5 Best WordPress Social Sharing Plugins For Social Media Marketing

Nobody hates free traffic, the options are not only limited to search engine traffic. You can’t ignore the importance of social traffic, Social media traffic plays a vital role in generating sales and leads. In order to get traffic from social networks, you must need to have options on your site for social sharing. You can use different WordPress social sharing plugins to enable your visitors to share your valuable content.

Table of Contents

• List of Top WordPress Social Sharing Plugins
• 1. Simple Social Media Share Buttons
• 2. Social Sharing Plugin – Kiwi
• 3. Easy Social Share Buttons
• 4. Social Warfare
• 5. Social Snap
• Final Thoughts

List of Top WordPress Social Sharing Plugins

There are different plugins that can be used for social sharing. different plugins have different features, by keeping all the factors in my I’ve compiled a list of the 5 best WordPress social sharing plugins.

1. Simple Social Media Share Buttons

SSB is a simple light-weight and feature-rich plugin. It definitely helps to grow your social media appearance and increases traffic. It supports all the popular social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Whatsapp, and Viber. This plugin is quite handy for small bloggers and for the agency, both can take benefits from social juice.

It provides the options to display buttons on different positions such as under the single post, before the single post, sidebar, pop-ups, and flyers, and even you can show the social sharing buttons on custom post types.

It supports almost 13 languages and more translations are coming soon in the latest version. SSB has two versions free and pro, popups, and flyers are available in the pro version. The pricing starts at $27.

2. Social Sharing Plugin – Kiwi

Kiwi social sharing plugin was developed by WpKube to use on their own blog, but later they decided to add it to WordPress repository for public use. It is a simple and elegant plugin with a lot of features enabled. It supports Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, and Pinterest.

You will fall in love with button styles and button designs, they are fully customizable. It displays the total share count to build more trust. The floating bar is one of the great features of this plugin, you can simply enable or disable this feature with Toggle.

If you are still not satisfied with its front end look, you can play with available filters to customize it to the next level.

3. Easy Social Share Buttons

ESSB does not have any free version, However, their premium version costs $20 which is totally affordable. It offers 50 plus different social network sites to play with. ESSB is super fast and works with all the plugins without any conflict. The customization options are not limited at all there are around 28 plus positions 52 plus premade templates and 25 different animation styles.

Easy Social Share Buttons are expanding their features by adding the options i.e, Email and Live chat options.

4. Social Warfare

Social Warfare is the top free social sharing plugin, It’s simple and easy to configure. In the free version all the basic and important social networks are available, however, if you are interested to unlock more features you can go with the premium version. In the premium version, there are a lot of customization options and different styles.

It allows you to add the social buttons to different positions. The admin interface is simple and clean you can easily configure them by just drag and drop. You may have noticed that other social sharing buttons do not share the full height images on Pinterest. But this plugin takes care of this thing and allows us to share the full-height images on Pinterest. Moreover, you can edit the description of your post while sharing on Twitter and Facebook.

5. Social Snap

Social Snap is a new plugin in the market but it is taking the charge so fast, it does not have enough active installs on wp.org but I’m going to list it here because of its features. In the free version, there are all the basic social networks available, and they have a nice and clean design, Furthermore, it provides you with three reads to use Gutenberg blocks.

Social Snap Gutenberg Blocks

• socialsnap/click-to-tweet
• socialsnap/social-follow
• socialsnap/social-share
  

You can unlock its premium features by buying the premium version. There are all options available to customize the buttons to change their order and to show them in different positions.

Final Thoughts

I’ve tried to make a compact list of all WordPress Social Sharing Plugins, They are all unique from each other in features. You can choose them according to your needs and choice. If you are just starting your website or blog you can go with a free version and later on you can upgrade to the premium version.

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