by Adnan 4.8 (194 reviews)

Simple Social Media Share Buttons – Social Sharing for Everyone

Name: Simple Social Media Share Buttons – Social Sharing for Everyone
Rating: 4.8 (194 reviews)
Author: Adnan

This Social Share Plugin adds advanced social media sharing buttons to your WordPress sites, such as Facebook, WhatsApp, X, LinkedIn, & Pinterest.

Simple Social Media Share Buttons ranks #1,339 among WordPress.org plugins with 20,000+ active installations, is #61 of 3,311 in the Social & Sharing category, a 4.8/5 rating from 194 reviews, and was last updated Aug 4, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Tested up to WP 7.0.4 (Current: 7.1)

v7.1.0 Current Version v7.1.0

Updated 1 month ago Last Update on 04 Aug, 2026

Refreshed 14 hours ago Last Refreshed on

#61 of 3,311 in Social & Sharing Top 5% by installs Downloads -40.7% this week

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Rank

#1,339

-2 this week

Active Installs

20K+

-14.6%

KW Avg Position

3.8

0.4 better

Downloads

1.4M

+147 today

Support Resolved

100%

— No change

Rating

96%

Review 4.8 out of 5

4.8 (194 reviews)

Next Milestone 30K

Total Progress 31.6%

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Growth Needed

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Reviews & Ratings

4.8

194 reviews

Overall 96%

171 (88%)

12 (6%)

6 (3%)

0 (0%)

5 (3%)

Support Threads Overview

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Unresolved

Total Threads

Resolved

Unresolved

100%

Resolution Rate

Security History

Source: WPVulnerability

14 known vulnerabilities on record · 2 in the last 24 months · checked 1 week ago

Apr 7, 2026

Simple Social Media Share Buttons – Social Sharing for Everyone [simple-social-buttons] < 6.2.1

CVE-2026-34904 · Fixed in v6.2.1
Mar 25, 2025

Simple Social Media Share Buttons – Social Sharing for Everyone [simple-social-buttons] < 6.0.0

CVE-2024-13610 · Fixed in v6.0.0
Nov 27, 2023

Simple Social Media Share Buttons – Social Sharing for Everyone [simple-social-buttons] < 5.1.1

CVE-2023-5845 · Fixed in v5.1.1
Sep 13, 2021

Simple Social Media Share Buttons – Social Sharing for Everyone [simple-social-buttons] < 3.2.4

CVE-2021-24656 · Fixed in v3.2.4
Jul 26, 2021

Simple Social Media Share Buttons – Social Sharing for Everyone [simple-social-buttons] < 3.2.3

CVE-2021-24486 · Fixed in v3.2.3
Dec 19, 2020

Simple Social Media Share Buttons – Social Sharing for Everyone [simple-social-buttons] < 3.2.1

Fixed in v3.2.1
Dec 18, 2020

Simple Social Media Share Buttons – Social Sharing for Everyone [simple-social-buttons] < 3.2.0

Fixed in v3.2.0
Dec 18, 2020

Simple Social Media Share Buttons – Social Sharing for Everyone [simple-social-buttons] < 3.2.1

Fixed in v3.2.1
Dec 17, 2020

Simple Social Media Share Buttons – Social Sharing for Everyone [simple-social-buttons] < 3.2.0

Fixed in v3.2.0
Feb 12, 2019

Simple Social Media Share Buttons – Social Sharing for Everyone [simple-social-buttons] >= 2.0.4 - <= 2.0.21

Affected >= 2.0.4 <= 2.0.21

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Plugin Details

Version: 7.1.0
Last Updated: Aug 04, 2026
Requires WP: 4.0+
Tested Up To: 7.0.4
PHP Version: 5.6 or higher
Author: Adnan

Support & Rating

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8
Reviews: 194
Support Threads: 1
Resolved: 100%

Keywords

share buttons social buttons social media share social share social sharing

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WordPress site owners who want visitors to share their content on social media. It solves the problem of adding customizable, positionable social sharing buttons for platforms like Facebook, WhatsApp, X, LinkedIn, and Pinterest.

Inline share buttons above/below content
Sidebar share buttons with animations
Hide buttons on mobile devices
Display total share counts
NextGEN Gallery compatibility
Multiple lightbox compatibility
Reorder buttons on posts
Multi-language support

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Simple Social Media Share Buttons – Social Sharing for Everyone

Check the written documentation with screenshots.

This plugin lets you adds the Facebook share button, Google plus one +1 (removed by Google), Twitter share button and Pinterest Pin for each post or page on your blog. This is the simple, easy and effective way to promote your blog in social media networks.

Use plugin's forum to ask about plugin or report some problems.

Premium version includes Priority support, premium features like access to customizing colors of social media buttons, Social popups, fly-ins, on Media Social buttons etc Check the more details here

Yes, you can use ShortCode [SSB] to use in your Templates/Themes.

[SSB] to call with plugin settings values. [SSB theme="Official" align="right" counter="true" order="twitter,pinterest,fbshare,linkedin" ] Attributes with all the possible values. counter = true or false show_total_count = true or false align = left or right or centered order = twitter,pinterest,fbshare,linkedin,reddit,whatsapp,viber,fblike theme = theme1 or theme2 or theme3 or theme4 or Flat or Circle or Official like_button_size = small(default), large