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Nowadays, a website can not possibly be fast enough. Particularly because loading speed now constitutes a ranking factor for Google, optimizing the performance is a major task. There are a number of performance drags. One of the bigger ones is the often popular “share button” of the big social networks. These usually load a considerable amount of JavaScript from their home servers, thus bloating the website unnecessarily. More often than we would care for, the buttons “hang” because the required code cannot be loaded from the server as fast as necessary. This can delay the loading of your whole page significantly. There are alternatives, however. In this article, we will show you how you integrate WordPress and Social Media. We will create share buttons for the most important social networks as static elements and add them to your WordPress-powered website without using JavaScript. Static Share Buttons in Two Variants Today, we present you the buttons in two variants, one with and one without counter. Moreover, we also show you the easiest way of including these buttons in your WordPress theme. For that, we create a WordPress function, which is then implemented into the functions.php of the WordPress theme concerned. That […]