WordPress Social Sharing Plugin – Sassy Social Share

[23 May 2022] = * [Improvement] Code quality improvement

[11 May 2022] = * [Improvement] Code quality improvement

[24 March 2022] = * [Security] Fixed two XSS Vulnerability issues * [Bugfix] Right and Bottom counter positions in the Theme Selection section were not working * [Improvement] Updated the official Facebook SDK being used throughout the plugin to the latest version 13.0 * [Improvement] Anchor HTML tag for the More share icon now has an HREF attribute * [Improvement] Performmance improvement

[15 March 2022] = * [Bugfix] myCRED Points for Linkedin shares were not being rewarded when using Social Share myCRED Integration add-on

[4 January 2022] = * [Improvement] Unnecessary CSS file was being loaded at the front-end

[9 December 2021] = * [Improvement] Added wpml-config.xml file for compatibility with the multi-language translation

[6 December 2021] = * [Improvement] Integrating Social Media Follow widget was breaking the functionality at the Widgets page in the admin area in some cases

[2 December 2021] = * [Bugfix] Multi-colored background of Instagram icon was not changing if customized from the Theme Selection section * [Bugfix] Floating option was not working for the social media follow icons * [Bugfix] "More" text was being displayed with the "More" share icon * [New] Added an option to align the standard Social Media follow bar to the left, center or right * [Improvement] Improved the code of the Social Media Follow widget

[26 November 2021] = * [Improvement] Code improvement * [Improvement] Admin UI improvement

[23 November 2021] = * [Bugfix] Social share widet, Social Media follow widget and social share icons at BuddyPress pages were causing fatal errors after previous update

[23 November 2021] = * [Improvement] Code improvement * [Improvement] Removed unnecessary CSS from the public.css file * [Improvement] Admin UI improvements

[16 November 2021] = * [Bugfix] Icons rendered by the shortcode for Social Media Follow Icons were broken since the version 3.3.26

[16 November 2021] = * [Bugfix] PHP warning was being displayed on updating the plugin if custom logo color was being used in the Theme Selection section at the plugin configuration page

[16 November 2021] = * [Bugfix] Fixed Gmail social share icon * [Bugfix] Background color of Instagram in the social media follow widget was not changing to multi-colored after changing from the Miscellaneous section * [Improvement] Improved logo of WordPress social share icon * [Improvement] Performance improvement

[14 November 2021] = * [Bugfix] Copy Link icon was not functioning * [Bugfix] Print icon was not functioning * [Bugfix] Gettr share icon was not sharing properly * [Bugfix] Mewe, Gettr and Outlook share icons were not working in the More social share popup * [Improvement] Minor CSS improvements in the More social share popup

[13 November 2021] = * [Bugfix] Background color of some social share icons was not correct in the previous update * [Bugfix] Threema social share icon was showing the logo of Telegram * [Bugfix] Center alignment was not working for the standard social share bar from the last update * [Bugfix] PHP warning was being generated in the AMP mode * [Improvement] Horizontal sticky share bar was slightly hidden below the bottom of the screen

[12 November 2021] = * [Improvement] Extra CSS files will not be loaded anymore if you change the logo color of icons * [Improvement] Updated the Facebook JS SDK being used throughout the plugin to the latest version 12.0 * [Improvement] Improved HTML of the social share and social media follow icons meeting the W3C standards * [Bugfix] Yoolink social share was not working * [Bugfix] Whatsapp share was not triggering the app in the mobile device * [Bugfix] Selecting "Floating" type in the Follow Icons widget was not triggering the relevant extra options * [Security] Fixed XSS vulnerability

[16 October 2021] = * [Improvement] Fixed broken links at the plugin configuration page

[17 September 2021] = * [Important] Fixed PHP Object Injection vulnerability * [Improvement] Admin UI improvement

[29 July 2021] = * [New] Added options to export and import plugin configuration

[14 July 2021] = * [Improvement] Admin UI improvements * [Improvement] Performance improvement of Social Media Follow widget

[29 June 2021] = * [Bugfix] Floating share Bar was not appearing at the home page when Yoast SEO plugin was active * [Bugfix] Pinterest share icon was not working in AMP * [Improvement] Updated the Facebook JS SDK being used to the latest version 11.0 * [Improvement] Admin UI improvement * [Improvement] Widgets enabled from the "Appearance > Widgets" page were causing PHP notices in some cases * [Improvement] Compatible with PHP 8

[11 February 2021] = * [Improvement] Improved Gab logo * [Bugfix] Color of Gab share logo was not changing in the "Rearrange Icons" section at the plugin configuration page when customizing from "Theme Selection" section * [Bugfix] Title above the standard share bar was not being translated when using WPML

[4 February 2021] = [Bugfix] After the last update, the checkbox "Disable Standard/Floating Sharing interface on this post" was appearing checked automatically in the Sassy Social Share section at the post/page edit area

[3 February 2021] = [Improvement] Improved Gab, Whatsapp and Vkontakte logos in the Gab, Whatsapp and Vkontakte share and follow icons [Improvement] CSS improvement for social share icons and social media follow icons [Improvement] Minor improvements

[3 February 2021] = [New] Plugin now supports Gab for social sharing and social media follow [Bugfix] Plugin was causing problems when editing the pages and posts in the admin area in some cases [Improvement] Improved Whatsapp and Vkontakte icons for AMP

[10 December 2020] = [Bugfix] Parler share icon was not appearing at the front-end of the website even after selecting at the plugin options page [Improvement] Updated Facebook JS SDK being used for the social share shortcode and widget to the latest version 9.0

[10 December 2020] = [New] Added Parler share in the social share bar and Parler follow icon in the Social Media Follow Widget [Bugfix] Whatsapp share icon in every share bar was sharing the link of first page on a web page listing multiple articles [Bugfix] CSS for the AMP Social Share icons was also being loaded at the normal web pages [Bugfix] Total shares were appearing with a white background in the standard share bar in the mobile devices [Improvement] Updated Facebook JS SDK being used throughout the plugin to the latest version 9.0

[18 November 2020] = [Bugfix] SMS share was placing // automatically in the Send To section

[6 October 2020] = [Bugfix] Clear Bitly cache and Clear share count cache buttons in the Miscellaneous section were showing infinite loading

[29 August 2020] = [Bugfix] Updating the plugin was causing changes in the CSS files of the plugin even when Logo color of the social share icons was not customized

[20 August 2020] = [Improvement] Admin UI improvements

[14 May 2020] = [Bugfix] Email share popup was being triggered in the same bowser tab instead of the new tab [Bugfix] Url of Facebook Debugger in "Troubleshooter" section was broken [Bugfix] Print icon in the "More" popup is using PrintFriendly instead of Print

[8 April 2020] = [Bugfix] Sina Weibo share was not working [Bugfix] Facebook Messenger share was not working on mobile devices [Bugfix] "Search social networks" feature was not working at options page in admin area [Bugfix] bit.ly url shortener was not working [Improvement] Updated Facebook JS SDK to latest version 6.0 [Improvement] Updated ClipBoard JS to latest version 2.0.6

[16 January 2020] = [Bugfix] [Sassy_Follow_Icons] shortcode was not accepting "=" in the url of social networks. Now it can be used in encoded form. [Bugfix] Social Media Follow Icons were appearing broken in some cases [Improvement] Admin UI improvement [Improvement] Removed Wanelo, CiteULike and DZone from social share networks as these services are not functional anymore

[14 December 2019] = [New] Christmas surprise [Bugfix] Pinterest Pin button was showing pin count even if share count was disabled from options

[28 November 2019] = [Bugfix] Previous version was breaking social share on custom posts [New] Added option (in Miscellaneous section) to control if Javascript should be loaded on every page or only where it's needed

[27 November 2019] = [Improvement] Javascript is being loaded only at the webpages where social share icons are integrated [Improvement] Admin UI improvements (Pro and Premium versions now available) [Bugfix] "Load Javascript files in footer" option was coming twice at plugin options page

[6 November 2019] = [Bugfix] Fixed XSS vulnerability on "heateor_sss_sharing_count" AJAX action

[26 October 2019] = [Bugfix] Changing Alignment of floating follow icons was not changing the label of offset option right below that in "Sassy Social Share - Follow Icons" widget

[24 September 2019] = [Bugfix] Custom theme for Social Media Follow icons was not working for Instagram icon, if multi-colored background was enabled

[23 September 2019] = [New] Added option in "Miscellaneous" section to adjust the background color (plain or multi-colored) of Instagram share and follow icon

[21 September 2019] = * [New] Added shortcode [Sassy_Follow_Icons] to integrate social media follow icons * [New] Added option in the social media follow widget to float follow icons vertically * [New] Added Youtube icon in social share networks * [Improvement] Floating social share icons are now compatible with AMP * [Improvement] Using 'wp_add_inline_script' to add inline Javascript code right above the sassy-social-share-public.js file * [Improvement] Updated background of Instagram button to the multicolored one * [Improvement] Facebook App ID for Facebook Messenger is being used from the options (if there is saved any) instead of the hardcoded one * [Bugfix] Email share icon was appearing twice when searching in the "more" share popup * [Bugfix] Center aligning the standard share icons was not center aligning the title above share bar

[3 September 2019] = * [Bugfix] Social share icons were not working with standard and transitional AMP modes

[13 August 2019] = * [Bugfix] Social share icons were not working with standard and transitional AMP modes * [Bugfix] Fixed a PHP warning appearing at plugin options page in some cases * [Improvement] Assigned class "heateor_sss_sharing_title" to the title appearing above the social share icons rendered via shortcode

[19 June 2019] = * [New] Added option to customize logo and background color of social media follow icons * [New] Added Whatsapp in Social Media Follow icons * [Bugfix] Fixed the PHP notices being generated when using the widget * [Bugfix] Updated the background color for Reddit share icon for AMP according to the Reddit branding guidelines

[6 June 2019] = * [Bugfix] Minor bugfixes * [Bugfix] Facebook App ID and Facebook App Secret options were not appearing in Miscellaneous section if Facebook share icon was enabled via shortcode or widget

• [Bugfix] Facebook share count was not working in some cases

• [Bugfix] Performance improvement and minor bugfix

• [New] Added Telegram in social media follow icons
• [Bugfix] Performance improvement

• [Bugfix] Share counts were reduced significantly in some cases after last update

• [Bugfix] Facebook shares were not working because of the expiration of Facebook API v2.8
• [Bugfix] Fixed a PHP error occurring when floating share bar enabled via shortcode
• [Improvement] Share counts are loading faster

• [Bugfix] Social shares for the homepage were reset to 0 after last update in some cases
• [Bugfix] Minor bugfixes

• [Bugfix] Tumblr share stopped working
• [Bugfix] Querystring parameter in the url was causing changes in the share counts for the webpage
• [Improvement] Line share now works with the devices that doesn't support Line app
• [Improvement] Removed Google+ from social share and social media follow icons
• [Improvement] Removed white background from the slider arrow below the floating share icons
• [Improvement] Applied white background to the total shares in the horizontal floating sticky share bar

• [Bugfix] Previous update was generating Javascript error when Whatsapp share icon was not enabled

• [Bugfix] Minor bugfix in Whatsapp share

• [New] Twitter sharer shows title from "Twitter Title" option of Yoast Premium SEO post meta options, if one is specified
• [Bugfix] Whatsapp share was not working in some cases with server cache enabled

• [Bugfix] Alignment of rectangular social share buttons got worse after previous update
• [New] Added Fintel.io social share icon

• [Bugfix] Center alignment for standard share icons was not working in some cases
• [Bugfix] Enabling social share count was not taking effect for rectangular social share/like buttons
• [Bugfix] Fixed mis-alignment of rectangular social share icons
• [Bugfix] Xing share stopped working
• [Bugfix] Whatsapp share was not working on Firefox and Safari browsers
• [New] Added option to hide the slider present below the floating share bar
• [Improvement] Improved the look of slider arrow below the floating share bar

• [New] Included MeWe in social media follow icons
• [Bugfix] Social share icons stopped working in Classic mode of AMP plugin after last update
• [Improvement] Updated background color of Reddit icon according to Reddit branding guidelines

• [New] Included MeWe in social share networks
• [New] Included Xing in social media follow icons
• [Improvement] Added compatibility with Paired and Native modes of AMP plugin

• [New] Added Medium, Odnoklassniki and Vkontakte in social media follow icons widget
• [Improvement] Added "aria-label" attribute in the hyperlinks for social media follow icons
• [Improvement] Added rel="noopener" attribute in the hyperlink for Whatsapp share icon
• [Improvement] Fixed a PHP notice being generated when enabling social share widget from "Appearance > Widgets" page in admin

• [Bugfix] Added TwitCount.com service to get Twitter share counts working again

• [Bugfix] Pinterest shares disappeared due to changes in Pinterest API

• [Bugfix] Hover icon color was not working for Instagram, StockTwits, GentleReader and Mix social share logos (thanks danira-horses.ru)

• [Bugfix] Follow Icons widget was breaking layout of webpage in a few cases
• [Bugfix] Broken "Plugins" page in admin area on multisite installation in some cases
• [Bugfix] Fixed PHP warning "Division by zero..." in "public/class-sassy-social-share-public.php"
• [Bugfix] StockTwits was not there with the other social networks appearing in the "More" share networks popup
• [New] Added Threema
• [Improvement] Improved StockTwits logo
• [Improvement] Whatsapp icon was triggering share in the same browser tab instead of another tab
• Removed Yahoo Bookmarks
• Removed Yahoo Messenger
• Removed Delicious
• Removed Polyvore
• Removed Oknotizie
• Removed Baidu
• Removed DiHITT
• Removed Netlog
• Removed NewsVine
• Removed NUjij
• Removed Segnalo
• Removed Stumpedia
• Removed YouMob

• [Bugfix] Twitter share counts disappeared as newsharecounts.com went dead

• [New] StumbleUpon share is now Mix share
• [Bugfix] Enabling the horizontal sticky floating share bar was causing a white bar to appear at the bottom of webpages in mobile devices where floating bar was not enabled
• [Bugfix] "heateor-sss-no-counts" attribute was causing "disallowed attribute" validation error on AMP
• [Improvement] Meta options for individual posts/pages were also appearing for non-admin users
• [Improvement] "global $post" was generating PHP notices where $post was NULL

• [Bugfix] Social Share counts were not working properly after previous update

• [Bugfix] Facebook shares were not correct in a few cases with Recover Social Share Counts add-on active

• [Improvement] Compatible with GDPR
• [Bugfix] GentleReader logo was not appearing when enabled in social share bar

• [New] Added GentleReader bookmarking service
• [Bugfix] Follow icons were appearing below each-other in a few cases
• [Bugfix] Follow icons were appearing broken if standard or floating share icons were not enabled
• [Improvement] Whatsapp sharing is now compatible with Whatsapp web app
• [Improvement] Improved "More" share icons popup for mobile devices
• [Improvement] Improved admin UI for mobile devices
• [Improvement] Upgraded version of official Facebook SDK being used throughout the plugin
• [Improvement] Link to language codes at plugin options page was broken

• [New] Added "heateor_sss_follow_icons" filter to customize "Follow Icons" widget
• [Improvement] Reduced space between social share icons in AMP for better look

• [Bugfix] Facebook share counts were not getting updated after updating to version 3.1.8 in some cases

• [New] Odnoklassniki share icon now supports share counter
• [Bugfix] Comment icon at homepage was not redirecting to the comment form of individual post
• [Bugfix] Some social media icons in "Follow Icons" widget were appearing broken
• [Improvement] Share count functionality is smoother

• [Improvement] Compatible with AMP
• [New] Included "Sassy Social Share - Follow Icons" widget to integrate Social Media follow icons with the website
• [Bugfix] Social share icons in "more share icons popup" were coming out of it in a few cases

• [Bugfix] "create_function() is deprecated" error was being generated with PHP version 7.2

• [Bugfix] Pinterest save button was misaligned
• [Bugfix] Viber logo was not appearing in Viber share icon, in a few cases
• [Bugfix] Horizontal sticky share bar was truncated on the left when enabling "Auto-adjust according to screen width" option, in a few cases
• [Improvement] Performance improvement

• [Bugfix] Facebook share count was not getting updated with the share counts of other social networks, in a few cases

• [Improvement] Improved share counts functionality
• [Improvement] Performance improvement
• [Bugfix] "Auto-adjust according to screen width" option was not working for horizontal sticky interface, in a few cases

• Google Plus share counts are no longer supported, as the official API no longer serves the share count

• [Improvement] Social Share dialogue was being opened in new tab instead of the popup window, in the latest version of Google Chrome browser

• [Bugfix] Share counts were being cached even when "Refresh Share Count cache every" option (in "Miscellaneous" section) was kept blank

• [New] Included Copy Link, Diaspora, Douban, Draugiem, Facebook Messenger, Google Classroom, Kik, Papaly, Polyvore, Refind, Skype, SMS, Trello, Viber and Telegram in sharing networks
• [New] Added "Comment" icon in sharing networks to send users to comment form at the webpage
• [New] Added search box above the social networks at options page in admin, to find the desired social networks easily
• [New] Added option to append myCRED referral ID to the urls being shared
• [Improvement] Delicious share/bookmark counts are no longer supported, as Delicious bookmark count API is dead
• [Improvement] Improved social share icons
• [Bugfix] Twitter share count was not working in some cases
• [Bugfix] Total share count was not appearing correct in a few cases
• [Bugfix] Share icons were not appearing at the webpages built using Elementor plugin

• [Improvement] Performance improvement for the mobile responsiveness feature added in previous version

• [Improvement] Horizontal sticky sharing bar is now responsive with auto-adjusting width according to device screen
• [Improvement] Sticky horizontal sharing icons were covering website footer on mobile devices
• [Improvement] Share counts are now being rounded off to one decimal

• [Bugfix] Floating sharing icons were not picking up correct title and url at archive pages

• [Bugfix] Plugin "Settings" link at "Plugins" page in admin area was redirecting to wrong page

• [Bugfix] Reddit share count was not appearing in some cases
• [Improvement] Plugin admin UI is compatible with WordPress version 4.7
• [Improvement] Removed deprecated '-moz-box-shadow' from the CSS

• [New] Compatible with Recover Social Share Counts add-on
• [Bugfix] Vkontakte share count was not working in some cases

• [Bugfix] Myspace sharing was not working
• [Bugfix] Myspace was not appearing in "More" share icons popup
• [Bugfix] Colon (:) in post/page title was appearing encoded in Twitter sharing

• [Bugfix] Flipboard sharing was not working due to outdated API
• [New] Twitter sharer shows title from "Twitter Title" option of Yoast SEO post meta options, if one is specified
• [Improvement] Improved share count functionality
• [Improvement] Updated Instagram icon

• [Bugfix] "Widgets" page in admin area was unresponsive, in some cases
• [Bugfix] Share counts were not working for the sharing icons enabled using Shortcode and Widgets, in some cases
• [Improvement] Share count cache was not working for sharing icons enabled using shortcode and widgets

• [Bugfix] Facebook shares were not being included in total shares, in some cases
• [Improvement] Added background color for Pocket share icon
• [Improvement] Default plugin options are being saved for every subsite in multisite network on Network Activating the plugin
• [Improvement] Default plugin options are being saved when a new subsite is created in multisite network

• [Bugfix] Facebook share counts were not appearing on websites with SSL enabled

• [Bugfix] Facebook share icon was appearing distorted in some cases

• [Bugfix] Facebook share counts were not appearing in some cases
• [Bugfix] Shares specified in "Starting share count" option for individual posts/pages were not appearing at homepage
• [Bugfix] Querystring variables were not being appended to the url being shared
• [Bugfix] Border radius was not reverting to default when kept blank in "Theme Selection" section at sharing options page in admin area
• [Improvement] "Share" was being displayed in total share counts for 0 shares, instead of "Shares"
• [Improvement] Admin UI improvement
• [Improvement] Improved Blogger Post icon

• [Bugfix] Share counts suddenly stopped appearing because of deprecated Facebook share count API
• [Improvement] Admin UI improvement

• [Bugfix] Plugin was not picking the homepage url correctly if it was different from the WordPress installation directory
• [New] Included StockTwits and Instagram in sharing networks
• [New] Included official Facebook share button in sharing networks
• [Improvement] Using 'wp_add_inline_script' function to load inline Javascript with external Javascript file

• [Bugfix] '&' in post/page title was breaking the subject in email sharing
• [Bugfix] Pinterest share count was not appearing after updating plugin to version 2.0
• [Bugfix] "Social Share myCRED Integration" add-on was not logging points for sharing in few cases, when cached counts were being displayed
• [New] Added option to disable/enable sharing on AMP pages

• [Bugfix] Pinterest share button was not working after updating to previous version

• [Improvement] Fixed AMP validation errors (thanks @nfabiox85 :) )

• [Bugfix] Sharing title and share counts were appearing in the content of post excerpts at posts page
• [Bugfix] Single and double quotes in post title were appearing encoded when sharing on Twitter
• [Bugfix] Twitter sharer was not fetching correct title if there was a double quote in it.
• [Bugfix] + sign was appearing in the subject when using Email sharing
• [Bugfix] When total share count was 1, "Shares" was being displayed instead of "Share"
• [Bugfix] "Shares/Share" text was not being translated
• [Bugfix] Google +1 and GooglePlus Share official buttons were appearing vertically mis-aligned
• [Improvement] Compatible with AMP (https://wordpress.org/plugins/amp) plugin
• [Improvement] Improved Delecious icon
• [Improvement] Updated Facebook SDK to version 2.5
• [Improvement] Changed background color of Linkedin icon to match its brand guidelines

• [Bugfix] Vkontakte share count was appearing in the form of VK.Share.count(0, 0)
• [Bugfix] Reddit badge was not appearing on webpages having ssl enabled

• [Bugfix] Share counts were messing with the sharing icons in some cases

• [Bugfix] Website title was appearing in homepage content in a few cases
• [Bugfix] Fixed a PHP notice filling error log when enabled WordPress debugging
• [Bugfix] Share counts were not appearing in a few cases
• [Improvement] Share counts are now being cached (using WordPress transients) resulting in faster page loading with share counts enabled
• [Improvement] Twitter logo background color updated to match Twitter's brand guidelines
• [New] Added option to clear Bit.ly shorturl cache
• [New] Added option to clear share counts cache
• [New] Added option to specify time duration to refresh share count cache

• [Improvement] Improved bit.ly short url cache resulting in reduced page load time
• [Improvement] Specified "heateor_sss_sharing_title" class name for the div containing title of sharing interface
• [Improvement] Compatible with "Social Share myCRED Integration" add-on

• [Bugfix] "Logo Color" option was not working for Standard Icon theme selection from previous version
• [Bugfix] Share counts were not appearing if counter position was not specified in "Theme Selection" section
• [Bugfix] Stumbleupon, Xing and Pinterest Pin It official buttons were overlapping each other
• [Bugfix] Last plugin update overrode the previous logo color selection for sharing icons. It won't happen from this update.
• [New] Added option to enable OpenShareCount and NewShareCounts APIs to fetch Twitter share counts
• [Improvement] Compatible with PHP 7
• [Improvement] CSS improvements

• [Bugfix] Default font color of inner share counters was not white
• [Bugfix] Line app logo was not appearing in Line app sharing icon, in a few cases
• [Bugfix] Height of "More" sharing popup was inappropriate in a few cases
• [Improvement] Added links for more customization options in FAQ section at plugin options page
• [Improvement] Improved share counter functionality
• [Improvement] Admin UI improvements

• Initial release of the plugin

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