Woocommerce banner dismiss.

2.5.9

• Instagram count issue solved
• Pinterest on mobile issue solved

2.5.8

• UI fixes
• Corrected banner behaviour
• WordPress Compatablity increased to 5.5.
• Removed comment that was being flagged as dangourous code by some malware scanners.

2.5.7

• Subscription fallback Url issue fixed

2.5.6

• Fixed undefined index issue
• Updated Youtube api updated
• Bitly changes

2.5.5

• Fixed claim feed from Q8 popup
• Updated new section to show counts
• Fixed subscribe form button value
• Fixed twitter url space corrected
• changed nopin to data-attr
• Fixed youtube tooltip alignemnt

2.5.4

• Fixed syntax errors.
• Fixed open in a new window icons.
• Removed automatic scroll.

2.5.3

• Fixed UI issues.
• Fixed problems with moving to Follow.it

2.5.2

• Updated to follow.it
• Updated notifications to make them less annoying

2.5.1

• Price Change.
• Icon per row fixed css.

2.5.0

• Fixed LinkedIn share to correct urls.

2.4.9

• Fixed Pinterest Save icon.

2.4.8

• Fixed Fblike

2.4.7

• Added Margins above and below responsive icons
• Updated the display for widget
• Replaced with icons which reduces the loading time

2.4.6

• Updated Tweet about my page can be empty.
• Updated Export section aligned center to button.
• Updated top_arow css removed.

2.4.5

• Updated Export section and success message after export.
• Updated the ping function.
• Added Lazy load css.

2.4.4

• All console.log commented.
• Added new analyst 5.4.
• Updated the wp version compatablity.
• Added Export section.

2.4.3

• Updated Url encoded
• Added auto open of question 3
• Updated location.href escaped
• Design changes in show icon after post

2.4.2

• Solved the unserialize problem.
• Design changes and typo corrections in the settings page.

2.4.1

• Feedback system updated.
• Design changes in settings page.
• Moved below post options to Q3.

2.4.0

• Instagram generate token removed the deplicated scopes.
• Removed some PHP update Notices.
• Updated feed claiming apis.
• Updated Mouseover text removed.

2.3.9

• Corrected the jQuery admin area problem
• Solved the jQuery error for shortcode
• Solved feed claiming
• Option name in Q3 changed

2.3.8

• Fixed the text in theme banner.
• Fixed follow icon and subscription box when Curl is disabled.
• Fixed cURL errors.

2.3.7

• solved: Wrong link on icons when curl not installed.

2.3.6

• Solved: Updated Text changes.

2.3.5

• Solved: Updated Text changes.

2.3.4

• Solved: Updated Text changes.
• Solved: Updated link for email.

2.3.3

• Solved: Updated the email link and subscription action.

2.3.2

• Solved: Updated feedback system.

2.3.1

• Solved: Updated feedback system.

2.3.0

• Solved: Errors on the footer in dashboard corected.
• Solved: Updated logic for inclusion of external js.
• Solved: Some grametical errors.
• Solved: Updated feedback system.

2.2.9

• Solved: After post icons shown.

2.2.8

• Solved: Header already sent error on some servers.

2.2.7

• Solved: Updated feedback system to next version.
• Solved: Responsive Icons UI updated.

2.2.6

• New Feature: Responsive icons in free plugin.
• Solved: Icons not rendering on woocomerce product page.
• Solved: Twitter url changed to share from intent for better reliablity.
• Solved: Lots of little adjustments to improve the UI and functionality.
• Solved: Removed Google Plus.
• Solved: Stop loading unused external library code for faster load.
• Solved: Removed curl notice while activation.
• Solved: Fixed broken arrays and missing indexes.
• Solved: Updated feedback system to next version.

2.2.5

• Integrated feedback system

2.2.4

• Solved: Unserialized error corrected.
• Solved: All curl calls to wp_remote.
• Solved: Notices in front end solved.

2.2.3

• Solved: Footer Error solved.
• Solved: Removed most of the html errors.
• Solved: Less anoying sidebar.

2.2.2

• Solved: More icons upadated
• Solved: Icon backgrounds updated

2.2.1

• Solved: woocomerce conflict resolved
• Solved: alert in case on conflict.
• new Feature: More icons for free plugin

2.2.0

• Solved: Critical Security Patch.

2.1.9

• Solved: Security Patch.

2.1.8

• Solved: security update.

2.1.7

• Solved: save button not working.

2.1.6

• Solved: compatablity issue with older versions.

2.1.5

• Solved: google plus is deprecated
• Solved: Sf count not shown
• Solved: Sf subscribe form opens blank page.
• solved: decreased the manual intervestions of upgradation to premium.

2.1.4

• Solved: Changed theme check url to match bloginfo url.

2.1.3

• Solved: Email validation for Offline chat.
• Solved: Premium notification breaking the dashboard structure.
• Solved: changed option for linkedin count
• Solved: ajax_object conflict with themes.
• Solved: new keyword check from page title, page keywords and page description.

2.1.2

• Solved: Text optimized

2.1.1

• Solved: design changes for chat.
• Solved: unexpected charactor „[“ error for php version 5.3.

2.1.0

• New Feature: Chat for site admin on our settings page.
• Solved: removed deprecated jQuery functions.
• Solved: Rectangle icon alignemnt problem on some themes solved.

2.0.9

• Banner for animation section in Question 4 added
• Different icon for mouseover section pointing in premium in Question 4 added
• Removed theme icon banner if no match

2.0.8

• Solved: Notification bar cannot be seen anymore
• Solved: cleared the float elements after notice.

2.0.7

• Round green follow button doesn’t show – fixed
• Footer optimized

2.0.6

• Fixed bug that sometimes banner didn’t disappear
• Links in review message updated

2.0.5

• Issue with click on icons on mobile fixed

2.0.4

• Corrected missing ? in shortcode

2.0.3

• Optimized texts

2.0.2

• Addthis removed due to GDPR
• New option to switch debugging mode on/off

2.0.1

• Issue of window.onscroll function overriding and breaking other plugins/themes fixed

2.0.0

• New question 3 to facilitate placement of icons

1.9.7

• Stopped setting cookies for pop-up selection „if user moved to end of page“ as not needed in this case (relevant for GDPR compliance)

1.9.6

• Usage instructions updated

1.9.5

• Facebook like count fixed (previously only fixed for likes of user’s website, not likes of Facebook page)

1.9.4

• Youtube count and direct follow issues fixed

1.9.3

• Facebook like count issue fixed
• Youtube saving issue when clicked on „Save all settings“ – fixed now

1.9.2

• Instagram followers count issue fixed
• Twitter count issue fixed
• Facebook share count issue fixed

1.9.1

• Errors with „non-numeric value“ fixed

1.8.9

• Error log files removed

1.8.7

• Updated description texts

1.8.6

• Made different placement options more visible

1.8.5

• Text changes

1.8.4

• Added referring opportunity

1.8.3

• Saving of links for custom icons sometimes didn’t work. Fixed now.

1.8.2

• Links updated

1.8.1

• Themed icon notifications optimized

1.8.0

• CSS & JAVASCRIPT files are added in footer instead of header

1.7.9

• Banners added
• Spelling mistakes corrected

1.7.8

• Added more themed icon banners

1.7.6

• Comment to selecting of specific text and picture per page/post added

1.7.5

• Link to more premium icons added

1.7.4

• Better error messages in case of Curl errors
• Optimized review bar
• Code not remaining on site after de-installation

1.7.2

• More individualized offer for themed icons

1.7.1

• Claiming process optimized

1.6.9

• Counts for social buttons optimized and Instagram counter bug fixed
• Link to more social sharing buttons added

1.6.8

• Issue fixed that sometimes incorrect error-messages showed on front-end
• Credit link updated
• More icons added for pro-version
• follow.it adjusted for paid option
• De-installation will now clear database entirely
• Upgrade to pro-link renamed

1.6.6

• New option for tailor-made icons

1.6.5

• Activation/deactivation links optimized

1.6.4

• Links to additional features optimized

1.6.3

• Notification issues corrected

1.6.1

• Dismissal of notification lead to plugin setting’s page previously, this is corrected now

1.5.8

• Educational comments added

1.5.7

• Conflicts with other plugins resolved

1.5.6

• Instructions for trouble shooting optimized

1.5.5

• Facebook icon leading to empty pages (in specific cases) fixed

1.5.4

• Twitter sharing text issues with forwarded slashes fixed
• Links to review sites adjusted following WordPress changes in review section

1.5.3

• Missing counts for email follow option fixed (when there are no subscribers yet)
• Extra explanation text added

1.5.2

• Corner case vulnerability fixed

1.5.1

• Claiming process simplified
• Mouse-over for custom icons sometimes showed wrong text, corrected now

1.4.8

• Size of custom icons corrected
• Cute G+ icon too small before, corrected now
• Better description how to get G+ API key added
• Unsupported „live“ function in jquery fixed

1.4.7

• Icons sometimes on top of each other – fixed

1.4.5

• E-Notice errors fixed
• Facebook share button added for before/after posts

1.4.4

• Errors fixed with color code sanitizing function

1.4.3

• Removed the js files from plugin and using the ones provided by WP now

1.4.2

• POST calls optimized (sanitize, escape, validate)

1.4.1

• Removed feedback option
• Stichwörter geändert

1.3.9

• Added Pinterest button for rectangle icons after/before posts
• If user has given an icon several functions, the tooltip appears as before, however if user clicks on the main icon then it will now also perform an action, i.e. the ‚visit us‘-function

1.3.8

• Review request changed

1.3.7

• Claiming links corrected
• Icons don’t have any mouseover-effects (e.g. fade in) by default anymore

1.3.6

• Overkill declaration in the CSS fixed
• Custom icons can now have mailto:-functionality
• jQuery UI issues fixed
• Rectangle G+ icon now shown as last one as it takes more space (looks better)
• Comment added that partner plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/ultimate-social-media-plus/ now allows buttons in various languages

1.3.5

• jQuery issues/conflicts fixed
• Placing icons on blog homepage had issues with counts, fixed now
• Script issues fixed
• Text added on plugin setting’s page for easier understanding
• Issue that dashboard sometimes doesn’t load fixed
• Instagram thin-icon issue fixed (misspelled, therefore didn’t show)

1.3.4

• Facebook changed their API – please upgrade if you want Facebook sharing on mobile to work properly on your site!

1.3.3

• Feed claiming optimized
• New ‚Visit us‘-icon for Twitter added which matches the new Twitter-design
• PNG-file error for Houzz icon corrected
• Incorrect G+ icon replaced
• Error message for sites where subscription form doesn’t work added
• Extra comments added how to claim a feed and several other texts optimized

1.3.2

• Feed claiming optimized

1.3.1

• Shortpixel link fixed

1.3.0

• Feed claiming bug fixed

1.2.9

• New G+ button updated
• Quicker claiming of feed possible
• Comments to share-button added
• Credit to shortpixel added

1.2.8

• New feature: Users can now decide where exactly the floating icons will display
• Internal links corrected
• Fixed: Targets only labels within the social icons div.
• Subscriber counts fixed
• Apostrophe issues fixed
• Conflicts with Yoast SEO plugin resolved
• PHP errors fixed

1.2.7

• Count issues fixed – please upgrade!
• Style constructor updated to PHP 5
• Text adjustments in admin area

1.2.6

• (Minor) compatibility issues with WordPress 4.3. fixed

1.2.5

• Updating process fixed

1.2.4

• New question 8 added: you can now also add a subscription form to your site

1.2.3

• More explanations added how to fix if counts don’t work
• Icon files are compressed now for faster loading – thank you ShortPixel.com!
• A typo in the code threw an error message in certain cases, this is fixed now

1.2.2

• jQuery issues fixed
• Vulnerability issues fixed
• Twitter-button didn’t get displayed in full sometimes, this is fixed now
• CSS issues (occurred on some templates) fixed
• Facebook updated API (so counts didn’t get displayed correctly anymore), we updated the plugin accordingly

1.2.1

• Template-specific issues fixed
• Layout in admin-area optimized
• Sometimes title didn’t get rendered correctly, this is fixed now
• Youtube API changes also updated in plugin
• Outdated (and vulnerable) JS library updated
• New options for placing icons after every post (under question 6)

1.2.0

• Links with ‚@‘ in the url (e.g. as in Flickr-links) now get recognized as well
• Alignment issues of icons in tooltip fixed
• Layout optimizations in plugin area
• Users can now select to have the number of likes of their facebook page displayed as counts of the facebook icon on their blogs
• Typos in admin area corrected

1.1.1.12

• Vulnerabilities (AJAX) fixed
• OG-issues (caused in conjunction with other plugins) fixed

1.1.1.11

• Conflicts with Yoast SEO plugin sorted
• Performance optimized
• Facebook sharing text issues fixed
• Sometimes facebook share count didn’t increase despite liking it, this should be fixed now (to be observed)
• When sharing from a Facebook business page it returned errors, this should be fixed now (to be observed)
• Share-box only displayed partly sometimes, fixed now
• Template CSS conflicts solved in the plugin
• Adding of unwanted spans fixed

1.1.1.10

• OG-issues fixed
• Text which gets shared sometimes didn’t contain spaces, fixed now
• Plugin name in php file shortened
• More explanation texts added in admin area
• Facebook share window sometimes only got displayed partially, fixed now
• Other facebook share issues fixed
• Template CSS issues causing icons to be displayed not in one straight horizontal line fixed
• In some cases facebook counts didn’t increase if liked, this should be fixed now
• Tested for up to WordPress version 4.2.1.

1.1.1.9

• Issues with custom icon upload & custom icon removal fixed
• Box asking for review didn’t disappear in some cases, fixed now
• Some design issues with some CSS for icons after every post, fixed now
• Changes in text / guide in plugin
• Conflicts with YOAST SEO plugin sorted
• Conflicts with ADD MEDIA button and ADD LINK sorted
• In some cases activating the icons after every post the content disappeared, this is fixed now
• New option to center icons after posts
• In some cases if no widget was placed it said ‚Kindly go to settings page and check the option ’show them via widget“ got displayed on the blog, this is fixed now
• G+ window disappeared sometimes after moving over it, fixed now
• LinkedIn icon disappeared after moving over it a few times, fixed now
• Several other CSS issues fixed
• Sometimes tooltips didn’t appear, fixed now
• When plugin is activated some toggle functionality stopped working, fixed now
• Click on icons after posts now shares the post, not the blog page
• Several little design enhancements
• When user selected that icons should show floating in the bottom right they floated in the center right, fixed now
• Issues with Youtube direct follow fixed
• Number of Instagram followers not always got pulled correctly, fixed now
• When site loaded the widget sometimes overlapped with others, fixed now

1.1.1.8

• Plugin’s menu button now has less aggressive colors
• Sometimes sharing via facebook returned error messages, this is fixed now
• Conflicts with WooTheme Whitelight resolved
• Occasional problems with https-sites previously, now compatibile

1.1.1.7

• The ‚counts‘ were not always correct, fixed now
• Conflicts with page editor resolved
• Last plugin update fixed Youtube points, however the ‚channel‘ was as default, set back to ‚username‘
• Mouseover-text for social icons now correct
• Some layout adjustment in the admin area (menu-button will also be adjusted in next release)
• Setting order of icons sometimes didnt work properly when custom icons got uploaded, this is fixed now

1.1.1.6

• jQuery updated, now most conflicts with other plugins should be resolved

1.1.1.5

• Conflicts with several plugins sorted
• Icons can now be disabled on mobile
• Renaming of ‚Youtube Channel‘ to ‚Username‘ to avoid confusion
• On some templates there were alignment issues of the icons, this is fixed
• Menu button sub-menu removed (wasn’t really necessary)
• Lightbox in admin area for custom icon upload shortened (was too large)
• Tags for all icons defined (for SEO purposes)

1.1.1.4

• If given only a ‚visit us‘-function for the Twitter-icon, the is no tooltip anymore (like for the other icons)
• Sharing sometimes pulled an incorrect image, fixed now
• Pop-up now also has an ‚x‘ in the top right corner for people to close
• Sometimes icons overlapped, this is fixed now
• Several issues fixed when users put shortcode into the header
• Sometimes our request to ask users for feedback got displayed too early, this is fixed now
• Some youtube accounts don’t have a username, but only a channel. To allow users to directly to subscribe to your youtube channel the plugin required a User ID, now a channel is possible too
• Several conflicts with other plugins resolved
• Some CSS issues fixed
• Steps 1., 2., 3. in the guide how to upload a custom icon were sometimes missing, this is fixed now
• Title removed now when using shortcodes
• Some error messages in developer tools not showing up anymore

1.1.1.3

• Several CSS issues fixed

1.1.1.2

• Shortcode now available too, so that you can place the icons wherever you want: Insert [DISPLAY_ULTIMATE_SOCIAL_ICONS]
• ‚Visit us‘-option now also available for Twitter-users
• Description added for people helping to find their LinkedIn-ID
• Description added for people helping to generate their API-keys for Twitter, LInkedIn and G+ to display their counts automatically
• Design of pop-up for upload of custom icons changed, to better explain required steps
• ‚Icons per row‘ didn’t work properly in specific cases, fixed now
• If user displayed counts for the icons, and picked the option ‚floating‘ and ‚bottom‘, the counts were sometimes not displayed because they moved too far down. This is fixed now.

1.1.1.1

• Previously custom icons got deleted if plugin was upgraded. This is fixed from now on. If you previously uploaded a custom icon, please do so (once) more. Sorry for the inconvenience.
• Question #5 The ‚Sticking & Floating‘ -> ‚Where shall they float?‘ was storing the right value but showing the ‚Top – Left‘ always
• If the floating icons on the frontend had ‚counts‘ enabled for them, the counts for the last row of the icons were being cut-off on the screen if the ‚Bottom – Left‘ OR ‚Bottom – Right‘ was chosen as the display position

1.1.1.0

• Following user suggestions we made it easier to remove the credit link (if previously activated by user – otherwise it doesn’t display)

1.1.0.9

• Some servers don’t display svg-images due to security issues, so we switched back to png
• Removed the comment line which may be me causes the syntax error at the time of installation

1.1.0.8

• In specific cases some share-icons were missing, this is fixed now
• Plugin sent error messages if user had developer mode active, this won’t happen anymore

1.1.0.7

• ‚Visit us‘ icons sometimes didn’t get displayed in the backend, this is fixed now
• Also the design of the ‚Visit us‘-icons on the front end has been improved
• If the email-delivery option is used, emails now get sent out much faster (central server gets pinged)
• Pop-up in some cases didn’t get shown on inner pages, fixed now
• Some responsive adjustments for mobile
• Custom icons had some resizing issues, fixed now

1.1.0.6

• If ‚Do you want to display icons at end of every post‘ is clicked there were some issues on mobile view, this is fixed now
• ‚Visit us‘-icons in the tooltips were no vector-icons, which made them look fuzzy in some browsers, this is fixed now

1.1.0.5

• On certain pages sometimes the youtube icon didnt show, this is fixed now
• Custom uploaded icons got a black background, this is fixed now
• In the admin panel the plugin conflicted (in rare cases) with other plugins, this is fixed
• Pop-ups sometimes didn’t disappear automatically, fixed now
• The tooltip for floating icons now gets displayed so that it is always visible

1.1.0.4

• Several changes done to optimize display on mobile & tablets
• Issues with widget fixed (in rare cases the separating lines between widgets didnt get displayed correctly)
• Deletion of headline for widget works now
• Slight alignment issues of share- and like buttons at the end of blog posts corrected

1.1.0.3

• Tooltip from share-option sometimes appeared some other strange places on the site, this is fixed now
• Extra checks added if user enters nonsense in the admin area
• Links to our review site added (please please give 5 stars)

1.1.0.2

• In specific cases there were Javascript loading errors, that’s fixed now
• Moving from the icons to the tooltips made the tooltips disappear sometimes, now they are ’stickier‘
• In specific cases the facebook-icon was displayed very small in the tooltip, fixed now

1.1.0.1

• Corrected that when only the ‚visit us‘ function is selected, no tooltip is displayed

1.1

• Email-icon didn’t get displayed for all design sets (on the website), this is fixed now
• Alignments of buttons in tooltips optimized
• Updated readme.txt

1.0

• First release