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Social Share Buttons
Our Share Button addon to MaxButtons and MaxButtons Pro plugins gets you up and sharing within minutes. It's easy to setup and offers flexibility …
The facts
- Rating
- 4.8★ from 28
- Active installs
- 1k+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 7 Aug 2026
- Added
- Feb 2010
- Requires WP
- 4.8
- Tested up to
- WP 7.0.4
- Requires PHP
- 7.0
- Downloads
- 56,128
Our analysis
AI-assistedSocial Share Buttons is a WordPress plugin that adds social sharing buttons to your website. It allows you to easily set up and customise share buttons for various social networks on your home page, pages, and posts.
This plugin is suitable for users who want to enhance their site's social media presence with share buttons for popular platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, among others. It offers layout and style options, as well as the ability to display share counts.
Best for: This plugin is best for WordPress users looking to add social sharing functionality to their sites.
What it does well
- ✓Supports multiple popular social networks
- ✓Customisable layout and style options
- ✓Display share counts for posts and pages
- ✓Free to use from the WordPress.org directory
Where it falls short
- •Limited features unless you have MaxButtons PRO
- •No information on specific compatibility with themes or other plugins
Verdict
Social Share Buttons provides a straightforward way to integrate social sharing into your WordPress site. It is a useful tool for those who want to promote content through social media.
From the developer
maxfoundry's own description of Social Share Buttons, lightly tidied.
Social Share Buttons is the share button addon to MaxButtons. It lets you easily setup and use social buttons on your home page, pages, and posts.
Social Share Buttons gets you going in a minute with our beautifully designed presets. The plugin supports all popular networks:
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Linkedin, YouTube, Pinterest, StumbleUpon, Reddit, Whatsapp, Buffer and more
( PRO version allows more networks, we take requests! )
Features
- Customize layout. Choose a preset, customize to your liking.
- Customizable Tweet options. Pick your global #hashtag or customize per post
- Link (URL) Share options to optimize your sharing and SEO strategy
- Display options: Hide or Show on different part of your site
- Layout and Style options
- Display share count and Total share count
PRO Features
You get the PRO features for free is you have a license for MaxButtons PRO. Features include:
- Network editor – Change preferences of your networks.
- Multiple groups – Have different icons to match the feel of your site
- More Networks – Add more networks including Xing, Telegram, Etsy, Pocket and more
- Add your MaxButtons to your Social Icons
- Define Twitter Hashtags per post or pages
MaxButtons is the most used WordPress button, share button and social icon plugin with over 3.5 million downloads and 1000 5 star reviews.
Max Foundry also makes the WordPress Gallery plugin MaxGalleria and WordPress Media Folders plugin for real WordPress Media Library folders and Welcome Mat Pro.
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purpose
Social Media & Feeds
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