WordPress Plugins for Social Sharing

An article by Prashish Rajbhandari    2 Comments

If an user come across an interesting or an informational piece of article, he/she might want to share it to their friends circle or followers. Sharing manually would be a headache and people usually opt not to share at all. So, it is highly recommended for all WordPress admins to add some social sharing options in their websites. To make life easier for them, WordPress has an awesome array of plugins that will make sharing very easy across all the well known social media. All you need to do is install the plugin and the share button will be added in all the articles.

After a series of posts of WordPress plugins ( Text Editors, SyntaxHighlighters and Multi Authors ), here is a collection of all social media sharing plugins:

ShareThis: Share, Email, Tweet, Like, +1 Made Simple

The ShareThis plugin seamlessly enables users to share your content through Email,Facebook,Twitter, Google +1, Like, Send and many more.

Social Share 2.0 – Social Bookmarks

This plugin adds a small widget within each blog post to share blog posts on Facebook, Twitter, Google Buzz, Digg, Surfpeople, and well over 100 more.

AddToAny: Share/Bookmark/Email Buttons

Help people share, bookmark, and email your posts & pages using any service, such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, StumbleUpon, Digg and many more.

Sociable

Sociable people need sociable! Add sociable bookmarks to posts, pages and RSS feeds

SexyBookmarks | email, bookmark, and share buttons

Adds an attractive social bookmarking menu to your posts, pages, index, or any combination of the three.

Social Sharing Toolkit

Easy sharing and connecting on social networks. Display on posts or use widgets or shortcode. Also Twitter name/hashtag to link converter.

Bookmark, Share, Simple.

Bookmark, Share, Simple adds a fixed bookmark drawn in HTML5 canvas to the top of your site.

Trackable Social Share Icons

Trackable Social Share Icons plugin is a simple, intuitive, and customizable plugin that places social media icons, such as Twitter and Facebook, at the bottom of WordPress posts and pages. Users can click on the icon to share the blog post over social networks without ever leaving the page.

All clicks on the social icons are automatically tracked in your Google Analytics, under Event Tracking.

Slick Social Share Buttons

Slick social share buttons adds facebook, twitter, google +1, google buzz, linkedin, digg, and stumbleupon social media buttons in a floating or slide

Simple Social Sharing

A simple single post footer to include sharing links for your visitors.

My Social Links Bar

An WP Plugin that show/hides a toolbar with social links of the wp blog/site owner.

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