10+ Incredible Social Media WordPress Plugins
Having social media icons in your blog is really a great way to boost the traffic of your website by 20 times faster. I had added social media icons in the posts and pages of my blog and let my blog users to share my content on their social media profiles such as Facebook, Twitter, Google+, etc… However, to add social media icons in WordPress is not hard because out there on official WordPress plugins repository a wide range simple social media WordPress plugins are available and in this article I’m going to share about “10+ Incredible Social Media WordPress Plugins” with you guys which I found helpful myself.
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1. Floating Social Media Icon
Floating Social Media Icon is a WordPress plugin which points out the links of your social media profiles such as Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, YouTube, RSS Feed, LinkedIn, Google plus, etc. Out there are 20+ styles for social icons, you can set sizes of social icons & orders, multiple widgets & shortcode support, auto/manual integration, ability to enable and disable floating feature, most downloaded plugin with floating support and very easy to configure.
2. Social Media Tabs
Social media tabs which adds professionally the social icons of Facebook, Twitter, Google +1, Pinterest, Flickr, YouTube subscription, RSS profiles, and feeds. It only creates a widget, that adds sliding tabs, for each social media profile. The tabs are fully customizable and can be added either in a widget area or set to the slide out from side of the browser. Using social media tabs WordPress plugin you can organize your many social media feeds in one compact, it’s stylish and unique widget.
3. Social Media Mashup
Social Media Mashup which adds Twitter, Google+, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, and custom RSS feeds. It also provides a widget which displays a combined social media & RSS stream.
4. Social Media Icons Widget
The Social Media Icons is a sidebar/footer widget that displays social icon links pointing to user’s social media profile URLs. The widget also includes 28 different freeware icon sets with different combinations of icons. The following social media icons had already been added: Facebook, Google+, Twitter, LinkedIn, Flickr, YouTube, Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Buzz, Vimeo, WordPress, Yelp, RSS, Contact, Delicious, Website, GitHub, Goodreads.
5. Really simple Facebook Twitter share buttons
Really simple plugin which adds the social media icons above as well as below the posts of your WordPress blog. Easy to navigate and customize. Facebook, Google +1, and Twitter buttons are loaded by default. However, the other social sharing buttons including (Digg, Facebook Send button, Flattr, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Stumbleupon, Google Buzz, Hyves, Reddit, Email, Tipy, Tumblr, Buffer) can be added through the Settings->Really simple share
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6. Add Twitter, Facebook Like, Google plus one Social share
This WordPress plugin adds social media icons especially for Twitter, Facebook, Google +1 and other most popular social sharing websites. However, you can easily add the sharing buttons before/after post content, and the floating feature is also available. It targets the most efficiently the important and most popular social sharing buttons in three different positions and styles.
7. Async Social Media Buttons (Google+, Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest)
Async Social Media Buttons is a nice WordPress plugin which adds social media buttons at the bottom of the post easily. But by loading the JavaScripts for the buttons asynchronously benefits you and when someone leads your website at this time we wait until the page is loaded, then, our script runs and modifies the page. If any of the remote JavaScripts load slowly, your site is not stalled until they load.
8. Slick Social Share Buttons
9. Social Media Feather
Yep, Social Media Feather is an awesome WordPress lightweight plugin which adds social media buttons in your blog posts, pages, and custom post types painlessly.
10. Flare – Simple Social Sharing Buttons
Flare simple social sharing buttons gives you an eye-catching social sharing sticky bar in sidebar which let’s get your content shared via posts, pages, and media types. Easily configures and share your blog posts across some of the most popular networks.
11. Async Social Sharing
Simple social Async plugin that loads popular social sharing widgets asynchronously after the page loads for optimal site performance. The plugin provides settings to load any of the following sharing widgets:
- Google+
- Hacker News
12. Social Metrics
13. Floating Social Media Links
Floating Social Media Links is especially designed to allow everyone to add floating frame containing social sharing buttons to their WordPress blog. So this plugin is simple sticky float with no animation for an incredibly clean look.
That’s a nice list of WordPress social sharing plugins. Thanks for sharing.
It’s my pleasure @Abdur Rakib.
Quite a list you compiled here. I would like to another plugin that works quite for social media sharing is Jetpack. Its a great plugin that can not only help you share your content over social media but also provides various functionality which improves your blog in a big way.
Thanks for stopping by @Sandler, I appreciate opinions towards Jetpack social media sharing feature. It’s also good too.
Really useful post, Just tried the “Really simple Facebook Twitter share buttons” on my blog & loving it.. Would recommend it to everyone who want to use social media button in each post of their blog.
Regards
Halen
Hi @Halen, thank you for leaving such a peaceful comment…
Thanks for sharing this information.. Im a newbie to webdesigning, and Im taking help from similar blogs like yours to make my site more addictive.
Well, @Cypher thanks for stopping by..
hi there
i just wanted to share my plugin on here that i just made. its my first plugin you can view it and download it: http://wordpress.org/plugins/sliding-social-icons/
Well Bilal Hassan I appreciate you efforts and keep doing great work. By the way, how are you doing these days, I mean can you tell us something about what you are upto? The next plugin name? Anything?
I work as a web developer at a company, and I want to get involved in developing plugins and themes. Yesterday I released another plugin called RSS This, which turns any RSS feed into a wordpress blogroll. This weekend I will be doing another plugin for a Youtube/Vimeo Video Gallery. The theme im developing is complete, it just requires some cleaning up and some final changes
Wow, that’s really awesome that you are working for WordPress community full time and developing great plugins/themes.
A lot of the plugins are out of date and not relevant to 3.7.1
really nice post thanks for sharing, keep it up