Is Lightweight Social Icons still maintained?
Looks abandoned
No update in 78 months. On WordPress, an abandoned plugin is the most common way a site gets compromised — nobody is shipping the security fix when one is needed.
30K+
Active installs
4.7/5
Rating
2020-03-18
Last update
5.4.21
Tested up to WP
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Read from the WordPress.org plugin API on 2026-09-16, covering 71,729 plugins. Active install counts are the directory’s own rounded buckets. “Looks abandoned” describes update cadence, not code quality — a simple plugin that does one thing may need no updates, but it also stops being tested against new WordPress releases.