Social Share Icons & Social Share Buttons

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socialsharepro
socialdude

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Add social share icons on your website with just a few clicks.

Try it out on your free dummy site: Click here => https://tastewp.com/plugins/ultimate-social-media-plus (this trick works for all plugins - just replace "wordpress" with "tastewp" in the plugin's WP repo URL)

The plugin can be customized to suit any need and is FREE. It also has been translated into various languages.

Feature list:

  • Numerous social share platforms (see a list of them below)
  • Many placement options before or after posts, floating over your website's pages, via widget, via shortcode, (top right, bottom left etc.)
  • The possibility to give several actions to one social share button (e.g. your Facebook icon can lead visitors to your Facebook page, and also show a Facebook button to share your page on social media)
  • 16 design styles for your social share buttons
  • Animated social share buttons (e.g. automatic shuffling, mouse-over effects)
  • Social pop-up - ask people to follow or share you
  • Subscription service - allow visitors to subscribe to your site and receive new posts automatically by email
  • Share counts
  • Rearrange Order of social share icons
  • Lots of other customization options for your social share buttons
  • Compatible with Gutenberg editor

List of platforms supported in the free plugin:

  • Facebook share icon
  • Twitter share icon
  • Email icon
  • RSS icon
  • Instagram share icon
  • Youtube share icon
  • Pinterest share icon
  • LinkedIn share icon
  • Houzz share icon
  • OK icon
  • Telegram icon
  • VK icon
  • WeChat icon
  • Weibo icon
  • Share icon (allows your visitors to share your site on over 200+ other social media sites; powered by addthis/sharethis)

If there are any important social share networks not covered yet, please let us know!

For GDPR compliance, please have a look at our Social Media GDPR Compliance page.

In case of issues or questions please ask in the Support forum.

Premium Plugin

The free plugin already provides tons of options for social sharing (as outlined above). In our Premium Plugin, even more is possible. Some examples for additional features in the Premium Plugin:

  • More social share buttons (the icon pack includes an Instagram button, Snapchat button, Yummly button, Print button, Whatsapp button, Yelp button, Soundcloud button, Skype button, Flickr button, Share button, Blogger button, Digg button, Reddit button, Vimeo button, Tumblr button, Xing button, vk button, Telegram button, Amazon button, Spotify button and many more badge, see list above)
  • More (default) design styles for your social share icons
  • Themed design styles for your social share buttons (e.g. if you have a site about cats, you can pick from cat-themed buttons etc.)
  • Better sharing & following features (tailored tweet texts, allow people to follow you directly on your page etc.)
  • Place the social share icons on specific pages
  • Optimized for mobile sharing and buton display
  • More functions for email icon to connect with you
  • More lightbox / popup options (e.g. limit how often the popup is shown to the same user)
  • (Friendly and fast) Support
  • Many more settings & options

Note: this plugin uses the third party provider SpecificFeeds.com for the subscription feature, enabling you to allow your visitors to subscribe to your site and get new posts automatically by email. Upon installation of the plugin a feed will be set up on SpecificFeeds, transmitting your IP address. This is required for this feature to work.


Releases (138 )

Version Release Date Change Log
3.5.7 2022-11-24
  • Adjusted PHP compatibility
3.5.6 2022-11-23
  • Added black-friday theme (only for that period)
  • Tested up to WordPress 6.1.1
3.5.5 2022-10-04
  • Minor bug fixes and improvements
3.5.4 2022-09-20
  • Added TasteWP Integration
3.5.1 2022-02-07
  • New: Added Background color option for Flat icon style
  • New: Added a new tab "Get advice for more shares & traffic"
  • Updated to WordPress 5.9 compatibility.
  • Update Facebook API
  • Update Footer banner
  • Fix Telegram order issue
  • Fix admin chat popup issue
  • Some minor fixes
3.5.0 2021-10-18
  • Updated to WordPress 5.8.1 compatibility.
  • Optimize code
  • Remove unused images
  • Add/update Translation functions
  • Some minor fixes
3.4.9 2021-06-18
  • Updated to WordPress 5.7.2 compatibility.
  • Change unserialize to maybe_unserialize
  • Added target attribute in Facebook and twitter sharing links
  • Update Instagram icons
  • Some minor fixes
3.4.8 2021-03-23
  • Banner & Footer Carousel
  • Fixes with translated WordPress
3.4.7 2020-12-17
  • Updated to Wordpress 5.6 compatibility.
  • Updated to PHP 8 compatibility.
3.4.6 2020-10-31
  • Fixed banner.
3.4.5 2020-10-27
  • Added Whatsapp share
  • Fixed Woocommerce banner dismiss
3.4.4 2020-09-11
  • Gutenberg corrected.
  • The permission callback for register_rest_route issue fixed.
  • The jQuery load function issue fixed.
3.4.3 2020-08-08
  • UI fixes.
  • Banner changes.
  • Removed comment for false warning from security plugins.
  • Compatablity with 5.5
3.4.2 2020-06-27
  • Update the banner to show less frequently
3.4.1 2020-06-26
  • Update the banner to not show frequently
3.4.0 2020-06-22
  • Removed banner options
3.3.9 2020-06-20
  • Subscription fallback Url issue fixed.
  • Banner Changes.
3.3.8 2020-05-20
  • Plugin url fixes.
  • Updated youtube API ID.
3.3.7 2020-05-01
  • Popup skip error solved.
  • Corrected a banner.
3.3.6 2020-04-10
  • Updated auto open q3 removed.
  • Fixed subscribe form button value.
  • Updated pinterest model images.
  • Fixed claim feed from Q8 popup.
3.3.5 2020-03-19
  • Fixed UI issues.
  • Fixed problems with moving to Follow.it
3.3.4 2020-03-17
  • Updated Banners to make them less annoying
  • Updated to follow.it
  • Quick purchase updated
  • Some Style and typo corrections
3.3.3 2020-02-17
  • Updated texts
3.3.2 2020-01-28
  • Update: Option to define margin above and below responsive icons added
  • Update: Widget alignment issues fixed
  • Update: Replaced with icons which reduce the loading time
3.3.1 2020-01-15
  • Updated: Tweet text blank.
  • Updated: Export and import text size changed.
  • Updated: Video url changed.
  • Updated: Resolved the illigal offset error.
3.2.9 2019-12-30
  • Q3 auto opening and opening of Floating and 'before and after posts' open automatically for new installs
  • Popup open error fixed
  • Analyst 5.4
  • Added the waiting imgage on contact
  • Removed console.log
3.2.8 2019-10-16
  • Update: Url encoded for location.href
  • Update: Restrucutre the section 8 options
  • Update: UI improvements
  • Update: Shortcode updated
3.2.7 2019-09-17
  • Update: Feedback system updated.
  • Update: Banner text for responsive icons updated.
  • Update: Css Validation issue corrected.
3.2.6 2019-09-06
  • Update: Fixed text in theme banner.
  • Update: Fixed follow icon and subscription box when Curl is disabled.
  • Update: Fixed cURL errors.
3.2.5 2019-08-20
  • Update: Q4 missing images corrected.
3.2.4 2019-08-19
  • Update: Text changes.
3.2.2 2019-08-16
  • Update: Feedback system updated
3.2.1 2019-08-13
  • Update: Feedback system updated
3.2.0 2019-08-13
  • Update: SDK.
  • Update: Grammer Errors.
3.1.9 2019-07-31
  • Update: Responsive icons options display logic corrected.
  • Update: Twitter and other external js inclusion logic updated.
  • Solved: Cancel button on banner reapplied.
  • Solved: Validation for section 2 options while section 1 options are checked but not saved corrected.
  • Update: Feedback system updated
3.1.8 2019-07-19
  • New Feature: Responsive icons in the plugin.
  • Solved: Icons not rendering on woocomerce product page.
  • Solved: Stop loading unused external library code for faster load.
  • Solved: Updated feedback system to next version.
3.1.7 2019-06-21
  • Feedback system added
3.1.6 2019-06-07
  • Update: Removed Google icon
  • Update: Nonce error in Q6 preview language icons corrected
3.1.5 2019-06-04
  • Update: Corrected typos
  • Update: Updated theme suggestion data
  • Update: Removed Curl error
  • Update: Fixed Facebook and Twitter icons not working on some pages
  • Update: Removed w3 validation errors
  • Update: Removed googleplus icon
3.1.4 2019-05-16
  • Update: Solved the Undefined Notice messages.
3.1.3 2019-05-14
  • Update: Google plus like removed
  • Update: Extra debug log removed
  • Update: Screencast video removed
  • Update: more icons included.
  • Update: White background from icons removed.
3.1.0 2019-04-11
  • New Feature: New icons Implemented.
  • Update: Alert for checkbox conflict.
  • Update: Cron implemented for rss count.
  • Update: Custom icons not showing solved.
3.0.9 2019-04-03
  • Update: Woocommerce resolved conflict resulted in other conflicts - fixed.
3.0.8 2019-04-01
  • Update: Critical Security Patch.
  • Update: Resolved Conflict with woocommerce auto update.
3.0.7 2019-03-28
  • Update: Security Patch.
3.0.5 2019-03-18
  • Update: Theme checker dom error updated
  • Update: Deprecated Google plus
  • Updated: Css changes to make icons more symetric
3.0.4 2019-02-26
  • Updated: Security patch.
  • Update: solved Undefined constant notice resolved.
  • Update: ROUND SHORTCODE sharing error solved.
  • Update: curl errors in backend solved.
  • Update: ajax_object conflict solved and updated sfsi_plus_ajax.
3.0.3 2019-02-25
  • Update: solved Undefined constant notice resolved.
  • Update: ROUND SHORTCODE sharing error solved.
  • Update: curl errors in backend solved.
  • Update: ajax_object conflict solved and updated sfsi_plus_ajax.
3.0.2 2019-01-15
  • Design updates for Gutenberg
  • Security updates
3.0.1 2019-01-15
  • Design updates for Gutenberg
  • Security updates
3.0.0 2018-12-27
  • Updated gutenberg block to incorporate current changes. Added support for multiple controls on block inspector controls.
2.9.9 2018-12-21
  • Duplicate IDs removed from icon's link
  • Facebook share counts (rectangle icons) do not show - fixed
  • Google like removed
  • Click on G+ in firefox opens a new window - fixed
2.9.8 2018-11-26
  • Fixed: Display counts cant be manually updated
  • Fixed: Rectangle icon alignment issues on some themes
2.9.7 2018-11-25
  • Enabled faster answering of support questions
2.9.6 2018-11-20
  • Image not showing error fixed for banner in animation section in Question 4 added
2.9.5 2018-11-20
  • Lightbox removed after click on de-activation of plugin
  • Banner for animation section in Question 4 added
  • Different icon for mouseover section pointing to premium in Question 4 added
  • Removed theme icon banner if no match
2.9.4 2018-10-22
  • Optimized footer
2.9.3 2018-10-08
  • Fixed Gutenberg issues which arose for old PHP versions
  • Removed Addthis due to GDPR compliance issues
2.9.2 2018-09-27
  • Issue fixed that click on dismiss for banner didn't dismiss it permanently
  • Gutenberg implemented
2.9.1 2018-09-12
  • Count Error for newer PHP version fixed
2.9.0 2018-07-16
  • Optimized texts
2.8.9 2018-06-24
  • Saving different languages for the social icons sometimes didn't work - fixed now
2.8.8 2018-06-19
  • Optimized code for setting value for "adding_plustags" which caused issues on some sites
2.8.7 2018-05-29
  • Various instructions optimized
2.8.5 2018-05-23
  • Cookies don't get set anymore if selected to show pop-up when user scrolls to end of page (relevant for GDPR compliance)
2.8.4 2018-05-15
  • Like count issue fixed
  • Youtube subscribe issue fixed
2.8.3 2018-04-18
  • Instagram followers count issue fixed
  • Twitter count issue fixed
  • Facebook share count issue fixed
2.8.2 2018-04-13
  • Non-numeric value errors fixed
2.8.0 2018-04-02
  • Removed error log files
  • Follow icon sometimes showed too large - fixed
2.7.9 2018-03-14
  • Linkedin-counter after posts corrected
2.7.8 2018-02-17
  • Text changes
2.7.7 2018-02-12
  • New question for referring added
2.7.6 2018-01-24
  • Saving links for custom icons sometimes didn't work. Fixed now.
2.7.5 2017-11-22
  • Links updated
2.7.4 2017-11-10
  • Themed icons notification optimized
2.7.3 2017-09-29
  • Important bug fixed (which caused fatal error on sites with PHP version below 5.5. and sensitive error reporting on server)
2.7.2 2017-09-26
  • Banners modified
  • Spelling mistakes corrected
2.7.1 2017-08-30
  • Added more themed icons banners
2.7.0 2017-08-09
  • There were conflicts when both free USM plugins were installed at the same time, those are now resolved
2.6.9 2017-08-01
  • Notification for possibility to define sharing text and pic added
2.6.8 2017-07-17
  • Link to full list of premium icons added
2.6.7 2017-07-15
  • Info added that url shortener is available in premium plugin
  • Non numeric value warning fixed
  • Templates with no head issue fixed
2.6.6 2017-06-27
  • Incorrect error messages removed
  • Better formatting of socialshare review bar
2.6.5 2017-06-20
  • Updated so that also widget data gets removed when you de-install the plugin, so now everything is completely removed
2.6.4 2017-06-15
  • New CURL error messages to point better to the specific issue
  • Error message if user is using outdated PHP version
  • "Mandatory" removed from email and rss icons
  • Freemius Error (uninstall hook error) fixed
  • Icons not underlined anymore (was a conflict with certain themes such as twentyseventeen)
  • Js removed after de-activating the icons
  • Freemius image added
  • After activation of plugin you're directly taken to the plugin's settings page
2.6.3 2017-05-20
  • Fremius analytics implemented
2.6.2 2017-05-09
  • More strings made translation-ready
  • Better claiming of feed enabled
2.6.1 2017-04-25
  • Issue with Instagram button counters fixed
2.5.9 2017-04-17
  • Issue fixed that sometimes incorrect error-messages showed on front-end
  • Credit link updated
  • More icons added for pro-version
  • SpecificFeeds adjusted for paid option
  • De-installation will now clear database entirely
  • Upgrade to pro-link renamed
2.5.7 2017-03-30
  • New option for tailor-made icons
2.5.6 2017-02-22
  • Activation/de-activation links optimized
2.5.5 2017-02-11
  • Notifications activated
2.5.4 2017-01-26
  • Notifications revised
2.5.3 2017-01-23
  • Notification added
2.5.2 2017-01-04
  • Notification added
2.5.1 2016-12-21
  • Instructions for troubleshooting optimized
2.5.0 2016-10-11
  • Facebook icon leading to empty pages (in specific cases) fixed
2.4.9 2016-09-13
  • Twitter sharing text issues with forwarded slashes fixed
  • Links to review sites adjusted following Wordpress changes in review section
2.4.8 2016-09-12
  • Twitter sharing text issues with forwarded slashes fixed
  • Links to review sites adjusted following Wordpress changes in review section
2.4.7 2016-08-09
  • Missing counts for email follow option fixed (when there are no subscribers yet)
  • Extra explanation text added
2.4.6 2016-07-19
  • Corner case vulnerability fixed
2.4.5 2016-06-22
  • Claiming box made nicer
2.4.4 2016-06-21
  • Updated PIN-it button to SAVE
  • Claiming process simplified
2.4.3 2016-06-14
  • jQuery issue fixed
  • Counts for SpecificFeeds-subscribers are back, getting updated once a day
  • Some mouse-over issues for custom icons, fixed now
2.4.2 2016-05-24
  • Cute G+ icon didn't look good on dark backgrounds, fixed now
  • Counts for SpecificFeeds-subscribers sometimes caused high server load, fixed now.
2.4.1 2016-05-17
  • Size of custom icons corrected
  • Cute G+ icon too small before, corrected now
  • Better description how to get G+ API key added
  • Unsupported "live" function in jquery fixed
2.3.9 2016-05-06
  • Language issues fixed
  • Counter didn't disappear before/after posts if round icons were selected - fixed now
2.3.8 2016-04-05
  • Language folder added
  • Persian added as first language
  • For round icons before/after posts, the counts now correctly show the counts of the post page, not necessarily the page they are on
2.3.7 2016-03-31
  • Translation errors fixed
2.3.6 2016-03-30
  • Translation errors fixed
  • Icons sometimes on top of each other - fixed
  • New icon function: If user has given the icon a visit-us functionality, then it already works now when clicking on the icon (i.e. no selection in tooltip required)
2.3.5 2016-03-23
  • Errors appearing on front end fixed
2.3.4 2016-03-19
  • Plugin updated for translations
  • E-NOTICE error fixed
2.3.3 2016-03-12
  • Removed the js files from plugin and using the ones provided by WP now
  • POST calls optimized (sanitize, escape, validate)
  • Removed feedback option
  • Tags changed
2.3.2 2016-02-27
  • Feedback mechanism disabled
  • Tags reduced
2.3.1 2016-02-25
  • Added Facebook share button after/before posts
  • G+ design issues on black background fixed
2.2.9 2016-02-12
  • Crashes/content disappearing fixed
2.2.8 2016-02-06
  • Crashes/content disappearing fixed
2.2.7 2016-02-03
  • Overkill declaration in the CSS fixed
  • Custom icons can now have mailto:-functionality
  • jQuery UI issues fixed
  • Rectangle G+ icon now shown as last one as it takes more space (looks better)
2.2.6 2016-01-21
  • jQuery issues/conflicts fixed
  • Script issues fixed
  • Count issues for icons on homepage fixed
  • Text added on plugin setting's page for easier understanding
  • Issue that dashboard sometimes doesn't load fixed
  • Instagram thin-icon issue fixed (misspelled, therefore didn't show)
  • Custom icon uploads optimized
2.2.5 2016-01-15
  • Facebook changed their API - please upgrade if you want Facebook sharing on mobile to work properly on your site!
2.2.4 2015-12-17
  • Custom icon uploads optimized
2.2.3 2015-12-09
  • Houzz error message fixed
2.2.2 2015-11-04
  • Plugin made ready for translations
2.2.1 2015-11-02
  • Feed claiming optimized
2.3 2015-10-31
  • Feed claiming optimized
2.2 2015-10-29
  • Shortpixel link updated
  • Feed claiming optimized
2.1 2015-10-23
  • Feed claiming bug fixed
2.0 2015-10-23
  • Houzz-button integrated
  • New G+ button updated
  • Quicker claiming of feed possible
  • Comments to share-button added
  • Credit to shortpixel added
1.9 2015-10-03
  • New feature: Users can now decide where exactly the floating icons will display
  • Internal links corrected
  • Fixed: Targets only labels within the social icons div.
  • Subscriber counts fixed
  • Apostrophe issues fixed
  • Conflicts with Yoast SEO plugin resolved
  • PHP errors fixed
1.8 2015-09-04
  • Plugin also allows a subscription form now (question 8)!
1.7 2015-09-01
  • Count issues fixed - please upgrade!
  • Style constructor updated to PHP 5
  • Text adjustments in admin area
1.6 2015-08-25
  • More explanations added how to fix if counts don't work
  • Icon files are compressed now for faster loading - thank you ShortPixel.com!
  • A typo in the code threw an error message in certain cases, this is fixed now
1.5 2015-07-20
  • jQuery issues fixed
  • Vulnerability issues fixed
  • Twitter-button didn't get displayed in full sometimes, this is fixed now
  • CSS issues (occurred on some templates) fixed
  • Facebook updated API (so counts didn't get displayed correctly anymore), we updated the plugin accordingly
  • Sometimes error messages appeared on the front end, this is fixed now
1.4 2015-06-18
  • New follow-icons added
  • More "rectangle" icons added before/after posts
  • Widget was rendered incorrectly on some templates, fixed now
  • Icons didn't always line up (on some themes), fixed now
  • Youtube API got changed, which made the counts not displayed correctly, this is now adjusted in the plugin
  • Slight layout adjustments in plugin's admin area
1.3 2015-06-01
  • Links with "@" in the url (e.g. as in Flickr-links) now get recognized as well
  • Alignment issues of icons in tooltip fixed
  • Layout optimizations in plugin area
  • Users can now select to have the number of likes of their facebook page displayed as counts of the facebook icon on their blogs
  • Typos in admin area corrected
  • Users can now disable auto-scaling feature for mobile devices ("viewport" meta tag)
1.2 2015-05-23
  • Vulnerabilities (AJAX) fixed
  • OG-issues (caused in conjunction with other plugins) fixed
1.1 2015-05-15
  • Og-issues fixed
  • Conflicts with Yoast SEO plugin sorted
  • Alignments under posts didn't work sometimes before, fixed now
  • When user selected icons to shuffle pop-up didn't show up, fixed now
  • Short code corrected
  • On some templates the checkboxes in the admin area couldn't get selected, fixed now
  • Links now to the correct review screen
  • Share-box only displayed partly sometimes, fixed now
  • When sharing from a Facebook business page it returned errors, this should be fixed now (to be observed)
  • Sometimes facebook share count didn't increase despite liking it, this should be fixed now (to be observed)
  • Template CSS conflicts solved in the plugin
  • Facebook sharing text issues fixed
1.0 2015-05-11
  • First release