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SocialIconsWidgetstable · v1.0.0★ 1released Jul 19, 2026

Lightweight Social Icons Reloaded

An independent, modernized fork of Lightweight Social Icons with Discord, WhatsApp, TikTok, Threads and Bluesky.

Overview

The original Lightweight Social Icons plugin hasn't seen any development in years. Reloaded is a full, standalone relaunch: it addresses security issues, refreshes the icon set with current platforms (Discord, WhatsApp, TikTok, Threads, Bluesky) and drops defunct ones, and no longer depends on the original plugin's files. Install it, activate it, then deactivate the original — your widget instance, configured icons, colors and sidebar placement carry over automatically.

Key features

  • ●Independent fork — no longer requires the original plugin's files.
  • ●Refreshed icon set: adds Discord, WhatsApp, TikTok, Threads and Bluesky.
  • ●Removes defunct platforms from the original icon set.
  • ●Existing widget configuration (icons, colors, sidebar placement) carries over automatically.
  • ●Addresses security issues present in the unmaintained original.
GitHub repositoryDownload .zip
Quick install
1cd wp-content/plugins
2git clone https://github.com/gioxx/wp-lsi-reloaded
3# Activate 'Lightweight Social Icons Reloaded', then deactivate the original plugin
4# Your existing widget configuration is preserved automatically
WordPress min6.0+
PHP compat7.4+
Prefer a manual install?

You can install this plugin manually over SSH — connect to your server and run these commands inside your wp-content/plugins directory:

SSH
1wget -O wp-lsi-reloaded-1.0.0.zip "https://github.com/gioxx/wp-lsi-reloaded/releases/download/v1.0.0/lightweight-social-icons-reloaded-1.0.0.zip"
2unzip wp-lsi-reloaded-1.0.0.zip
3rm -rf wp-lsi-reloaded/
4mv gioxx-wp-lsi-reloaded-*/ wp-lsi-reloaded/
5rm wp-lsi-reloaded-1.0.0.zip

Alternatively, download the ZIP above and upload it from Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin in your WordPress dashboard, or via FTP/SFTP.

Changelog

Independent fork of Lightweight Social Icons 1.1.2, renamed to Lightweight Social Icons Reloaded.

Added

  • Discord, WhatsApp, TikTok, Threads and Bluesky icons.
  • ABSPATH guard, Requires at least/Requires PHP headers, Release Asset: true / GitHub Plugin URI / GitHub Branch headers for Git Updater support.
  • Admin notice if the original Lightweight Social Icons plugin is still active alongside this fork.

Fixed

  • The 500px icon never rendered: the plugin looked for a lsicon-fivehundredpx CSS class that never existed (Fontello generates lsicon-500px).
  • The Snapchat icon never rendered: the plugin looked for a plain lsicon-snapchat class, but only lsicon-snapchat-ghost/lsicon-snapchat-square existed.
  • Several unescaped output strings in the widget admin form (background, color, background_hover, color_hover, field ids/names).
  • Wrong text domain (lsi instead of the plugin's own) on the "Add Icon" button.

Removed

  • Delicious, Vine, StumbleUpon and Yahoo icons (all long defunct).
  • load_plugin_textdomain() call (WordPress auto-loads translations for wp.org-hosted plugins since 4.6).

Changed

  • Widget class renamed to LSIR_Widget and all lsi_* functions renamed to lsir_*, to avoid collisions if the original plugin is still active. The widget's id_base stays lsi_Widget on purpose: WordPress stores widget settings under widget_{id_base} and sidebar placements reference the same key, so anyone migrating from the original plugin inherits their widget instance, settings and sidebar position with zero migration code.

For the full version history, see CHANGELOG.md.

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