Social sharing plugins are probably the most popular plugin category in WordPress.
Just spend a little time searching, you will find it.
The variety of this plugin genre is sure to confuse you.
To save your time searching and choosing, here are 11 of the best social sharing plugins.
Note : Some themes have built-in social sharing feature, for example junkie theme . This eliminates the need to install external plugins. So you get the best page loading speed.
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1. Monarch
monarch sharing flyin
Monarch is a plugin in Elegant Theme’s plugin and theme suite. Since it is a product of Elegant Theme, it is not available for retail sale. To own this plugin you buy the developer package $89.
Note: Our free WordPress installation service offers this plugin.
Besides plugins, the package also provides you with a page builder plugin (Divi builder), an email list builder plugin (Bloom) and a few beautiful WordPress themes.
Going back to Monarch, this plugin has a few impressive features. It allows you to control the display of the share count. For example you only want to show the number of shares after reaching a certain threshold. This helps you avoid the negative impact of showing too low a share count. Because of human psychology, no one wants to be the first to share or share articles with a low number of shares.
Besides, this plugin provides you with multiple areas to display social sharing buttons. In particular, the plugin offers some interesting placement options such as popup or fly-in style (the social sharing button pops up in the corner of the screen). These placements will help you increase social shares.
Outstanding Features:
- Supports popular social networks.
- Multiple display options
- Control when to show the share count
- Detailed and complete manual
- Easy to use and beautiful interface
- Support popup and fly-in share box to increase shares
- Show share button using via widget and shortcode
- Support statistics of shares, likes and followers
- Displays very well on mobile devices
2 . Social Warfare
This is a paid plugin with prices starting at $29/year.
This plugin claims to have the most beautiful social share button interface among plugins of its kind.
The plugin is great for promoting on Pinterest.
The reason is that the plugin allows you to upload Pinterest-appropriate images without affecting the post’s profile picture.
These days, Pinterest is attracting a huge amount of traffic, especially in areas like food, beauty or health. With Pinterest, you should use tall images that will attract more visitors.
Using Pinterest-specific images in Social Warfare is a smart strategy to increase shares on Pinterest.
Feature:
- Supports many popular social networks
- The interface displays beautiful social sharing buttons
- Show total shares as well as shares for each social network
- Show shares when reaching a certain threshold
- Support for the “Click to tweet” box in the content to increase shares on Twitter.
- Download images suitable for Pinterest
- Mobile-friendly
Share is not exactly a WordPress plugin. It is actually an app in the SumoMe app suite . You can use these apps with any page that supports HTML..
With Share, you have multiple places to place social sharing buttons. You can choose a specific location for your mobile device.
The free version of the plugin covers the basic needs. If you want full features, the price is quite high at $20/month.
Salient features:
- Easy to use interface:
- Customize the size and many other characteristics of the share button.
- Multiple options to set share button
- Control how shares are displayed, for example only when a certain number is exceeded.
- Use rule to select post/page to show share button.
This is another app of SumoMe. This app will show social sharing button when user hovers over a photo in your website.
This is also a way to help you get more shares on social networks. But I think it is only suitable if your page has many beautiful and unique photos.
Salient features:
- Social media support Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter, and Yummy
- Select the page or device the image sharing buttons are allowed to show
- Choose the display position of the button on the image for example in the middle of the image or the left corner etc
This plugin has both free and paid versions. Paid for $20/month. Annual payment
This is the most feature-packed social sharing plugin available today. But its price is too cheap compared to other paid plugins. Only $19.
However, many features will also affect speed. But with the current update, the plugin has improved in speed and the interface is cleaner,.
Salient features:
- Support over 40 social networks
- 22 different places to show social sharing buttons
- Support popup and fly-in to increase shares
- Optimized display for mobile devices. You can even set up separate display styles for mobile.
- Shortcode and widget support
- Compatible with WooCommerce, JigoShop
- Shortcode and widget support
- 48 pre-built templates
Shareaholic is not just a WordPress plugin, you can use it for other content management systems.
You need to sign up for an account to use Shareaholic. But rest assured. It’s free to register to use.
Shareaholic also helps you to earn extra income by displaying ads. For example, right after a user shares, a pop up appears thanking the user for sharing, and an advertisement below. Ads also appear in the area of related articles. You can completely turn off this advertising feature if you find it affects the user experience.
Salient features:
- Controls whether shares are shown. As well as the minimum share threshold to show
- Supports WordPress, Tumblr, Drupal, Shopify and many other content management platforms
- Support reporting on social sharing
- Smart sort support (automatically sort social share buttons based on number of shares)
- Multishare allows sharing on Facebook and Twitter with just one click
A plugin that helps you add basic social sharing buttons to your posts or pages
The main advantage of the plugin is that it is very lightweight. It does not affect the page loading speed much. More importantly, it’s free.
In fact, it also has a paid version if you want more features.
Salient features:
- Very light
- Support custom images
- Text message support before social sharing buttons
- Mobile-friendly
8. WP Social Sharing
Wp Social Sharing is a free plugin that allows you to easily add share buttons to 6 popular social networks. The drawback of the plugin compared to other plugins is that you cannot change the color, shape or size.
Feature:
- Only support 6 social networks
- Text message support before social sharing buttons
- Customize text content for share buttons
- Display well on mobile devices
- Add twitter username when guests share on twitter
- Add share button with shortcode
The name of this plugin is quite long. The downside of the plugin is that the floating sidebar is only mobile-friendly in the paid version. In the free version, you must turn off this function on mobile devices.
Salient features:
- Supports popular social networks like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and Google+
- Choose where to display like on homepage, page, post or category
A beautiful social sharing plugin that can display share buttons anywhere in the browser window.
Its buttons display well on Retina screens and are mobile-friendly. The only downside is that it only shows up on the edge of the screen.
Salient features
- Good download speed
- Easy to use
- Customize the size and color of the icon
11. AddToAny
AddToAny differs from plugins when it comes to supporting over 100 social networks and bookmarking. It is a free plugin that displays well on mobile devices.
Salient features:
- Supports a large number of social networks
- Choose where you want to put the button
- Google Analytics Integration
- Use the customize button
- Display well on mobile
Epilogue
Social sharing plugins encourage users to share your website on social networks. As such, it helps you increase website traffic.
Without a doubt, using social sharing plugins is a trend you cannot ignore.
Here are a few suggestions for choosing your social media plugin:
If you are looking for a free plugin and basic social sharing functionality, SumoMe is a good choice.
If you need a lightweight plugin, choose Simple Share Buttons Adder
If you need a plugin with lots of functions at the best price, choose Easy Social Share Buttons.
What social sharing plugin are you using? Let me know in the comments below.
