Simply Amazing!

  • Plugin Author Nick Halsey

    (@celloexpressions)


    11 years, 3 months ago

    As the plugin developer, I’m obviously biased. But I truly feel that this is an amazing plugin.

    I released my first plugin just a year ago (Floating Social Media Links), and QuickShare represents everything I’ve learned since then. I approached the plugin’s architecture with a vision of flexibility and fast performance and utilize modern web standards to offer a robust set of options.

    QuickShare features a flexible design and functionality that just works. Because everything visual is built with CSS, there are infinite possibilities for customization and the custom CSS field on the options page ensures that plugin-related code remains in a logical place. My favorite little touch: the live sharing preview on the design settings page. Even your custom CSS is applied as you edit it! This feature almost didn’t make the initial release but I’m thrilled to offer it.

    This is the most polished plugin I’ve released to date, but there are some flaws (mostly just minor annoyances). The good news for me is that I can’t control most of these drawbacks. For example, Genericons still need to be packaged with QuickShare (although I was able to advocate for friendlier interaction between plugins and the Twenty Thirteen theme). If I’m eventually able to load Genericons externally (ie, as a google font or from WordPress core), that would reduce the QuickShare package size by half.

    If you do find something I can do to make QuickShare even better, please tell me! I just ask that if you’re going to write a review, write a review (good or bad) but if you’re looking for support, please go to the support forum!

    I hope you enjoy QuickShare as much as I do!

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