10 Best Simple Social Icons Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Simple Social Icons sits at #3 in the WordPress.org Social Media Plugins ranking. 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 Simple Social Icons
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Buttonizer
Closest matchButtonizer – 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 …
#9 in the WordPress.org Social Media Plugins ranking. About a third of the installs, rated 4.8 against 4.3, last updated 25 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.
#7 in the WordPress.org Social Media Plugins ranking. 10,000+ installs against 100,000+, rated 4.6 against 4.3, last updated 18 days ago.
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4.8 (5,334) 100,000+ active installsShare buttons and pop up share icons for social media sharing
#1 in the WordPress.org Social Media Plugins ranking. A similar number of installs, rated 4.8 against 4.3, last updated 13 days ago.
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Wp Social Login and Register Social Counter
4.6 (67) 80,000+ active installsWp social lets you add social login, social counter, and social share buttons of different styles to your WordPress website.
#4 in the WordPress.org Social Media Plugins ranking. A similar number of installs, rated 4.6 against 4.3, last updated August 4, 2026.
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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.
#8 in the WordPress.org Social Media Plugins ranking. About a quarter of the installs, rated 4.8 against 4.3, last updated August 4, 2026.
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Feed Them Social
Paid version availableFeed Them Social – Social Media Feeds, Video, and Photo Galleries
4.7 (638) 20,000+ active installsCustom social media feeds for Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, & YouTube. Works with Elementor, Beaver Builder, and Gutenberg blocks.
#10 in the WordPress.org Social Media Plugins ranking. About a quarter of the installs, rated 4.7 against 4.3, last updated 2 days ago.
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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.
#6 in the WordPress.org Social Media Plugins ranking. A similar number of installs, rated 4.9 against 4.3, last updated 10 days ago.
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Metricool – Social media and site statistics
4.5 (21) 80,000+ active installsSite metrics and social media analytics for Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, X Twitter. The single best tool for Social Media Managers!
#2 in the WordPress.org Social Media Plugins ranking. A similar number of installs, last updated 13 days ago.
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3.3 (74) 30,000+ active installsWrite once, publish everywhere. Reach your target audience by sharing your content with Jetpack Social!
#5 in the WordPress.org Social Media Plugins ranking. About a third of the installs, rated 3.3 against 4.3, last updated June 26, 2026.
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4.7 (63) 30,000+ active installsLooking to add simple social icons to your widget areas? Choose the size and color of your icons, and then choose from 47 different social profiles.
Shares the social media, social networking, social profiles tags on WordPress.org. About a third of the installs, rated 4.7 against 4.3, no update since March 18, 2020.
Simple Social Icons against each of them
Head to head on installs, ratings, reviews and updates. Each measure names its own leader; there is no overall winner.
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Simple Social Icons vs Buttonizer100,000+ vs 40,000+ installs · 4.3 vs 4.8
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Simple Social Icons vs Social Media Feather100,000+ vs 10,000+ installs · 4.3 vs 4.6
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Simple Social Icons vs Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons100,000+ vs 100,000+ installs · 4.3 vs 4.8
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Simple Social Icons vs Wp Social100,000+ vs 80,000+ installs · 4.3 vs 4.6
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Simple Social Icons vs Simple Social Media Share Buttons100,000+ vs 20,000+ installs · 4.3 vs 4.8
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Simple Social Icons vs Feed Them Social100,000+ vs 20,000+ installs · 4.3 vs 4.7
Switching from Simple Social Icons: common questions
What is the best alternative to Simple Social Icons?
Buttonizer is the closest match: it shares the Social Media Plugins top 10 with Simple Social Icons and has 40,000+ active installs with a 4.8 out of 5 rating.
Which Simple Social Icons alternative has the most users?
Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons, with 100,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Simple Social Icons 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 Simple Social Icons 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 Simple Social Icons 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 Simple Social Icons 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
Buttonizer is the closest match to Simple Social Icons by the data we track, and Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons has the widest reach with 100,000+ active installs. Feed Them Social shipped the most recent release, on September 5, 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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