How to Add Social Share Buttons in WordPress
Do you want to learn how to add social share buttons on your WordPress website?
If you do not add social media sharing buttons to your WordPress website, no one will share your blog content on social media. This causes the loss of a lot of possible organic traffic on your website. Adding a social share button is a super-easy way to share your blog on social media.
In this article, we’ll show you how to add social share buttons in WordPress.
Why Add Social Share Buttons in WordPress
As of today, there are many popular social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Reddit, and so on. Data shows that 4.41 billion users are active on social media worldwide.
Sharing your blogs on social media is a practical approach to getting traffic. It helps you get the exposure and attention of millions of social media users. It can multiply your efforts and bring good traffic flow to your WordPress website. Besides that, it helps you increase user engagement and credibility.
How to Add Social Share Buttons with WordPress plugins
There are many ways to add social share buttons in WordPress. In this tutorial, I’ll only cover how to add a social share button in WordPress using a plugin. If you don’t want to write any code or make changes in core WordPress files, then this method is suitable for you.
Before we start, we recommend that you install the ultimate social icons and share plugin. It has 100,000+ active installations.
To install the plugin,
- Login to your WordPress dashboard.
- Then, go to Plugins>Add New.
- Next, type ‘ultimate social icons and share’ on the search bar. Finally, click the installation button and then activate it.
For more in-depth information, here’s a guide on how to install a plugin in WordPress.
Configure Social Share Buttons
Now, it’s time to configure social sharing options.
- Go to the dashboard. You’ll see the ‘ultimate social media’ section there. Click on it.
- Click on the first drop-down option. It has all the icons you want to show on your WordPress site. Here, right-click on all the social media icons you want to display on your site. Then, hit the save button.
- Next, scroll down and hit on the second drop-down option to customize what actions your social media icons should perform. For example, if you choose a Facebook icon, then you can add a Facebook page link here. You can also add the option to like and share your post on Facebook directly from your website. Then, hit the save button.
- Now it’s time to customise the placement option of the social media icon. You can also choose vertical or horizontal alignment. There is also an option to make your icon float. Once you’ve done that, don’t forget to hit the save button.
Optional Configurations from the plugin
After you’re done with basic configurations, you can customize your social share buttons with some more options:
- Design and Animation: You can add various designs and animations for your social buttons.
- Display Counts: This plugin offers you to add display ‘counts’ for your buttons.
- Spacing and Alignments: It is very easy to adjust the spacing and alignment of the icons of your social media buttons.
- Pop-ups: Perhaps one of the best features. This plugin allows you to add popups with various conditions asking for subscriptions or others.
That’s it! You’ve finally added social-sharing buttons to the WordPress website.
Final Words
Thus, this is how you can add social share buttons in WordPress. There are other ways to add a social share button. I have shown you the easiest way.
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