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WP Socializer – Simple & Easy Social Media Share Icons

Simple & easy plugin to add social media sharing icons, buttons like Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Instagram & more

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Tested up to WordPress 7.1
Current version8.0
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 7.1
Minimum stackWP 5.0 · PHP 5.3
Directory statusactive
Last directory update24 Sept 20261mo ago
Active installations10K+Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org rating4.5 / 5 from 128 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records WP Socializer – Simple & Easy Social Media Share Icons version 8.0 as active, updated 1mo ago and tested up to WordPress 7.1.

Overview

About this plugin

WP Socializer is one of the best social media sharing plugin to add social sharing icons, sticky/floating share bar, follow my social profile icons, mobile share bar and selected text share popups easily to your WordPress site.

Plugin is really fast, simple and easy to use. It works excellently on mobile devices as it is completely responsive and adapts to small screens devices out of the box.

It supports all the latest and popular social media platforms (50+) like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp, LinkedIn and much more. It also displays share count for Facebook and Pinterest.

Insert Share and Follow Me Buttons Anywhere

WP Socializer is feature rich with which you can display share/follow buttons anywhere. This allows you to encourage visitors to share and follow your content.

  • Inline – Share icons (above/below post content)
  • Floating share bar (stick to content, window, scroll)
  • Follow icons
  • Selected text share bar
  • Shortcodes
  • Widgets

55+ Popular Social Network Icons Out-Of-The Box

WP Socializer includes all the popular social network icons you need to add sharing and follow buttons on your website for FREE!

  • Facebook, X, Pinterest, WhatsApp, LinkedIn, Instagram, Email, SMS, Phone, Copy link, Comments button and more
  • More icons – Add to favorites, Behance, Bitbucket, Blogger, CodePen, Comments, DeviantArt, Dribbble, Facebook messenger, Flickr, Github, Hacker News, Medium, PayPal, PDF, Print, Reddit, RSS, Short link, Snapchat, Soundcloud, StackOverflow, Quora, Telegram, Tumblr, Vimeo, VKontakte, wechat, Xing, Youtube, Weibo, Line, Odnoklassniki, Telephone/call button, Houzz, Etsy, Discord, Patreon, Viber, TikTok, Flipboard, Mastodon, Threads, Native OS share menu (Web share API), Podcast, Bluesky

Multiple Icon Shapes, Sizes and Colors to Choose from

Customize the social icons with a variety of options. This helps you match the style of your website and look good.

  • 2 layouts
  • 4 icon sizes
  • 7 icon shapes
  • 7 hover effects
  • Pick any icon color
  • Pick any background color
  • Alignment options
  • Custom text, hover text, icon image

Popular Widgets Ready to Use

Encourage visitors to follow your social profile by displaying widgets like Facebook page, Twitter feed and Follow me icons on your sidebar – all out of the box. You don’t need to have separate plugins now.

  • Facebook widget (Page timeline)
  • Twitter widget (Twitter feed)
  • Follow me icons (Profile icons widget)
  • Pinterest widget (Board, Profile, Pin widget)

Responsive and Works on any device

You can configure simple rules to decide how the social icons should behave on smaller and wider screens easily.

  • Automatically move floating sharebar to the bottom of the screens
  • Show/Hide inline share icons in smaller devices
  • Show/hide follow icons in smaller devices
  • Custom responsive width

Insert share icons on specific pages

Sometimes you might not need to display sharing icons in all the pages of your website. With WP Socializer you can create rules to decide where the icons should be shown.

  • Show on all pages
  • Show on specific pages
  • Hide on specific pages
  • Show/hide on specific custom post types
  • Hide on home page

Share counter

Display individual and total share counts for social networks like Facebook and Pinterest.

  • Facebook like/share count
  • Pinterest count
  • Comments count
  • Total count
  • Recover share count from http/https

⚡ More features

  • Beautiful, powerful yet easy to use.
  • Lightweight and very fast. Does not affect website performance.
  • GDPR complaint.
  • Works with Gutenberg.
  • Works with Woocommerce.
  • Works with custom post types.
  • Works with any theme.
  • No registration required and completely local.
  • Friendly support.
  • No-nonsense!

💎 PRO version

Create Custom Icons – You can create and add custom icons for any new social network to share or add a icon to follow your social profile URL.

  • Pick any color for the icon.
  • Custom icon image, fontawesome icon
  • Use the icon in all the features
  • Use in shortcodes

Customize Share URL, Title, Tweet Text – If you want to change share URL or set a different tweet text for a post, then you can do that with WP Socializer PRO. This allows you to customize what information is shared for each post.

  • Twitter tweet text
  • Share URL
  • Share title
  • Short URL

ly – By default the full URL of the post will be used for sharing. ly your users can share short links of your posts and pages.

  • Share short links
  • Set custom short link
  • Track clicks on Bit.ly dashboard.

Tracking Clicks with Google Analytics – With WP Socializer PRO, you can track clicks happening on the share icons, follow icons using Google Analytics. You can see how users are interacting with your share icons directly on Google Analytics dashboard.

  • Track clicks on all features
  • Supports Universal Analytics
  • Supports Google Analytics 4
  • Supports Google Tag manager

Check out WP Socializer – PRO

Plugin links

  • Live demo
  • Support Forum
  • Documentation
  • Homepage
WordPress.org metadata

Plugin tags

Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.

  • share buttons
  • social media
  • social share
  • social sharing
Compatibility & maintenance

Compatibility & maintenance

Tested with WP 7.1

Marked as tested with the current WordPress 7.1 release.

Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to7.1
Minimum requirementsWordPress 5.0 · PHP 5.3
Update activity24 Sept 20261mo ago

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Version7.98.0
WordPress compatibility6.7.77.1.2
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