Social Icons
Social Icons provides you with an easy way to display various popular social icons via widgets and shortcode
4.5(15 reviews)
·10K+ active installs·Updated 5 years agoAs of April 2026, Social Icons is a WordPress icons plugin with 10K+ active installations and a 4.5/5 rating from 15 reviews. It has been downloaded 339K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.7+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Last updated 5 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 6% this week. Top alternative: Skyboot Custom Icons for Elementor.
4.5/515 reviews
10K+active installs
339K+total downloads
11 yearssince 2015
Overview
Social Icons provides you with an easy way to display various popular social icons via widgets and shortcodes. You can drag the widget in your sidebars and change the settings from the widget form itself. Also you can use the shortcode and paste it on your page, post or wherever you like
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Icons
Icons are provided by socicon icon font.
Features And Options:
- Supports more than 200+ popular social icons.
- Drag and drop for icon sorting.
- Option to easily change icon size.
- Supports square, rounded and greyscale background.
- Shortcode to render the icons on page, post.
- Different icon grouping for different location on your site.
- More features coming on updates.
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Security concerns with this plugin
by Mark Howells-Mead·3 years ago
Security monitoring software indicates that this plugin creates security issues, including cross-site-scripting loopholes.
Just what I was looking for
by arie007·3 years ago
Just what I was looking for
It does the job right
by danielepais·4 years ago
A small but efficient plugin that does the job right. I like the use of shortcodes to simplify tasks of having different set of icons in different pages.
Great
by pablopiano·5 years ago
Great but it stretches in some pages like woocommerce checkout.
- This topic was modified 5 years, 3 months ago by pablopiano.
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Just what I was looking for.. Amazing
by umar834·6 years ago
Just what I was looking for.. Easy to configure and use
Thank you for this amazing plugin
Download Trends
Today: 18Yesterday: 24This week: 103Period total: 7K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.7+ requiredTested up to 5.6.17 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.7
95.7%
Other
4.3%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
1.7.4 – 08/02/2021
- Introduce – Shortcode option on editing the Social Icon sets.
- Tweak – Modify screenshot, banner and icon images on wp.org plugin page to resolve trademark issues.
Contributors
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