One‑click sharing,
a real‑time console,
and the analytics
behind both.
Social9 is a comprehensive social-sharing platform — share buttons, comments, share analytics, short URLs, and email-list growth — used across thousands of publisher sites. The platform's value depends on it staying out of the way: install fast, configure faster, and never break the host site's UX.
We built the front‑of‑platform out — interactive UI editor, custom plugins for popular CMS platforms, a real‑time console, and the analytics layer behind it. The brief was a single‑click experience for publishers and a near‑zero install path for first‑time users.
The Challenge
Many features, one console, no friction.
Social9 sells across a wide stack — short URLs, share analytics, email export, comment imports, social-login, and CMS plugins. Each individual capability is straightforward. The challenge is folding all of them into a single console that publishers can configure in minutes, then forget about while it runs.
On top of that the platform sits inside other people's sites. A clunky UI editor, a slow plugin update path, or a crashed comment migration becomes someone else's user-facing problem. The bar is set by the host site, not by us.
If a publisher has to stop and read documentation, we've already lost.
What Webloon Did
Editor, plugins, real‑time console.
We built an interactive UI editor for tailoring share posts and comment widgets, custom share/comment plugins for the most-used CMSes, a real-time console for live updates, and import paths so publishers wouldn't lose comment history when migrating in.
Design
Interactive editor
- UI editor for share posts and comment widgets
- Live preview synced with the public surface
- Sensible defaults, depth available on demand
Plugins
CMS coverage
- Share & comment plugins for WordPress, Gatsby, Joomla, Hexo
- One‑command install across most stacks
- Versioning and update path that doesn't break sites
Console
Real‑time updates
- Live console for publisher configuration
- Real‑time updates without re‑deploys
- Markdown support for editorial content
Analytics
Migration & insight
- Custom analytics dashboard for share behaviour
- Comment imports from Disqus / Commento
- Comment‑with‑social‑login for engagement
What This Proves
Sharing that disappears into the host site.
Publishers using Social9 saw measurable lifts in engagement and clearer share analytics — without the platform getting in their way. The plugin coverage and real-time console reduced the support burden, and the import paths meant existing comment history came along on day one.
Engagement details available on request under confidentiality.