Socials Ignited
The Socials Ignited plugin gives you a widget, allowing you to display and link icons on your website of more than 50 social networks.
4.3(4 reviews)
·2.0K+ active installs·Updated 11 months agoAs of April 2026, Socials Ignited is a WordPress social icons plugin with 2.0K+ active installations and a 4.3/5 rating from 4 reviews. It has been downloaded 84K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.2+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Downloads are down 28% this week. Top alternative: Social Icons Widget & Block – Social….
4.3/54 reviews
2.0K+active installs
84K+total downloads
14 yearssince 2012
Overview
Brought to you by the CSSIgniter folks, the Socials Ignited
plugin allows you to display and link icons on your website of more than 50 social networks, just by dragging a widget.
The plugin supports all FontAwesome 5.x free icons providing you with hundreds of options to display your social profiles, contact methods and more.
A preconfigured list of the most popular social networks can be found under Customize -> Socials Ignited for you to fill in. Alternatively you can create custom sets of icons right on the widget.
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Great Support
by anthemakos·9 years ago
Extremely fast replies! Great support!
Unclear deprecated functionality, no central settings anymore
by laga·11 years ago·2 replies
What a joke. The old version used to have central settings which I spent time filling out. In the new version, each widget instance has a separate list of links. You have to copy & paste the correct CSS class into the widget settings. Are you kidding me?
This plugin is recommended to go with the CSSIgniter Olympic Theme. CSSIgniter has multiple widget locations for blog sidebar, page sidebar, service sidebar etc. I have to reconfigure the widget for each instance. What a waste of time.
Practically Perfect!
by The Author Jack Foreigner·12 years ago
Lotsa social icons here and simple to use. What would make it perfect would be shortcodes for page/post insertion — right now, this is just a widget — and maybe an easy graphical custom CSS/HTML control panel — though that’s just nitpicking!
Great Plugin, From A Great Team
by netpotion·13 years ago
This plugin just plain works.
I love CSSIgniter and their products. (No, I don’t work for them – or get paid anything to say so) 😉
Give this a shot. Very nice work!
~ Corey
Download Trends
Today: 4Yesterday: 2This week: 23Period total: 2K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 5.2+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v2.0
70.6%
v1.10
11.2%
v1.11
8.6%
v1.9
8.3%
Other
1.3%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
2.0.0
- Updated FontAwesome to version v5.15.3
- Removed Socials Ignited (deprecated) widget that was deprecated in v1.5
- Updated repeating fields and color pickers to work in the Customizer.
- Added Customizer options for popular social networks. The widget can now pull these networks set, without having to re-set their URLs.
- Removed assets and files no longer used.
…and 3 more changes
Contributors
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