Want to drive more traffic from social media? With the right set of social media plugins, it’s possible to make your content go viral and increase the social media traffic to your site. In this article, we’ll share the best WordPress social media plugins and help you decide whether you need to add them to your social media toolbox to grow your traffic.

Using WordPress Social Media Plugins

Social media is one of the larger traffic sources you can tap into. You can use social media to raise brand awareness, increase your exposure and drive traffic. With the right strategies and toolset, you can use social media opportunities to grow your online business.

In this article, you’ll find some of the best WordPress social media plugins that let you:

• Add social media share buttons and display social share count on your blog posts.
• Schedule blog posts to be shared on social media right from your WordPress dashboard.
• Display social media icons that link to your social media profiles.
• Create social login on your site so users can quickly register with your site and log into your site with their existing social IDs.

1. Shared Counts

Shared Counts is a lean social media plugin for your WordPress site that quickly retrieves, caches and displays various social sharing counts by using SharedCount.com API. This is by far the fastest social sharing plugin in the market. Most other share plugins slow down your website, but this is written by very highly reputable developers who value performance.

Since it’s written by developers, this plugin is very flexible and developer friendly. You can easily customize it to match your theme’s need.

It supports share counts for Facebook, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Twitter (using the NewShareCount API), Stumbleupon, and email sharing. It also combines the share count, so you can show total share counts alongside the buttons.

Get started with Shared Counts today.

2. Monarch

Monarch is a premium social media sharing plugin developed by Elegant Themes, a premium hub for WordPress themes and plugins. With Monarch, you can add share buttons in 5 different locations: floating sidebar, above or below content, on images and videos, automatic popup, and automatic fly-in.

In addition to social sharing, Monarch allows you to place your social follow buttons in your sidebar or use a shortcode within your page / post content.

It is highly customizable and allows you to choose button shapes, colors and hover effects.

Get started with Monarch today.

3. Social Warfare

Social Warfare is another social sharing plugin that is both beautiful and feature-rich. It gives you control over what people share on social networks, and how they share it. You can add custom images, custom titles and custom descriptions for your posts to boost clicks and increase traffic to your site.

Some of the additional features of Social Warfare are:

• Popular posts widget: Display your most popular blog posts in a widget based on the number of social shares.
• Analytics tracking: You can track how your social shares are performing using your Google Analytics account.
• Share recovery: You can recover share counts when switching permalink structures.

Get started with Social Warefare Pro today.

4. Revive Old Post

Revive Old Post allows you to automatically share your new and old posts on your social media accounts. It enables you to share your content on multiple platforms including Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. It also allows you to track clicks.

You can set a sharing interval and choose the number of posts to share. You can also post with featured images in your tweets to boost your click-through rates.

Get started with Revive Old Post today.

5. Sassy Social Share

Sassy Social Share helps your website visitors share your content on their favorite social media sites. Currently, Sassy Social Share supports over 100+ social media and bookmarking sites.

The plugin is mobile responsive, so your social media icons can be adapted to the screen of your visitors’ device.

Sassy Social Share is a lightweight plugin optimized for high speed page rendering. Even though the plugin is 100% free, their enthusiastic support team has a good track record of resolving support requests quickly.

Get started with Sassy Social Share today.

6. AddToAny

AddToAny is one of the most popular universal social sharing platforms. With the AddToAny plugin for WordPress, you can allow users to share your content via share buttons. You don’t have to register an account with any third-party sites to make it work. The plugin supports over 100 social media sites and apps.

It comes with counters and responsive floating share buttons that you can place at the most optimal locations on your site. Best of all, you can measure the engagement of your users with the sharing plugin via Google Analytics integration. You can also track shared links with the Google URL shortener.

Get started with AddToAny today.

7. WordPress to Buffer

If you’re after a WordPress plugin that sends updates to your Buffer account for scheduled publishing to social networks, the WordPress to Buffer is the right choice.

Unlike most other plugins featured in this post, WordPress to Buffer isn’t a plugin that shows a counter and a sharing button on your website for your users to share your content. Instead, it’s a plugin that helps you define social media status for your WordPress site, schedule your content on your Buffer account right within your WordPress dashboard.

Get started with WordPress to Buffer today.

8. Simple Social Icons

Simple Social Icons is an easy to use social media plugin that allows you to display social media icons that link to your social profiles from your website’s sidebar. This free plugin is developed by StudioPress, a leading WordPress themes company.

You can add or reorder icons per your preference. You can also customize the size and color of your icons as well as align them the way you want.

Get started with Simple Social Icons today.

9. Social Icons Widget by WPZoom

Social Icons Widget is another plugin that allows you to quickly add social media icons to your sidebar using a widget and link them to the respective social media profiles of yours.

It allows you to add as many social icons as needed. It comes with a color picker that allows you to change the color and hover color of all your icons.

Get started with Social Icons Widget today.

10. WordPress Social Login

WordPress Social Login enables your website visitors to easily register an account with your site by using their existing social account IDs. Creating a WordPress account with their existing social media accounts make it super easy for your visitors to register. This saves them from filling out a registration form and remember a separate username / password while logging in.

With WordPress Social Login, you can even import your users’ contact list from Gmail, Facebook, Windows Live and LinkedIn.

Get started with WordPress Social Login today.

11. Instagram Feed

Instagram Feed allows you to display Instagram photos from any non-private Instagram accounts. Integrating your Instagram feed with your site is a time saver, so you can automatically post your photos on your site directly from Instagram.

The plugin also allows you to include a follow button beside your photos which can help you grow your Instagram followers.

Get started with Instagram Feed today.

12. Better Click to Tweet

Better Click to Tweet allows you to easily create tweetable content for your readers. You just need to add a shortcode around the content which you want to make tweetable.

Better Click to Tweet supports URL shortener, giving you the ability to utilize the maximum number of characters possible. It also allows you to track the engagement of your tweetable content.

A premium addon is available that allows you to select from the different style options.

Get started with Better Click to Tweet today.

Choosing the Best Social Media Plugins for WordPress

If you want an easy way to display social share count on your blog posts, then Shared Counts plugin is the best choice. It’s developer friendly and optimized for speed, which makes it highly flexible social plugin without compromising on performance.

If you’re looking for a premium plugin that offers more than just social sharing plugins and come with premium support, then you should look into Social Warfare.

If you want a social sharing plugin that has popups, slide-ins, and other features, then you should use Monarch. In addition to social sharing, it also lets you display follow buttons in your sidebar.

We hope this article helped you find some of the best WordPress social media plugins for your site.

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