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The Best Looking Social Sharing Buttons

Grow Social by Mediavine is one of the easiest to use social sharing plugins available. It lets you add highly customizable social share buttons that will integrate beautifully with your website's design, leading to increased interactions and social media shares.

The free version of the plugin comes with five of the biggest social media platforms, mainly Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and LinkedIn.

For each social media platform you can customize the social share button to your liking. You can choose to have a simple social media icon share button, a share button with a bold label to catch the eye and even social sharing buttons with social share counts, so that you visitors have social media proof.

You can place the social sharing buttons before and after the post content or have them follow your readers as they scroll up and down the page, in the form of a social media floating sidebar.

Social Share Count: Display the posts social share count to provide social media proof and increase your website's credibility.

Social Share Buttons Locations: You can place the social sharing buttons in 4 different locations of your website. You can opt in to display them before and/or after the content of your posts on whichever post type you want. Also you can choose to display the social share buttons in a floating sidebar that follows the user as he/she scrolls the page. The floating sidebar can be placed on the left or on the right side of the screen.

Main Features

  • Before and After Content Social Share Buttons - Place the social share buttons right before your content, after your content or both
  • Floating Sidebar Social Share Buttons - Make the social share buttons follow the user as he/she scrolls up and down your webpage by adding floating buttons on the left or right side of the screen
  • Editable Button Labels - Edit the labels that appear in the share buttons, to maximize your engagement
  • Retina Ready Sharp Share Icons - Grow Social by Mediavine uses an icon font to display the best looking social media icons on any screen

Premium Features

  • 10+ Social Media Networks more - Reach more people by adding any of the following social share networks Reddit, VK, Yummly, WhatsApp, Buffer, Telegram, Flipboard, Pocket, Tumblr and Email
  • Mobile Sticky Footer Social Share Buttons - Your website needs to be mobile ready and Grow Social by Mediavine is here to help
  • Pop-Up Social Share Buttons - Trigger a pop-up with the social sharing buttons when a user does an action
  • Custom Button Colors and Hover Colors - The social networks colors are beautiful, but you don't have to limit yourself. Add any color to your social share buttons to match your website's design.
  • Shortcode for Social Share Buttons - Place the buttons anywhere in your template files or the body of your content with the [mv_grow_share] shortcode
  • Link Shortening through Bitly - Hide long URL's behind their shorter version with the Bitly integration
  • Google Analytics UTM tracking - Track the source of your incoming traffic with the help of the Google Analytics UTM parameters
  • Social Media Follow Buttons Widget - Place social media follow buttons for the following social media networks: Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Reddit, Instagram, YouTube, Vimeo, SoundCloud, Twitch, Yummly and Behance. Use the [mv_grow_follow] shortcode to place the follow buttons anywere in your template files
  • Sharable Quotes ( Click to Tweet ) Feature - Let your readers easily share a custom tweet with just one click
  • Import / Export Settings - Move all the settings from one website to another with just a few clicks

Powerful Social Sharing Features

Social Proof Display social sharing counts for each social media network, for positive social media proof.

Click to Tweet Let your users share your posts on Twitter with just one click.

Social Media Custom Content Customize the social media images and descriptions that your users share on their social media profiles.

Help us Translate

We want to reach as many people as possible. Help us translate the plugin in your language and get a 20% discount code for your premium purchases. Contact us here: grow@mediavine.com

Documentation

https://product-help.mediavine.com/

Website

https://marketplace.mediavine.com/grow-social-pro/


Releases (10 )

Version Release Date Change Log
1.20.2 2022-07-06
  • Fix: Resolve Issues with Plugin Status Endpoint
1.20.1 2022-04-11
  • Add post class to be targeted by Grow
1.20.0 2022-03-29
  • Add Inline Critical CSS to Inline Content Tool to reduce Layout Shift when CSS loading deferred
  • Add Facebook share tooltip to explain why shares do not appear when under 100
  • Add post and category IDs to Grow data
  • Add status REST API endpoint
  • Add the Grow saved class to the Trellis critical CSS bypass
  • Fix inline content buttons showing up in WooCommerce product pages
  • Fix outdated doc links in dashboard
  • Fix inline content buttons not showing up before WPRM Jump to Recipe
  • Fix Grow bookmark button not saving state
  • Fix checking requirements on older WordPress versions causing fatal error
1.19.2 2022-01-24
  • FEATURE: Add notice of Share Count Removal
  • FIX: Images prevented from being pinned
  • FEATURE: Add more details to upgrade Call to Action
1.19.1 2021-07-27
  • FIX: Error when old networks present in tools
1.19.0 2021-07-07
  • FEATURE: New setting to allow a second render to fix issues with missing inline content buttons on theme conflicts
  • FEATURE: Added new hook to allow plugin authors to exclude their custom post-types from being scraped by Facebook's API
  • FEATURE: Add setting to hide Floating Sidebar when it reaches a certain element, configurable in the settings.
  • FEATURE: Switches all users to optimized javascript with ability to roll back to jQuery until July 2021
  • FEATURE: Add feature flag capabilities for beta program.
  • FEATURE: Update Facebook Graph API Version
  • FEATURE: Add Settings API
  • FEATURE: Grow.me now available as a network for sharing
  • FIX: Added wprm_recipe to post-type exclusion array to prevent calls to Facebook's API
  • FIX: Fixes issue where missing Facebook token would cause 400 errors when updating share counts
  • FIX: Fixes issue with broken Inline Content buttons on WooCommerce products
  • FIX: Fixed an issue where individual share-counts were not displaying when the Minimum Share Count field was filled out.
  • FIX: Trigger attributes for Floating Sidebar
  • FIX: Hide Grow sharing elements from printers
  • FIX: Resolved an issue where share count numbers were overflowing buttons on certain style variations.
  • FIX: Resolve issue on some Trellis sites where mobile users needed to click twice on links to go to the target page.
  • FIX: Resolves an issue where old networks could cause fatal errors during share count retrieval.
  • COSMETIC: Remove Icon Font and use inline SVG for admin Icons
  • COSMETIC: Fix Floating Sidebar Icon alignment issue
  • COSMETIC: Fix gap between outline and icon on some button styles.
  • ENHANCE: Add a notification for new users to check out setup documentation.
1.18.2 2020-12-14
1.18.1 2020-12-02
1.18.0 2020-12-01
1.7.0 2020-03-25
  • ENHANCEMENT: Change name and branding to Grow by Mediavine
  • ENHANCEMENT: Ensure text remains visible during icon webfont load
  • ENHANCEMENT: Optimize Javascript
  • ENHANCEMENT: Better accessibility for share buttons
  • FIX: Better spacing for the inline links
  • FIX: Total Shares won't wrap lines