Best Social Media Sharing Plugins
One of the best ways to increase web traffic to your site is to integrate your social media sites with your WordPress site. In this next series of articles we’ll let you know which social media plugins are the best to add to your site. This will include the best social media sharing plugins, the best social media following plugins, the best social media comments plugins, the best social media post broadcasting plugins, the best social media content locking plugins, and the best social media tracking plugins.
A few things to keep in mind when selecting any plugins for your WordPress site is to look at how many active installs a plugin has, its rating, if it’s compatible with your WordPress version, and when it was last updated. These factors will give you big clues into how responsive the developers are and whether or not the majority of users like their products.
AddtoAny Share Buttons
First up on our list of the best social media sharing plugins is the AddtoAny Share Buttons plugin. This plugin is really great if you use a mix of different social media sites. They support over 100 social media sites and apps and they allow custom placement on your WordPress site including floating share bars and widgets. AddtoAny Share Buttons also integrates with Google Analytics and is mobile ready.
Social Media Feather
Social Media Feather is a lightweight social media sharing plugin that allows sharing features to be added to any of your posts, pages, and custom post types. Currently this plugin offers WordPress social media sharing for Facebook, Twitter, Google+, reddit, Pinterest, tumblr, LinkedIn and email. This plugin also fully supports retina and high resolution displays.
Social Media and Share Icons (Ultimate Social Media)
The Social Media and Share Icons (Ultimate Social Media) plugin works well for those that like to have many different customization options. It has quite a few choices, including 16 different designs for your social media icons (or you can upload custom ones), animations for icons, and floating or sticky icons and much more. This plugin is easy to use and guides you through the process of setting up your social media sharing icons step-by-step.
If you have any questions or if you need help installing any of the best social media sharing plugins or other support for WordPress, we have instructors that are ready to help you. Call 512-593-1621 or email rick@wp-learningcenter.com to schedule a consultation today.
We also offer our WordPress Social Media Class that will show you how to integrate social media with WordPress.
