Simple X Buttons – Share, Follow, Mention & Hashtag for WordPress

Simple X Buttons adds X (Twitter) buttons to your WordPress posts and pages — the right way.

Why not use X’s official embed buttons?

X’s embed infrastructure ( platform.twitter.com/widgets.js ) has been unreliable since 2023, hitting HTTP 429 rate limits at scale and causing embeds to fail silently or load slowly. X has not committed to fixing this.

This plugin takes a different approach entirely.

What are X Web Intents?

Web Intents are plain URLs provided by X for sharing, following, mentioning, and more. They open a lightweight native X popup — no JavaScript SDK, no third-party cookies, no external scripts loaded on page load. You click, a popup opens, done.

That means:

• No API key required — zero setup friction
• No external scripts — nothing loads until the user clicks
• No rate limits — static URLs, no API calls
• GDPR-friendly — no cookies or tracking on page load
• Fast — the plugin CSS is ~1 KB, loaded only when a button is on the page

Four button types

• Share — opens X compose pre-filled with the post title, permalink, hashtags, and via handle
• Follow — opens X’s native follow dialog for your account
• Mention — opens X compose pre-filled with @yourhandle so visitors can tweet at you
• Hashtag — opens X compose pre-filled with #yourtag; optionally pulls in the post’s own tags automatically

Features

• Auto-insert before and/or after post content — choose which buttons and which post types per placement
• Per-placement button control — show Share on all posts, Follow only on certain post types, etc.
• Post tags as hashtags — Share and Hashtag buttons can automatically pull the post’s tags (capped at 5 to keep tweets writable)
• 4 Gutenberg blocks — X Share, Follow, Mention, and Hashtag blocks with live editor previews
• 4 Shortcodes — [sxb-share] , [sxb-follow] , [sxb-mention] , [sxb-hashtag]