10 Best Social Share Buttons Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Social Share Buttons has 1,000+ 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 Share Buttons
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Metro Style Social Widget
Closest match4.6 (22) 300+ active installsMetro Style Social Network Widget
Shares the facebook, twitter tags on WordPress.org. About a third of the installs, no update since August 2, 2016.
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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 facebook, twitter tags on WordPress.org. About 2 times the installs, last updated 18 days ago.
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Selection Sharer by Hans van Gent
5.0 (21) 2,000+ active installsMedium like popover menu to share on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or by email any text selected on the page.
Shares the facebook, twitter tags on WordPress.org. About 2 times the installs, no update since August 8, 2016.
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4.8 (93) 4,000+ active installsShare buttons with extra features to sharing your website posts/pages on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Whatsapp, Pinterest etc.
Shares the facebook, twitter tags on WordPress.org. About 4 times the installs, no update since September 27, 2023.
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Frizzly – Social Share Buttons
4.2 (20) 300+ active installsFrizzly allows you to add share buttons on images and in post content.
Shares the facebook, twitter tags on WordPress.org. About a third of the installs, last updated 28 days ago.
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4.1 (22) 1,000+ active installsImage sharing plugin for WordPress. Share exactly needed images with fully customizable content.
Shares the facebook, twitter tags on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, last updated 25 days ago.
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4.8 (30) 600+ active installsSchedule posts without subscription fees. Self-hosted, AI-powered, with full MCP support for intelligent automation.
Shares the facebook, twitter tags on WordPress.org. About half the installs, last updated 21 days ago.
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Nextend Social Login and Register
Paid version available4.9 (446) 200,000+ active installsOne click registration & login plugin for Facebook, Google, X (formerly Twitter) and more. Quick setup and easy configuration.
Shares the facebook, twitter tags on WordPress.org. About 200 times the installs, last updated July 28, 2026.
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4.6 (56) 4,000+ active installsLet your website visitors get in touch with you easily with permanent visible contact information.
Shares the social icons tag on WordPress.org. About 4 times the installs, last updated 20 days ago.
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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 10 times the installs, last updated July 2, 2026.
Switching from Social Share Buttons: common questions
What is the best alternative to Social Share Buttons?
Metro Style Social Widget is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 300+ active installs with a 4.6 out of 5 rating.
Which Social Share Buttons alternative has the most users?
Nextend Social Login and Register, with 200,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Social Share Buttons 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 Social Share Buttons 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 Share Buttons 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 Share Buttons 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
Metro Style Social Widget is the closest match to Social Share Buttons by the data we track, and Nextend Social Login and Register has the widest reach with 200,000+ active installs. Social Sharing shipped the most recent release, on August 20, 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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