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Sharekar : Social Media Share Button icon
Slowing down Tested up to 6.8.11

Sharekar : Social Media Share Button

Sharekar is a light-weight social share plugin made with performance in mind.

Active installs<10New
Downloads · 30d49▲ +44.1% vs prev. 30d
Rating—0 reviews
Health score30/100At risk
All-time downloads1.3KSince Nov 2022
Support resolved—No recent threads
RequiresWP 4.6PHP 7.3+
Downloads · 7d11▼ -15.4% week over week
Our verdict

Consider an alternative

Sharekar shows warning signs in 2026 — compare the alternatives below before installing. Was last updated 1 year ago, and scores 30/100 on our health check.

  • Small user base (<10 active installs)
  • Very few reviews so far
  • No update in over a year
  • Only tested up to WordPress 6.8 (latest is 7.1)

How does it stack up?

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

Daily downloads

134Jul 14Aug 27Oct 11
Yesterday3
Daily average (1y)1
Peak day6Jul 11, 2026
Last 12 months405

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

Rankings

Where Sharekar stands today

WordPress.org search rankings

Live position in the plugin search, top 100
KeywordPositionCompeting pluginsCategory
share >100 6,768 Best share plugins →
share icons >100 2,334 Best share icons plugins →
sharing buttons >100 2,050 Best sharing buttons plugins →
sharing icons >100 1,150 Best sharing icons plugins →
web share >100 1,849 Best web share plugins →

About Sharekar : Social Media Share Button

From the official readme · v1.0.3

Description

Sharekar is a social media plugin that helps you increase social media engagement and traffic to your WordPress website. With Sharekar, you can add share buttons to your website’s posts, pages, and widgets, and choose from a variety of social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, VK, WhatsApp, Reddit, and Email. You can also change the color of the buttons and Click to Tweet block to match your website’s theme. Sharekar is lightweight and fast, making it easy for search engines to crawl.

Here are some of the benefits of using Sharekar:

  • Increase social media engagement and traffic to your website
  • Improve your website’s SEO
  • Promote your brand and content to a wider audience

Sharekar is easy to install and use. Simply download and install the plugin from the WordPress Plugin Directory, activate it, and go to the Sharekar settings page in the WordPress dashboard to configure the plugin settings to match your needs. Then, add share buttons to your website’s posts, pages, and widgets.

Sharekar is a free plugin, but there is also a premium version that offers additional features, such as the ability to add custom share buttons, track social media shares, and more.

Sharekar comes with Webshare option that helps in utilizing the user’s device’s default share options making it easier for user to share.

If you’re looking for a way to increase social media engagement and traffic to your WordPress website, then Sharekar is the perfect plugin for you. Download and install Sharekar today!

Included Share Buttons
– Facebook share
– Twitter tweet button.
– LinkedIn Share Button
– Pinterest
– VK
– Email
– Reddit
– Snapchat

Advantages of using Sharekar

  • Increase the rate of sharing of pages and posts by users
  • Developers / Bloggers can easily skip the number of social icons to be used on the page or post
  • Lightweight and super fast loading share plugin

GDPR

We don’t track any user or use any kind of cookie so Sharekar is GDPR complient.

Basic Settings

Once you have installed and activated plugin. Sharekar gives you option to do the following changes:-
– Set the position of the Share Buttons, like Before content, After content or both before and after content. we even have float on the left and right icons.
– Select the Social Buttons you want to show and their position.
– Change the color of the buttons as to match your website theme.
– Set the radius of the buttons they can either be flat, rounded, or circular.
– Set if you want to show brand name, or action name or just no text in share buttons.

Key Features

  • 10 social platforms to share to, more to come.
  • Custom button color to match your Websites theme.
  • Click To Tweet gutenberg block, to increase users engagement to increase sharability.
  • Performance.
  • Easy to use User Experiance.
  • Share Counts.
  • Web Share, to utilize the device default share options

Changelog

1.0.3

  • Tested with WordPress 6.8
  • Replaced Twitter logo with the X logo.

1.0.2

  • Added Snapchat as a share Option.
  • Some typos were fixed.
  • Added title to the Share buttons.

1.0.1

  • Settings For Inline icons was not saving that has been fixed.

1.0.0

  • Changed the UI to make it more easier to use.
  • Now you can add both Float and Inline Position for Social Share Buttons.

0.4.0

  • Added support for web share, now you can addd web share API button and utilize you device’s in-build share options.

0.3.0

  • Added share counts, Now you can show shared counts of the post, supported Social networks are Facebook, Pinterest, VK, Reddit.

Full changelog on WordPress.org →

Screenshots

Settings Page.
Settings Page.
Click to tweet Block.
Click to tweet Block.
Share button before content.
Share button before content.
Floating Bar Settings Page.
Floating Bar Settings Page.

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FAQ

Sharekar : Social Media Share Button: quick answers

Straight answers, pulled from live WordPress.org data.

Live data from WordPress.org · checked Oct 12, 2026

Is Sharekar free?

Yes. Sharekar is free to download and use from the official WordPress.org plugin directory.

Is Sharekar safe to use in 2026?

Sharekar shows warning signs in 2026 — compare the alternatives below before installing. Was last updated 1 year ago, and scores 30/100 on our health check.

How many websites use Sharekar?

Sharekar is active on <10 WordPress websites and has been downloaded 1,311 times since it launched in November 2022. It was downloaded 49 times in the last 30 days.

Does Sharekar work with WordPress 7.1?

Sharekar is officially tested up to WordPress 6.8.11, while the latest release is 7.1.3. It may still work, but try it on a staging site first.

What PHP version does Sharekar need?

Sharekar requires PHP 7.3 or higher. Most hosts run PHP 8.x today, so it works on any modern WordPress hosting.

When was Sharekar last updated?

The latest version, 1.0.3, was released on April 20, 2025 (1 year ago).

Who makes Sharekar?

Sharekar is developed and maintained by madhavsingh07.

What are the best alternatives to Sharekar?

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

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