Traffic is indeed the lifeblood of every website on the internet. Without adequate traffic, all you have is just code and content. You don’t have a business, and if you don’t register a considerable number of hits on a regular basis, you don’t even have a marketing tool. But how do you get more people to visit your website? With these social media WordPress plugins of course!
Firstly, you must ensure your WordPress SEO is top notch as we can’t ignore search engines as the greatest source of traffic on the web. Secondly, you must share (or give your users the chance to share) your content via social networking, which is another great source of web traffic only second to search engines.
In the recent past, we unveiled the best social media plugins for WordPress. This second list seeks to build on that post by giving you an additional twenty (20) plugins to spread your content like wildfire across social media and increase your traffic.
That out of the way, here are twenty powerful social media WordPress plugins to increase traffic to your website or next project. Enjoy!
1. VIVO Live Tweets WordPress Plugin
Boost engagement on your website using the Vivo Live Tweets WordPress Plugin that allows you to embed tweets on your website based on location, hash tags (search terms) and user tweets. This plugin can come in handy especially if you have a news site that might benefit greatly from trends and channeled tweets.
Features at a glance are easily personalizable, fully responsive, set number of tweets to display, compatible with major browsers, shortcode functionality, and it’s easy to use. Vivo Live Tweets has a great buyer rating of 4.75/5.00 and retails at $16 bucks only.
2. jQuery Facebook Wall WordPress Plugin
This plugin is the Facebook equivalent of Vivo Live Tweets only with a few more features. For instance, the jQuery Facebook Wall WordPress plugin allows you to put albums, photos, feeds and events among other things on your WordPress site easily.
This social media WordPress plugin ships with amazing features such as beautiful CSS animations, responsive design, multiple page feeds support, Facebook light box for photos, comment and like buttons as well as over forty (40) other options. jQuery Facebook Wall WordPress plugin sells at $17 and has an impressive buyer rating of 5.00/5.00.
3. Easy Social Metrics Pro WordPress Plugin
Once your social media strategy starts paying off, you’ll need a social metrics solution to monitor how your content performs on social networks. This is where Easy Social Metrics Pro for WordPress comes in.
This social media plugin is easy to install and use, comes with a great dashboard, collects data automatically and then provides detailed reports that allow you to track your content on up to twelve (12) major social networks. Easy Social Metrics Pro for WordPress plugin comes with other features including a widget to display your top social posts. The plugin is relatively new (published on 2nd September, 2014), so it’s not rated yet. Customers are saying great things about the plugin though. This plugin will set you back $28 only.
4. Sossy – Social Profile & Counter For WordPress
Did you know showing social proof can boost user engagement and social activity on your website? After generating traffic from search engines, social media or elsewhere, you should shoot for engagement, and Sossy gives you just what you require.
Sossy is best known for the following features: fully responsive meaning your social counters will look good on any device, unlimited social profiles, drag and drop, shortcode functionality, unlimited display options (i.e. you can display Facebook Likes, Twitter followers etc), cache functionality to reduce page load time and much more. Sossy social media plugin for WordPress was created by Phpbits, has a great rating of 4.80/5.00 and sells at $14 bucks only. Great investment for your WordPress site.
5. Social Network Tabs For WordPress
From Design Chemical, the elite author of WordPress Social Stream, comes yet another powerful social media WordPress plugin that helps you to “…combine all of your favorite social network profiles and feeds into slick slide out or static tabs.” And you have plenty of room to create amazing tabs since this plugin supports sixteen (16) social networks and up to sixty-nine (69) feed types.
Others features include AJAX fast loading, shortcode functionality, flexible positioning, easy to customize, drag and drop interface and full documentation just to mention a few. With about 4,000 sales and a rating of 4.53/5.00, we can conclude Design Chemical is committed to excellence and quality. Social Network Tabs for WordPress goes for $14 bucks but the plugin is worth every penny.
6. Simple Social Inbox WordPress Plugin For Facebook, Twitter & Google+
Take your WordPress social media marketing to the next level with Simple Social Inbox, a social media WordPress plugin like no other. Developed by dtbaker, an elite author by the way, costing just $18 bucks and with a great buyer rating of 4.33/5.00, Simple Social Inbox gives you the ability to share blog posts to Facebook, Twitter and Google+ with a single click right from your WordPress admin area.
On top of that, you can track the performance of your social links and reply to social messages (comments, tweets, etc) from your WordPress dashboard! How cool. dtbaker poured creativity and genius into this social media plugin!
According to the author, Simple Social Inbox is a great alternative to Hootsuite. The fact you can enjoy hootsuite-like features right in your WordPress dashboard makes this plugin the more exciting. Shout out to dtbaker for creating a truly unique social media plugin for WordPress even though it supports only three (3) social networks at the time of writing.
7. Pinterest Automatic Pin WordPress Plugin
Since launching in 2010, Pinterest has grown so much as a board based social network as well as a source of traffic. As a matter of fact, Pinterest competes favorably with the likes of Google+, LinkedIn and YouTube in terms of driving traffic. You need to tap into this huge source of traffic and the Pinterest Automatic Pin plugin is exactly what you need.
This social media WordPress plugin gives you the power to pin unlimited images to your Pinterest boards automatically. You can even pin your featured images (or the first image in each post), bulk pin multiple images and link pins to your posts. Automatically. Just install the plugin and your work is done.
Pinterest Automatic Pin plugin supports WooCommerce (pin your product images automatically), custom posts types, category-based pins and custom taxonomies among others. The plugin ships with other features not mentioned above as well as free support. Pinterest Automatic Pin WordPress plugin has over 1,200 sales, a great rating of 4.30/5.00 and sells at $15 bucks only.
8. DITTY Twitter Ticker WordPress Plugin
This is more of an add-on since it requires the Ditty News Ticker (free) to work. That aside, you can use Ditty Twitter Ticker to create multiple Twitter feeds for your WordPress site. With a multitude of options, this plugin allows you to display your feeds in a list, rotator, scroller or widget. You can create a feed of tweets from multiple Twitter accounts and product names. Ditty Twitter Ticker has a superb rating of 4.33/5.00, has been purchased over eight hundred (800) times and costs just $7 bucks.
9. Social Payments WordPress Plugin
Many developers have built WordPress social media plugins that allow users to “pay” with a like, tweet or +1 to see restricted content. However, only a few of those plugins can match the elegance and ease of use that come with the Social Payments WordPress plugin by Butterfly Media.
Social Payments is compatible with major browsers, WordPress 3.9 and allows for total customization. Additionally, the plugin supports shortcodes so you can add your social payment icons wherever. It’s great, you have to see the plugin in action to believe. This relatively new plugin sells at $18 bucks only.
10. Instagram Theatre WordPress Plugin
Are you active on Instagram? If you find yourself posting pictures to Instagram several times each day, you can pull and display them on your WordPress site easily and with style using the Instagram Theatre plugin. What’s more? The plugin will help you to up your Instagram game if you’re lagging behind.
Instagram Theatre allows you to create beautiful Instagram galleries/portfolio on your WordPress website without much effort. Several layouts are available to you including list, grid and full screen. The plugin is fully responsive, has a buyer rating of 4.3/5.00 and sells at $14 bucks.
11. Social Locker WordPress Plugin
At times, no matter how great your content is, people just won’t click social buttons as often as you would like. How about getting people to “pay” with a like, tweet or Google +1 to access your most valuable content? Social Locker for WordPress is a beautifully designed social media plugin that helps you to boost the social performance of your website, gain exposure and build a community of followers easily and quickly. Social Locker for WordPress has been purchased over 3,600 times, has an impressive rating of 4.68/5.00 and retails at $24.
12. Funny Facebook Popup WordPress Plugin
Who wouldn’t use a chuckle once in a while? Laughter is the best medicine, they say, and if you’d like to make your web visitors laugh and boost your social score at the same time, you need this Funny Facebook Pop-Up.
To begin with, the pop-up features the typical Like button and, for comic relief, a Dislike button that is impossible to click. Yeah, it moves on mouse hover. Suffice to say, you can only end up liking the page or closing the pop-up. Either way, you will have laughed. The Funny Facebook Pop-up has a buyer rating of 4.00/5.00 and costs $5 bucks only.
13. ULTIMATE WP Social Deux WordPress Plugin
With an amazing rating of 4.68/5.00, over 1,700 sales and a plethora of great features, the Ultimate Social Deux is the social media plugin you want driving social activity on your website. Ultimate Social Deux works out of the box, and plays well with other WordPress plugins. Main Features are that the plugin is super fast, fully responsive, includes custom colors, automatic updates, multiple language support, etc. Ultimate Social Deux goes for just $14 bucks.
14. Socialslider Universal Social Sidebar WordPress Plugin
The SocialSider social media plugin is beautiful to say the least. With over sixty (60) social icons, six (6) color styles and sleek design among other unique features, SocialSider will help you to create a beautiful social sidebar in a matter of minutes. This WordPress social media plugin has a superb rating of 4.9/5.00 and retails at $13 bucks, which gets you great support as well.
15. ShareIt – Sharable Content Snippets WordPress Plugin
I have made it a habit to laud creativity whenever I see it. Elliot picked an idea and added an edge to shareable content snippets with his unique plugin, ShareIt. The plugin is best known for some great features like it’s ability to share to various social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn and Tumblr among others, fully responsive design, multiple alignment options (i.e. place the snippets to the left, to the right or at the center), integration into the WYSIWYG visual editor, custom CSS, FontAwesome icon integration, great support and more. ShareIt has an awesome rating of 4.62/5.00 and costs $14 bucks only.
16. Jetpack Sharing by WordPress.com
You must have heard about Jetpack by now. This plugin comes with a number of cool modules including Sharing, which allows you to add beautiful social sharing buttons to your content. Jetpack Sharing supports a couple of social networks including Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, Reddit, Digg, StumbleUpon and Pinterest among others. It’s easy to install, activate and use. On top of that, Jetpack Sharing module allows you to drag and drop social buttons to arrange them as you would wish. Jetpack has over twelve (12) million downloads and a rating of 3.9/5.00. You will love this sharing module if you appreciate simple and clean design.
17. Mashshare Social Sharing Buttons Free WordPress Plugin
Mashable.com got social sharing right with their one of a kind social sharing system that sums up and display the total number of shares at the top of every post. Share Button MashShare gives you the chance to replicate Mashable’s social buttons on your website. The plugin loads no external scripts and utilizes caching meaning its uber-fast. Additionally, it’s compatible with all WordPress themes and has shortcode functionality, so you can place the social buttons anywhere you fancy.
18. FLARE Free WordPress Plugin
After signing up for a Filament account (easy and free), you will quickly learn that Flare comes with a lot of flexible options. For starters, the social buttons are easy to configure and customize. In addition. Flare comes with a great user interface that allows you to create the social experience you desire. You are truly in charge of the social marketing on your WordPress site as Flare will have people sharing your content and following you in no time. This plugin is built with jQuery, supports major browsers as well.
19. Social Toolbar Free WordPress Plugin
Organize all your social buttons in a visually-appealing toolbar using the incredible Social Toolbar plugin. In other words, the Social Toolbar social media plugin allows you to add an easy-to-customize toolbar in the footer section of your website. You can customize the toolbar with your own choice of colors (e.g brand colors). The plugin is fully responsive and will help you to drive engagement on your website without getting in the way of readers.
20. Social Sharing by Danny Free WordPress Plugin
This social media WordPress plugin is brought to you by Danny van Kooten, the guy who developed the popular MailChimp WordPress plugin among other great WordPress plugins. This plugin is fast, flexible and simple. With over fifteen thousand (15K) downloads, an outstanding rating of 5.0/5.0 and a host of awesome features, Social Sharing by Danny will help you to take your social sharing game to a whole new level. Then plugin works with WordPress 3.5 or higher and supports multiple languages as well as shortcode functionality.
Your Thoughts on Social Media WordPress Plugins
Now that you have twenty more amazing social media WordPress plugins, there is no reason why your WordPress site should perform poorly as far as social media marketing goes. At the same time, remember quality and value will get more people sharing your content. Which social media WordPress plugins do you use on your WordPress site? Please share and contribute to this post via the comment section below. All the best!
