5 Best Social Sharing Plugins for WordPress

Wale Adekile

July 1, 2013

In this article, I’m going to list the top 5 WordPress social sharing plugins you can use on your blog to increase social exposure. Even the busiest people are still finding time to hang out on social networks, so we bloggers ought to utilize the availability of such users to drive traffic to our blog. There are many plugins available for WordPress to add social share buttons to your blog which should help you and your blog readers share the contents of blog on social networks. I am hereby listing the top 5 social sharing WordPress plugins.

1. ShareBar

Sharebar is one of the best social sharing plugin for WordPress which adds a vertical floating share bar to your blog posts and home page ShareBar is a very highly customizable WordPress plugin and you can change the list of social sites, background colors, borders etc.It has an awesome feature that it becomes vertical social sharing bar if the screen resolution of the user is below a specified size. This keeps it visible at all times no matter the screen resolution.

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2. Flare

Its another WordPress plugin to add social share buttons. It is highly customizable and the round buttons makes it look good anywhere you choose to place it on your blog. It also comes a Follow Me widget you can place on your sidebar.

3. ShareaHolic

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Shareaholic is another awesome social sharing plugin for WordPress. It adds an attractive list of social bookmarking sites to your posts or pages.It comes with an attractive CSS hover effect. Shareaholic has different features like top sharing bar at the top of the blog and also, it adds a related posts widget to posts which increases the page views on your blog. In essence, it’s a two-in-one plugin for social sharing and related posts.

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4. Share This

Sharethis is one of the easiest WordPress plugins for sharing which allows users to share the blog content to about 120 social channels. There many different styles for Sharethis WordPress plugin and you can choose any type from it for your blog. Also, the buttons look sort of attractive compared to others.

5. Digg Digg

Digg Digg is one of the most used social share bar plugin for WordPress.It is similar to sharebar and it floats on the side of your blog which makes readers to share your contents on social sites very easily. It has a cool effect of lazy loading which improves your blogs loading time.

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Wale Adekile

Husband to the world's most beautiful woman and father to two awesome kids. A nerd, obviously; also, a technical business analyst, a web designer who preaches the gospel of WordPress, and a writer. You can check out my published books on Amazon.