Best WordPress Social Sharing Plugins Karlo March 5, 2013. 8 Search engines are, of course, best and biggest traffic source for website but right behind them are social media services. Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and other are most used social sharing websites and if you have WordPress site you must make sure that your visitors can share your posts on their social media services profiles. In this article, we have listed you 10 plugins which can help you to get some traffic and boost your popularity on social media services. 1. Sociable Fantastic free WordPress social media plugin which adds social media sharing buttons to your posts, pages and wherever you want. It is updated regularly and supports big number of social media sites. 2. Sharebar Sharebar is another great social media sharing plugins that adds dynamic and customizable box to the left of your blog post with links to most popular social media sites. 3. Sharethis Sharethis is another very popular plugin for integrating social sharing buttons to your WordPress posts, pages and more on easy way. 4. Shareaholic Shareaholic adds really attractive social bookmarking menu to your posts, pages, index and to other combinations you choose. It is extremely useful and popular tool that fits excellent into any WordPress design. 5. Slick Social Share Buttons Slick Social Share Buttons plugin for WordPress adds facebook, twitter, google+ and other buttons to your website in floating or sliding panel and you can see statistics of clicks from your admin page. 6. Insitebar Insitebar is elegant toolbar which makes your WordPress site richer by 1000+ social Apps from Insitebar marketplace. Plugin is free and fully customizable. 7. Getsocial GetSocial WordPress plugin adds an intelligent and easy floating social media sharing box on your blog posts. 8. Social Media Counters This plugin adds social media counters so your visitors and users can share your content on different social media services and also see how many times other people shared that same content. 9. Social Toolbar Social Toolbar is plugin that adds customizable toolbar with social network icons, recent tweet and share buttons into footer. 10. Socialbox Simple and beautiful plugin that adds a list of your social media profiles and counts your followers in a great widget. TrendyWP is powered by Genesis Framework Why we are using it? It's simple. Rock-solid security, amazing speed performance, beautiful child themes and best of all great Search Engine Optimization. Check it yourself Genesis Framework Need help with Genesis - feel free to Contact Us Related PostsBest Newsletter Plugins for WordPressRankWP – Ranking and tracking WordPress PluginsBest WordPress Maintenance PluginsAuthor: KarloKarlo is a 24 year old guy who loves everything related to WordPress. He is by profession electrical engineer but currently he is working as web design & web development freelancer. Comments Lyndons June 12, 2013 at 9:06 am You forgot Floating Social Share,this Plugins is more cool .Flare is really a gorgeous social share plugin that gets your content effortlessly shared on the Social media like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, StumbleUpon, Pinterest, Reddit, and most importantly Google+.http://wordpress.org/plugins/flare/ Reply Fauzul July 20, 2013 at 10:42 pm Thanks for listing them out, I’ll try it out to see which one suits my blog best. Reply derHu August 21, 2013 at 12:05 am Hello Karlo, thx a lot 4 your listing. The fb-like button on the top of your page here appears with a button-text in my home language. That’s very nice. Will you tell me, which social sharing plugin you use yourself here on your site? thx in advance Reply Karlo August 22, 2013 at 6:31 am Hi derHu, Social buttons on top of our post pages are called directly from our theme files so we don’t have to use any of the plugins. For Facebook button you may check their Developers page for more information. https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/ Reply derHu August 22, 2013 at 12:31 pm Hi, Karlo Thx for your prompt reply 🙂 Reply Paul Ramsden September 3, 2013 at 9:07 pm Thanks Karlo. I have now chosen Get Social thanks to your blog post 🙂 Reply Jice September 6, 2013 at 4:00 pm I love ShareThis (and also use WP socializer). In addition, in the backend I use Admin Social Shares to see quickly the number of shares of my posts : http://wordpress.org/plugins/admin-social-shares/ Reply Fay September 11, 2013 at 6:01 pm Hy Karlo, Thanks for such a nice and informative post. Reply Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *Comment Name * Email * Website Receive amazing Wordpress stuff and exclusive deals!
Lyndons June 12, 2013 at 9:06 am You forgot Floating Social Share,this Plugins is more cool .Flare is really a gorgeous social share plugin that gets your content effortlessly shared on the Social media like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, StumbleUpon, Pinterest, Reddit, and most importantly Google+.http://wordpress.org/plugins/flare/ Reply
Fauzul July 20, 2013 at 10:42 pm Thanks for listing them out, I’ll try it out to see which one suits my blog best. Reply
derHu August 21, 2013 at 12:05 am Hello Karlo, thx a lot 4 your listing. The fb-like button on the top of your page here appears with a button-text in my home language. That’s very nice. Will you tell me, which social sharing plugin you use yourself here on your site? thx in advance Reply
Karlo August 22, 2013 at 6:31 am Hi derHu, Social buttons on top of our post pages are called directly from our theme files so we don’t have to use any of the plugins. For Facebook button you may check their Developers page for more information. https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like/ Reply
Paul Ramsden September 3, 2013 at 9:07 pm Thanks Karlo. I have now chosen Get Social thanks to your blog post 🙂 Reply
Jice September 6, 2013 at 4:00 pm I love ShareThis (and also use WP socializer). In addition, in the backend I use Admin Social Shares to see quickly the number of shares of my posts : http://wordpress.org/plugins/admin-social-shares/ Reply