Title: Social Media Social Share Icon Author: SuperHero Plugins Published: May 9, 2016 Last modified: August 21, 2016 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/add-social-share/assets/banner-772x250.png?rev=1412817) This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress. ![](https://ps.w.org/add-social-share/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=1412817) # Social Media Social Share Icon By [SuperHero Plugins](https://profiles.wordpress.org/superheroplugins/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/add-social-share.3.0.zip) * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/add-social-share/#description) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/add-social-share/#reviews) * [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/add-social-share/#installation) * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/add-social-share/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/add-social-share/) ## Description Keeping Social Media Sharing Simple with Innovative & Unique Social Styles with Animations for the Most Used Social Media Networks. Take Social Media Sharing to the Next Level with Social Share Icons, a Freemium WordPerss Plugin with Style. Social Media is the lifeblood that keeps the internet glowing, and Social Sharing lets you harness that activity and use it as a positive force for your business. CHOOSE FROM THE MOST USED SOCIAL MEDIA NETWORKS Providing you the top 5 and most used social media networks in the world to share your content uniquely with style, select any social network from the list for your readers to share your content Social Share Icons with 15 Deifferent Designs Social Share Icons provides uniquely identified social media sharing icon’s themes with seperate animation for every theme to select from for sharing your content DISPLAY YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA BUTTONS WITH CLEAN DESIGNED ICONS We know that showing your social icon buttons means something to you, that’s why we provide social icon themes for you to select from to share your content with style WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get, We don’t want you to hassel much, you’ll get what you see on the front end on your WordPress site, providing you the live preview while you setting your social icons Get Live Preview In Your Social Settings Page While You Set Things Up You don’t need to go back and forth to see your social icons on Pages, Posts or on Home page like how they look, Live Preview is provided to show you how your social icons will look on selected pages Sharing is Caring We know you write compelling content for your readers & you want your content be shared over the most used social media networks, here is something you need to motivate you redaders to spread the word to other people which helps you get more readers Motivate Your Social Media Readers Default Message Option gave you capability to show a tagline above your social icons to motivate your readers to share your content, there are 7 Sharing Messages for you to select from **Add Social Media Share Icons in Different Locations** We know every website have different needs according to their functionality and design, Social Share Icons can detect from where your content starts and where it ends, weather it’s a Page, Post or Home page of your WordPress site, Social Share Icons place Social buttons automatically just select the option from settings page **AWESOME FEATURES** Social Media Icon Themes with Animations Adds fun while Sharing Content for the most used Social Media Networks **LIVE PREVIEW** WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) helps you to see right away on settings page **Fully Responsive and Easy to Use** Social Media Share Icons are fully responsive and look nice on different devices and themes. With simple configuration of our plugin you don’t need any programming skills to create your own design of share buttons – you can easily set the animated theme, position of the buttons. **Over 15 Social Media Icons Themes** Social Media Share plugin supports many different popular social media networks – LinkdIn, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest, Facebook share Icons ! You can add any numbers of social networks and create excellent sharing toolbar, which help your visitors to choose the most suitable network for them. **Which Social Media Icons to Show ** Plugin allows you to choose the various options which social media icons to show for share. Besides you can specify pages or posts where you want to show share buttons– everywhere or just on pages or posts. Social Share Icons gets users sharing the right content аt the right moments, and keeps them engaged on your website. ** Pre-built Design and Amazing Effects** Social Media Share Icons offers you wonderful collection of prebuilt design options and different animation effects for each design. Just select social icons and select a theme. **PREMIUM QUALITY** Precisely designed providing positions and alignments of social icons to display on your content **EASY TO CUSTOMIZE SOCIAL MEDIA SHARE ICONS** Select any social media network from the most used social networks to share content **POSITIONS & ALIGNMENTS of SOCIAL SHARE ICONS** Place social media sharing buttons either above the content area, below the content area, or in both locations left, center or right **10+ SOCIAL LAYOUTS** Prividing more than 10 social media icon themes to choose from to make it more customizable **USER FRIENDLY** Social Media Share plugins is very easy and fast, just some click away and Social Icons will appear on your WordPress site **EASY TO USE** It’s surprisingly easy to use plugin and setting it up **24/7 SUPPORT For Social Media Share Icons** Still ran into some problem? don’t hesitate to contact anytime **AMAZING TEMPLATE DESIGNS WITH SUPER COOL SOCIAL SHARE ANIMATIONS** Social Icon Themes with Animations Adds fun while Sharing Content for the most used Social Networks, with Custom sharing message you can tell user to share your content ``` * Over 15 Social Skins * Fully Responsive * Add social media share icons on Posts * Add social media share icons on Pages * Add social media share icons on Home screen * Professional Skins of the social media share icons * Simple social share icon configuration and design * Different social media share buttons placement option ``` Increase Numbers of Social Media Sharing With our Social Share Icons you will increase your social popularity and will take social sharing on a next level. It will contribute of increase the social activity on your site. Social Share Icon is an easy and fast way to let your visitors share your content to social networks, helping you in growth of your social traffic on your website. Fully Responsive and Easy to Use Social Share Icons are fully responsive and look nice on different devices and themes. With simple configuration of our plugin you don’t need any programming skills to create your own design of share buttons – you can easily set the animated skin , position of the icons . Over 15+ Social Media Sharing Skins Social media share plugin supports Five most popular social networks – LinkedIn, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest, Facebook share icons which help your visitors to choose the most suitable network for them. Different Placement Options of Social Share Icon Social Share Icon provides you the ability to choose where to show share buttons– on different position of the page, post or home page content. With Social Share Icons, you have much more chances to attract a wide variety of your website visitors. Plugin also allows you to choose which social media icon to show for sharing . ## Screenshots * [[ * Social Share Icons settings page * [[ * Social Share Icons settings page * [[ * Social Share Icons templates * [[ * Social Share Icons on front end * [[ * Social Share Icons Admin Settings page ## Installation **Install social media share icons plugin via wordpress dashboard :** 1. Go to the Plugins Menu in WordPress. 2. Search for plugin “Social Media Share Icons”. 3. Click “Install”. 4. After Installation click activate to start using the Social Media Share Icons on your website. * Go to Social Share Icons from Dashboard menu. * Enable Social Share Icons feature and select the icons postion, alignment ,theme, message etc. **Install social media share icon plugin via FTP** 1. Download the Social Media Share Icon plugin 2. Unzip Social Media Share Icon plugin 3. Copy the social-share-icon folder 4. Open the ftp \wp-content\plugins\ 5. Paste the folder inside plug-ins folder 6. Go to admin panel => open item \”Plugins\” => activate Social Share Icons ## FAQ **Q: What does social media share plugin do?** A.Social share plugin provides the ability to allow anyone easily share website content from (page, post or home page) on major social media (Facebook, Twitter, googleplus, LinkedIn, Pinterest ) by the use of the latest APIs on your website! **Q: Will it effect my site’s speed? ** A. No ,Social Media Share Icons we are using in this plugin on front end of your WordPress site are soo light weight you don’t need to worry about your site’s speed **Q: Do I need to design the social media icons again?** A. No , you won’t need to get any trouble regarding design and layout of the social media icons since we have provided inbuilt 15 beautiful social icon themes.You can choose any as per your requirement. **Q: Does every social media icon themes supports animations?** A. No, the free version themes not support animations, for this; you need to buy premium version of Social Share Icon Plugin. **Q: Can I put social media sharing icons on both (top & bottom) of page?** A. Yes you can put social media sharing icons on both (top & bottom) of page. **Q: Can I put social media share icons on both (top & bottom) of post?** A. Yes you can put social sharing icons on both (top & bottom) of post. **Q: Can I put social media sharing icons on both (top & bottom) of home page?** A. Yes you can put social sharing icons on both (top & bottom) of home page. **Q: If I like a social media share icons theme’s animation and I want to have that animation on another social share icons theme, can I get?** A. Yes, but for this, you have to contact us for this, because we have to change some functionality in our plugin; just for you 😉 **Q: If I want to add some additional social media share network like digg or tumblr, can i do that?** A. Yes, but for this, you have to contact us for this, because we have to change some functionality in our plugin; just for you 😉 **Q: Some of the sharing apps are not working. Why is that?** A. This issue arises if your website is not publicly hosted. Facebook for example looks for the URL to generate the webpage’s preview for sharing. **Q: I want to upgrade to the social media share icons premium plan but I don’t find the option. How can I upgrade?** A. Premium version of the social share icon plugin can be activated from the plugin itself. To activate the premium version, you’ll find a banner image on top from where you can buy premium version. **Q: For any other query/problem/request?** A. Please email us at wpsuperheroplugins@gmail. com. You can also submit your query from the Social plugin’s configuration page. **Q: Can you help me set up the plugin at my website?** A. Yes, we can help you with it. Just drop an email at wpsuperheroplugins@gmail.com ## Reviews ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ed28ed818de445610c9b0ea6ae524edd6ec563cafe0cc19ddbf52fa8f23a9f58? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Fraco](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fraco/)󠁿 [Robson](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ligg3/) November 27, 2016 A maioria das funções são Premium, precisa pagar. As opções grátis são bem fracas, em posições ruins na página, muito fraco! Só é bom para quem quiser pagar por ele. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/75ff3860cd59a74d0ba3933a113ea641aae7908fd77f82b1a7591118394e2902? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Most features not available in free version](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/most-features-not-available-in-free-version/)󠁿 [clayray](https://profiles.wordpress.org/clayray/) September 3, 2016 I just want a simple plugin for displaying social media icons at the bottom of post and pages. Using this plugin for that purpose is like using a bulldozer to build a sandcastle. All sorts of fancy effects and graphics that are not necessary. But on the free version you cannot even add social icons to pages! Yet more time wasted trying to find a simple, decent social icons plugin! ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/dc9db3bbe15b8f503178b408cf549ca211f92bdac12d01ba75f2b0df7d4867ce? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Fast Support Response Time](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fast-support-response-time/)󠁿 [smalldetails](https://profiles.wordpress.org/smalldetails/) September 3, 2016 I was having a problem on a client site (CUSTOM WP theme!) and submitted a request for support thinking it would be a week or two before hearing from anyone if at all. I was happily surprised when I had a response within 24 hours and a resolution immediately afterwards. Great plugin that plays nice with just about any theme! ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/12f4576f7f5c7e9c28b6a9ace63f79c00240d71838c823006304ef1656a77672? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Best Plugin ever for social share](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/best-plugin-ever-for-social-share/)󠁿 [Klaus_K](https://profiles.wordpress.org/klaus_k/) September 3, 2016 I tried different Plugins for Social Share. But this is the best one and every cent worth. Easy to use and very effective. Made good experience with service. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/b4b9f35d66a8b8ee2816ee89c5cc7da862a949bd8e738fea441333b52c06af72? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Recommended](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recommended-92/)󠁿 [kaleemm](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kaleemm/) September 3, 2016 Its very simple and effective awesome plugins [ Read all 7 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/add-social-share/reviews/) ## Contributors & Developers “Social Media Social Share Icon” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ SuperHero Plugins ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/superheroplugins/) [Translate “Social Media Social Share Icon” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/add-social-share) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/add-social-share/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/add-social-share/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/add-social-share/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/add-social-share/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog 1.5 Bug fixes **2.0** Added custom message feature to display your custom messages above social icons Fixed issue with social wide on tablets Add description for alignment and positioning on admin page **1.5** Bug fixes **1.3** Optimize social icons for mobile & tablets. **1.2** Fixed styling conflict with themes. **1.0** Initial version. If you think, that you found a bug in our social share plugin or have any question tell us via support forum . Social Share Icons ## Meta * Version **3.0** * Last updated **10 years ago** * Active installations **200+** * WordPress version ** 3.6 or higher ** * Tested up to **4.7.33** * Tags * [facebook](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/facebook/)[google plus](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/google-plus/) [LinkedIn](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/linkedin/)[Pinterest](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/pinterest/) [twitter](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/twitter/) * [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/add-social-share/advanced/) ## Ratings 4 out of 5 stars. * [ 3 5-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/add-social-share/reviews/?filter=5) * [ 0 4-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/add-social-share/reviews/?filter=4) * [ 1 3-star review ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/add-social-share/reviews/?filter=3) * [ 1 2-star review ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/add-social-share/reviews/?filter=2) * [ 0 1-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/add-social-share/reviews/?filter=1) [Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/add-social-share/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/add-social-share/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ SuperHero Plugins ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/superheroplugins/) ## Support Got something to say? 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