{"id":84,"date":"2014-07-01T15:06:45","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T19:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/diananichols.wpengine.com\/?p=84"},"modified":"2016-09-22T06:49:56","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T10:49:56","slug":"social-share-buttons-without-plugin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpwhatnot.com\/social-share-buttons-without-plugin\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Share Buttons Without a Plugin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most sharing plugins are too loaded with options, and tend to slow down my sites.<\/p>\n<p>I wrote this simple script to counter that.<\/p>\n<p>Create this file and name it &#8220;sharebuttons.php&#8221;. 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