I don’t need to tell you about the power and reach of social media. It’s important that viewers are able to share your blog posts on social media in the easiest way possible.
Adding social media buttons will help the readers to share in just a single click. This will help improve your search engine ranking and get more traffic.
So, let’s look at some ways of doing that by installing social media plugins on your WordPress site.
Doing so will help you drive more traffic from social media sites which will, in turn, also help improve your search engine ranking.
But also make sure to not overdo it. Don’t add all of them, only the important ones that’d be used more often.
I would suggest WhatsApp, Facebook & Pinterest.
Basically, put the buttons of the platforms where your target audience would be present.
Table Of Contents
Social Media Sharing Plugins for WordPress
1. Sassy Social Share
It is an easy-to-use social media plugin for WordPress that has plenty of options. You can add social media buttons at the beginning/end of a blog post or have them float on the sides.
The buttons can be styled in 3 ways: rounded, square, and rectangle.
Their position can be adjusted. The Sassy social share plugin is free to use and completely GDPR compliant.
It supports over 100 different social networks and offers plenty of options to customize the position and appearance of the sharing buttons.
2. Monarch
Monarch is a social media sharing plugin by Elegant Themes. It offers different placement options. It’s a paid plugin.
Placement is very crucial. If the share buttons are placed at a location where the user wouldn’t normally see, they can get unnoticed or harder to be in focus.
There are over 20 social sharing networks available. You can choose which ones to keep for the buttons.
One great additional feature of Monarch is the image sharing option. It can add an option for the readers to share images right from your blog post to their social accounts.
Usually, you would need a separate plugin to enable this.
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3. AddtoAny
AddtoAny is another social sharing plugin on WordPress that has a floating button, universal menu, and standard social sharing buttons.
It can display the number of shares and you can integrate it with Google Analytics.
Share Buttons by AddToAny lets you add responsive sharing buttons on your blog which is an amazing feature.
Additionally, AddToAny lets you add over 100+ sharing buttons (not that you need that many). There are also plenty of placement options.
4. Social Snap
Social Snap supports more than 30 of the most popular social networks. The buttons can be placed using shortcode, which is a pretty rare feature to come around.
You can choose the design, size, color, and label of the buttons.
5. Social Warfare
The Social Warfare plugin has 2 versions a free version and a Pro version.
All the basic features are present in the free version along with 4 different placement options. But the pro version lets you add a pin-it button over the images on your blog posts, gives you full control over open-graph tags. and additional social media networks.
6. Jetpack
Jetpack is one of the most popular WordPress plugins.
If you already use the Jetpack plugin, you can activate the sharing buttons and add your desired sharing buttons.
To activate the Sharing buttons:
- Go to Jetpack → Settings → Sharing in your site’s dashboard.
- Under Sharing buttons, activate the Add sharing buttons to your posts option.
Once the module is active you can add sharing buttons to your site in four short steps:
- Navigate to Settings → Sharing in your site’s dashboard.*
- Under Sharing Buttons, drag and drop the services you want to use into the Enabled Services area.
- Choose your preferred button style and where you would like the buttons to appear.
- Save!
Conclusion
That’s all for now. Which one of these plugins are you interested to try out?
If you use any other social media sharing plugin, tell me in the comments below.
