WordPress Most Sought-after Social Sharing Plug-ins

Social media services, a second biggest source after search engines for traffic. These days Facebook, Twitter Google + and LinkedIn are the most heavily used social sharing websites.

Social media creates an opportunity for marketers to spread the services and products they offer in most relaxed and conversational way. Integrating social media into your WordPress site or blog will enable your readers or buyers to share the great blog and best products within their groups.

Here are some of the best Social Media Plugins you can use in your WordPress site or blog and how they can bring huge traffic on your WordPress site we will see further in this presentation.

Social Media Sharing Plug-ins:

1. Sociable

This is one of the best and fantastic free plugin that adds social media sharing buttons in your posts, pages and RSS feed. It includes dozen of the most popular social networks and is updated regularly.

You can make selection form both, a simple icons or buttons that will show the number of times an article has been shared, retweeted or liked with the use of this amazing social media plugin.

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2. Sharebar

This amazing plug-in will automatically add an attractive sharing bar vertically to the left or right of your posts or horizontally below the title.

You can manually add this plugin anywhere in your blog using PHP code.

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3. ShareThis

ShareThis plugin is one of the most used and popular plugin on the web. In fact, it is being used in more than 1 million of websites worldwide.

With access of more than 120 social channels (including Facebook, Twitter, Like, +1, Email and more), The ShareThis plugin is a quick and easy sharing solution for your site to keep your audience engaged in your content and increase traffic to your site.

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4. Lockerz Share

Here, you have the option to choose the only social services you want to display on your blog. This easy-to-use button lets you choose from over 100 social media services, including Google+ and Facebook.

Choose from five buttons, or use your own image or a simple text link.

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5. Shareaholic

Shareaholic is highly configurable WordPress plugin which allows you to add a “sexy bookmarks” to your posts, pages, home page, category archive and RSS feed.

The share bar hides half of each icon and revealing the full icon only when the user hovers over it.

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6. Slick Social Share Buttons

This plugin places a social sharing button in a fixed location on your website, floated anywhere. Alternatively, the menu can slide out.

The plugin supports Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, StumbleUpon, Digg, Google Buzz and Pinterest etc.

Variations of buttons are available, including horizontal and vertical orientations and counters and no counters.

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7. Social Toolbar

This plugin is used to put a toolbar at the bottom of your website. You can view the latest tweet just above the toolbar, and on the right are buttons and counters for Facebook likes and retweets.

On the left is a horizontal list of all of your social profiles (making this both a sharing and following plugin).

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8. InsiteBar

InsiteBar plugin is use to put a toolbar at the top of your website. By default this toolbar displays a Facebook like and retweet buttons. It also enables users to search the website via Google (in a pop-up) and translate content into over a dozen languages.

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The green button at the top of the page brings up a sharing box, enabling visitors to share your content on various social media services.

9. Sharedaddy

The Sharedaddy plugin supports Google+, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, StumbleUpon, Digg and Reddit. Visitors can also share articles via email and print them out.

Display icons, text or both, and customize the label, too. Buttons can be placed on your home page or on posts or pages.

Sharedaddy is now part of the popular Jetpack plugin

10. GetSocial

You can add a vertical sharing box to your website. GetSocial supports Twitter, Facebook, Google+ (and Google Buzz), StumbleUpon, Digg and Blend.

More buttons can easily be added in the settings.

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11. Social Media Counters

This useful plugin shows sharing buttons like Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, Digg, StumbleUpon and AddThis.

Buttons can be added to posts and pages, as well as attachments (making this one of the few plugins to offer this feature!) in form of small or large.

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12. SocialPop

This plugin “pops up” icons when a user hovers over the image.

You can choose from a lot of variations: make images pop up, down, left or right. Circle and square icons are available, as are cool effects such as tooltips and monochrome hover colors.

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13. Sticklr WP

Sticklr WP plugin allows you to add a social media panel to the side of your page. The menu remains fixed as the user scrolls up and down, and it can be expanded either by hovering over it or clicking it.

Multiple columns can be displayed in the pop-out menu, and you can add your own HTML.

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14. Social Buttons Pro

Social Buttons Pro plugin supports four services includes Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and LinkedIn.

Simply click on the relevant button to add it to posts, pages or even other areas of your website (via template tags).

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15. Social Media Widget

The plugin has a big settings area for the widget, where you can change the title and text above the icons. This cool plugin provides six spaces for your own social profiles.

This plugin offers tons of sharing icons come in 3 sizes, 4 icon styles, and 4 animations.

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And final words, there is no one perfect social media plugin for everyone out there. It can be changing according to design and content size of website. It also depends on where you want to put the buttons and links, how many social services you want to list down and how well the plugin blends in with your design.

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