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Social Media Share Buttons

Share Buttons is the best sharing Plugin for WordPress based websites.

Active installs40+10+ tier
Downloads · 30d107▲ +143.2% vs prev. 30d
Rating5/511 reviews
Health score36/100At risk
All-time downloads7.8KSince Dec 2016
Support resolved—No recent threads
RequiresWP 3.8PHP any
Downloads · 7d35▲ +118.8% week over week
Our verdict

Consider an alternative

Social Media Share Buttons shows warning signs in 2026 — compare the alternatives below before installing. It runs on 40+ sites, is rated 5/5 and was last updated 8 years ago, and scores 36/100 on our health check.

  • Small user base (40+ active installs)
  • No update in 8 years
  • Only tested up to WordPress 4.8 (latest is 7.1)

How does it stack up?

Side-by-side on installs, updates, ratings & support

Daily downloads

4913Jul 9Aug 22Oct 6
Yesterday9
Daily average (1y)2
Peak day18Sep 14, 2026
Last 12 months574

Download spikes usually follow a new release — each site that auto-updates counts as a download.

Rankings

Where Social Media Share Buttons stands today

WordPress.org search rankings

Live position in the plugin search, top 100
KeywordPositionCompeting pluginsCategory
share >100 6,603 Best share plugins →
share buttons >100 4,202 Best share buttons plugins →
share post >100 4,369 Best share post plugins →
social media >100 2,963 Best social media plugins →
Social Share Buttons >100 1,629 Best Social Share Buttons plugins →

Version adoption

Share of active sites per release.

  • 1.7100.0%

Rating breakdown

★★★★★★★★★★ 5 from 11 reviews

  • 5★100.0%
  • 4★0.00%
  • 3★0.00%
  • 2★0.00%
  • 1★0.00%

About Social Media Share Buttons

From the official readme · v1.7

Description

WordPress Share Buttons

The Social Media Share Buttons is a WordPress sharing Plugin that helps people to share their posts and pages to any service, such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, VK, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Tumblr, Reddit, WordPress, Telegram and Digg.
FNY Web-IT Social Media Share Buttons Plugin is created and designed for your WordPress Websites, Blogs, Web Pages to give you an ability quickly share your pages on social networks.
How our Share Buttons Plugin differs from others? We are providing incredibly beautiful design icons, that you can select from the list. You can simply set the size and position for your icons, place them where it will be mostly convenient to your visitors.
The ‘Social Media Share Buttons’ is a new platform and our first plugin for the WordPress.
Below You can find well known social network Share buttons. Here is the list of social network, that you can find in FNY Web-IT Social Media Share Buttons:

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Google
  • VK
  • Pinterest
  • LinkedIn
  • Tumblr
  • Reddit
  • WordPress
  • Telegram
  • Digg

Simplicity is the key of our Product. The installation of Share Buttons Plugin is easy and even a beginner can deal with it without any problems.
Just need to load Share Buttons Plugin, then activate it, after insert the Share Buttons in post and start to use.
Make your website worldwide in the best way with FNY Web-It Share Buttons!

Share Buttons User Manual

Step 1 – Adding Share Buttons.

To add Social Media Share Buttons Plugin after activation, go into Share buttons and start customize them.

Step 2.1 – Share Buttons Free Customizations.

Social Media Share Buttons. Choose the social websites, from the given list, that you want to display in your post.
Social Media Share Buttons size. Set the size for the Share icons.
Social Media Share Buttons view. Select the Horizontal or Vertical view for Share buttons on your webpage.

Step 2.2 – Share Buttons PRO Customizations.

Share Buttons style. Choose the Share Button style from the list
Select Special space between buttons and choose preferred size of icons in px format.

All changes will be displayed and You can see changes in live mode.

Step 3 – Share Buttons Inserting.

  1. In order to insert Social Media Share buttons into your post You need to go – > Edit Post > Tick on Share buttons. And you will see your buttons on every post, where it has selected

  2. Copy / Past the shortcode and insert into post.

Features

Features For Share Buttons FREE Version

  • Available Social Buttons
    Social Media Share Buttons includes the Facebook Share Button, Twitter Tweet Button, Google Plus Share Button, LinkedIn Share Button and VKontakte Share Button etc.

  • Responsive & Customizable
    Posibility to change the sizes and the view of your buttons.
    Social Media Share Buttons has posibility to change size by selecting available three options [Small:Medium:Large], also you can select available three versions for themes.

  • All Icons for Sharing
    All available icons are in SVG format, which helps to work faster.

  • Possibility to choose view.
    There is opportunity to choose Vertical and Horizontal view for Social Media Share Button Plugin.

Features For Share Buttons PRO Version

  • Available Social Buttons
    Social Media Share Buttons includes additional Share Buttons such as:
    -Facebook
    -Twitter
    -Google Plus
    -LinkedIn
    -VKontakte
    -Digg
    -Pinterest
    -Reddit
    -Telegram
    -Tumblr
    -WordPress

  • Responsive & Customizable

    Possibility to change:
    -the sizes of share buttons. Any preferable size.
    -the view of share buttons buttons.
    -spacing between buttons.

  • Social Media Share Buttons has possibility to change size and spacing by selecting your preferred size in px format.

  • You can select six available theme versions.

Installation

Uploading in WordPress Dashboard

  1. First of all download the ZIP file from WordPress website
  2. Log in to your website administrator panel
  3. Go to the ‘Add New’ in the plugins dashboard, click ‘Upload Plugin’
  4. Upload WordPress Social Media Share Buttons ZIP file by choosing it from your computer
  5. Click ‘Install Now’ button
  6. Then click ‘Activate Plugin’ button

-You can see the Share Buttons Plugin installed on WordPress left menu

Using the WordPress Plugins Dashboard

  1. Go to the ‘Add New’ in the plugin’s dashboard
  2. Search for ‘fny’
  3. Click on ‘Install Now’ button on ‘Social Media Share Buttons’ Plugin
  4. Then click on ‘Activate Plugin’ button

-You can see the Share Buttons Plugin installed on WordPress left menu

Using FTP

  1. Download the ZIP file from WordPress website
  2. Extract the fny-social-media-share-button directory to your computer
  3. Upload the fny-social-media-share-button directory to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  4. Activate the plugin in the Plugin’s dashboard

-You can see the plugin installed on WordPress’ left menu

If you think, that you found a bug in our WordPress Social Media Share Buttons plugin or have any question contact us at [fnywebit@gmail.com][info@fny-webit.com].

Changelog

1.7

  • Added support for both Vertical and Horizontal views.

1.6

  • We update the Plugin regularly so we can make it better for You. Get the latest version for all of the available features and improvements. Thanks for using our Plugin.

1.5

  • We update the Plugin regularly so we can make it better for You. Get the latest version for all of the available features and improvements. Thanks for using our Plugin.

1.4

  • Added photos from PRO version.

1.3

  • Added PRO version.

1.2

  • Added support for both “http” and “https” servers.

Full changelog on WordPress.org →

Screenshots

Share Buttons - All available Social Share Buttons
Share Buttons - All available Social Share Buttons
Share Buttons - All Available Settings
Share Buttons - All Available Settings
Share Buttons - All Available Themes
Share Buttons - All Available Themes
Share Buttons - Horizontal view of Plugin
Share Buttons - Horizontal view of Plugin
Share Buttons - Vertical view from left side
Share Buttons - Vertical view from left side
Share Buttons - Vertical view from right side
Share Buttons - Vertical view from right side
Share Buttons - The view of Plugin
Share Buttons - The view of Plugin
Share Buttons - Shortcode section
Share Buttons - Shortcode section
Share Buttons - Share Buttons PRO version example 1
Share Buttons - Share Buttons PRO version example 1

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FAQ

Social Media Share Buttons: quick answers

Straight answers, pulled from live WordPress.org data.

Live data from WordPress.org · checked Oct 7, 2026

Is Social Media Share Buttons free?

Yes. Social Media Share Buttons is free to download and use from the official WordPress.org plugin directory.

Is Social Media Share Buttons safe to use in 2026?

Social Media Share Buttons shows warning signs in 2026 — compare the alternatives below before installing. It runs on 40+ sites, is rated 5/5 and was last updated 8 years ago, and scores 36/100 on our health check.

How many websites use Social Media Share Buttons?

Social Media Share Buttons is active on 40+ WordPress websites and has been downloaded 7,820 times since it launched in December 2016. It was downloaded 107 times in the last 30 days.

Does Social Media Share Buttons work with WordPress 7.1?

Social Media Share Buttons is officially tested up to WordPress 4.8.33, while the latest release is 7.1.3. It may still work, but try it on a staging site first.

When was Social Media Share Buttons last updated?

The latest version, 1.7, was released on June 13, 2018 (8 years ago).

Who makes Social Media Share Buttons?

Social Media Share Buttons is developed and maintained by fnywebit.

What are the best alternatives to Social Media Share Buttons?

The most popular alternatives to Social Media Share Buttons are AddToAny Share Buttons (300K+ installs), Social Media Share Buttons… (100K+ installs) and Ocean Social Sharing (60K+ installs).

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