10 Best Social Share Icons & 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 Icons & Social Share Buttons 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 Share Icons & Social Share Buttons
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Cresta Social Share Counter
Closest match4.8 (55) 2,000+ active installsShare your posts and pages quickly and easily with Cresta Social Share Counter and show share counts.
Shares the share, share button tags on WordPress.org. About a quarter of the installs, rated 4.8 against 4.9, last updated February 21, 2026.
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Super Web Share – Native Social Sharing Button
4.9 (29) 2,000+ active installsSuper Web Share helps you easily add a native share prompt to your website, allowing you to share a page or post in less than a minute.
Shares the share, share button tags on WordPress.org. About a quarter of the installs, last updated 14 days ago.
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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 share, share buttons tags on WordPress.org. About 4 times the installs, rated 4.8 against 4.9, last updated 25 days ago.
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AddToAny Share Buttons
4.7 (1,113) 300,000+ active installsShare buttons for WordPress including the AddToAny button, Facebook, Bluesky, Mastodon, WhatsApp, Pinterest, Reddit, many more, and follow icons too.
Shares the share, share buttons tags on WordPress.org. About 30 times the installs, rated 4.7 against 4.9, last updated May 22, 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.
Shares the share buttons tag on WordPress.org. About 2 times the installs, rated 4.8 against 4.9, last updated August 4, 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 share buttons tag on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, rated 4.6 against 4.9, last updated 18 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.
Shares the share buttons tag on WordPress.org. About 9 times the installs, last updated 10 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 share buttons tag on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, rated 4.2 against 4.9, last updated January 27, 2026.
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4.9 (101) 30,000+ active installsShariff provides share buttons that respect the privacy of your visitors and follow the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Shares the share buttons, sharing tags on WordPress.org. About 3 times the installs, last updated May 15, 2026.
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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 share, sharing tags on WordPress.org. About a third of the installs, rated 4.7 against 4.9, last updated February 20, 2026.
Switching from Social Share Icons & Social Share Buttons: common questions
What is the best alternative to Social Share Icons & Social Share Buttons?
Cresta Social Share Counter is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 2,000+ active installs with a 4.8 out of 5 rating.
Which Social Share Icons & Social Share Buttons alternative has the most users?
AddToAny, with 300,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Social Share Icons & Social Share Buttons 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 Social Share Icons & 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 Icons & 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 Icons & 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
Cresta Social Share Counter is the closest match to Social Share Icons & Social Share Buttons by the data we track, and AddToAny has the widest reach with 300,000+ 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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