Social Media Social Share Icon
Keeping Social Media Sharing Simple with Innovative & Unique Social Styles with Animations for the Most Used Social Media Networks. Take Social Media Sharing to the Next Level with Social Share Icons, a Freemium…
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- Small user base (100+ active installs)
- No update in 10 years
- Only tested up to WordPress 4.7 (latest is 7.1)
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Rankings
Where Social Media Social Share I… stands todayWordPress.org search rankings
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Version adoption
Share of active sites per release.
Rating breakdown
★★★★★★★★★★ 4 from 5 reviews
About Social Media Social Share Icon
From the official readme · v3.0Description
Keeping Social Media Sharing Simple with Innovative & Unique Social Styles with Animations for the Most Used Social Media Networks.
Take Social Media Sharing to the Next Level with Social Share Icons,
a Freemium WordPerss Plugin with Style.
Social Media is the lifeblood that keeps the internet glowing, and Social Sharing lets you harness that activity and use it as a positive force for your business.
CHOOSE FROM THE MOST USED SOCIAL MEDIA NETWORKS
Providing you the top 5 and most used social media networks in the world to share your content uniquely with style, select any social network from the list for your readers to share your content
Social Share Icons with 15 Deifferent Designs
Social Share Icons provides uniquely identified social media sharing icon’s themes with seperate animation for every theme to select from for sharing your content
DISPLAY YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA BUTTONS WITH CLEAN DESIGNED ICONS
We know that showing your social icon buttons means something to you, that’s why we provide social icon themes for you to select from to share your content with style
WYSIWYG
What You See Is What You Get, We don’t want you to hassel much, you’ll get what you see on the front end on your WordPress site, providing you the live preview while you setting your social icons
Get Live Preview In Your Social Settings Page While You Set Things Up
You don’t need to go back and forth to see your social icons on Pages, Posts or on Home page like how they look, Live Preview is provided to show you how your social icons will look on selected pages
Sharing is Caring
We know you write compelling content for your readers & you want your content be shared over the most used social media networks, here is something you need to motivate you redaders to spread the word to other people which helps you get more readers
Motivate Your Social Media Readers
Default Message Option gave you capability to show a tagline above your social icons to motivate your readers to share your content, there are 7 Sharing Messages for you to select from
Add Social Media Share Icons in Different Locations
We know every website have different needs according to their functionality and design, Social Share Icons can detect from where your content starts and where it ends, weather it’s a Page, Post or Home page of your WordPress site, Social Share Icons place Social buttons automatically just select the option from settings page
AWESOME FEATURES
Social Media Icon Themes with Animations Adds fun while Sharing Content for the most used Social Media Networks
LIVE PREVIEW
WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) helps you to see right away on settings page
Fully Responsive and Easy to Use
Social Media Share Icons are fully responsive and look nice on different devices and themes. With simple configuration of our plugin you don’t need any programming skills to create your own design of share buttons – you can easily set the animated theme, position of the buttons.
Over 15 Social Media Icons Themes
Social Media Share plugin supports many different popular social media networks – LinkdIn, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest, Facebook share Icons ! You can add any numbers of social networks and create excellent sharing toolbar, which help your visitors to choose the most suitable network for them.
Which Social Media Icons to Show
Plugin allows you to choose the various options which social media icons to show for share. Besides you can specify pages or posts where you want to show share buttons – everywhere or just on pages or posts. Social Share Icons gets users sharing the right content аt the right moments, and keeps them engaged on your website.
Pre-built Design and Amazing Effects
Social Media Share Icons offers you wonderful collection of prebuilt design options and different animation effects for each design. Just select social icons and select a theme.
PREMIUM QUALITY
Precisely designed providing positions and alignments of social icons to display on your content
EASY TO CUSTOMIZE SOCIAL MEDIA SHARE ICONS
Select any social media network from the most used social networks to share content
POSITIONS & ALIGNMENTS of SOCIAL SHARE ICONS
Place social media sharing buttons either above the content area, below the content area, or in both locations left, center or right
10+ SOCIAL LAYOUTS
Prividing more than 10 social media icon themes to choose from to make it more customizable
USER FRIENDLY
Social Media Share plugins is very easy and fast, just some click away and Social Icons will appear on your WordPress site
EASY TO USE
It’s surprisingly easy to use plugin and setting it up
24/7 SUPPORT For Social Media Share Icons
Still ran into some problem? don’t hesitate to contact anytime
AMAZING TEMPLATE DESIGNS WITH SUPER COOL SOCIAL SHARE ANIMATIONS
Social Icon Themes with Animations Adds fun while Sharing Content for the most used Social Networks, with Custom sharing message you can tell user to share your content
* Over 15 Social Skins
* Fully Responsive
* Add social media share icons on Posts
* Add social media share icons on Pages
* Add social media share icons on Home screen
* Professional Skins of the social media share icons
* Simple social share icon configuration and design
* Different social media share buttons placement option
Increase Numbers of Social Media Sharing
With our Social Share Icons you will increase your social popularity and will take social sharing on a next level. It will contribute of increase the social activity on your site. Social Share Icon is an easy and fast way to let your visitors share your content to social networks, helping you in growth of your social traffic on your website.
Fully Responsive and Easy to Use
Social Share Icons are fully responsive and look nice on different devices and themes. With simple configuration of our plugin you don’t need any programming skills to create your own design of share buttons – you can easily set the animated skin , position of the icons .
Over 15+ Social Media Sharing Skins
Social media share plugin supports Five most popular social networks – LinkedIn, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest, Facebook share icons which help your visitors to choose the most suitable network for them.
Different Placement Options of Social Share Icon
Social Share Icon provides you the ability to choose where to show share buttons – on different position of the page, post or home page content. With Social Share Icons, you have much more chances to attract a wide variety of your website visitors.Plugin also allows you to choose which social media icon to show for sharing .
Installation
Install social media share icons plugin via wordpress dashboard :
- Go to the Plugins Menu in WordPress.
- Search for plugin “Social Media Share Icons”.
- Click “Install”.
- After Installation click activate to start using the Social Media Share Icons on your website.
- Go to Social Share Icons from Dashboard menu.
- Enable Social Share Icons feature and select the icons postion, alignment ,theme , message etc.
Install social media share icon plugin via FTP
- Download the Social Media Share Icon plugin
- Unzip Social Media Share Icon plugin
- Copy the social-share-icon folder
- Open the ftp \wp-content\plugins\
- Paste the folder inside plug-ins folder
- Go to admin panel => open item \”Plugins\” => activate Social Share Icons
Changelog
Please upgrade to version 3.0
1.5 Bug fixes
2.0
Added custom message feature to display your custom messages above social icons
Fixed issue with social wide on tablets
Add description for alignment and positioning on admin page
1.5
Bug fixes
1.3
Optimize social icons for mobile & tablets.
1.2
Fixed styling conflict with themes.
1.0
Initial version.
If you think, that you found a bug in our social share plugin or have any question tell us via support forum .
Social Share Icons
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Social Media Social Share Icon: quick answers
Straight answers, pulled from live WordPress.org data.
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Is Social Media Social Share Icon free?
Yes. Social Media Social Share Icon is free to download and use from the official WordPress.org plugin directory.
Is Social Media Social Share Icon safe to use in 2026?
Social Media Social Share Icon shows warning signs in 2026 — compare the alternatives below before installing. It runs on 100+ sites, is rated 4/5 and was last updated 10 years ago, and scores 33/100 on our health check.
How many websites use Social Media Social Share Icon?
Social Media Social Share Icon is active on 100+ WordPress websites and has been downloaded 32,930 times since it launched in May 2016. It was downloaded 106 times in the last 30 days.
Does Social Media Social Share Icon work with WordPress 7.1?
Social Media Social Share Icon is officially tested up to WordPress 4.7.37, while the latest release is 7.1.2. It may still work, but try it on a staging site first.
When was Social Media Social Share Icon last updated?
The latest version, 3.0, was released on August 21, 2016 (10 years ago).
Who makes Social Media Social Share Icon?
Social Media Social Share Icon is developed and maintained by SuperHero Plugins.
What are the best alternatives to Social Media Social Share Icon?
The most popular alternatives to Social Media Social Share Icon are Meta for WooCommerce (400K+ installs), Meta pixel for WordPress (400K+ installs) and Nextend Social Login and Re… (200K+ installs).
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