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After going through many sites, you must be wondering which one would be the best WordPress social media plugin for your blog.
That always be a big dilemma in every webmaster’s mind. Social Media is the den and an ultimate source for Bloggers and Content Marketers to drive traffic. And SEO Strategist just loves it, as they can cover a wide audience. That means a lot of eyeballs for your content.
After trying a lot of them, here I would like to share the best social sharing plugins that will work the best on your awesome blog.
This plugin is bringing up the revolution having loads of features and completely SEO Optimized. Minimal-looking buttons with decent animation make it more beautiful.
However, I realized the free version is quite limited in its features. But yeah perfect fit for the basic blogs.
But if you would like to automate things, then you should go with the Social Snap paid version. So what can you automate?
It offers a Social Auto Poster, which means will share the post automatically as it gets published on your favorite social channels.
A few Highlighted features,
It contacts almost 30+ social icons, and the best part you can also manually place the social share icons wherever you like.
Social Warfare is been developed by the Warfare Plugins Team. When it comes to Social Warfare, it looks stunning and is easy to install and configure. A small-sized plugin with too many features can give you the best results whereas the social shares are concerned.
It offers all the major social media icons like Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, StumbleUpon, and Google+. It looks soothing with decent animation.
It allows you to add social buttons on both above and below posts as well. And if you are not interested in that, it is flexible enough for your manual placements as well.
Sounds great, isn’t it?
Let me take you to the dashboard of the same.
And if the viewers are in the middle of the post, you can also show the floating buttons. Which enhances the overall user experience.
And if you are looking for more, you can also switch to the Social Warfare pro version. The pro version will add many other features to it. check the quick video.
The pro version will allow you to add more social buttons, Customize Tweets, shortcodes, and popular post widgets, Add content Protection features, Pin all the images at a time, share customization, and more.
This is another best social media sharing plugins in the list. Simple Social Buttons are super easy to select the location of the buttons where you would like to display from the 6 different locations.
The variety of the designs of the button would be perfect for any blog layout. Important these plugins don’t eat a lot of resources of your hosting, and load fast.
Simple Social Button Plugin offers different features
Looking at the features, no one could deny how powerful this plugin is in making your content more shareable. They are offering a lifetime deal through AppSumo. That means no more monthly or yearly renewals at all.
I do check every plugin before installing where it will affect the site speed or not. This looks like one of the clean and lightweight Social Share icons.
Nevertheless, it has pretty awesome features in place,
I liked even the style of the buttons, clean and easily shareable. Grow Social is available in Free and paid version for $29 for 1 website. A free one would be enough for small-scale blogs.
This is another Plugin that is well-optimized for any WordPress. Monarch is developed by Elegant Themes. It allows getting added in several areas on your blog.
Monarch is a powerful social share plugin that fits on any WordPress website. This plugin offers many social locations and different kinds of buttons.
you can place it in,
Images can also be shared easily, as the social button can be placed on those. This is very suitable, as we already know the power of sharing on Pinterest.
Mashshare is another of my favorite Social Sharing plugins which looks simple yet shareable. It looks elegant and loads faster as it loads right from your website, instead of making requests for external sources.
Plenty of more add-ons can be added to it. Apart from the popular Linkedin, Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest, other social media buttons can also be added like WhatsApp integration, Flipboard, Email, and more.
More Additional Features:
A perfect social sharing plugin if you have a general, Tech, or news kind of website. This plugin helps to increase the shares.
Genesis simple share plugin is developed by StudioPress. A website that offers and is well-known for its well-optimized WordPress themes.
So no more questions on the loading speed at all. As soon as you download and install this WordPress social share plugin. It will start showing in your blog posts with the default. However, if you are looking for any customization, can be done right from the dashboard(Admin area).
As the plugin name itself resembles, it simple social share button. Despite saying simple, I love how it looks. It can also show the social count on every button just like the others above.
Never just go to the fancy-looking plugins which may affect a lot of terms. It’s always been important to use lightweight social plugins for your WordPress website.
A lot of visitors might come to your website, but are you making it easy for them to share the content?
It could be easily accessed, by the visitor. More numbers of social shares, not only get you more visitors but also help the blog post to rank in SERP’s. Social Signals are one of the biggest factors in rankings.
It’s wise to keep on experimenting with plugins, if not very frequently, but in a while to see what works for your website.
So, have you figured out which one you would like to install on your WordPress website? Do let me know in the comment section below.
Hey Navin,
Social media plays a very crucial role in promoting our blogs. I can’t imagine any blog promotional routine without social media involved.
And it is very crucial to make it easy for our readers to share our content, so we get maximum social exposure.
Thanks for this list, Social Warfare is my fav.
Cheers,
Jane.
Yeah, agree on it Jane without proper social media sharing icons, a website is incomplete and one could not even think of their promotional strategies at all.
Hi Navin,
Social media presence plays an important role in the success of a business or blog. To multiply your social media sharing you need to add social media sharing plugin on your blog.
It is good to see that you have shared some helpful plugins here.
Thanks Gaurav! After a lot of trials, above are the few handpicked social media plugins for any WordPress users to take their site to next level. Glad you liked.
One and only Social Warfare is the best option for social sharing.
Hello Navin,
I am using Social warfare plugin on my blog. It is the best plugin to increase my social share and installing it on the blog is very easy. I highly recommend this tool to everyone. Thanks for sharing these great list of social share plugins.
Have a great day 🙂
Vishwajeet
Hi Viswajeet, I Agree, Social Warfare has the extreme potential and it’s so lightweight too.
Good to see you again. Have a great day ahead!