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No matter where your visitors are visiting from, the easier you can make it for them is allowing them to share your posts or pages right on their own social accounts.

You can achieve this by adding a social sharing buttons to your site with a simple WordPress plugin, this increase the amount of social shares your post or pages can get and the more exposure and more traffic you’ll get.

These plugins that is featuring in this weeks WordPress Wednesday round has bottom that place social media icons at the tops, bottoms or sides of your posts, pop ups, some even include counters that let new readers know how popular a particular post by the shares.

1. Monarch Social Sharing Plugin  monarch-social-sharing-plugin-for-elegant-themes

Monarch is a premium social sharing plugin that comes with Elegant Theme’s Developer (cost of $89 per year) and Lifetime Access (cost of $249 for “life”) plans. this plugin doesn’t come as a standalone plugin but includes in plans that cmes with over 87 premium WordPress themes as well as all of the other plugins.

This plugin takes social sharing to the next level by giving over 20 social sharing networks options to display on your site, allowing you to put these sharing buttons in 5 different locations, clean customisable design.

2. Easy Social Share Buttons

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Easy Social Share Buttons for WordPress is a premium plugin that cost $19, this plugin allows you to share on more than 40 of major social networks including wide range of mobile sharing options and in addition you have Love this button, Comments button, Send to mail and Print.

Easy Social Share Buttons for WordPress also includes 12 native social like, follow and subscribe buttons which will increase your social following and social proof.

The Plugin gives you the freedom to control every aspect of display but also we simplify the initial setting with easy to use quick setup wizard

3. Social Warfare

Social-Warfare

Social Warfare is for everyone that are serious about driving more traffic to your site from social networks, you’ll love the Social Warfare plugin.

The plugin makes it easy for you to add eye-catching social share buttons to your content. You can choose whether to add them to posts and/or pages as well as customising their look and feel.

You have total control over whether share counts are displayed and you can set a minimum amount of shares to reach before counts are displayed. This plugin has plans that starts at $24 per year.

4. Get Social

Get-Social

The first free plugin for this round up is called Social Sharing, Smart Popup & Share Buttons by GetSocial.io or sometimes it’s get called GetSocial is a freemium WordPress plugin that is an all in one toolkit to help you grow your traffic, shares & subscribers.

This plugin have 18 tools, no code needed to install, which will help you increase shares per post, social media followers, website conversions and newsletter subscribers. This is a freemium plugin so there are some free apps and some paid apps, depending on your needs

5. Sharify Social Share Buttons

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Sharify is a free WordPress plugin that lets you add a set of sharing buttons to your site that are eye-catching and responsive.

The plugin includes buttons for the social networks such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, but also you get a Pocket button which is a great tool that can be used to save articles to read later on various devices.

Sharify has one particularly unique feature that gives you control over how share counts are saved. Instead of frequently pulling data from social networks, the plugin gives you the option to cache these counts and choose how often to update them.

 

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WordPress Wednesday – 5 Best & Leading Social Sharing Plugins