10 Best Social Icons Sticky Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Social Icons Sticky 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 Icons Sticky
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Hubbub Lite
Closest matchHubbub 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 media, social share, social sharing tags on WordPress.org. About 30 times the installs, last updated July 24, 2026.
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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, social media tags on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, last updated July 2, 2026.
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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 media, social sharing tags on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, last updated 18 days ago.
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Social Snap — Social Share Buttons & Click to Tweet
4.2 (58) 10,000+ active installsSocial sharing plugin with share buttons for Facebook, X (Twitter), LinkedIn and more. Includes Click to Tweet feature.
Shares the social media, social share tags on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, last updated January 27, 2026.
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WP 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 media, social share, social sharing tags on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, no update since January 11, 2025.
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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, social sharing tags on WordPress.org. About 90 times the installs, last updated 10 days ago.
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4.4 (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, social share tags on WordPress.org. About 20 times the installs, last updated November 9, 2025.
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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 share, social sharing tags on WordPress.org. About 20 times the installs, last updated August 4, 2026.
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Social Sharing Plugin – Sassy Social Share
4.8 (522) 100,000+ active installsThe Simplest and Optimized Social Share buttons. Facebook, X, Reddit, Pinterest, Whatsapp, Grok, ChatGPT, Gab, Gettr and over 100 more.
Shares the social media, social share tags on WordPress.org. About 100 times the installs, last updated September 15, 2025.
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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 2 times the installs, last updated 18 days ago.
Switching from Social Icons Sticky: common questions
What is the best alternative to Social Icons Sticky?
Hubbub Lite is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 30,000+ active installs with a 4.7 out of 5 rating.
Which Social Icons Sticky alternative has the most users?
Sassy Social Share, with 100,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Social Icons Sticky 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 Icons Sticky 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 Icons Sticky 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 Icons Sticky 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
Hubbub Lite is the closest match to Social Icons Sticky by the data we track, and Sassy Social Share has the widest reach with 100,000+ active installs. WPZOOM Connect shipped the most recent release, on August 28, 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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