by Inisev 4.9 (1,911 reviews)

Social Share Icons & Social Share Buttons

Name: Social Share Icons & Social Share Buttons
Rating: 4.9 (1911 reviews)
Author: Inisev

Social sharing plugin adding social buttons.

Social Share Icons & Social Share Buttons ranks #1,664 among WordPress.org plugins with 10,000+ active installations, is #48 of 1,974 in the Analytics category, a 4.9/5 rating from 1,911 reviews, and was last updated Sep 8, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Compatible with WP 7.1

v3.7.4 Current Version v3.7.4

Updated 1 week ago Last Update on 08 Sep, 2026

Refreshed 11 hours ago Last Refreshed on

#48 of 1,974 in Analytics Top 5% by installs Downloads +223.4% this week Actively maintained

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Review 4.9 out of 5

4.9 (1,911 reviews)

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4.9

1,911 reviews

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Security History

Source: WPVulnerability

8 known vulnerabilities on record · 0 in the last 24 months · checked 1 week ago

Apr 26, 2024

Social Share Icons & Social Share Buttons [ultimate-social-media-plus] < 3.6.2

CVE-2024-31435 · Fixed in v3.6.2
Apr 22, 2024

Social Share Icons & Social Share Buttons [ultimate-social-media-plus] < 3.6.3

CVE-2024-32820 · Fixed in v3.6.3
Jul 27, 2023

Social Share Icons & Social Share Buttons [ultimate-social-media-plus] < 3.5.8

CVE-2023-0958 · Fixed in v3.5.8
Jul 27, 2023

Social Share Icons & Social Share Buttons [ultimate-social-media-plus] < 3.5.8

CVE-2023-3977 · Fixed in v3.5.8
Jul 20, 2023

Social Share Icons & Social Share Buttons [ultimate-social-media-plus] < 3.5.8

CVE-2023-38514 · Fixed in v3.5.8
Jul 18, 2023

Social Share Icons & Social Share Buttons [ultimate-social-media-plus] < 3.2.8

CVE-2023-33999 · Fixed in v3.2.8
Feb 25, 2019

Social Share Icons & Social Share Buttons [ultimate-social-media-plus] < 3.0.4

Fixed in v3.0.4
Social Share Icons & Social Share Buttons [ultimate-social-media-plus] < 3.0.4

Fixed in v3.0.4

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Plugin Details

Version: 3.7.4
Last Updated: Sep 08, 2026
Requires WP: 3.0+
Tested Up To: 7.1
PHP Version: N/A
Author: Inisev

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Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9
Reviews: 1,911
Support Threads: 1
Resolved: 100%

Keywords

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WordPress site owners who want to add social sharing and follow buttons to their site. It solves the problem of letting visitors share content and follow the site across multiple social media platforms, with customizable placement and design options.

Multiple placement options (widget, shortcode, floating)
Combine follow and share actions
16 design styles available
Animated button effects
Social pop-up prompts
Email subscription service
Share counts display
Compatible with Gutenberg editor

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Social Share Icons & Social Share Buttons

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 codes from Facebook, Google+ etc. and therefore don't have any influence over which text & pic is used for sharing. Note that you can define an image as 'Featured Image' which tells Facebok / Google 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 share by entring your url on https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/og/object/. The pop-up shows although I only gave my social share button one share function The pop-up only disappears if you've given your sharing buttons only a 'visit us'-function, otherwise (e.g. if you gave it 'Like' (on facebook) or 'Tweet' functions or sharing functions) a pop-up is still needed because the 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 sharing buttons after every post but they don't show The social sharing buttons 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 share buttons 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 social sharing buttons 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 code), therefore impacting loading speed. So to prevent this, give your sharing buttons only 'Visit us'-functionality rather than sharing functionalities. We've programed it so that the code for the social media buttons 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 buttons 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 buttons not provided by the plugin itself (i.e. custom buttons) please ensure they are compressed as well. After moving from demo-server to live-server the follow or 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.

If you get the error message... 'App Not Setup: This app is still in development mode, and you don't have access to it. Switch to a registered test user or ask an app admin for permissions.' ...then most likely you're currently logged in with a business account on Facebook. Please log out, or switch to your personal account. There are other issues when I activate the plugin or place the share buttons 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 including the share buttons. 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 sharing 'counts' on the front end (under question 5 in the plugin). This will display the counters in little bubbles showing how often people share your posts. 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.

You can change it in the Widget-area where you dropped the widget with the sharing buttons 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 (' ').

Please note that we didn't place the credit link without your consent (you agreed to it when de-selecting the email button). Open the first question in the plugin ('1. Which sharing buttons do you want to show on your site?'), on the level of the email button you see a link on the right hand side. Please click it to remove the credit link.

Yes, it's [DISPLAY_ULTIMATE_SOCIAL_ICONS]. You can place it into any editor. If the sharing buttons still don't show, there might be an issue with your theme. Alternatively, you can place the following into your codes: In some cases there might be issues to display social media sharing buttons which you uploaded as custom buttons. 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/. This allows you to place more share buttons (e.g. including Linkedin) as well as giving you more configuration options.

Yes, that is possible in our new social share plugin, the Premium Plugin: https://www.ultimatelysocial.com/usm-premium/ To get the email button in the same design style you picked, activate it, then on the front-end, right click on the button, and save it as picture. Upload that picture as custom button.

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/