Social media is one of the most important factor for online marketing and also it is very essential for every blogger to include social sharing buttons on their blog since it was started, it’s not at all easy to achieve success without social media integration. It will help your readers to share your post or page link on their social networking sites easily and it will get more traffic from social media sites and when your traffic increases it will improve your page rank also.
There are a number of plugins available in the WordPress repository, but here I have collected some of the best WordPress social media plugin which you can use.
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1> Jetpack – Sharing
Jetpack is a well-known plugin for WordPress and it comes with lots of powerful features, but here we will see only its social sharing feature, and for that you need to activate it first, then you can add as well as rearranging the social sharing buttons. You can get more info about Jetpack plugin here.
2> Shareaholic | share buttons & related posts
Shareaholic is also one of the popular plugin, we also know this plugin as Sharing is Caring. The best thing about this plugin is that it’s not only for social sharing, but also gives other features like to show the recommendations & related content to increase the time and engagement of visitors on your site.
Some of the highlighted features:
- Share Counters for Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc
- Official support for Google’s URL shortener
- Localized in 15+ languages
- Related Content support for post keywords specified in “All in One SEO Pack”, “WordPress SEO by Yoast”, etc plugins
- and Much More.
3> Social Media Feather
WordPress Social Media Feather is a lightweight, simple, and modern looking social sharing buttons and icons, you can integrate on your site easily. This plugin supports Retina and high resolution displays and one of the important thing is, it doesn’t slow down your blog.
Some of the highlighted features:
- Full customization for titles and URLs for each provider
- Super lightweight social sharing and following
- Comes with a default modern icon set
- Available skins can be customized with cool effects like fading and greying out social icons
- and Much More.
4> Share Button Mashshare
Mashshare Share Buttons show the total share counts on Facebook and Twitter at a glance It puts some beautiful and clean designed Share Buttons on top and end of your posts to get the best most possible social share feedback from your user. It’s inspired by the Share buttons Mashable is using on his website.
Some of the highlighted features:
- Performance improvement for your website as no external scripts and count data is loaded
- Privacy protection for your user – No permanent connection to Facebook, Twitter and Google needed for sharing
- High-Performance caching functionality. You decide how often counts are updated
- Automatic embedding or manual via Shortcode into posts and pages
- Works with every Theme
- and Much More.
5> Floating Social Bar
Floating social bar is a light-weight WordPress plugin that adds a horizontal floating share bar to your blog posts, pages, and other post types. The floating ability allows this eye-catching social media bar to get you maximum shares.
Some of the highlighted features:
- Slim and Fast
- It allows you to drag-and-drop the social buttons that you want to display
- It loads scripts when necessary
- and Much More.
6> Flare
Flare is a simple yet eye-catching social sharing bar that gets you followed and lets your content get shared via posts, pages, and media types.
Some of the highlighted features:
- Add a Follow Me widget
- Easily order your icons, customize their icons’ appearance
- Control which post types your Flare appears on
- Flare displayed on the left and right of your post follow your visitors down the page as they scroll and conveniently hide when not needed
- and Much More.
7> DC Simple Share Buttons
DC Simple Share Buttons plugin is simple and loads pretty fast. The buttons do not rely on external resources to load, it’s written in PHP, HTML and CSS. There’s an option to show the buttons on posts and pages automatically. If you want to add buttons manually in your template file you have to use php tag and if you want buttons in your post or page then you have to use shortcode.
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