Floating share buttons are easiest ways to get your visitors to share your contents to the social networks. I like to share any useful information I come across on the web with my friends and relatives. Social media has redefined the way information is disseminated these days and thus the need to add an easy means of getting your web content shared by your visitors.
There are countless WordPress plugins available to share your web contents and help you promote your blog/website. Here is a list of the best vertical floating social share plugins for WordPress; I hope you find the list interesting.
Floating Social Share Plugins:
1. Flare:
Flare is my favorite vertical floating social share plugin for WordPress and I am currently using it on my blog as you can see. Flare is a beautiful social share plugin that gets your content easily shared on the Social media like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, StumbleUpon, Pinterest, Reddit, and most importantly Google+. An interesting thing about this social share plugin is that it hovers at the side of your posts making easy for your readers to share on the social networks. You can also enable an option for a visitor to close the share bar. One unique thing about this social share plugin is that it counts and displays all the share totals for every post.
2. Get Social:
If you have been a long time reader of my blog, you would’ve noticed that I used the Get Social share plugin before I migrated to Flare. This Social share plugin is an awesome tool and I really enjoyed using it. You can add any social media website to this social share plugin by simply adding a code snippet to it. It also floats on post pages and also records and displays share counts.
3. AddThis:
You can’t mention the best vertical floating social share plugins without mentioning AddThis. AddThis is an amazing social share plugin for WordPress with its publisher analytics which helps one to keep tab of with your shared posts and how many times every post have been shared. You can also track clicks on such posts. The plugin may not be one of the most beautiful around, but it is quite effective.
AddThis is supported in over 70 languages, which means it can be read by people in different languages which could bring wider exposure to your blog.
4. ShareThis:
ShareThis is a popular social share plugin for WordPress used in many blogs I have come across. ShareThis makes it very easy for your posts to be shared to social media networks like Facebook, Twitter, Google +1, LinkedIn etc.
ShareThis also has share counter and comes in different styles – Simple icons, Icons with Counter and big buttons.
5. WP Socializer:
WP Socializer is a pretty cool social share plugin for WordPress. With WP Socializer you can add all sorts of Social Bookmarking and sharing buttons. Its customizable floating social share bar is optimized for fast loading with smart load feature. WP Socializer floating share plugin is also optimized for mobile devices. This plugin provides an easy way of sharing your web contents with your friends on the social networks.
6. Socialize:
Socialize is yet another vertical social share plugin that provides an easy way to share your contents on the web. You can choose from small, big and tall buttons and can as well edit the background and border.
7. Digg Digg:
Digg Digg is yet another popular vertical gloating social share plugin that adds a beautiful floating share bar to your site/blog which makes it easy for your posts to be shared. Digg Digg comes with lots of social bookmarking buttons you can select which ones to add or remove.
I hope you find these Social share plugins interesting, what are you waiting for? Choose your best social share plugin now and install on your WordPress blog. If you have any contributions or comments to make concerning the social share plugins listed here, use the comment form below. Remember to subscribe to my RSS feed.
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Nice list of plugins Nwosu. My favorite is Flare, its pretty and doesn’t play up on a mobile device unlike some of the other ones. But I wish there were more options for users. I’ve tried all of them listed here and thankfully found one that worked well for my blog, but the choices are not much, are they!
Flare is indeed an awesome social share plugin for WordPress and i am currently using it. It does not mess up mobile sites like some others and thats part of the reasons why i am using it. Thanks for your comment and have a nice weekend.
Hi Nwosu,
It’s a useful post with resources to different popular sharbars. I was more interested to learn what driving force pulled you away from GetSocial to Flare? What are the additional benefits in using Flare plugin?
Nice collection of Social Share plugins, i am not using wordpress but i am using floating social share buttons for post, they are helping me lot to get shares !! :)
Hoping more informative post from you !
Flare does not mess my mobile site up and its prettier….with better effects.
Thanks For your comment…
Perfect timing Nwosu as I was looking for a new social share plugin these days.
I think Flare might be it; more options it seems than other plugins and a cleaner, more refined look.
Thanks for sharing!
Ryan
Hi Nwosu
Great Share.!
Thanks for the Sharing and the List of this plugins. Currently i’m using on my Blog Sticky Social Bar :) BTW thanks for the writing ;)
Stay updated and Stay Rocking ;) :P
-Mosam
Glad you found one useful, thanks for visiting.
Thanks for your contribution.
Really nice post, thanks for sharing these sharing plugins. Flare WP plugin is my favorite plugin. Earlier Digg Digg was too famous but now Flare is becoming famous in blogging world.
Thanks for your comment, yes Flare is gaining a lot of popularity in the blogosphere lately.
Hi Nwosu,
Nice post about the best floating social share plugins for WordPress, and I think I’ve tried all of them one by one :)
When I changed my theme, I had a few major ones already in the floating bar, though later shifted to social share and added a few codes in to get Buffer and FB Share in it too. I think these two are missing in Flare and a few other main ones you mentioned, which I prefer having as people use them a great deal on my blog.
Nevertheless, I think these are all great plugins people can choose from and thanks for sharing them with us. Have a nice weekend :)
Thanks Harleena for your awesome contribution. Do have a great day.
Right now I’m using DiggDigg, even though I’m not a huge fan of it. Flare is pretty, but I spent faaaaaar too long trying to fix the css, as something in my layout was messing with it. I gave up because it wasn’t worth the time I was taking.
I’m going to have a look at AddThis. Thanks!
Carlie
Thanks for your comment Carlie i hope it works for you. Do have a great day.
Well I wouldn’t be surprised that all of these share plugins are getting more popular with all wordpress plugins. It is really necessary to have a sharing plugin for all your latest post and make them available to social media platforms.
Thanks Lisa for your comment, do have a nice week.
The other day I was looking to change my share buttons and I was looking a couple I found on google. I actually found that I like one type of share buttons, but didn’t know the name of it. Now I do LOL… I like the Flare plugin and will now uninstall the other one and install flare… nice! Thanks!
I am glad you want to try out Flare, its been awesome.
I currently use digg-digg but i like the look of flare. Some of the other options you listed force the user to giver permissions to the app to post to twitter. flare and digg-digg use the native twitter interface.
Hope Digg-Digg has been working wonders for you?
i recently started using Flare after ditching DigDig. i must say it an awesome floating share tool.
i use addthis,it have many style you can choose.The greatest strength of this bookmarking service is its capacity to maximize sharing possibilities. With the vertical bar, you’ll be able to maintain the share menu locked into 1 position.
Thanks for your comment, glad you found flare interesting.
Thanks Lyndon for your awesome contribution.
please tell me that social plugin really work good? someone tell me social plugin are worthless
Social plugins are very necessary because search engines consider social media activities as a ranking factor and for you to get your posts shared on the social networks, you need the social share plugins.
Hi Nwosu
Your posts are always so interesting to read, and I’d love to see more!..
Thanks for sharing this post :)
Thanks Rajendra Dhanotiya for your compliment, i am glad you found my posts interesting, always visit Netmediablog for more interesting posts.
Ahan! Great Article. I liked Flare, it’s the best so far.
Great article. I really like the Flare WP plugin. Neat.
Awesome information regarding Floating social plugins. Thanks for your advice.
Awesome list! I decided to go with the ‘get social’ plugin after reading your reviews. Thank you for the list.
Just curious – it is only a couple months later and it looks like you are no longer using Flare? Why is that? Is it not as good now or is something better?
Thanks
Flare is a good plugin, i only switched to this because i wanted to prune down on the number of plugins i use since i had the two already.
thats very nice i recently started using Flare after ditching DigDig. i must say it an awesome floating share tool.
i really like social bookmarking and i always try to share that thanks
Thanks for this useful post. I am changing my social share plugin right now.
Get Social broke a few WordPress updates ago so won’t work (render the widgets) for any site currently.
Thanks for the update hope they fix it soonest.
Thanks! Anyone know how to get AddThis to look like theirs? Im struggling!
It may involve editing the plugin CSS.
Very informative article, thanks for sharing useful plugins with us all.
Hi,
A great list of social plugins but the first one is my all time favourite. Can we add the FB SEND button on these plugins ??
You have complied an excellent list. My favorite from list is flare i think its truly unique, it really catches the eye and gets you more shares.
These really make my website look great – only three days since the search engines have crawled it, and already people are interacting with my social widget scheme. Great post.
Thank you all, it is really working, I’ve done it and found so easy.
Flare is definitely my favorite. It helps my blog with increasing reach and traffic.
Thanks for this post i’m checking all these plugins really very usefull all plugins.
Thanks for this awesome posts. I have a question for you. Are you using FSB social bar plugin for your own netmediablog? Can you tell me how can I get that?
Its called floating social share bar. Search for it on the WordPress plugin repository.
I tried “Webloggerz WP Floating Footer Bar” plugin, on the last version of WordPress 4.0 ant it seems not working.
Different gadgets and plugins informational article, thanks for sharing.
Awsome article , thanks for sharing , differents plugings with listed its my favorites .
Thanks for the great post Nwosu – Everyone seems to like the flares, but that is not working for me. The free one cannot allow you to share on facebook. You have only “like/recommend. I am not ready to spend 89 bucks. Any other suggestion similar to flare and floating?
Genesis is really awesome for floating theme.