10 Best Social Media Icon Widget Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Social Media Icon Widget has 4,000+ active installs on WordPress.org. These 10 plugins share its category or its tags on WordPress.org, are actively maintained, and each has at least 100 active installs. They are ordered by how closely they match, not by our opinion.
The 10 closest alternatives to Social Media Icon Widget
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Easy Social Icons
Closest match4.4 (84) 20,000+ active installsUpload your own social media icons or choose from font-awesome. Use widget|shortcode to place icons anywhere(sidebar, header, footer, page) in theme.
Shares the social icons tag on WordPress.org. About 5 times the installs, last updated November 9, 2025.
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4.6 (58) 10,000+ active installsThis plugin allows you to add social media floating sidebar icons connected with your social media profiles.
Shares the social icons tag on WordPress.org. About 2.5 times the installs, last updated July 2, 2026.
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WPZOOM Connect: Social Icons Widget, Share Buttons & Click to Chat
4.9 (144) 90,000+ active installsSocial icons, share buttons & a floating Click to Chat button for WhatsApp, Telegram, Messenger & Viber. Gutenberg block, widget & Elementor.
Shares the social icons tag on WordPress.org. About 23 times the installs, last updated 10 days ago.
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Simple Social Media Share Buttons
Paid version availableSimple Social Media Share Buttons – Social Sharing for Everyone
4.8 (194) 20,000+ active installsThis Social Share Plugin adds advanced social media sharing buttons to your WordPress sites, such as Facebook, WhatsApp, X, LinkedIn, & Pinterest.
About 5 times the installs, last updated August 4, 2026.
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Buttonizer – Social Media Share Buttons, Social Icons, & Social Feeds
4.8 (396) 40,000+ active installsFloating Social Media Icons, Sticky Share Buttons, Facebook Feeds, & Popup builder. Also, create Call, Email, SMS, & Contact buttons to increa …
About 10 times the installs, last updated 25 days ago.
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Easy Social Feed – Social Photos Gallery and Post Feed for WordPress
4.6 (502) 30,000+ active installsDisplay Instagram, Facebook, YouTube & X/Twitter feeds with photos, videos, reels, events & galleries. SEO/AEO friendly, fast & easy to set up.
About 7.5 times the installs, last updated July 20, 2026.
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OG — Better Share on Social Media
4.8 (216) 30,000+ active installsThe simple method to add Open Graph metadata to your entries so that they look great when shared on sites.
About 7.5 times the installs, last updated May 15, 2026.
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Robo Gallery – Photo & Image Slider
4.3 (404) 40,000+ active installsRobo Gallery is a powerful image gallery and photo gallery plugin with advanced features to create responsive galleries with a beautiful lightbox
About 10 times the installs, last updated 3 days ago.
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Hubbub Lite – Fast, free social sharing and follow buttons
4.7 (173) 30,000+ active installsYour content is worth sharing. Let's makes it easier!
About 7.5 times the installs, last updated July 24, 2026.
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WP Social Ninja – Embed Social Feeds, User Reviews & Chat Widgets
4.8 (71) 30,000+ active installsAdd Facebook feeds, Instagram feeds, TikTok feeds, Facebook reviews, WhatsApp Chat, Messenger chat, Testimonial, and others using a single dashboard.
About 7.5 times the installs, last updated 12 days ago.
Switching from Social Media Icon Widget: common questions
What is the best alternative to Social Media Icon Widget?
Easy Social Icons is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 20,000+ active installs with a 4.4 out of 5 rating.
Which Social Media Icon Widget alternative has the most users?
WPZOOM Connect, with 90,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Social Media Icon Widget alternative is rated highest?
WPZOOM Connect, rated 4.9 out of 5 by 144 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Social Media Icon Widget alternatives free?
Every plugin listed here is free to install from WordPress.org. Where WordPress.org marks a plugin as commercial, the developer also sells a paid version or add-ons, and that is shown on each plugin.
How are alternatives chosen?
Automatically, from WordPress.org data: plugins that share a category top 10 with Social Media Icon Widget score highest, then plugins that appear in the same WordPress.org rankings, then plugins with the same tags, weighted so rare tags count more than common ones. Plugins by the same author and plugins rated under 4.0 are left out.
How we choose these alternatives
Nothing on this page is picked by hand. Every day we walk the whole WordPress.org directory, then score every plugin against Social Media Icon Widget on three signals: sharing a category top 10 counts most, then appearing in the same WordPress.org rankings, then carrying the same tags, with rare tags counting for more than common ones like "wordpress". Plugins by the same author are excluded, so an author's own add-ons cannot fill the list, and so is anything rated below 4.0 or with fewer than 100 active installs. The ten highest scores are what you see, in that order. Full methodology.
The bottom line
Easy Social Icons is the closest match to Social Media Icon Widget by the data we track, and WPZOOM Connect has the widest reach with 90,000+ active installs. Robo Gallery shipped the most recent release, on September 4, 2026. The list is rebuilt every day from WordPress.org, so a plugin that stops being maintained drops out on its own.
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