10 Best Social Icons Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Social Icons 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 Social Icons
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Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons
Closest match4.8 (5,334) 100,000+ active installsShare buttons and pop up share icons for social media sharing
Shares the social, widget tags on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, 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.
Shares the social tag on WordPress.org. About 8 times the installs, last updated August 4, 2026.
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Simple Like Page – Fast & Privacy-Friendly Page Embeds
4.3 (24) 10,000+ active installsEmbed Meta™ Page content without slowing down your site or loading third-party scripts before user interaction.
Shares the social tag on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, last updated April 28, 2026.
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Professional Social Sharing Buttons, Icons & Related Posts – Shareaholic
4.4 (1,052) 10,000+ active installsBoost Audience Engagement with Award Winning Speed Optimized Social Tools: Share Buttons, Related Posts, Monetization & Google Analytics.
Shares the social tag on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, no update since November 5, 2024.
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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 …
Shares the social tag on WordPress.org. About 4 times the installs, last updated 25 days ago.
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4.7 (93) 3,000+ active installsJuiz Social Post Sharer is now Nobs • Share Buttons. Add beautiful share buttons in your posts to allow visitors to share your content on social media …
Shares the social tag on WordPress.org. About a third of the installs, last updated February 20, 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.
Shares the social tag on WordPress.org. About 2 times the installs, last updated 2 days ago.
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4.4 (105) 5,000+ active installsAdvanced chat plugin for WordPress with AI ChatGPT bots. Requires no server, supports multiple channels, appearance settings, moderation, bans.
Shares the social tag on WordPress.org. About half the installs, last updated March 9, 2026.
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4.4 (33) 10,000+ active installsGenesis Simple Share allows you to easily add beautiful share buttons to your site using a Genesis child theme
Shares the social tag on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, last updated June 23, 2026.
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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!
Shares the social tag on WordPress.org. About 8 times the installs, last updated 13 days ago.
Switching from Social Icons: common questions
What is the best alternative to Social Icons?
Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 100,000+ active installs with a 4.8 out of 5 rating.
Which Social Icons alternative has the most users?
Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons, with 100,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Social Icons alternative is rated highest?
Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons, rated 4.8 out of 5 by 5,334 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these 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 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 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
Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons is the closest match to 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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