10 Best Social Share Icons & Social Share Buttons Alternatives in 2026
Updated October 22, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Social Share Icons & Social Share Buttons sits at #10 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 Social Share Icons & Social Share Buttons
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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 …
#5 in the WordPress.org Social Media Plugins ranking. About 4 times the installs, rated 4.8 against 4.9, last updated August 13, 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.
#7 in the WordPress.org Social Media Plugins ranking. About 2 times the installs, rated 4.8 against 4.9, last updated 3 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.
#6 in the WordPress.org Social Media Plugins ranking. A similar number of installs, rated 4.6 against 4.9, last updated 13 days ago.
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Wp Social Login and Register Social Counter
4.6 (67) 70,000+ active installsWp social lets you add social login, social counter, and social share buttons of different styles to your WordPress website.
#3 in the WordPress.org Social Media Plugins ranking. About 7 times the installs, rated 4.6 against 4.9, last updated 4 days ago.
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4.3 (92) 100,000+ active installsDisplay icons linking to your social profiles, via the classic widget or the core Social Icons block variations.
#4 in the WordPress.org Social Media Plugins ranking. About 10 times the installs, rated 4.3 against 4.9, last updated September 17, 2026.
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Feed Them Social
Paid version availableFeed Them Social – Social Media Feeds, Video, and Photo Galleries
4.7 (639) 20,000+ active installsCustom social media feeds for Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, & YouTube. Works with Elementor, Beaver Builder, and Gutenberg blocks.
#8 in the WordPress.org Social Media Plugins ranking. About 2 times the installs, rated 4.7 against 4.9, last updated September 5, 2026.
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Metricool – Social media and site statistics
4.4 (22) 90,000+ 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. About 9 times the installs, last updated 9 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!
#9 in the WordPress.org Social Media Plugins ranking. About 3 times the installs, rated 3.3 against 4.9, last updated 7 days ago.
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4.8 (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 August 24, 2026.
Social Share Icons & Social Share Buttons 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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Social Share Icons & Social Share Buttons vs Buttonizer10,000+ vs 40,000+ installs · 4.9 vs 4.8
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Social Share Icons & Social Share Buttons vs Simple Social Media Share Buttons10,000+ vs 20,000+ installs · 4.9 vs 4.8
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Social Share Icons & Social Share Buttons vs Social Media Feather10,000+ vs 10,000+ installs · 4.9 vs 4.6
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Social Share Icons & Social Share Buttons vs Wp Social10,000+ vs 70,000+ installs · 4.9 vs 4.6
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Social Share Icons & Social Share Buttons vs Simple Social Icons10,000+ vs 100,000+ installs · 4.9 vs 4.3
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Social Share Icons & Social Share Buttons vs Feed Them Social10,000+ vs 20,000+ installs · 4.9 vs 4.7
Switching from Social Share Icons & Social Share Buttons: common questions
What is the best alternative to Social Share Icons & Social Share Buttons?
Buttonizer is the closest match: it shares the Social Media Plugins top 10 with Social Share Icons & Social Share Buttons and has 40,000+ active installs with a 4.8 out of 5 rating.
Which Social Share Icons & Social Share Buttons alternative has the most users?
Simple Social Icons, with 100,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Social Share Icons & Social Share Buttons alternative is rated highest?
Buttonizer, rated 4.8 out of 5 by 396 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
Buttonizer is the closest match to Social Share Icons & Social Share Buttons by the data we track, and Simple Social Icons has the widest reach with 100,000+ active installs. Simple Social Media Share Buttons shipped the most recent release, on October 19, 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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