ShareThis Share Buttons 2.3.6

Does ShareThis Share Buttons work with WordPress 6.8.2 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on .

Summary

Errors
4PHP warnings
1PHP notices
No JavaScript exceptions
All test pages loaded successfully
No resource errors
Performance

Memory usage: 66.62 KiB
The average PHP memory usage increased by this amount after activating by the plugin.

Page speed impact: insignificant.
The plugin didn't make the site noticeably slower.

Environment
WordPress version6.8.2
PHP version8.1.12
MySQL version10.6.10
PHP memory limit512M
Plugin Info
Last updated
Active installs 20,000+
WordPress.org page https://wordpress.org/plugins/sharethis-share-buttons/
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Pages 6

Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress
URL /wp-admin/plugins.php?plugin_status=all&paged=1&s
Requested URL /wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=sharethis-share-buttons%2Fsharethis-share-buttons.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=cf7547696b
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 1.612 s
Memory usage 3.6 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

ShareThis Share Buttons

Page screenshot: ShareThis Share Buttons
URL /wp-admin/admin.php?page=sharethis-inline-sticky-share-buttons
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 2.922 s
Memory usage 7.23 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

Page screenshot: Test site – Just another WordPress site
URL /
Aspect front-page
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.269 s
Memory usage 3.5 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Add Post ‹ Test site — WordPress

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URL /wp-admin/post-new.php
Aspect new-meta-boxes
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.748 s
Memory usage 6.14 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Add Page ‹ Test site — WordPress

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URL /wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page
Aspect new-meta-boxes
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.665 s
Memory usage 6.12 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Widgets ‹ Test site — WordPress

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URL /wp-admin/widgets.php
Aspect new-sidebar-widgets
HTTP status 200
Load time 2.171 s
Memory usage 5.89 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.407 s0.359 s-0.048 s3.51 MiB3.58 MiB+ 72.55 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.244 s0.258 s+0.014 s3.57 MiB3.64 MiB+ 71.4 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php0.881 s0.722 s-0.159 s6.06 MiB6.14 MiB+ 80.66 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.667 s0.405 s-0.262 s3.52 MiB3.58 MiB+ 53.9 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.254 s0.249 s-0.005 s3.5 MiB3.56 MiB+ 58.3 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.333 s0.320 s-0.013 s3.49 MiB3.56 MiB+ 66.49 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.225 s0.239 s+0.014 s3.5 MiB3.58 MiB+ 77.26 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page0.660 s0.690 s+0.030 s6.05 MiB6.12 MiB+ 76.05 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.507 s1.137 s+0.630 s3.5 MiB3.56 MiB+ 55.42 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.294 s0.281 s-0.013 s3.52 MiB3.58 MiB+ 54.45 KiB
/0.357 s0.248 s-0.109 s3.43 MiB3.5 MiB+ 66.36 KiB
Average 0.439 s0.446 s+0.007 s3.97 MiB4.04 MiB+ 66.62 KiB

Code Statistics

Note: Third-party libraries and minified JS/CSS files are excluded from these statistics where possible, so the numbers you see here may be lower than those reported by other tools.

PHP
CSS
JavaScript
Language % Lines of code Comment lines Files
PHP47.0%2,63576219
CSS29.1%1,633113
JavaScript21.8%1,2202474
SVG2.1%11803
Total 5,606 1,020 29

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 1,840
Total complexity 349
Median class complexity 31.0
Median method complexity 2.5
Most complex class Share_Buttons
Most complex function Share_Buttons::set_button_config()
Classes 5
Methods 72
Functions 5

Additions

Things that the plugin adds to the site. This section is not intended to be comprehensive. The test tool only looks for a few specific types of added content.

Options wp_options 6

Sidebar Widgets 1

ID Name
st_button_widgetShareThis Buttons

Meta Boxes

{
    "post": {
        "sharethis_share_buttons": {
            "title": "Share Buttons",
            "context": "side"
        }
    },
    "page": {
        "sharethis_share_buttons": {
            "title": "Share Buttons",
            "context": "side"
        }
    }
}

PHP Error Log 5 lines

[16-Jul-2025 06:32:52 UTC] PHP Warning:  Undefined property: ShareThisShareButtons\Plugin::$meta_prefix in /wp-content/plugins/sharethis-share-buttons/php/class-minute-control.php on line 67
[16-Jul-2025 06:32:58 UTC] PHP Warning:  Undefined property: ShareThisShareButtons\Plugin::$meta_prefix in /wp-content/plugins/sharethis-share-buttons/php/class-minute-control.php on line 67
[16-Jul-2025 06:33:04 UTC] PHP Warning:  Undefined property: ShareThisShareButtons\Plugin::$meta_prefix in /wp-content/plugins/sharethis-share-buttons/php/class-minute-control.php on line 67
[16-Jul-2025 06:33:08 UTC] PHP Warning:  Undefined property: ShareThisShareButtons\Plugin::$meta_prefix in /wp-content/plugins/sharethis-share-buttons/php/class-minute-control.php on line 67
[16-Jul-2025 06:33:11 UTC] PHP Notice:  Function wp_enqueue_script() was called <strong>incorrectly</strong>. "wp-editor" script should not be enqueued together with the new widgets editor (wp-edit-widgets or wp-customize-widgets). Please see <a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/advanced-administration/debug/debug-wordpress/">Debugging in WordPress</a> for more information. (This message was added in version 5.8.0.) in /wp-includes/functions.php on line 6121
See also: All tests for this plugin, How to Hide ShareThis Share Buttons Admin Menus and Meta Boxes