TOP 5 Social Media Plugins to integrate on your blog

Social Media is the powerful tool to increase awareness, to drive traffic and to boost to promote your blog/article online.Do you want to use this powerful tool by integrating social media icons on your blog? Yes, WordPress Plugins made everything easy.

Main techniques are Like, Share & Follow, which you may use to connect your blog with social media. Every visitor has the different choice. Few People just press like button if they love your content while others may choose to share the same content with others or few of them like to follow the blog to keep in touch with your blog. Thus, it is important to choose the options carefully.

1. Social Media Feather

It is a lightweight free social media WordPress plugin that allows you to integrate social sharing and following features to all your posts, pages and custom post types easily.

 

 

 

Following is the settings that will be available after installing & activating plugin to admin section

2. WP Social Sharing

WP Social Sharing adds very attractive responsive social share buttons.This plugin provides an option to include plugin CSS/.js to provide custom look & feel.You can write either text or icons as per your wish.

 

 

Here are the settings available to the admin section

3. Floating Social Share Bar

  “Floating Social Share Bar” is a responsive social sharing plugin.As per    the name suggests social media sharing buttons will also be visible when  readers are scrolling down content.

 

Settings required for “Floating Social Share Bar”.

 4.Shareaholic

Shareaholic includes related content recommendations, social sharing &following, promoted content, site monetization apps such as affiliate linking as well as social analytics. This plugin not only share articles,  but it helps to engage and grow website traffic, market the content, gain insights for article/post, and monetize the traffic, all from one powerful  dashboard.

5. Sharebar

 Sharebar is dynamic & fully customizable vertical box, visible to the left of a blog post that contains social media “Sharebar” icons. If blog area is wide, a vertical bar vertical bar disappears, and a horizontal “Sharebar”  appears under the post title.

 

 

 

 

 

Here are custom settings for the Sharebar

 

Are you thinking how to integrate this plugin to your Blog?

There are two ways.

The first way is select Plugin of your choice and follow the five simple steps to integrate with your blog.

• Download any of above plugin
• Go to Plugins >Click on Add New
• Upload the Zip file that you recently downloaded
• Activate it
• Go to Settings > Look for the Plugins installed by you. (For example Social Media Feather) >Activate the Plugin
• Set icons you want to show. You will be able to see the same screens as above.

Now the other way is:

• Go to Plugins >Click on Add New Write the name of Plugin in “Search textbox”. Plenty of results will be available.
• Click on Install button.
• Activate it.
• Go to Settings > Look for the Plugins installed by you. (For example Social Media Feather) >Activate the Plugin
• Set icons you want to show. You will be able to see the same screens as above.

Now you can share your articles, blog with any social media you want.