Social Sharing Plugin – Social Warfare
The most beautiful, responsive, lightning fast social share buttons built to boost shares and drive more traffic without slowing down your site.
3.3(186 reviews)
·20K+ active installs·Updated 1 year agoAs of April 2026, Social Sharing Plugin is a WordPress share buttons plugin with 20K+ active installations and a 3.3/5 rating from 186 reviews. It has been downloaded 1.9M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.5.0+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2016. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 11% this week. Top alternative: AddToAny Share Buttons.
3.3/5186 reviews
20K+active installs
1.9M+total downloads
10 yearssince 2016
Overview
Get more social shares which can lead to more website traffic with the best WordPress social sharing plugin! Built by a group of social media marketing experts and world class developers who are obsessed with performance. Learn more at Warfare Plugins.
WordPress Sharing Plugin
Most WordPress social sharing plugins slow down your site, are not attractive, and don’t work the way you would hope. Social Warfare share buttons are both lightning fast and beautiful.
Not only will it never slow down your website like other sharing plugins, we give you the most attractive share buttons available that look great no matter what screen size or resolution.
Social Warfare has boosted social shares by 300% without slowing down my blog.
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Works out of the box
by rcopithorne·10 months ago
Install and Activate and done. It does take a minute or two if you select floating buttons for them to show on your page but they do show. I could not get the fade in/out to work but all in all i just wanted these on my post page anyway so it works out better having them under each post.
good!!!
by neoswf·1 year ago
does what none doing
Unreliable company
by Helge Skrivervik·2 years ago·1 reply
This developer has serious issues: Accepts your order, takes your money, then blocks you from any contact using WordFence.
No longer able to upload images, support told me to use a different theme
by kristiamdahl·2 years ago·1 reply
I’ve been using Social Warfare without issue for a couple of years. Maybe a month ago I noticed that the option to upload social images for blog posts disappeared. I hadn’t added any new plugins or changed themes – I just kept current with updating the existing ones – so I contacted support.
I was told that it must be a conflict with my theme or a plugin, and their solution was to have me use a different theme (note I use a well-constructed theme built on Elementor Pro). Seriously?!
I did deactivate all non-essential plugins, but that didn’t solve the issue either.
Then I noticed that this plugin hasn’t been updated for the latest version of WordPress. Hmmmm…
I got this plugin specifically to hide Pinterest images, so I’ll be cancelling.
Works perfectly for me
by Integral Health·3 years ago
Look is great and works as described.
Download Trends
Today: 58Yesterday: 55This week: 342Period total: 54K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.5.0+ requiredTested up to 6.7.5 |
| PHP | 5.6+ required |
Version Adoption
v4.5
77.9%
Other
13.8%
v4.4
8.3%
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Changelog
This changelog covers version 4.5.0 and later. The full changelog can be found on our GitHub.= 4.5.6 (13 Mar 2025) =
Security fix: Properly sanitize and escape clickToTweet attributes to prevent stored XSS.
Sanitized the theme attribute using sanitize_html_class().
Escaped shortcode output with esc_attr() and esc_html() to prevent injection.
Secured tweet input by using sanitize_text_field().
4.5.5 (26 Feb 2025)
- Enhanced security by replacing
strip_tags()withwp_strip_all_tags()and usingesc_html()andwp_kses()for safer output. - Improved JSON security by switching from
json_encode()towp_json_encode(). - Added compatibility check for
WpOrg\Requests\Requeststo prevent errors on older WordPress versions. - Refactored Gutenberg Blocks for safer HTML output and improved CSS consistency.
- Removed outdated config files from
assets/js/post-editor/.
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