Novashare WordPress Social Sharing Plugin

Novashare is a premium social sharing plugin for WordPress, built from the ground up with one clear priority: raw speed. Every design decision behind it points to the same goal — maximum performance with as little bloat as possible.

If the name rings a bell, that’s no coincidence. Novashare comes from the same team behind Perfmatters, the well-known WordPress performance optimization plugin. They built Novashare to solve a problem that has plagued social sharing plugins for years: the way they quietly drag down site speed by loading heavy third-party scripts on every page.

To give you a proper look at what this plugin actually offers, here’s a breakdown of its technical architecture, advanced features, customization options, and analytics.

Technical Architecture and Performance Optimization

Novashare isn’t just “light” in the marketing sense. It’s coded to WordPress’s best standards, keeping database load and page load times to an absolute minimum:

• Inline SVG Icons: Most social sharing plugins load an entire icon font library — Font Awesome, for example — just to display a handful of icons. Novashare takes a different route with inline SVG. The icon code is embedded directly into the HTML, which means no extra HTTP requests just to pull in a font file.
• Efficient CSS: Every line of Novashare’s CSS is written lean and bundled together, so you won’t find render-blocking resources holding up your pages.
• Responsive by Default: Share buttons scale automatically across desktop, tablet, and mobile — no bulky JavaScript required to make it happen.

Advanced Features and Share Count Management

Displaying share counts is one of the most common reasons sites slow to a crawl. The plugin has to constantly ping social networks like Facebook and Pinterest for fresh data. Novashare handles this in a smarter way:

• Caching and Refresh Rates: Share counts are stored in your WordPress database using transients, and they only refresh at intervals you control — every 12 or 24 hours, for instance.
• Share Count Recovery: Ever changed your site’s URL structure — say, from HTTP to HTTPS, or switched permalink formats? Your old share counts usually vanish. Novashare’s Share Count Recovery feature merges data from the old and new URLs, so your numbers don’t reset to zero.
• Minimum Share Count: You can hide the counter until an article hits a certain threshold. Want to show numbers only after a post has been shared 10 times? That’s entirely doable — and it spares you the awkward look of a near-empty counter.

Design Options and Customization

Despite its performance-first mindset, Novashare gives you plenty of room to shape how the buttons look and where they sit, so they blend with your site’s branding:

1. Multi-Location Button Placement

You can run several layouts at once:

• Inline Content: Above the content, below it, or both.
• Floating Bar: A button bar that hovers along the left or right edge on desktop, or sticks to the bottom of the screen on mobile.
• Shortcodes and Widgets: Drop buttons manually anywhere your theme allows.

2. Visual Styling

You’re free to change button shapes (square, round, or rectangular), color schemes (official brand colors or custom tones that match your theme), and whether to show or hide social network names — icons alone, or icons with labels.

Analytics and Tracking Integration

For business owners and digital marketers, understanding reader behavior matters. Novashare builds tracking in natively — no extra plugins needed:

• Google Analytics (UTM Parameters): Novashare automatically appends UTM parameters to every shared link, making it easy to see in Google Analytics which platforms send you the most traffic.
• Link Shortening: It plays nicely with services like Bitly, so your shared links stay tidy and easy to track.
• Click Tracking: A lightweight JavaScript-based event tracker logs which social networks your visitors click most — in real time.

Strong Pinterest-Specific Features

Pinterest drives serious traffic for certain niches — food, home decor, and fashion among them. Novashare gives the platform extra attention:

• Pinterest Image Hover: A “Pin” button appears automatically in the corner of an image when a visitor hovers over it.
• Hidden Pinterest Images: You can tuck a vertical image (Pinterest’s ideal format) inside your article. Readers won’t see it, but when someone clicks the Pinterest button, that hidden image is the one that gets pulled for the pin.

How to Download

1. Log in to your GPLShare account
2. Go to your download history
3. Download Novashare v1.6.9 from the list provided
4. Or download directly from this page if you have a premium membership
5. That’s it! Enjoy the full version of Novashare.

How to Install Plugin

1. Please ensure that you download the .zip file from GPLShare
2. Before installing, you must first unzip the novashare-1.6.9-pack.zip file
3. Go to WordPress Admin → Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin
4. Choose the .zip installer file and click Install Now
5. After installation, click Activate Plugin
6. Done! Novashare is now active on your site

How to Activate License

Basically, the license credentials are not required, as they are only needed to receive updates. However, if you wish to activate the license, here are the instructions

1. Once installed, navigate to the License section.
2. Enter the required license credentials. (The license credentials can be found inside the package file you downloaded.)
3. Done.