by Inisev 4.8 (5,333 reviews)

Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons

Name: Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons
Rating: 4.8 (5333 reviews)
Author: Inisev

Share buttons and pop up share icons for social media sharing

Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons ranks #412 among WordPress.org plugins with 100,000+ active installations, is #17 of 1,974 in the Analytics category, a 4.8/5 rating from 5,333 reviews, and was last updated Aug 25, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Tested up to WP 7.0.4 (Current: 7.1)

v3.0.1 Current Version v3.0.1

Updated 3 weeks ago Last Update on 25 Aug, 2026

Refreshed 11 hours ago Last Refreshed on

#17 of 1,974 in Analytics Top 1% by installs Downloads -50% this week Actively maintained

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100K+

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12.5M

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Support Resolved

100%

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Rating

96%

Review 4.8 out of 5

4.8 (5,333 reviews)

Next Milestone 200K

Total Progress 29.6%

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Reviews & Ratings

4.8

5,333 reviews

Overall 96%

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Security History

Source: WPVulnerability

23 known vulnerabilities on record · 5 in the last 24 months · checked 1 week ago

Sep 2, 2026

Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons [ultimate-social-media-icons] < 3.0.1

CVE-2026-19719 · Fixed in v3.0.1
Sep 2, 2026

Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons [ultimate-social-media-icons] < 3.0.1

CVE-2026-19723 · Fixed in v3.0.1
Aug 24, 2026

Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons [ultimate-social-media-icons] < 3.0.0

CVE-2026-66623 · Fixed in v3.0.0
Dec 13, 2024

Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons [ultimate-social-media-icons] < 2.8.2

CVE-2023-38514 · Fixed in v2.8.2
Oct 31, 2024

Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons [ultimate-social-media-icons] < 2.9.1

CVE-2024-10362 · Fixed in v2.9.1
Jul 6, 2024

Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons [ultimate-social-media-icons] < 2.9.2

CVE-2024-37552 · Fixed in v2.9.2
Apr 26, 2024

Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons [ultimate-social-media-icons] < 2.8.7

CVE-2024-31435 · Fixed in v2.8.7
Mar 27, 2024

Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons [ultimate-social-media-icons] < 2.8.9

CVE-2024-2118 · Fixed in v2.8.9
Oct 16, 2023

Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons [ultimate-social-media-icons] < 2.8.6

CVE-2023-5602 · Fixed in v2.8.6
Oct 16, 2023

Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons [ultimate-social-media-icons] < 2.8.6

CVE-2023-5070 · Fixed in v2.8.6

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Plugin Details

Version: 3.0.1
Last Updated: Aug 25, 2026
Requires WP: 3.5+
Tested Up To: 7.0.4
PHP Version: N/A
Author: Inisev

Support & Rating

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8
Reviews: 5,333
Support Threads: 4
Resolved: 100%

Keywords

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for website owners who want visitors to share their content on social media. It provides customizable share and follow icons for platforms like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Instagram, and Youtube, plus email subscription and pop-up prompts to increase sharing.

16 icon design choices
Multiple actions per icon
Icon animation effects
Floating or sticky icons
Email subscription support
Share counts on buttons
Follow/share pop-ups
End-of-post share icons

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons

The new Premium Plugin also allows to show the number of your Facebook page likes, see https://www.ultimatelysocial.com/usm-premium/. Sharing doesn't take the right text or picture We use the share codes from Facebook etc. and therefore don't have any influence over which text & pic Facebook decides to share. Note that you can define an image as 'Featured Image' which tells Facebook etc. to share that one. You'll find this 'Featured Image' section in your blog's admin area where you can edit your blog post. You can crosscheck which image Facebook will take by entering your url on https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object/. UPDATE: we made significant enhancements to the premium plugin, it now allows you to define the sharing pics and texts for your social share icons. The pop-up shows although I only gave my social share icon one function The pop-up only disappears if you've given your social share icons only a 'visit us'-function, otherwise (e.g. if you gave it 'Like' (on facebook) or 'Tweet' functions) a pop-up is still needed because the social share buttons for those are coming directly from the social media sites (e.g. Facebook, Twitter) and we don't have any influence over their design. I selected to display the social share icons after every post but they don't show The social share icons usually do show, however not on your blog page, but on your single posts pages. The Premium plugin (https://www.ultimatelysocial.com/usm-premium/) also allows to display the social share icons on your homepage. Plugin decreases my site's loading speed The plugin is one of the most optimized social media plugin in terms of impact on a site's loading speed (optimized code, compressed pictures etc.). If you still experience loading speed issues, please note that: The more sharing- and invite- features you place on your site, the more external codes you load (i.e. from the social media sites; we just use their share code), therefore impacting loading speed. So to prevent this, give your social share icons only 'Visit us'-functionality rather than sharing-functionalities. We've programmed it so that the code for the social media icons is the one which loads lasts on your site, i.e. after all the other content has already been loaded. This means: even if there is a decrease in loading speed, it does not impact a user's experience because he sees your site as quickly as before, only the social media icons take a bit longer to load. There might be also other issues on your site which cause a high loading speed (e.g. conflicts with our plugins or template issues). Please ask your template creator about that. Also, if you've uploaded social media sharing icons not provided by the plugin itself (i.e. custom share icons) please ensure they are compressed as well. After moving from demo-server to live-server the follow/subscribe-link doesn't work anymore Please delete and install the plugin again. If you already placed the code for a subscription form on your site, remove it again and take the new one from the new plugin installation. There are other issues when I activate the plugin or place the social share icons Please check the following: The plugin requires that CURL is installed & activated on your server (which should be the standard case). If you don't have it, please contact your hosting provider. Please ensure that you don't have any browser extension activated which may conflict with the plugin, esp. those which block certain content. Known culprits include the 'Disconnect' extension in Chrome or the 'Privacy Badger' extension in Firefox. If issues persist most likely your theme has issues which makes it incompatible with our plugin. Please contact your template creator for that. As part of the Premium Plugin (https://www.ultimatelysocial.com/usm-premium/) we fix also theme issues, and provide support to ensure that your social media share buttons appear on your site (exactly where you want them).

You can see this by activating the social share 'counts' on the front end (under question 4 in the USM plugin, question 5 in the USM+ plugin). We cannot provide you this data in other ways as it's coming directly from the social media sites. One exception: if you like to know when people start to follow you by email, then you can get email alerts. For that, please claim your feed (see question above).

You can change it in the Widget-area where you dropped the widget (with the social share icons) on the sidebar. Please click on it (on the sidebar), it will open the menu where you can change the text. If you don't want to show any text, just enter a space (' ').

Yes, use [DISPLAY_ULTIMATE_SOCIAL_ICONS] to show the social share icons. You can place it into any editor. Alternatively, you can place the following into your codes to show the share icons: In some cases there might be issues to display social media sharing buttons which you uploaded as custom share icons. In this case, we provide support as part of our premium plugin: https://www.ultimatelysocial.com/usm-premium/

Please use this plugin for that: https://www.ultimatelysocial.com/usm-premium/

Yes, that is possible in our new social share plugin, the Premium Plugin: https://www.ultimatelysocial.com/usm-premium/

Yes, that is possible in our new social sharing plugin, the Premium Plugin: https://www.ultimatelysocial.com/usm-premium/.

Use this plugin: https://www.ultimatelysocial.com/usm-premium/

Yes, you can disable the share icons under question 5. In our new Premium Plugin you can define different settings for mobile, see https://www.ultimatelysocial.com/usm-premium/. The best way to share social media! :)

You cannot use the same plugin twice, however you can install both the USM as well as the Premiuem plugin (https://www.ultimatelysocial.com/usm-premium/). We've developed the code so that there are no conflicts and you can place the share icons in one way with one plugin, and select other share icons with the other plugin and place them differently.