Social Share Popup

Posted by Ivan Churakov on June 18, 2012

Social Share Popup is a plugin for WordPress that allows you to add a highly customizable social popup box to your blog or website. It appears once users visit your website. Once raised popup box asks visitors to like webpage on Facebook, +1 on Google, share on Twitter or LinkedIn. Popup box is configured through settings page. This plugin can be used as soft post/page locker. As an administrator you can decide what posts/pages to lock.

Google, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn are in TOP10 most visited websites in the World. All together they have over 1.2 billions of registered users. Could you imagine more successful spots to promote your website? Social Share Popup plugin will help to get more organic traffic from Google Search and add thousands of fans to your WordPress site on Facebook, Google Plus, Twitter and LinkedIn. More fans is more traffic.

Features

Boost traffic from Facebook, Google, Twitter and LinkedIn: get more shares and increase traffic.
Highly customizable: set size, colors, opacity, background image and even edit CSS.
Modern popup box: shadows, round corners, etc.
WYSIWYG editor: Edit content with visual editor.
Accept shortcodes: Insert any shortcodes inside of popup box.
Remember visitors: popup box can be displayed only once per visit.
Remember social visitors: plugin remembers users who already shared the page (using cookie).
Choose what page to share: users can share either current page or selected page.
Autoopen and autoclose delay: you can configure these parameters too.
Show or hide close button: open popup box as modal window.
Whole website or selected pages: open popup box for whole website or for selected pages.
Caching plugins friendly: plugin uses PHP and JavaScript to avoid problems with caching plugins.
Easy to install: install and activate the plugin as any other plugins.
Translation ready: plugin might be translated to any language.
WordPress Best Practices: no any alerts from Plugin Check or WP_DEBUG.

Installation

1. Install and activate the plugin. Once activated, it creates menu item “Social Popup” under menu section “Settings” in left side column in the admin area.

2. Click left side menu “Settings >>> Social Popup” and do required settings. Set display mode, colors, size, content, etc. Please look at the screenshot below to see what kind of settings you can do there.

3. If you selected “Homepage and selected posts/pages” or “Selected posts/pages” display mode on settings page, then you can assign particular posts/pages to be covered by plugin functionality. Go to post/page editor and set checkbox “Social Popup” (view screenshot below).