Adds links to all of your social media and sharing site profiles. Tons of icons come in 3 sizes, 4 icon styles, and 4 animations.
As of April 2026, Social Media Widget is a WordPress google plugin with 30K+ active installations and a 3.9/5 rating from 84 reviews. It has been downloaded 2.2M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.9.2+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2010. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 10% this week. Top alternative: Site Kit by Google – Analytics, Search….
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The Social Media Widget is a simple sidebar widget that allows users to input their social media website profile URLs and other subscription options to show an icon on the sidebar to that social media site and more that open up in a separate browser window.
Supports the following social media sites:
Very outdated style, it doesn’t look good.
I want the discord icon in my Social Media Widget
Easy to use. I like the flexibility of listing the services in whatever order I want. I also like that I can customize for a service that is not listed.
Only thing I don’t like is the out-of-the box-Instagram icon is their former branding ( brown icon instead of the new pink one). I can get around this by doing a custom icon, but it would be great if it were correct in the regular Instagram line.
It was good last year. Not so much anymore. Locks you out to get your email address and sell you something else.
This plugin will eventually prevent you from logging in to your WordPress site – if that’s your idea of fun – then go ahead!
| WordPress | 2.9.2+ requiredTested up to 6.4.8 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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