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Free vs Pro - Plugixa Easy Social Share Buttons
The free edition is a complete share button plugin, not a trial. Nothing in it is disabled, nothing is time-limited, and it contains no Pro code waiting to be unlocked.
Pro is a separate download: the same plugin plus a pro/ directory holding
more features. Whether a feature exists on a site is decided by whether its
code is there, never by a licence check.
Share sets and placement
| Feature | Free | Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Any number of share sets, built in a five-step wizard with a live preview | yes | yes |
| Duplicate and delete sets, with a list of what a delete affects | yes | yes |
| Automatic placement per post type: above and below the content, floating sidebars, sticky bars, a bar on phones | yes | yes |
| The blog home and archives, with a row under each post | yes | yes |
| WooCommerce product summary placement | yes | yes |
| Shortcode, block, Elementor widget and PHP template tags | yes | yes |
| Hide one post’s buttons, or drop a single spot, from the post editor | yes | yes |
| Popup and fly-in placements, with triggers and frequency | - | yes |
| A different share set for one post, chosen in its Share buttons panel | - | yes |
Networks and looks
| Feature | Free | Pro |
|---|---|---|
| 41 destinations, including Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads and AI assistants | yes | yes |
| The “+” menu for every other destination | yes | yes |
| 27 button styles in five groups | yes | yes |
| Your own colour for a set, with a readable label chosen for it | yes | yes |
| Six sizes, separately for desktop and phones | yes | yes |
| The readability check | yes | yes |
| Six more styles in the Distinctive group | - | yes |
Follow buttons and link previews
| Feature | Free | Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Follow buttons for 25 services, by block, shortcode or template tag | yes | yes |
| Open Graph and X card tags, stepping aside for SEO plugins | yes | yes |
| A default image for link previews | yes | yes |
Counts and measurement
| Feature | Free | Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Share counts from the five services that report them | yes | yes |
| Your own click counts for every network | yes | yes |
| Count recovery after a move to https, a new domain or new permalinks | yes | yes |
| Share analytics: 7 and 30 days, by day, by network, by post | yes | yes |
| GA4 share events through your own Google tag | yes | yes |
| 90-day and 12-month ranges | - | yes |
| Clicks by placement | - | yes |
| CSV export of every table | - | yes |
| UTM tags on shared links | - | yes |
| Short links from Bitly, Rebrandly or YOURLS | - | yes |
Pinterest, quotes and email
| Feature | Free | Pro |
|---|---|---|
| The Pinterest share button | yes | yes |
| A Save button on the images in posts | - | yes |
| A pin image and description per post | - | yes |
Quote boxes: the Quote to share block and [plugixa_quote] |
- | yes |
| The “Save this post” email form, with Mailchimp, Brevo, MailerLite or Kit | - | yes |
Tools and configuration
| Feature | Free | Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Import from Sassy Social Share and AddToAny | yes | yes |
| The Overview screen, with the measured cost of your configuration | yes | yes |
| Granular capabilities for other roles | yes | yes |
| REST API | yes | yes |
| Actions and filters | yes | yes |
| Translations of the Pro screens, loaded from Pro’s own language files | - | yes |
What Pro adds, and where
Pro adds no menu items. Each addition appears inside a screen you already use.
| Feature | Where it appears |
|---|---|
| UTM tags | Settings -> Google Analytics, below GA4 events |
| Short links | Settings -> Google Analytics, below UTM tags |
| Placement report, longer ranges, CSV export | Share analytics |
| Distinctive styles | The wizard’s style gallery |
| Settings -> Networks, and a Pinterest panel in the post editor | |
| Quote boxes | The Quote to share block and [plugixa_quote] |
| Popup and fly-in | The wizard’s placement diagram, and Settings -> Appearance |
| Email capture | Settings -> General, the Save this post by email block and [plugixa_save] |
| A share set per post | The Buttons menu in the post editor’s Share buttons panel |
Pro translations
Pro’s sentences are not part of the free edition’s translation template. Pro
has its own template in pro/languages/, and loads a translated file from
that folder, for the site’s language, alongside the free edition’s
translations. Where no such file exists for a language, the Pro screens read in
English.
The file name Pro looks for, and the order the files are loaded in, are on the Translations page.
Licensing
Licences, payments and updates are handled by Freemius.
- There is no trial. The plugin does not offer a time-limited one.
- The licence is not a feature switch. The plugin never asks whether a feature may run. Pro features run because the Pro download contains their code.
- The opt-in is optional. An opt-in screen is shown after activation, and you can skip it. See Privacy and uninstall.
Moving between the editions
Installing Pro over Free keeps everything: share sets, follow profiles, settings, counts and click history are the same data in both editions. The plugin notices that Pro’s features have arrived and sets them up on the next page load, so no reactivation is needed.
If Pro is removed
Going back to the free edition does not delete what Pro stored.
| Pro data | What happens on the free edition |
|---|---|
| UTM and short link settings | They stay stored, and nothing applies them. Buttons share the full, untagged address |
| Short links already made | They stay with their posts, unused |
| A set in a Distinctive style | It is drawn with the base look until you choose another style. Saving the set in the free edition resets its style to Default |
| Popup and fly-in placements, and their trigger settings | They stay stored. The two spots do not exist, so nothing is drawn in them |
| A post’s pin image and description | They stay on the post, unused. Pinterest buttons use the featured image |
| Quote boxes and email forms in posts | Their block and shortcode no longer exist, so they are not drawn. The content stays in the post |
| Email service settings and keys | They stay stored, unused |
| A post’s own share set choice | It stays on the post, unused. The post uses its post type’s sets |
| Clicks recorded by placement | They stay in the click table. The free dashboard does not break them down by placement |
Saving the Settings screen in the free edition does not wipe Pro’s settings: keys the free edition does not recognise are carried forward untouched. Installing Pro again finds everything as it was.
Uninstalling the plugin altogether removes its settings in both editions. See Privacy and uninstall.
What to do next
- Start with the free edition: Getting started.
- See the Pro pages: Pinterest PRO, Quote boxes PRO, Popup and fly-in PRO, Short links PRO and Email capture PRO.