Hubbub Lite – Fast, free social sharing and follow buttons
Your content is worth sharing. Let's makes it easier!
4.7(172 reviews)
·30K+ active installs·Updated 3 months agoAs of April 2026, Hubbub Lite is a WordPress social media plugin with 30K+ active installations and a 4.7/5 rating from 172 reviews. It has been downloaded 2.0M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.3+ and PHP 7.2.24+. Available on WordPress.org since 2016. Downloads are up 28% this week. Top alternative: AddToAny Share Buttons.
4.7/5172 reviews
30K+active installs
2.0M+total downloads
10 yearssince 2016
Overview
Your content is worth sharing. Let’s make it easier.
Hubbub gives you simple, customizable social share and follow buttons that work right out of the box. No coding, no clutter. Just an easy way for visitors to share your content to tons of popular social media platforms, like Facebook, Pinterest, X, Threads, and more. Unlock additional growth features when you register for free or upgrade.
What’s in Hubbub Lite:
⏩️ Add social share buttons: Above your content, below your content. Add social share buttons wherever they make the most sense.
📍 Floating social share sidebar: A tidy little toolbar that sticks with your readers as they scroll.
📊 Show off your share counts: Social proof that shows visitors how many people love your content.
🖼️ Crisp social icons: Hubbub uses SVG icons so eve…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Works fin
by Renan Rosa Meneguci·6 months ago·1 reply
A cool plugin that works fine
Grow social by Mediavine
by Julio Alberto Salgado Alvarez·1 year ago
Excellent plugin that provides an easy way to share our content on social networks.
Awesome!
by MorphMan·1 year ago·1 reply
Excellent simple social sharing plugin. Just what I needed. I especially like the social share count column that is on the posts page. So you can quickly see which post are being shared the most.
nice plugin, responsive support
by typeless·5 years ago·1 reply
Plugin works great, and in the rare cases where there are issues, support is on task and very helpful!
BEWARE!
by The Endless Meal·5 years ago
Their latest update, which caused errors in rich snippets, caused all our recipe star ratings to vanish from Google. The error cost us thousands in lost revenue as it took days for them to show up again on Google after removing the Grow plugin. Be very leery of using this plugin!
Download Trends
Today: 147Yesterday: 213This week: 822Period total: 163K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 5.3+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.2.24+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.36
56.7%
Other
17.9%
v1.34
10.8%
v1.20
7.4%
v1.35
7.2%
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Changelog
This changelog is for Hubbub Lite. Here is the changelog for Hubbub Pro.
1.36.3
- December 9, 2025
- Fix: Addressed two PHP warnings.
Contributors
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