[Support request] Social icons

[Pedro]

Hello! I would like to add some icons in the blog articles to share the post.

Any plugin that you recommend that is light and adapts very well to Generatepres?

Thank you!

[Leo]

Hi there,

We don’t really have a usual suggestion for this but someone did mention this the other day:
https://generatepress.com/forums/topic/social-share-plugin-using-svgs/

All social sharing plugins should work well with GP 🙂

[Hasan]

Hi Pedro,

What is the difference of the plug-in with the social buttons generated by JetPack? Since I already have JetPack for other functionalities, why should I use a separate plug-in for this?

Thanks!

[Ender]

Read here:

http://pagepipe.com/the-truth-about-jetpack/

Another good Plugin is:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/gp-social-share-svg/

[Pedro]

Hello Hasan!

Just as Ender commented, Jetpack is a pretty heavy plugin that will add more load time to the site.

So I have not used it on my sites for several years now.

[Hasan]

Thanks Ender & Pedro for shedding light on this! Really interesting read on JetPack!

I was thinking about getting rid of JetPack for a long time but was not able to let the site stat and the tiles gallery module go. I love these features and use only these two, but I guess it is time for me to get rid of JetPack.

Already removed JetPack from a new site and installed the social share plug-in that Leo shared. Hopefully will be able to get rid of it from the main site too soon!

[David]

Thanks guys for providing your feedback 🙂

[Hasan]

By the way, anyone know about any light-weight gallery plugin that can display images in masonry view like JetPack?

[David]

Envira Gallery and FooGallery get good feedback – but you may need the premium versions for some features.

[Hasan]

Thanks David! Both of them seems to come with huge features and heavy JavaScript. Is there any popular very lightweight plugin for this? I just need a masonry layout like JetPack – nothing else.

[David]

Nearly all i have seen use JS, not really found one that is super lightweight. Personally if i want a simple masonry gallery i would do this:

1. Add a Gallery Image Block. Select your images and set the columns to 1.
2. Add this CSS:

@media (min-width: 769px) {
    .masonry-gallery {
        display: block;
        column-count: 3;
    }
}
@media (max-width: 768px) and (min-width: 420px) {
    .masonry-gallery {
        display: block;
        column-count: 2;
    }
}

[Ender]

You could do it with pure css and flexbox.

See example here:
https://codepen.io/digistate/pen/GqKJNj

[David]

Flexbox method is good but it does virtually the exact same thing is the column-count method… little less CSS 🙂

[Ender]

That is correct. You are right.

I have another question, i open a new topic.

[David]

Thanks – this topic has gonna little off piste

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