10 Best Scriptless Social Sharing Alternatives in 2026
Updated October 22, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Scriptless Social Sharing has 10,000+ 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 Scriptless Social Sharing
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WP Socializer
Closest matchWP Socializer – Simple & Easy Social Media Share Icons
4.5 (128) 10,000+ active installsSimple & easy plugin to add social media sharing icons, buttons like Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Instagram & more
Shares the social sharing tag on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, rated 4.5 against 5.0, last updated 28 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.
Shares the social sharing tag on WordPress.org. About 2 times the installs, rated 4.8 against 5.0, last updated 3 days ago.
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4.6 (506) 10,000+ active installsLightweight social sharing and follow buttons for WordPress. Fast, flexible, and easy to use.
Shares the social sharing tag on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, rated 4.6 against 5.0, last updated 13 days ago.
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Social Sharing (by Danny)
5.0 (68) 2,000+ active installsAdds social sharing buttons for Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn to your blog posts or pages.
Shares the social sharing tag on WordPress.org. About a quarter of the installs, last updated August 20, 2026.
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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!
Shares the social sharing tag on WordPress.org. About 3 times the installs, rated 4.7 against 5.0, last updated September 14, 2026.
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Wp Social Login and Register Social Counter
4.6 (67) 70,000+ active installsWp social lets you add social login, social counter, and social share buttons of different styles to your WordPress website.
About 7 times the installs, rated 4.6 against 5.0, last updated 4 days ago.
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4.3 (92) 100,000+ active installsDisplay icons linking to your social profiles, via the classic widget or the core Social Icons block variations.
About 10 times the installs, rated 4.3 against 5.0, last updated September 17, 2026.
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4.8 (5,333) 100,000+ active installsShare buttons and pop up share icons for social media sharing
About 10 times the installs, rated 4.8 against 5.0, last updated September 18, 2026.
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Metricool – Social media and site statistics
4.4 (22) 90,000+ active installsSite metrics and social media analytics for Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, X Twitter. The single best tool for Social Media Managers!
About 9 times the installs, last updated 9 days ago.
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Social Sharing Plugin – Sassy Social Share
4.8 (523) 100,000+ active installsThe Simplest and Optimized Social Share buttons. Facebook, X, Reddit, Pinterest, Whatsapp, Grok, ChatGPT, Gab, Gettr and over 100 more.
About 10 times the installs, rated 4.8 against 5.0, no update since September 15, 2025.
Switching from Scriptless Social Sharing: common questions
What is the best alternative to Scriptless Social Sharing?
WP Socializer is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 10,000+ active installs with a 4.5 out of 5 rating.
Which Scriptless Social Sharing alternative has the most users?
Simple Social Icons, with 100,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Scriptless Social Sharing alternative is rated highest?
Social Sharing, rated 5.0 out of 5 by 68 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Scriptless Social Sharing 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 Scriptless Social Sharing 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 Scriptless Social Sharing 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
WP Socializer is the closest match to Scriptless Social Sharing by the data we track, and Simple Social Icons has the widest reach with 100,000+ active installs. Simple Social Media Share Buttons shipped the most recent release, on October 19, 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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