10 Best Wp Social Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Wp Social sits at #4 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 Wp Social
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Simple 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 4.6, last updated August 4, 2026.
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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 …
#9 in the WordPress.org Social Media Plugins ranking. About half the installs, rated 4.8 against 4.6, last updated 25 days ago.
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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 4.6, last updated 2 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 4.6, last updated 13 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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4.3 (92) 100,000+ active installsDisplay icons linking to your social profiles, via the classic widget or the core Social Icons block variations.
#3 in the WordPress.org Social Media Plugins ranking. A similar number of installs, rated 4.3 against 4.6, last updated July 27, 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.
#7 in the WordPress.org Social Media Plugins ranking. 10,000+ installs against 80,000+, 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.
#6 in the WordPress.org Social Media Plugins ranking. A similar number of installs, rated 4.9 against 4.6, last updated 10 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 4.6, last updated June 26, 2026.
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Nextend Social Login and Register
Paid version available4.9 (446) 200,000+ active installsOne click registration & login plugin for Facebook, Google, X (formerly Twitter) and more. Quick setup and easy configuration.
Shares the social login tag on WordPress.org. About 2.5 times the installs, rated 4.9 against 4.6, last updated July 28, 2026.
Wp Social 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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Wp Social vs Simple Social Media Share Buttons80,000+ vs 20,000+ installs · 4.6 vs 4.8
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Wp Social vs Buttonizer80,000+ vs 40,000+ installs · 4.6 vs 4.8
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Wp Social vs Feed Them Social80,000+ vs 20,000+ installs · 4.6 vs 4.7
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Wp Social vs Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons80,000+ vs 100,000+ installs · 4.6 vs 4.8
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Wp Social vs Metricool80,000+ vs 80,000+ installs · 4.6 vs 4.5
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Wp Social vs Simple Social Icons80,000+ vs 100,000+ installs · 4.6 vs 4.3
Switching from Wp Social: common questions
What is the best alternative to Wp Social?
Simple Social Media Share Buttons is the closest match: it shares the Social Media Plugins top 10 with Wp Social and has 20,000+ active installs with a 4.8 out of 5 rating.
Which Wp Social alternative has the most users?
Nextend Social Login and Register, with 200,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Wp Social alternative is rated highest?
Nextend Social Login and Register, rated 4.9 out of 5 by 446 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Wp Social 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 Wp Social 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 Wp Social 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
Simple Social Media Share Buttons is the closest match to Wp Social by the data we track, and Nextend Social Login and Register has the widest reach with 200,000+ 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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