Lightweight Social Icons
Looking to add simple social icons to your widget areas? Choose the size and color of your icons, and then choose from 47 different social profiles.
4.7(63 reviews)
·30K+ active installs·Updated 6 years agoAs of April 2026, Lightweight Social Icons is a WordPress social icons plugin with 30K+ active installations and a 4.7/5 rating from 63 reviews. It has been downloaded 464K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.5+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Last updated 6 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are down 14% this week. Top alternative: Social Icons Widget & Block – Social….
4.7/563 reviews
30K+active installs
464K+total downloads
12 yearssince 2014
Overview
Lightweight Social Icons is an easy to use, lightweight social icon widget which lets you display your favorite social profile icons.
The icons use an icon font, meaning you can choose the size, border radius (roundess), color and hover color of your icons!
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Features include:
- Choose your own order
- Icon size
- Border radius
- Background color
- Text/icon color
- Background color on hover
- Text/icon color on hover
- Open links in new window
- Enable/disable tooltips
- Alignment of icons
Included icons:
- Google+
- Flickr
- RSS
- Stumbleupon
- Tumblr
- Vimeo
- YouTube
- Github
- Soundcloud
- DeviantArt
- Phone
- Skype
- Dribbble
- Foursquare
- Spotify
- Digg
- Vine
- Codepen
- Delicious …
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Affects Core Web Vitals creating Ensure Text Remains Visible During Webfont Load
by Mahesh Pant·3 years ago
I don’t recommend this plugin at all. It signs a useless font which is not displayed in the front end to the users but creates core web vitals issues on the back end. The font name is fontello.woff and it is seen nowhere on the front end. Deleting or adding display swap on the font stylesheet also does not works. Moreover, they are two stylesheets and cannot decide which stylesheet is used. I don’t recommend using this plugin unless it is the last option to use.
It’s Light!
by Jimmy Lee·3 years ago
Hasn’t been updated but super light and solid!
Fantastic Social Icons Plugin
by Hematoma·4 years ago
Tom never fails to make amazing plugins and this social icons plugin is no different. I just hope that there are plans to add a discord icon in the near future. 5/5 plugin!
Best Social Icons Plugins but lacks tik tok icon
by Damian Partha·4 years ago
This is one of the best social icons plugins out there. But I will cut one star because it lacks the social icon for Tik Tok, one of the fastest-growing social media out there.
Has been great until now
by teropesonen·4 years ago
This has been great, but currently does not appear to be compatible with WordPress version 5.8.1
Download Trends
Today: 10Yesterday: 9This week: 63Period total: 6K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.5+ requiredTested up to 5.4.19 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.1
93.1%
Other
6.9%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.1
- Add rel=”noopener noreferrer” to links opening in new windows
Contributors
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