Sassy Social Share by Heateor records share counts per post per network using postmeta keys such as _heateor_sss_facebook_share_count, _heateor_sss_twitter_share_count, and _heateor_sss_pinterest_share_count. The settings screen lets you toggle networks and styles, but provides no analytics dashboard, no top-posts ranking, and no historical trend.

SleekView Charts reads wp_postmeta directly. Filter on the _heateor_sss_ meta keys, join to wp_posts by post_id for titles and publish dates, and every card type becomes possible. A Number KPI sums totals across networks, a Donut splits the network mix, a Horizontal Bar ranks the top-shared posts, and an Area chart trends activity against the post_date column.

The buttons keep rendering exactly as Sassy Social Share configured them, and the plugin's own count fetcher keeps writing the same meta keys it always has. The chart dashboard is a pure reading layer on top of that data, letting editors and marketers finally answer which posts and which networks drive shares without exporting CSVs or chaining external analytics services.

Sassy Social Share is one of the most popular share button plugins for WordPress and records share counts diligently on every post in postmeta. The plugin focuses on rendering buttons and offers no analytics dashboard, so all of that data sits invisible inside the database. Editors who want to know which posts pulled the most shares last quarter, which network is over-indexed, or which categories deserve more attention end up either exporting CSVs or staring at long post-by-post lists.

SleekView Charts treats the _heateor_sss_ meta keys as the dataset they already are. A KPI for total shares, a donut for the network mix, a top-posts bar, and a publish-date trend all sit on one saved dashboard inside WP admin. The buttons keep rendering, Sassy keeps writing the meta, and nothing about recording changes; what changes is that the data finally turns into editorial decisions and reports stakeholders can actually read.