Top 5 Social Media WordPress Plugins

Top 5 Social Media WordPress Plugins

1. Sassy Social Share

It comes with support for many different social media websites, and you can add buttons in post content as well as a sticky floating social menu.
It supports social share count feature as well. However, like many other social media plugins, you will need to use a third party service to retrieve those stats.

Sassy Social Share enables your website users to share the content over Facebook, Twitter, Google, LinkedIn, Whatsapp, Tumblr, Pinterest, Reddit and over 100 more social sharing and bookmarking services.

This is the Simplest and Smoothest Social Sharing plugin with optimized and great looking vector icons.

Note: Plugin will not work on local server. You should have an online website for the plugin to function properly.

Features:

• Around 100 Social Sharing/Bookmarking services
• Share counts are supported for Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, Buffer, Reddit, Pinterest, Stumbleupon and Vkontakte
• FREE Icon Customization options
• Options to specify sharing icon shape – Square, Round and Rectangular
• Options to specify sharing icon size – minimum 16 pixels, no upper limit
• Options to specify sharing icon backround color and logo color
• Share counter customization options
• Enable share count cache with option to control cache refresh time-frame
• Mobile Responsiveness
• Enable Social Sharing at WooCommerce products
• Official Like Buttons (Faceboo Like, Twitter Tweet, Google +1 etc.)
• Widgets and Shortcodes
• And much more

2. EA Share Count

There are three button styles, and you can choose where to show the button (before or after the content or manually). You can also enable it for custom post types.

The "Share Buttons to Display" field lets you control which share buttons to display and in what order. They can be automatically added before and/or after your site's content by selecting a Theme Location. Alternatively you can use ea_share()->front->display() in your theme to display the buttons

3. AddtoAny

It can show social share count without creating an account and offers Google Analytics integration. AddtoAny has a smaller footprint on performance when compared to other similar tools that offer global social sharing buttons.

The AddToAny WordPress sharing plugin helps people share your posts and pages to any service, such as Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Google, WhatsApp, LinkedIn, Tumblr, Reddit, and over 100 more sharing and social media sites & apps.

The AddToAny WordPress sharing plugin helps people share your posts and pages to any service, such as 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 AddToAny’s plugin is the most popular share plugin for WordPress, making sites social media ready since 2006.

Features:

• Counters — fast & official share counts in the same style
• Floating share buttons — responsive & customizable, vertical & horizontal
• Vector share & follow buttons (SVG icons)
• Universal Share Button and Smart Menu
• Individual share links and custom share icons
• Choose from over 100 services
• 3rd party buttons include the Facebook Like Button, Twitter Tweet Button, Pinterest Pin It Button, Google+ Share Button and Google +1 Button
• Universal email sharing makes it easy to share via Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, Outlook.com (Hotmail), AOL Mail, and any other web and native apps

4. Social Icons Widget by WPZoom

It offers three icon styles: rounded borders, round, and square. You can also use custom colors for icons if you want.

Social Icons Widget helps you to add quickly icons with links to your profiles from different social networks. The plugin includes 4 icon sets, which gives you the possibility to use the widget for more than just linking to your social networks. You can use generic icons to add links to anything you want.

FEATURES:

• 80+ Sites/Social Networks supported
• 400+ Custom Icons
• 4 Icons Sets
• FontAwesome Integration
• Drag & Drop Icons
• Color Picker
• Search by keywords
• Adjust icon size & padding
• 2 Styles: Icon Shape and Icon with Background
• 3 Background Styles: Rounded Corners, Round, Square
• Retina Ready Icons
• Supports email addresses (mailto:email@example.com)
• Supports Telephone numbers (tel:12345)
• Supports Skype (skype:username?call)
• Supports Viber (viber://add?number=123456)

5. Simple Social Icons

It has a limited number of social media platforms covering all the most important and popular services. It is very easy to use and has minimum impact on performance.

Simple Social Icons is an easy to use, customizable way to display icons that link visitors to your various social profiles. With it, you can easily choose which profiles to link to, customize the color and size of your icons, as well as align them to the left, center, or right, all from the widget form (no settings page necessary!).

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