=== Image Sharer: Use Your Blog Photos To Increase Social Shares - SumoMe === Contributors: SumoMe Tags: growth, sharebar, share, sharing, analytics, images, page, image, photo, picture, plugin, sharer, shares, shared, sharing, social media, social shares, social, jpg, png, gif, optimize, pinterest, facebook, twitter Requires at least: 3.0.1 Tested up to: 3.8.1 Stable tag: 4.4 License: GPLv2 or later License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html The free and easy way to increase your social shares by making it easy to share your blog images on Pinterest, Facebook, and Twitter. == Description == Did you know that social shares with images get 39% more engagement on Facebook and fully double the engagement on Twitter? Since social media shares with images are so overwhelmingly powerful, we built this free social plugin to make it easy for your blog readers to share images from your blog posts. After you install the Image Sharer plugin (it takes about 30 seconds), all photos on your website will automatically get professionally overlayed social sharing icons for Pinterest, Facebook and Twitter. When your readers share your blog posts with these new buttons, each post will include the normal link to your website plus a beautiful image - driving even more clicks than normal. = Features = * Increase social sharing on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest * Increase clicks and engagement on social media * Asynchronous load timing helps your website load quickly * Quickly integrate with any Wordpress theme * Plays nice with social media plugins like Digg Digg * Images have higher engagement on social networks * Include your Twitter username in tweeted images * Share count shows how often people share your images * Install image sharing in literally seconds * All image shares include links back to your post = Why You Should Use Image Sharer = As a blogger, your focus should be on writing amazing posts - not trying to get attention for the posts you wrote last week. Image Sharer gives you time to keep doing what you love by leveraging the traffic you already have. Normally, readers come to your site, read your article, and leave - disappearing into the ether of the internet. With Image Sharer, at least some of those hit-and-run readers stick around and share your article on social media. Even better, the share your blog post with a beatiful image attached - increasing clicks back to your website! = Image sharing for Pinterest = You've probably noticed how quickly Pinterest has been growing over the last year. Unlike Facebook and Twitter, where your thousands of other blogs are already noisily competing for attention, Pinterest offers a largely uncontested opportunity to reach new potential users that most bloggers haven't even noticed yet. Since Pinterest is image-based, using Image Sharer to help your blog readers share their favorite photos is a perfect opportunity for authentic marketing on Pinterest. = Image sharing for Facebook = As mentioned earlier, Facebook posts with images get fully 39% more engagement than normal, so while there are a lot of blogs clamoring for attention the images attached to your reader's social shares will help your blog stand out from the crowd. = Image sharing for Twitter = On Twitter, tweets with images actually double the engagement of normal tweets. I've seen this personally on some of my articles, and it's really fun to see your engagement double seemingly overnight. Images are so powerful in Twitter's social sphere, that one image tweet is worth two ordinary tweets. = Easy image sharing for all three social networks = Image Sharer gives your readers easy social media buttons for all images on your website, dramatically increasing the power of Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest shares. Most importantly, though, it gives you back time to focus on your writing. You can install the complete plugin with share buttons for all three major social networks in about 30 seconds. Then you can watch your traffic grow thanks to image sharing on social media. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1cdli41GtM] == Installation == 1. Upload folder wp-sumome.zip to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory 1. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress 1. Go to your site and click on the blue thingy in the top right. 1. Click on Image Sharer to install the app and get going. 1. Eat a taco and enjoy the increased traffic to your site. == Frequently Asked Questions == = Does this plugin slow down my site? = Not at all. This plugin loads asynchronously so your website's speed will be as fast as ever. = Where do I login to SumoMe? = Once you install the plugin and activate it. Go to any page on your site and you'll see a little blue thing in the top right, click on it and then the crown icon to login. = How can I install an app? = Once you've logged into SumoMe, click on Sumo Store and click Install for whichever app you'd like to install. Once you have installed Image Sharer simply add your Twitter handle, and everything is automatic! = Do I need to integrate with social networks? = No, Image Sharer is automatically integrated with Facebook, Pinterest, and Twitter. You don't need to do anything but install the app. == Screenshots == 1. This screenshot is how to Sign up once you've activated the plugin. 2. This is the screen to activate your Image Sharer app. 3. Here's what the Image Sharer social media buttons look like. == Changelog == = 1.04 = * Old school original version == Upgrade Notice == = 1.04 = * You are original!