Genesis Simple Share
Genesis Simple Share allows you to easily add beautiful share buttons to your site using a Genesis child theme
4.4(33 reviews)
·10K+ active installs·Updated 1 week agoAs of April 2026, Genesis Simple Share is a WordPress share plugin with 10K+ active installations and a 4.4/5 rating from 33 reviews. It has been downloaded 510K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.7+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Downloads are down 61% this week. Support resolution rate: 100%. Top alternative: AddToAny Share Buttons.
4.4/533 reviews
10K+active installs
100%resolved
11 yearssince 2015
Overview
Genesis Simple Share is created to be simple and easy to use within your Genesis child theme. We have tried to focus on making default options and initial setup a breeze.
The default settings should automatically enable the share icons on posts. You may wish to make some changes so in your WordPress dashboard hover over the Genesis menu item and click the Simple Share menu item in that submenu.
Once there you can choose which post types Simple Share will be active on, if it should show on archives, and which icons to enable. You can also drag and drop the icons to change the order they will display in on your site. You may wish to add your Twitter user name to the twitter icon settings. This will add a via: @username after the share text on Twitter. You may also add a URL to an image to…
Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Good Sharing Plugin
by Anonymous User 21067829·2 years ago
Simple sharing plugin and easy to configure.
Not great functionality
by yacosta42·5 years ago
This plugin pulls my featured image, not my Pinterest image (which is coded for Pinterest). Also, there’s no option for email. Too bad, I was hoping it would have worked better.
Cuestion
by Ernesto·5 years ago
Does this plugin use javascript?
Instagram and WhatsApp
by julvanegas·6 years ago
The plugin is great and I like it, but you can add the option of instagram, email, whatsapp to share. thanks
Nice little plugin
by Robert Gadon·7 years ago
To the Developers:
Nice little plugin you have there. I got tripped up initially by not properly setting the ‘Icon Display Position’ option. I like the fact that the plugin allows users to target custom post types (both single- and archive-template pages). The ‘Live Preview’ feature in the Admin is cool too. It allows plugins users to preview how the social icons will appear on the front end. Thanks for developing and sharing this plugin with the community.
- This topic was modified 7 years, 7 months ago by Robert Gadon.
Download Trends
Today: 249Yesterday: 347This week: 3KPeriod total: 34K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.7+ requiredTested up to 7.0 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.2
77.4%
v1.1
21.1%
v1.0
1.5%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.2.4
- Iteration on multisite compatibility and translation loading improvements.
Contributors
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