WordPress Social Sharing Plugins post provides information on some of the most popular social sharing plugins in wordpress repository.
Last Updated: July 3, 2021
Latest News: Updated the version number.
Everybody knows how important it is to promote your information across different platforms on the web. Installing a social sharing plugin in your site is probably a good idea. In this post you will find some of the most common and popular social sharing plugins found in wordpress repository and other sites. This list will grow with more plugins added in the future.
The following list of plugins are listed in this post.
Social Sharing Plugins
- Ultimate Social Media and Share Icons
- Shareaholic
- AddToAny Share Buttons
- Social Share Button – Wiki
- Scriptless Social Sharing
- Fat Free Sharing Button by Tips Tricks HQ
- WP to Twitter
- Custom Facebook Feed
Note: If you don’t want to use a plugin for the following social networks Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook accounts; you can use Zapier. There are other online services you can choose from.
You might like to read the following tutorials.
Note: Always remember to try and not have too many plugins added to your website or blog. The more plugins you add the more request and processing resources it requires to use from your server!!!
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WordPress Social Sharing Plugins
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Ultimate Social Media and Share Icons
Easy to use and 100% FREE social media plugin which adds social media icons to your website with tons of customization features!
Important: This plugin has now reached more than 7 million downloads.
Version 2.6.7 | By socialdude, socialtech | Last Updated: June 3, 2021 | Compatible up to WordPress 5.7.2
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Adds an attractive social bookmarking menu and related content widget to your posts, pages, index, or any combination of the three.
Important: This plugin has now reached more than 3 million downloads.
Version 9.7.0 | By shareaholic | Last Updated: June 26, 2021 | Compatible up to WordPress 5.7.2
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The AddToAny sharing plugin for WordPress increases traffic & engagement by helping people share your posts and pages to any service. Services include Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Google, WhatsApp, LinkedIn, Tumblr, Reddit, and over 100 more sharing and social media sites & apps.
AddToAny is the universal sharing platform, and the AddToAny plugin is the most popular share plugin for WordPress, making sites social media ready since 2006.
Important: This plugin has now reached more than 8 million downloads.
Version 1.7.44 | By micropat | Last Updated: April 3, 2021 | Compatible up to WordPress 5.7.2
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Kiwi Social Share is a standalone plugin built, maintained & operated by the friendly folks over at WPKube.
This is by far the best & easiest to use WordPress social media share plugin. A WordPress share plugin with custom icons built-in.
Version 2.1.4 | By machothemes | Last Updated: June 29, 2021 | Compatible up to WordPress 5.7.2
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Scriptless Social Sharing is a wee plugin to add buttons to your posts/pages, to make it easier for your readers to share your content on social networks.
The sharing links use the most basic methods provided by each network. There is no JavaScript, nothing fancy included in this plugin, so if you want fancy, this is not the plugin you’re looking for. It just builds a set of links.
FAQ
Q1 Is it possible to disable entirely the Scriptless Social Sharing section on new posts via a new option on Settings-WP-Admin? This is going to avoid confusion on authors.
Solution: The easiest way to remove that is to click on the “More tools & options” button (three dots in the block editor), then Options, and disable the Scriptless metabox in the Advanced section (Screen Options in the upper right of the classic editor). Check the following forum post for more information.
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Q2 What does the following feature “Disable the sharing buttons block” do?
Solution: The plugin registers a block so that when you are using the block editor, you can add custom sharing buttons anywhere in your content. If you generally just want the buttons at the beginning/end of the content and want to let the plugin handle it automatically, you may never need the block, so you can disable it. It works similarly to adding buttons via a shortcode. Click the following link forum post to learn more.
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Q3 How do I add a new icon?
Solution: Please check the following link forum post to learn more.
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Q4 When I share a facebook or linkedin link, the post only sometimes shows a picture from my blog sometimes not always. How do I fix this?
Solution: Please check the following link forum post to learn more.
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Version 3.1.6 | By Robin Cornett | Last Updated: February 8, 2021 | Compatible up to WordPress 5.6.1
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Fat Free WordPress Social Share Buttons Plugin
This is a very simple and FAT FREE share button plugin that adds Google plus one, Facebook and Twitter share buttons to your blog posts.
You might like to read my Tutorial Social Media Share Buttons For Twitter Facebook
It loads the external JavaScript libraries required for the share buttons asynchronously giving you a slight performance boost on your page loads.
The following are the main advantages of this plugin:
- Loads the JavaScript files asynchronously (this helps with the page load time)
- Loads on single view only (only in your single posts)
- Only 2 share buttons for the ones that really matters (Facebook, Twitter)
- It shows the share buttons in a compact form (takes up less real estate of your webpage)
Version 1.5 | By Tips & Tricks HQ | Last Updated: May 3, 2019 | Compatible up to WordPress 5.3
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Auto-posts a Twitter update when you update your WordPress blog or blogroll, with your chosen URL shortening service. Requires PHP 5.
Important: This plugin has now reached more than 3 million downloads.
Version 3.5.3 | By joedolson | Last Updated: June 26, 2021 | Compatible up to WordPress 5.7.2
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The Custom Facebook Feed allows you to display completely customizable Facebook feeds of any public Facebook page or group on your website.
Important: This plugin has now reached more than 3 million downloads.
Version 2.19.1 | By smashballoon | Last Updated: May 3, 2021 | Compatible up to WordPress 5.7.2
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This list will change from time to time and it will grow with more plugins added. Please keep coming back to review the changes and additions.
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