How to Add Social Share Buttons in WordPress

How to Add Social Share Buttons to your WordPress site

How to Add Social Share Buttons to your WordPress site-: It is very hard to imagine the growth of a WordPress website without social media marketing. One of the biggest advantages of social media marketing is, it helps to generate back-links which ultimately increase the SEO ranking of your WordPress website. Social Media Marketing is an alternative solution for online advertising because it is cost-effective.

In this post, I will explain how to add social share buttons to your WordPress website so that your blog reader can share your content over social media. Adding social share button to your WordPress website does not require any coding skill. the are a number of plugins which you can use and add a social share button to your WordPress website.

How to Add Social Share Buttons in WordPress -:

Jetpack is one of the most popular plugins own by Automattic. the parent company of WordPress.com. This plugin has lots of functionality including social share buttons. It has the functionality to aromatically share your new blog post to your social media profile. If you have not installed Jetpack,  Install it and activate it.You can Read my complete guide on How to Install WordPress Plugin.

How to Add Social Share Buttons to your WordPress site

Read my complete guide on how to install a WordPress plugin. Connect your WordPress.com account with Jetpack it will ask you to select premium plat but you should continue with free.

How to Add Social Share Buttons to your WordPress site

to activate sharing buttons, navigate to Jetpack → Settings → Sharing.

How to Add Social Share Buttons to your WordPress site

After that activate Sharing Button, turn on the Add sharing buttons to your posts button.

How to Add Social Share Buttons to your WordPress site

Under Sharing Buttons, drag the services appropriate to your website into the Enabled Services box. There is also the option of hiding services behind a generic share button.

How to Add Social Share Buttons to your WordPress site

 

1.Jetpack Shortcode-:

How to Add Social Share Buttons to your WordPress site

Extends the Jetpack plugin and allows you to add sharing buttons anywhere inside your posts thanks to the [jpshare] shortcode. Important: for this plugin to work, you must activate Jetpack first, and activate the sharing module. This plugin is a work in progress. You can report issues here, or submit a pull request on GitHub.

2.Add this-:

How to Add Social Share Buttons to your WordPress site

Now compatible with the AMP Plugin! The Free WordPress Share Buttons Plugin from AddThis makes it easier than ever for your audience to spread your content around the web. Our quick-loading Share Buttons Plugin lets you connect to over 200 social channels including Messenger, WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and many more.

This Plugin has clean, customizable and simple share buttons are beautiful, quick to load and recognized all over the web. AddThis is trusted by over 15,000,000 websites with over 2 billion unique users, sharing content all over the world, in more than sixty languages.

  • Designed for desktop, tablet, and mobile
  • Choose from over 200 social media channels to display
  • Adjust colouring to match your brand
  • Sign up for a free AddThis account to get analytics on how your content is performing such as your top shared content, referring social networks and more. After you register, these analytics are accessible by logging into your AddThis.com account and visiting your AddThis dashboard. Analytics include site page views, your top shared content, referring social networks, and more.

3.Shared Counts-:

How to Add Social Share Buttons to your WordPress site

Shared Counts is a WordPress social media share buttons plugin. Sharing buttons increase traffic and engagement by helping readers share your posts and pages to their friends on social media. Shared count supports almost all major Social Network.

Shared Counts have many share button styling options, so you can pick the perfect look for your site. Additionally, you can automatically insert the share buttons before and/or after the post content. Want granular or manual control? No problem!

You can also use the [shared_counts] shortcode to insert them inside your content as you see fit. Shared Counts provide a one-click option to retrieve both HTTP and HTTPS share counts, ensuring you don’t lose your share counts when upgrading your website to HTTPS. Unlike other social sharing tools, this plugin does not use cookies, tracking scripts, or store any user data.

Shared Counts was created with site performance in mind, even at large scale. It is used on several large websites that get tens of millions of page views each month. Our unique and creative caching methods have a minimal effect on-site overhead. Leveraging the SharedCount.com API, we can retrieve (almost) all share counts in a single request.

Additionally, Shared Counts was built to be developer-friendly! We provide very liberal usage of hooks and filters. Everything is customizable and the possibilities are near limitless. Unlike other plugins, all data (counts) are stored and cached in post_meta which makes it easy to access for extending (e.g. fetch top 10 most shared posts on your site). We have extensive documentation on our website and we’re also on GitHub.

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