Simple Social Media Share Buttons – Social Sharing for Everyone
This Social Share Plugin adds advanced social media sharing buttons to your WordPress sites, such as Facebook, WhatsApp, X, LinkedIn, & Pinterest.
4.8(192 reviews)
·20K+ active installs·Updated 2 weeks agoAs of April 2026, Simple Social Media Share Buttons is a WordPress social share plugin with 20K+ active installations and a 4.8/5 rating from 192 reviews. It has been downloaded 1.4M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.0+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2011. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Downloads are down 23% this week. Top alternative: Social Sharing Plugin – Sassy Social….
4.8/5192 reviews
20K+active installs
1.4M+total downloads
15 yearssince 2011
Overview
Simple Social Buttons adds ( with lots of options like Sidebar, inline, above and below the posts content, on photos, popups, fly ins ) an advanced set of social media sharing buttons to your WordPress sites, such as: Facebook, WhatsApp, Viber, Twitter, Reddit, LinkedIn and Pinterest.
Rich set of features makes it the most flexible Social Sharing plugin ever for Everyone.
This social sharing Plugin is fully customizable. You can decide where to position those buttons:
- New Feature: Simple Social Buttons compatible with NextGEN Gallery plugin.
- Introduced new settings for NextGEN Gallery plugin.
- Compatible with following NextGEN Gallery Layouts.
- Basic Thumbnail.
- Pro Masonry.
- Pro Mosaic.
- Compatible with following LightBoxes.
- Simple LightBox.
- FancyBox.
- ThickBox.
- NextGEN Pro LightBox.* …
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Ratings & Reviews
4.8192 reviews
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Recent Reviews
Great
by wizfinger·4 months ago·1 reply
Using it for years, excellent support and many features.
Great Plugin & Works Exactly as Advertised!
·9 months ago
Excellent plug-in with great features and easy interface.
Easy. So Easy.
by thecanuckian·9 months ago
Not much more to say. The set up was easy. Everything was easy. I like easy.
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by ابوالقاسم کریمی·1 year ago
…عالی
Highly appreciate
by 8268987s·1 year ago·1 reply
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Download Trends
Today: 176Yesterday: 215This week: 1KPeriod total: 98K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.0+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 5.6+ required |
Version Adoption
v6.2
57.9%
Other
31.5%
v4.0
5.5%
v6.1
5.2%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
6.2.1 – 2026-03-17
- Security: Added nonce verification and capability checks to prevent CSRF attacks.
Contributors
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