2. Social media services, a second biggest
source after search engines for traffic.
These days Facebook, Twitter Google +
and LinkedIn are the most heavily used
social sharing websites.
Social media creates an opportunity for
marketers to spread the services and
products they offer in most relaxed and
conversational way. Integrating social
media into your WordPress site or blog
will enable your readers or buyers to
share the great blog and best products
within their groups.
Here are some of the best Social Media
Plugins you can use in your WordPress
site or blog and how they can bring huge
traffic on your WordPress site we will see
further in this presentation.
3. Social Media Sharing Plug-ins:
1. Sociable
This is one of the best and fantastic free plugin that adds social media sharing
buttons in your posts, pages and RSS feed. It includes dozen of the most popular
social networks and is updated regularly.
You can make selection form both, a simple icons or buttons that will show the
number of times an article has been shared, retweeted or liked with the use of this
amazing social media plugin.
Download
4. 2. Sharebar
This amazing plug-in will automatically add an attractive sharing bar vertically to
the left or right of your posts or horizontally below the title.
You can manually add this plugin anywhere in your blog using PHP code.
Download
5. 3. ShareThis
ShareThis plugin is one of the most used and popular plugin on the web. In fact, it
is being used in more than 1 million of websites worldwide.
With access of more than 120 social channels (including
Facebook, Twitter, Like, +1, Email and more), The ShareThis plugin is a quick and
easy sharing solution for your site to keep your audience engaged in your content
and increase traffic to your site.
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6. 4. Lockerz Share
Here, you have the option to choose the only social services you want to display on
your blog. This easy-to-use button lets you choose from over 100 social media
services, including Google+ and Facebook.
Choose from five buttons, or use your own image or a simple text link.
Download
7. 5. Shareaholic
Shareaholic is highly configurable WordPress plugin which allows you to add a
“sexy bookmarks” to your posts, pages, home page, category archive and RSS feed.
The share bar hides half of each icon and revealing the full icon only when the user
hovers over it.
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8. 6. Slick Social Share Buttons
This plugin places a social sharing button in a fixed location on your website, floated
anywhere. Alternatively, the menu can slide out.
The plugin supports Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, StumbleUpon, Digg, Google Buzz
and Pinterest etc.
Variations of buttons are available, including horizontal and vertical orientations and counters
and no counters.
Download
9. 7. Social Toolbar
This plugin is used to put a toolbar at the bottom of your website. You can view the
latest tweet just above the toolbar, and on the right are buttons and counters for
Facebook likes and retweets.
On the left is a horizontal list of all of your social profiles (making this both a
sharing and following plugin).
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10. 8. InsiteBar
InsiteBar plugin is use to put a toolbar at the top of your website. By default this
toolbar displays a Facebook like and retweet buttons. It also enables users to
search the website via Google (in a pop-up) and translate content into over a dozen
languages.
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The green button at the top of the page brings up a sharing box, enabling visitors to
share your content on various social media services.
11. 9. Sharedaddy
The Sharedaddy plugin supports
Google+, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, StumbleUpon, Digg and Reddit. Visitors can
also share articles via email and print them out.
Display icons, text or both, and customize the label, too. Buttons can be placed on
your home page or on posts or pages.
Sharedaddy is now part of the popular Jetpack plugin
12. 10. GetSocial
You can add a vertical sharing box to your website. GetSocial supports
Twitter, Facebook, Google+ (and Google Buzz), StumbleUpon, Digg and Blend.
More buttons can easily be added in the settings.
Download
13. 11. Social Media Counters
This useful plugin shows sharing buttons like
Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, Digg, StumbleUpon and AddThis.
Buttons can be added to posts and pages, as well as attachments (making this one
of the few plugins to offer this feature!) in form of small or large.
Download
14. 12. SocialPop
This plugin “pops up” icons when a user hovers over the image.
You can choose from a lot of variations: make images pop up, down, left or right.
Circle and square icons are available, as are cool effects such as tooltips and
monochrome hover colors.
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15. 13. Sticklr WP
Sticklr WP plugin allows you to add a social media panel to the side of your page.
The menu remains fixed as the user scrolls up and down, and it can be expanded
either by hovering over it or clicking it.
Multiple columns can be displayed in the pop-out menu, and you can add your
own HTML.
Download
16. 14. Social Buttons Pro
Social Buttons Pro plugin supports four services includes
Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and LinkedIn.
Simply click on the relevant button to add it to posts, pages or even other areas of
your website (via template tags).
Download
17. 15. Social Media Widget
The plugin has a big settings area for the widget, where you can change the title
and text above the icons. This cool plugin provides six spaces for your own social
profiles.
This plugin offers tons of sharing icons come in 3 sizes, 4 icon styles, and 4
animations.
Download
18. And final words, there is no one perfect social media plugin for everyone out there. It can
be changing according to design and content size of website. It also depends on where you
want to put the buttons and links, how many social services you want to list down and how
well the plugin blends in with your design.
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