The name Social Snap says it all. It is a complete Social Sharing plugin you will ever need to increase your social network engagement. If you are new to WordPress Blogging or trying to find ways to attract new customers for your website then you will come across the term ‘Digital Marketing’. Digital Marketing itself is a huge and tedious job that requires constant efforts over time. Social Media Marketing is an important part of Digital Marketing. To do that you need to make people aware of your existence on WWW, you need to increase your coverage on social network platforms. And this tool will help you to achieve just that.
Today I am going to review this small, yet powerful plugin which has taken the WordPress industry by the storm over the last few months. Recently I was setting up my new Blog Website and, after doing some research, I came across this plugin. And after using it, I realized how it lives up to its name. I will share my personal opinions on how to use and what features it has to offer.
Social Snap is somewhat new in the market, it has a simple, yet polished interface and a long list of features, making it a great option to use on your site. It gives full control over every little detail that every plugin should do but in the end, fails. However, Social Snap doesn’t and makes sure you get what you are paying. Now before wasting any more time, let’s get on the features.
Social Snap Features
Social Snap has many features as you can see from the image above. It has a sidebar that hosts all the settings and a Live Preview section that comes handy after making changes to see what it looks like.
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Social Sharing – This features lets you add over 30+ Most Popular Social Networks & Apps allowing your visitors to share your content through their favorite app or network. You can manage how many network icons to show, where to display and more. You can continue reading about each setting further below.
In Manage Network Setting of Social Sharing you will find the options to add or remove the Social network icons. You can even drag them up or down to change their position. In addition if you are interested in showing Facebook or Twitter Share Count, there are multiple options available to choose from.
For Facebook, the share count providers are:-
- Social Snap App
- Facebook Graph
- APISharedCount.com
For Twitter, the share count providers are:-
- Social Snap App
- Facebook Graph
- APISharedCount.com
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In Floating Sidebar Setting of Social Sharing you will find the options to related to floating sidebar similar to sidebar you are seeing on the right side of this page. I have listed all the options below as well as you can see them on the image carousel above also. I have also tried to explain each options as much as possible:-
- Enable Sidebar
- Sidebar Position (Shown in above image carousel all the available options)
- Vertical Offset
- Button Shape (Rounded, Circle, Rectangle)
- Button Size (Large, Medium, Small)
- Display on (Home, Post Page, Post, Page, Template)
- Button Spacing – Show additiona space between share buttons
- All Networks – It will place a + Button which will allow visitors to choose from all available networks.
- Network Label Tooltips
- Total Share Count
- Share Count
- Hide on Mobile – Very useful feature for improving mobile UX
- View Count
- Min Share Count – This will hide your current share count value until it reaches your mentioned value
- Entrance Animation (Shown in above image carousel all the available options)
- Button Hover Animation (Shown in above image carousel all the available options)
- Total Share Count: Light Text – This is useful if you are having dark theme.
- Custom Colors – You can even choose the color of your choice for share buttons
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In Inline Buttons Setting of Social Sharing you will find the options to related to inline share buttons similar to the buttons on this page after the posts end. All the features available are listed below and shown in images above:-
- Enable Inline Buttons
- Position (Shown in above image carousel all the available options)
- Alignment (Shown in above image carousel all the available options)
- Share label
- Button Shape Rounded, Circle, Rectangle, Slanted)
- Button Size (Large, Medium, Small)
- Button Labels
- Display on (Home, Post Page, Post, Page, Template)
- Blog displays full post instead of post excerpt?
- Button Spacing
- All Networks
- Hide on Mobile
- Total Shares
- Total Shares Style (Shown in above image carousel all the available options)
- Total Shares Placement (Left or Right)
- Min Share Count
- Button Hover Animation (Shown in above image carousel all the available options)
- Text Color Scheme: Light Text
- Custom Colors
In Display on Media Setting of Social Sharing you will be able to choose whether to show your selected social share button on images as well.
In Share Hub Setting of Social Sharing you will be able to collapse all the share buttons and hide under one umbrella (see preview window bottom right). And when visitor clicks on the floating umbrella all the available share buttons will pop up. You will get all the same options to configure the hidden share buttons that I discussed in previous settings.
Last in Social Sharing is Sticky Bar Setting. If you don’t like the floating sidebar or inline button and want something different. Then Stick Bar is what you should look for. All the social share button will stay either top or bottom of the screen all the time. You will get lots of customization similar to what I have discussed before.
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Social Follow – Next on the list is Social Follow that simply display no of followers you have on your social networking platforms. This helps in building confidence in new visitors who may or may not know you completely. As you can see from the above images you will get lots of Social Platform to select from and customize them as you want it. You will get the preview of the same in the Preview Window.
Click to Tweet – You will get 6 different styles to choose from. I haven’t configured it as I didn’t find it very useful.
Social Meta – Here you will be able to configure the Meta information for Twitter and Facebook
Social Identity – If you want you can provide your social network Identities for Twitter, Pinterest and Facebook.
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Advance – Here you will find all the advance settings related to Social Snap.
- Analytics Tracking – You can choose Click Tracking or UTM Tracking for Analytics.
- Share Count Recovery – if you have changed the permalinks or switched to SSL you can recover your lost clicks and shares.
- Link Shortening – If you have long page/post url which you would like to short then you can use or create your Bit.ly account and it will integrate with Social Snap.
- Plugin Migration – If you are using any other Social Plugin then this option will help you to migrate settings.
- GDPR Compliance – If your site has visitors from Europe then you will have to follow GDPR policies to retain these visitors. For that you will get the options to disable cookies and disable storing IP Addresses for your visitors.
Statistics – It is very useful for optimizing you social snap plugins and get more insights about your website. You will get to know about no of Tweets , shares and likes you got on your social networking platforms. You can filter the data by Location, Date and more to build a Graph to get clear visualization.
Social Snap Addons
Social Login
Social Login addon for Social Snap allows your users to log in to your website through their favorite social networks.Boost Old Posts
Boost Old Posts addon for Social Snap brings your old posts to life by automatically posting them on your social media.Auto Poster
Auto Poster addon for Social Snap allows you to automate posting on social media whenever you publish a new article.Content Locker – Coming Soon
Ask your visitors to share your post in order to access the content behind the button. Increase your social sharing and engagement with your visitors!Facebook Messenger Chat – Coming Soon
This will let your visitor communicate in real time. It will be very useful if you are running any e-commerce based website or where customer support is required.Personally I haven’t got my hands on the these Addons. But all these addons are pretty useful for any WordPress based website who would want better exposure to Social Network platforms. As a Blogger I would really recommend Social Auto – Poster and Boost Old Posts as a must have.
Social Snap Pricing Models
Social Snap is available in 4 different plans, Agency, Pro, Plus and Lite. Lite being free and can be downloaded from WordPress plugins. Other 3 are available from official website which are paid. Addons are only available on Pro and Agency Plan. And right now there is 30% discount going on which makes it a sweet spot.
Social Snap Support
Social Snap has a very well written documentation available on their site. So if you facing any trouble you can always refer and get it solved and if it still persists then you can always raise support ticket which get taken care at High Priority.
Social Snap Final Thoughts
After trying out Social Snap and other available similar plugins I found out Social Snap to be the best. It has well designed interface which makes easy for any newcomer to navigate and configure. And the detail customization available at your disposal makes it perfect plugin out there in market. It is very light weighted which doesn’t affects your website speed.
And if you are using Elementor just like me then don’t have to worry, it integrates very well. And the cheapest plan is available at $39 per year that translates to $3.25 per month which is quite cheap. The ongoing discount is a cherry on the top which makes it $2.27 per month. Well you can also give it a try and if not satisfied they promise 30 Day Money Back Guarantee.
Use Coupon Code GET30 for 30% discount on the checkout.
If you liked this review and interested in trying Social Snap you can use below links:-
Do try and let me know your overall experience in the comments below.
