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Simple Social Media Share Buttons – Social Sharing for Everyone v7.1.0

Simple Social Buttons adds ( with lots of options like Sidebar, inline, above and below the posts content, on photos, popups, fly ins ) an advanced set of social media sharing buttons to your WordPres...

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  • Audit coverage Up to date 30 versions audited
  • On Plugin Auditor since Sep 11, 2026
  • Last audited Sep 11, 2026

Compatibility & requirements

The PHP and WordPress versions this plugin needs, and how current its version support is.

  • Requires PHP 5.6+
  • Requires WordPress 4.0+
  • Tested up to WP 7.0 WP 7.1.3 is current
  • Version adoption 33% run the current version

Audit scores by category

125 checks

How this plugin scores across the six areas we audit, from security to accessibility.

  • 95 Passed
  • 23 Warnings
  • 7 Failed
Security 73/100
Needs Improvement

27 of 37 checks passed.

Code Quality 89/100
Good

54 of 61 checks passed.

Performance 67/100
Needs Improvement

8 of 12 checks passed.

Compatibility 33/100
Poor

2 of 6 checks passed.

Privacy 67/100
Needs Improvement

2 of 3 checks passed.

Accessibility 33/100
Poor

2 of 6 checks passed.

Code footprint

How much code ships in this plugin, and the file types that make it up.

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ZIP file size

628.1 KB

2.2 MB unzipped

Total files

124

across all file types

Lines of PHP

22,909

in 39 files Medium

File types

  • PHP
  • SVG
  • CSS
  • MO
  • Other

Top issues

The most important findings from the latest audit, ordered by severity.

  • 0 Critical
  • 70 High
  • 78 Medium
  • 89 Low

This is a preview of notable findings. Full file-level results, line numbers and code context are in the scan.

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How scores changed across versions

Across 30 audited versions of Simple Social Media Share Buttons – Social Sharing for Everyone, Code Quality improved the most (+15). The largest regression was in Privacy (-33). The codebase grew 244% in size.

Audited 3.0.0 → 7.1.0 · 30 versions

0 50 100 3.0.0 4.0.1 5.3.0 7.1.0

How issues changed across versions

Findings by severity for each audited version, so you can see which issues were fixed over time.

0 315 630 3.0.0 4.0.1 5.3.0 7.1.0

Download momentum

How fast this plugin is being installed lately, and whether that pace is rising or slowing.

Last 7 days

1,032

downloads

Today

139

downloads

Week over week

−8%

vs previous week

Month over month

−78%

vs previous month

Download trend: Declining. Abandonment risk: None.

Version intelligence

67% of installs run an older version

≈ 13.4K+ sites on a lower-scoring version.

  • Other
  • v6.2
  • v7.0
  • v7.1

Ratings

194 ratings on WordPress.org

  • 5 171
  • 4 12
  • 3 6
  • 2 0
  • 1 5

Support: 1 / 1 threads resolved in the last two months

Maintenance & history

How actively this plugin is kept up, from its last update to its release history.

Last updated

1 mo ago

Aug 4, 2026

Actively maintained

Release cadence

~ every 20 days

average between releases

Total releases

96

since Sep 2011 · 15 yrs

Contributors & developers

The people credited with building and maintaining this plugin.

Running Simple Social Media Share Buttons in Your Site?

Our latest audit of Simple Social Media Share Buttons v7.1.0 flagged 237 issues. Scan your own copy to see each one with its exact file, line number, and a recommended fix.

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