Title: rtSocial
Author: rtCamp
Published: <strong>October 14, 2011</strong>
Last modified: July 24, 2024

---

Search plugins

![](https://ps.w.org/rtsocial/assets/banner-772x250.jpg?rev=479169)

This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/rtsocial_e4f2e8.svg)

# rtSocial

 By [rtCamp](https://profiles.wordpress.org/rtcamp/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/rtsocial.2.2.4.zip)

 * [Details](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/rtsocial/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/rtsocial/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/rtsocial/#installation)
 * [Development](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/rtsocial/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/rtsocial/)

## Description

Normally social sharing codes provided by facebook, twitter, etc renders iframes
at run-time. These iframes increases page-size and slow-down your website (on client-
side).

The power of this plugin lies in non-blocking JavaScript. Normally social sharing
links use iframes to output their content viz. icon images, share counts etc. The
load time of these iframes block the page load, and hence slow down the site. The
slowest is on pages with multiple instances of sharing links (e. g. blog indexes).
rtSocial uses non blocking JavaScript to get all the data in one shot, and injects
them in the mark-up. And it uses a single sprite with all the images required, hence
eliminating the need to load the images from the service provider’s CDN. Comes with
minimal settings, options to display the links automatically above and below the
content, choose FB button styles and layouts. A simple function call lets you to
display the links anywhere in your theme!

With just 1 image (CSS-sprite), 1 JavaScript and 1 CSS file loaded from WordPress-
running server; counts are fetched using AJAX request for sites like facebook/twitter
after page loading finishes.

#### Supported Social Channels

 * Facebook
 * Twitter
 * LinkedIn
 * Pinterest

#### Useful Links

 * [rtSocial Plugin’s Homepage](http://rtcamp.com/rtsocial/)
 * [Free Support Forum](http://community.rtcamp.com/c/rtsocial)

## Installation

Install rtSocial plugin from the ‘Plugins’ section in your dashboard (Plugins > 
Add New > Search for rtSocial).

Alternatively you can [download latest version](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/rtsocial.zip)
of rtSocial plugin from the repository. Unzip it and upload it to the plugins folder
of your WordPress installation (wp-content/plugins/ directory of your WordPress 
installation).

Activate it through the ‘Plugins’ section.

Adjust the plugin settings from the settings section (Settings > rtSocial Options).

## FAQ

### Can I use the plugin anywhere in the theme?

Yes you can. Use the function call

### Can I modify the images/icons used?

No. Right now you cannot.

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“rtSocial” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this
plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ rtCamp ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/rtcamp/)
 *   [ Rahul Bansal ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/rahul286/)
 *   [ faishal ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/faishal/)
 *   [ Ritesh Patel ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ritteshpatel/)
 *   [ Sanket Parmar ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sanketparmar/)
 *   [ Pranali Patel ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/pranalipatel/)
 *   [ Umesh Kumar ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/umeshsingla/)
 *   [ Rutwick Gangurde ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/rutwick/)
 *   [ Saurabh ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/saurabhshukla/)
 *   [ Harish Chaudhari ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/harishchaudhari/)
 *   [ Sumit Singh ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/5um17/)
 *   [ Joshua Abenazer ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/joshuaabenazer/)
 *   [ paddyohanlon ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/paddyohanlon/)
 *   [ Chandra Patel ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/chandrapatel/)
 *   [ 1naveengiri ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/1naveengiri/)
 *   [ Bunty ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bhargavbhandari90/)
 *   [ Amit Dudhat ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/coderboy007/)
 *   [ vaishaliagola27 ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/vaishuagola27/)
 *   [ Pooja Killekar (Muchandikar) ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/pooja1210/)
 *   [ Milind More ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/milindmore22/)
 *   [ Pavan Patil ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/pavanpatil1/)
 *   [ Mukul Singh ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mukulsingh27/)
 *   [ Amaan Khan ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/akrocks/)

[Translate “rtSocial” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/rtsocial)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/rtsocial/), check out
the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/rtsocial/), or subscribe 
to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/rtsocial/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/rtsocial/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 2.2.4

 * ENHANCEMENTS
    - Updated hide count checkbox to toggle button in plugin settings.
    - Added conditional check for Facebook access token.
    - Compatible with WordPress v6.4.2.
    - Compatible with PHP v8.2.
 * FIXED
    - Fixed phpcs issues.

#### 2.2.3

 * ENHANCEMENTS
    - Compatible with WordPress latest version v5.9.1.
    - Provided setting options for Facebook APP-ID.
    - Added support for print friendly plugin.
 * FIXED
    - UI/UX issues
    - Fixed support forum redirection link issue

#### 2.2.2

 * Remove – Google Plus Icons and functions.
 * Improved – Improved code with phpcs.
 * Removed – Twitter commented code.
 * Updated – Plain texts to WPi18n functions.
 * Compatibility testing with 5.6.

#### 2.2.1

 * Bug fix for google plus counter
 * Bug fix for stylesheet not loading if other plugins uses the same stylesheet 
   handler – Thanks to [mahathun] (https://github.com/mahathun)
 * Fixed – Plugin settings used to get deleted when plug in deactivated

#### 2.2.0

 * Use new object structure for Facebook share count
 * Remove Twitter count
 * Add a new option on post/page to remove social-media sharing buttons

#### 2.1.19

 * Bug fix for network activation in multisite
 * CSS fixes

#### 2.1.18

 * Bug fix for invalid markup
 * Bug fix for Google+ button

#### 2.1.17

 * Use Google api key for Google+
 * Use wp_remote_request instead of CURL

#### 2.1.16

 * Updated compatible upto

#### 2.1.15

 * Add additional filters
 * Fix https issue
 * Fix CSS prefix conflict
 * Fix other minor issue

#### 2.1.14

 * Add filter for permalink.

#### 2.1.13

 * Fixed bug when no buttons are active.

#### 2.1.12

 * Fixed Tweet button and changed protocol to https.

#### 2.1.11

 * Fixed Tweet button. URLs were missing in the tweet.

#### 2.1.10

 * Fixed facebook share button.

#### 2.1.9

 * Fixed bug where 0’s turned up in RSS entries

#### 2.1.8

 * Removed page summary from Linked in share. It was too undependable and unpredictable.

#### 2.1.7

 * Reverted excerpt function. Fixed non-display of rtsocial.

#### 2.1.6

 * Fixed inadvertent typo.

#### 2.1.5

 * Fixed bug with post excerpts on archive pages. Thanks to [iseroma](https://profiles.wordpress.org/iseroma/)
   for reporting this.

#### 2.1.4

 * Fixed bug with facebook counts on IE. Thanks to [ward00](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ward00/)
   for reporting this.

#### 2.1.3

 * Fixed bug on archive pages

#### 2.1.2

 * Fixed LinkedIn share button
 * Updated facebook button because the earlier graph url won’t give counts anymore

#### 2.1.1

 * Improved title output

#### 2.1

 * Added rel nofollow to all buttons.
 * Fixed bug where unnecessary slashes were added to _blank. Thanks to [Vinity](http://rtcamp.com/support/topic/minor-html-code-flaw-suggestions/)
   for pointing this out
 * Added titles to all buttons

#### 2.0.2

 * Added fallback image for Pinterest
 * Added functionality to over-ride options (Manual Mode)
 * Fixed ID conflicts
 * Changed default text for Pinterest to post title

#### 2.0.1

 * Fixed few issues reported by users

#### 2.0

 * Added support for Google Plus, LinkedIn and Pinterest
 * Custom URL Encode function
 * Fixed few issues reported by users
 * Enhanced Options Page

#### 1.0.2

 * URL Encode Improved

#### 1.0.1

 * Fixed minor CSS issue

#### 1.0

 * Initial Release

## Meta

 *  Version **2.2.4**
 *  Last updated **2 years ago**
 *  Active installations **50+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.6.5**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/rtsocial/)
 * Tags
 * [rtcamp](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/rtcamp/)[share](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/share/)
   [sharing](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/sharing/)[social](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/social/)
   [social links](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/social-links/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/rtsocial/advanced/)

## Ratings

 4.7 out of 5 stars.

 *  [  7 5-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/rtsocial/reviews/?filter=5)
 *  [  1 4-star review     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/rtsocial/reviews/?filter=4)
 *  [  1 3-star review     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/rtsocial/reviews/?filter=3)
 *  [  0 2-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/rtsocial/reviews/?filter=2)
 *  [  0 1-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/rtsocial/reviews/?filter=1)

[Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/rtsocial/reviews/#new-post)

[See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/rtsocial/reviews/)

## Contributors

 *   [ rtCamp ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/rtcamp/)
 *   [ Rahul Bansal ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/rahul286/)
 *   [ faishal ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/faishal/)
 *   [ Ritesh Patel ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ritteshpatel/)
 *   [ Sanket Parmar ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sanketparmar/)
 *   [ Pranali Patel ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/pranalipatel/)
 *   [ Umesh Kumar ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/umeshsingla/)
 *   [ Rutwick Gangurde ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/rutwick/)
 *   [ Saurabh ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/saurabhshukla/)
 *   [ Harish Chaudhari ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/harishchaudhari/)
 *   [ Sumit Singh ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/5um17/)
 *   [ Joshua Abenazer ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/joshuaabenazer/)
 *   [ paddyohanlon ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/paddyohanlon/)
 *   [ Chandra Patel ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/chandrapatel/)
 *   [ 1naveengiri ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/1naveengiri/)
 *   [ Bunty ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bhargavbhandari90/)
 *   [ Amit Dudhat ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/coderboy007/)
 *   [ vaishaliagola27 ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/vaishuagola27/)
 *   [ Pooja Killekar (Muchandikar) ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/pooja1210/)
 *   [ Milind More ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/milindmore22/)
 *   [ Pavan Patil ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/pavanpatil1/)
 *   [ Mukul Singh ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mukulsingh27/)
 *   [ Amaan Khan ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/akrocks/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/rtsocial/)

## Donate

Would you like to support the advancement of this plugin?

 [ Donate to this plugin ](http://rtcamp.com/donate/)