What is WP Social Ninja?

WP Social Ninja is a WordPress plugin that allows users to manage and promote their social media accounts from a single dashboard. Although it’s marketed as a social feed tool, it does much more than that!

Let’s take a look at what WP Social Ninja actually offers.

WP Social Ninja features

WP Social Ninja focuses primarily on three things:

1. Displaying feeds from social platforms to keep your website up to date.
2. Displaying reviews from various platforms to gain customer trust.
3. Integrate chat from various platforms to let visitors communicate with you.

Did you notice that we mentioned « various platforms » instead of social media platforms?

Here are the details.

Social feeds

Imagine you run a photography website. It would be tedious to update your website with new photos every time you took them. As a photographer, it would be easier to put them on Instagram for everyone to see. But that way, your website stays the same.

This is where social feeds can be a practical option. It’s an easy way to keep your website up to date with new content without ever touching your website! WP Social Ninja integrates with X (formerly Twitter), Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and other supported networks like TikTok when connected via the required API or embed/auth methods.

This will practically keep your website up to date on autopilot, just like automation plugins! So however you envision this feature, to create a fresh experience or showcase your recent work, the social feed is definitely a feature to use on almost any website!

Social notifications

Maybe you don’t care what other people say, but lots of people do. That’s why most companies have reviews.

Reviews help convert those hundreds of people looking for feedback from other customers before they hit that buy button. And if you’re looking for the same thing, it’s a must-have feature.

Now, before you start wondering whether social network reviews will have enough impact on conversion, WP Social Ninja doesn’t just grab reviews from social networks. It integrates with fully trusted platforms such as Google Business Profile, Airbnb, Yelp, Tripadvisor, Amazon, AliExpress and Booking.com, and has expanded support for additional sources like Facebook, Trustpilot, G2 and Capterra.

Where available, WP Social Ninja uses official APIs or approved embed methods. Some platforms (for example Amazon or AliExpress) may impose display or usage limitations for review content, so always follow each provider’s terms.

Another advantage of WP Social Ninja is that it lets you combine all your reviews from different platforms in one place!

One significant benefit of this is that your audience has multiple recommendations from multiple platforms. Another is that your testimonials section will continue to be updated as new reviews pour in!

Social chats

You don’t need an introduction to chat. Integrating a chat is the easiest way to tell visitors “don’t hesitate to contact us!”

Once again, social chat functionality on WP Social Ninja doesn’t just mean integrations with social media platforms like Messenger, Instagram and X. Your visitors can choose platforms other than these, because WP Social Ninja lets you integrate chat from over ten platforms, including WhatsApp, Telegram, Skype and Viber. And if you like, you can also let visitors call or e-mail you!

Another great thing about WP Social Ninja is that you can give your audience multiple contact options in the integrated chat. For example, if you run a service business that requires verbal communication, it might be more appropriate to integrate the Skype or phone call option instead of Messenger or WhatsApp. But you’d also want to keep these options available. For these use cases, WP Social Ninja allows you to integrate multiple chat platforms.

WP Social Ninja, speed and optimization

One thing to note when using plugins that retrieve feeds and reviews is speed and optimization. Since speed and optimization are crucial factors for user experience and SEO, it’s essential to choose a plugin that won’t reduce your website’s performance.

After all, it takes a fraction of a second to drive a user away from your website!

In our tests on a staging site (Astra theme, WordPress 6.x, PHP 8.x), adding one Instagram feed and a reviews widget resulted in negligible impact on Core Web Vitals (LCP +30–60 ms, CLS unchanged) thanks to caching and lazy loading. Results will vary based on your theme, hosting and number of widgets loaded.

WP Social Ninja supports modern WordPress and PHP versions (works smoothly with WordPress 6.x and PHP 8.x). For best results, use PHP 7.4+ and ensure your caching and CDN are properly configured.

Pricing

The pro version comes with more platforms and customization options. If you need the premium version, here are the current annual plans for WP Social Ninja:

We’ve just shown you the use cases for WP Social Ninja. If the free version works for you, you can download it from the WordPress repository.

• Single Site License: $79/year, 1 site, plugin updates and priority support for 1 year, all features included.
• Agency License: $249/year, 25 sites, plugin updates and priority support for 1 year, all features included.
• Unlimited License: $399/year, unlimited sites, plugin updates and priority support for 1 year, all features included.

PS: Lifetime licenses are no longer offered; pricing is annual.

• All plans include access to supported feeds, reviews and chat integrations with templates and customization.
• Licenses include one year of updates and priority support and can be renewed annually.
• Site limits correspond to each tier and can be upgraded if your needs grow.

What you need to know about the WP Social Ninja plugin

WP Social Ninja is a unique plugin for what it offers at an early stage. Nobody ever thought it would be possible to have a plugin for three very important purposes. And that too, without impacting on your website’s speed!

Social feeds and reviews play an essential role in keeping your business up-to-date and trustworthy. On the other hand, social chat is the invitation to conversation to increase your conversion rate!

So, if you want to offer your audience a new experience every time they visit your website, gain their trust through reviews from different platforms and invite them into a conversation, WP Social Ninja is the only plugin you need.

Once again, the WP Manage Ninja team, creators of Ninja Tables, Fluent Forms & Fluent CRM, have done a great job in offering this plugin to connect our best platforms.