Social Counters (social-counters) free WordPress plugin

It allows to place counters and social sharing links to the most popular social networks like Menéame, Twitter, Facebook, Google Buzz, Tuenti or Bitacoras.com.

It also has WordPress actions (add_action) and filters (add_filter) allowing to select the social sharing links we want to show.

The available functions are:

• the_social_counters( $counters = array() ): Displays selected social counters.

  • $counters: Array with list of social counters to view, by default bitacoras,tuenti,google-buzz,meneame,twitter,facebook

• the_social_counters__get ( $counters = array() ): Returns the selected social counters.

  • $counters: Array with list of social counters to view, by default bitacoras,tuenti,google-buzz,meneame,twitter,facebook

• social_counter( $social_counter = '', $postparam = false, $linked = true ): Displays a particular social counter

  • $social_counter: Name of social counter, by default the options are bitacoras,tuenti,google-buzz,meneame,twitter,facebook
  • $postparam: $post object to get the counter, by default system use global $post;
  • $linked: Simple option to de-activate link.

• social_counter__get( $social_counter = '', $postparam = false, $linked = true ): Returns a particular social counter

  • $social_counter: Name of social counter, by default the options are bitacoras,tuenti,google-buzz,meneame,twitter,facebook
  • $postparam: $post object to get the counter, by default system uses global $post var.
  • $linked: Simple option to de-activate link.

It’s also possible to define two constants in ‘wp-config.php’…

• SOCIAL_COUNTER__LOAD_CSS: If we define this constant as false, the plugin will not load the default style.
• SOCIAL_COUNTER__LOAD_CSS_SMALL: If we define this constanta as true, the plugin will load de small icons.
• SOCIAL_COUNTER__TWITTER_USER: The twitter sharing link includes this username with the RT link.