Best Social Sharing Plugins For WordPress

Typically, finding a best social sharing plugins for WordPress is very difficult process. But the fact is Social media is one of the most important part of any online marketing and very essential for blogger to share their article more and more. It will helps you to get more traffic from various social media websites and when your traffic increases it will improve your page rank also.

If you have a personal blog, or website then make it easy for people to share your article or content on their social media profiles by adding social share buttons to every post and pages of your website. There are thousands of social media sharing plugins in the WordPress plugin library that can display social share button for WordPress.

In this article I’ve hand-picked some of the best free, premium and easy to use social sharing plugins for WordPress to help you choose perfect one for your website or blog.

Jetpack – Sharing

Jetpack is a one of the unique and very efficient WordPress plugin that supercharges your self-hosted WordPress website with the awesome cloud power of WordPress.com. It comes with tons of powerful features, but here we can used it only for social sharing, and for that you need to install and activate it first, then you can add social sharing buttons to your posts or pages.

Shareaholic

Shareaholic is a feature rich all-in-one content monetization & amplification platform. It is very known for years as Sexy Bookmarks ;). The plugin offers 4 different sharing button styles to choose from: Flat square, Flat circle, Classic, and Sexy. It comes with different layouts, themes, sizes and various counter styles. Best part of Shareaholic is, it is highly customizable so you can easily adjust the layout, position and alignment of the social sharing buttons. It also provide a reports on your sharing activity and shows related content to your visitors.

AddThis

AddThis is the most popular and world’s largest social sharing plugin and analytics provider tools for any of website. Not only for WordPress. It offers lot of customization tools and let you to track how your post, content or article is being shared across the different social networks. Get more traffic back to your website with the power of AddThis WordPress plugin. It helps to drive a traffic to your website by helping users share, bookmark and email your content to over 330 most popular social networking websites. It contain automatic translation into 70+ different languages.

ShareThis

ShareThis is another big player in social media sharing for WordPress websites. The plugin offers a beautiful small or large social media icons and designs. Users can easily share your content or article in over 120+ social service providers. It also provides an Analytical reports that lets you track when a visitor copies your page URL. It comes with features CopyNShare, Open Graph Sharing, Social Analytics, and the Hovering Bar!

Easy Social Share Buttons

Easy Social Share Buttons is a stylish and good looking sharing solution that available to purchase on CodeCanyon for just $14. It offers your users to share your content using top 20 social media services. It let you to share, monitor and increase your social popularity.

It comes with several button designs, each of that displays the number of times a page has been shared. It support 12 native social like, follow and subscribe buttons. The buttons can be displayed in a variety of positions including the top and bottom of posts, sidebar and via stylish pop up. Easy Social Share Buttons includes modules for Google Analytics, Click log analytics, and Social Media Metrics.

Social Media Feather

Social Media Feather is a super, simple and lightweight free social media WordPress plugin, that offers you to quickly and efficiently add different social sharing buttons to your posts, page or contents. It support all major social sharing providers like Facebook, Twitter, tumblr, Google+, Linkedin, reddit, Pinterest, and even e-mail.

Mashshare Social Sharing Optimization

Mashshare is a another best way to shows Social sharing buttons with share count of Facebook, Twitter and 17 other networks. It offers you to put beautifully designed Share buttons on top or bottom of your posts or pages. It comes with features including easy to use, privacy protection, works with every themes, ultimate shortcodes and so on.

Floating Social Bar

Social media sharing is the key factor of every website, but they can significantly impact your website speed. But Floating social bar is a light weight WordPress plugin that let you to add a horizontal floating sharing bar to your posts, pages, contents, article or any other custom posts types. It has ability to allows this eye-catching social media bar to get you maximum shares.

Flare

Flare is a simple yet very attractive and eye-catching social sharing bar that gets you followed and lets your content get shared via pages, posts, and other media types. Flare works with virtually any website or CMS, including WordPress. It allow you to add Follow Me widget, Configure multiple share icons, customize icons appearance, and much more. This plugin is free to use and you can easily download it from your plugin tab in admin dashboard.

DC Simple Share Buttons

DC Simple Share Buttons is simple sharing plugin that loads pretty fast. The buttons do not rely on external resources to load, it’s written with HTML, PHP, and CSS. Also it include an option to automatically display the buttons on any post or pages. If you want to manually add buttons in your template file, you have to use php tag like:

<?php dc_social_share_tag(); ?>

and for add buttons in post or page you have to use a shortcodes like:

[dc-social]

Simple Share Buttons Adder

A simple share buttons adder is straight forward and very easy to use plugin that let you to add share buttons to your posts or pages. You just need to choose location for the buttons, placement, share text and image set then you are ready to go. Simply, it’s a very light weight and easy way to add share buttons to your WordPress powered websites.

Digg Digg

Digg Digg is one of the best and all in one share buttons plugin. That offers you to Add a floating bar with share buttons to your blog or websites. Just like Mashable! It packed with features including: support of Facebook Like Iframe or XFBML, integrated with all social sharing networks, Great customization options, Lazy loading, Left / right scrolling effect, and support excerpt mode.

Share Buttons by AddToAny

This is the WordPress sharing plugin that help users share, bookmark, and email your posts and pages using any service, like Facebook, Twitter, Google, LinkedIn, Tumblr, StumbleUpon, and 100+ other sharing and social websites. It has Google Analytics integration to provide sharing statistics within your analytics dashboard. It downloaded more than 3,310,000 times and still continues.

Social Sharing by Danny

Social Sharing by Danny is a simple yet useful plugin that adds basic sharing buttons for Facebook, Twitter, and Google+. 16px×16px or 32px×32px buttons can be selected and added to your posts automatically, via a shortcode or into your templates file using PHP code.

Final Thoughts

I hope you guyz enjoyed this post of social media sharing plugins and helps you a lot. I extremely apologise if your favorite social media service did not make this list. But don’t forget to leave a comment and share with fellow readers. 🙂