Skype Legacy Buttons WordPress Plugin
Unlimited, highly customizable and accessible (!) Skype buttons through widgets, post shortcode/quicktag and template tags.
NOTICE: as of Mai 2015, Microsoft has officially dropped Skype's Online Status service read more and consequently, this plugin will no longer be able to provide buttons that indicate online status. Only legacy Skype buttons that do not reflect the users online status remain available.
This WordPress plugin allows you to add one or multiple, customizable and accessible (!) Skype buttons to your site. You can pick any of the (still) available legacy Skype button themes and place them in your pages and posts content (with a neat little Skype button in the WYSIWYG editor), in your sidebar via widgets (unlimited number) or anywhere in your theme template files.
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Sites running Skype Legacy Buttons, click to open one
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Usage of Skype Legacy Buttons over time
June 2023 — July 2024Between June 2023 and July 2024 the number of sites running this plugin went from 70 to 55 — down 15 (-21.4%).
| Month | Sites | Change |
|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | 55 | -6 |
| June 2024 | 61 | -2 |
| May 2024 | 63 | +1 |
| April 2024 | 62 | +3 |
| March 2024 | 59 | -2 |
| February 2024 | 61 | -6 |
| January 2024 | 67 | +0 |
| December 2023 | 67 | +3 |
| November 2023 | 64 | +1 |
| October 2023 | 63 | -3 |
| September 2023 | 66 | -3 |
| August 2023 | 69 | -1 |
| July 2023 | 70 | +0 |
| June 2023 | 70 | — |
Themes used with Skype Legacy Buttons
Detected most often on sites that run this plugin.
| # | Theme |
|---|---|
| 1 | Chip-zero |
| 2 | Genesis |
| 3 | Webresponsivedesigns |
| 4 | Grandcollege |
| 5 | Loodus_2_11 |
| 6 | Altair |
| 7 | Braxton |
| 8 | Tourpackage-v2-02 |
| 9 | Business-mind |
| 10 | Tempera-child |
| 11 | Ample |
| 12 | Elegantestate |
| 13 | Skok-jaworzno |
| 14 | Pindol |
| 15 | Weaver-xtreme |
| 16 | Dt-the7 |
| 17 | Corporate_tcd011 |
| 18 | Brainstorm-1.6.2 |
| 19 | Presence |
| 20 | Massive-news |
Sites running Skype Legacy Buttons
All sites in the collection55 examples from the collection. Open any site to see the theme and plugins we found on it.
