Love or loathe them, sharing buttons will not go away for a while. The default social media sharing scripts provided by the networks themselves are big, often download multiple files and track users across the web.
Social Media Sharing Buttons generator outputs social media sharing buttons that do not use JavaScript, which means they load incredibly fast (they only use a single HTTP request), don’t block your website from rendering, are accessible and don’t track the user. (Also, they look nice). Using these buttons is as easy as copying the HTML code into your .html files, and the CSS code into your .css file.
Requirements: –
Demo: http://sharingbuttons.io/
License: MIT License
Landscape is a powerful image resizing tool designed to help social media marketers, content creators and business owners develop a standout presence in an increasingly visual social world. Their tool offers social media professionals an efficient way to produce multiple image sizes optimized for social media profiles, messages and campaigns – ultimately giving them more time to focus on what matters most: fostering engagement and authentic conversations through social.
Requirements: –
Demo: http://sproutsocial.com/landscape
License: License Free
NodeBB is a better forum platform for the modern web. It’s free and easy to use. NodeBB Forum Software is powered by Node.js and built on either a Redis or MongoDB database. It utilizes web sockets for instant interactions and real-time notifications. NodeBB is compatible down to IE8 and has many modern features out of the box such as social network integration and streaming discussions.
Requirements: Node.js, Redis, nginx
Demo: https://nodebb.org/
License: GPL License
Ridiculously Responsive Social Sharing Buttons(RRSSB) is built with SASS, so you can easily customize it by tweaking a few variables. SVGs allow for tiny file size and retina support. Add or remove icons as you see fit — the rest will fill in automatically in the container. Adding a class of popup to the anchor tag for each share button will make the share dialog open in a popup, rather than a new window.
Requirements: SASS
Demo: http://kurtnoble.com/labs/rrssb/
License: See License
In the early days of internet the bulletin boards were rife with debate and conversation. Interactions were meaningful and the discussions had validity. After the latest trend of social websites these kinds of discussions have all but vanished. Today the conversations are littered with memes, funny pictures, viral videos, and trolling responses.
Moot is a radically different discussion platform, unencumbered by the weight of unnecessary features and distractions. It places the conversation back to the forefront. Clean user interface, persistent content and deep integration into the site will allow a more natural and meaningful discussion to take place. People will focus on topics they care about. You can add conversations to any site with a few lines of HTML. Gorgeous discussions, yours for free.
Requirements: –
Demo: https://moot.it/
License: License Free
ClassySocial is a jQuery plugin that lets your site visitors easily see what networks you belong to and visit them in a click of a button. Currently supports Facebook, Twitter, Dribbble, Socl, Youtube, Vimeo, Google Plus, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Instagram and e-mail.
Allow your users to see your presence on 11 of the most popular networks instantly with no need for a knowledge of coding! Have links to your social profiles shown in a slick way, sure to impress your users.
Requirements: jQuery Framework
Demo: http://www.class.pm/projects/jquery/classysocial/
License: GPL License
#50C1AL is a jQuery Plugin for Listing accounts and Sharing page. There are some options for animations like launchpad, launchpadReverse, slideTop, slideRight, slideBottom, slideLeft and chain effect.
It supports blogger, delicious, digg, facebook, friendfeed, google, linkedin, myspace, pinterest, reddit, stumbleupon, tumblr, twitter, windows and yahoo. You can also make the background blur easily as well.
Requirements: jQuery Framework
Download Link: http://tolgaergin.com/files/social/
License: License Free
Telescope is an open-source social news app, built with Meteor, a real-time Javascript framework. It supports Real-time updating, Markdown with EpicEditor, Post categories, Invite-only access, Email or Twitter authentification, Day-by-day digest view, Posting rate limit and Notifications.
The design is responsive and mobile-ready. You can think of Telescope as a social news website like Hacker News or Reddit. Telescope is beta software. Most of it should work but it’s still a little unpolished and you’ll probably find some bugs. It is open sourced and released under MIT license.
Requirements: Meteor Framework
Demo: http://telesc.pe/
License: MIT License
SocialCount is a jQuery plugin to add sharing widgets in a responsible way. It is easily customize to your site’s design. It works with mouse, touchscreen, or keyboard. Progressively enhanced from simple sharing links: share without JavaScript or before JavaScript has loaded.
It supports Lazily load individual native widgets when the user expresses intent to share, allowing embedded Like/+1 without leaving the current page. And best of all, it’s small and concise, only 3KB for the JavaScript and CSS after minification and gzip.
Requirements: jQuery Framework
Demo: http://filamentgroup.com/lab/socialcount/
License: MIT License
Socialite v2 provides a very easy way to implement and activate a plethora of social sharing buttons — any time you wish. On document load, on article hover, on any event. If you’re selling your soul, you may as well do it asynchronously. Socialite won’t cause document rendering to hang while waiting for 50kb of social media.
Socialite is less than 5kb when minified and compressed. It support for Twitter, Google+, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest and Spotify. It has been tested in all browsers. There is no dependencies to use.
Requirements: JavaScript Framework
Demo: http://socialitejs.com/
License: BSD, MIT License
