Ten WordPress Plugins for Sharing in Social Media

by sweta on August 22nd, 2010 3

Lets face it, social media sites are the best way to promote blogs today. They can be the highest contributer to your traffic source and can help you bring more visitors than you ever imagined. The most important thing for any blog is to have simple sharing buttons. You wouldn’t want your visitors to not share your articles with their friends just because it was not simple enough.

There are various plugins available today which make sharing blogs on social media sites really simple. All you need to do is install the plugin and you are all set. I am going to list 10 plugins that can be used in your WordPress blog for easy sharing:

Socialable

One of the most popular plugin, Sociable lets you share the blog in 99 different social media sites. This easy to install plugin offers the easiest way of sharing the content to the social media world with just a click. You can choose the social media sites that you’d like to include on your posts.

You can download the plugin here.

Share This

Share this is a very useful plugin as it not only lets you share the content but also track where your content is being shared. You can choose the social media sites you want the content to be shared and also customize the button to suit your site.

You can download the plugin here.

I Love Social Bookmarking

This is a very simple and highly customizable plugin that claims to run with minimal system resource. This provides a drop down list of social media sites where users can share the content.

You can download the plugin here

Add to Any

This WordPress plugin not only lets you share the posts in social media sites but also lets you email the posts by Gmail, Yahoo mail and other web and desktop based mail service. The menu is customizable by the user as the most used services get on top of the list.

You can download the plugin here.

Bookmarkify

This plugin lets you share the posts to more than 50 social bookmarking sites and it also includes an ‘Email This’ link.

You can download the plugin here.

iBegin Share

Whats unique to this plugin is that apart from letting you share the content to social media sites, you can also save the content as a doc or pdf file.

You can download the plugin here.

Socio Fluid

This plugin provides one of the most visually attractive social sharing buttons to you blog post. The plugin gives small icons, which grows when the mouse is moved over, similar to the mac effect.

You can download the plugin here.

Sharebar

This plugin provides a customizable vertical menu on the left of the blog post. As a persistent utility at the bottom of your pages, the Sharebar keeps your users’ favorite services front and center to help increase sharing.

You can download the plugin here.

WP Punch Card

This plugin lets you share the content of your site to 40 social media sites without hogging a lot of space. It shrinks the the target sites in the most optimized manner.

You can download the plugin here.

Social Media Widget

This plugin once installed shows the icons on the sidebar and allows users to input their social media website profile URLs and other subscription options to show an icon on the sidebar