Welcome back to Blogete.The impact of social media is increasing day by day. If you are a blogger, social media is one of the best and easiest way to reach out your followers. Each and every WordPress blogger should use at least one social media plugin so that readers can quickly share your blog posts on their favorite social networking sites.
In this post, we are sharing 5 best social media plugins for your WordPress blog. By installing social media plugin one can easily integrate social media buttons on their WordPress blogs. Social media buttons not only help you to drive more traffic from social media sites but also improve your search engine ranking. I also recommend you to add only those social sharing buttons which are useful like Facebook share, Twitter share, Whatsapp share and Pinterest “pin” buttons.
Now lets have a look at the list of social media plugins for 2021.
1. Jetpack
Jetpack is one of the most popular WordPress social media plugins. This plugin can add many features to your blog. After installing the Jetpack plugin, just activate the sharing module and add social media sharing buttons to your WordPress website.
To use Jetpack, you must have a WordPress.com account—which is free to create. The best thing is that sharing buttons can also be managed in WordPress.com via Tools → Marketing → Sharing Buttons.
2. Novashare
It is our personal favorite social sharing plugin. The best thing about the plugin is that only adds 6 KB and 2 requests to the front end of your site.
Unlike other social sharing plugins, Novashare uses inline SVG icons instead of third-party icons which means there are no additional libraries. You can also configure the plugin as per your requirement within seconds.
Novashare social buttons are optimized for both desktop and mobile.
3. Social Warfare plugin
Another feature-rich social share plugin. I really like the social sharing buttons of Social Warfare plugin.
The Social Warfare plugin comes in 2 versions, the free version and the Pro version. We suggest you to use the free version of the plugin as it has the all basic features that you would need to setup social sharing on your site. Even floating bars also supported by the free version.
4. Easy Social Share Plugin
If you are looking for a premium social share plugin, this is for you. Despite being a premium plugin, it costs only $22. And you would be happy to know that just by paying $22, you can install in on multiple websites.
We have been using this plugin on few of our sites and have not faced any problem till now. Currently over 300,000 website owners use this plugin on their site. Unlike other free plugins, this premum plugin offers many advanced features such as A/B testing your social media buttons placement and many more.
5. Sassy Social Sharing Plugin
Another Completely free to use yet powerful social sharing plugin for WordPress. The bestthing about the plugin is that it does not insert any sort of tracking cookies on your browser.
Sassy supports over 100 different social networks and offers plenty of options to customize the appearance and positions of the social buttons.