Works with your stack
Cookie consent for Shared Counts
plain links, counts on the server
Shared Counts shows share buttons as plain links, with its script and styles served by your site. Visitor pages get no outside script, no frame and no cookie. Share counts are fetched by your server, not the visitor’s browser.
Shared Counts
WordPress plugin
- Tested version
- 1.5.0
- How
- Tested automatically around each Cookie Rocks version
- Last test
- 7 November 2026
What Shared Counts adds to your visitors’ browser
No trackers In our test of Shared Counts 1.5.0 on 7 November 2026, the plugin itself added no tracker and no cookie. What you place in your pages with it, such as a video or a map, still counts.
What matters for consent with Shared Counts
Links wait for the click
Each button is a plain link. Nothing loads from a social network until the visitor clicks and leaves your page.
Counts from your server
When counts are out of date, your server asks for them at the end of a page view. It sends only the post address, nothing about the visitor.
Click tracking follows analytics
With social tracking on, a click is sent to Google Analytics only if Analytics is already on the page. Analytics follows the visitor’s choice like any other tracker, and Cookie Rocks holds known trackers until the visitor agrees.
What our tests found on Shared Counts
How we test it
Around each version, with its latest release
Around each Cookie Rocks version, a fresh WordPress installs its latest version from WordPress.org next to Cookie Rocks and runs the same checks. A new version joins the next run on its own.
- Shared Counts 1.5.0, tested on 7 November 2026.
- The banner shows, the trackers of the test page wait for consent and load after it, and Cookie Rocks raises no PHP error.
- Settings of the test: Default settings after activation.
- Last run: Shared Counts 1.5.0 on 7 November 2026, with WordPress 7.1.3.
Social sharing
Other plugins of the same kind.
Questions
Does Shared Counts need consent?
Not for the buttons. They are plain links, and nothing reaches a social network before the click.
What happens after the 30-day trial?
The banner, your visitors’ choices and your proofs of consent keep working. Without a key, most settings lock, updates and support stop. Take a key at any time and everything opens again.
For sites with Shared Counts
Share buttons for everyone.
links never wait
Every feature of the complete plugin for 30 days, no card. Shared Counts keeps working as it does today.
- During the trial: everything, including the full settings and the scans
- After 30 days without a key: the banner, your visitors’ choices and your proofs of consent keep working
- What waits for a key: most settings, updates and support
Get your trial key
Your e-mail and your site. Your key arrives as soon as you confirm your e-mail.