is there any (easy) way to convert an existing plugin to become shortcode instead? http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/rax-top-social-media-share-with-counter/
I want to place it's output specifically in the layout and not below posts like plugin does automatically. Thanks!
Sure, but it will take a little bit of hacking.
I took a quick look at the plugin and what you want is in the function rax_social_media_share_show_option(). I would copy it and make a new function with just the part that builds up $button_code. That's from line 315 to 516.
Add a simple one-tag shortcode that returns $button_code and Bob's your uncle.
