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ShareThis Share Buttons
Forced accounts and stability bugs make sharing a real headache.
HealthyPoor rating
55/100
Frequent site crashes and forced account registration undermine the plugin's performance claims.
Active installs
~15,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+
Rating
3.5★
26 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-1%
Holding steady
111 → 110 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORverified rating is 3.50★
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Holding steady · -1% in the last year
111/day a year ago→110/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayShareThis Share Buttons is widely criticized for instability, forced account registration, and performance problems, though a few users appreciate its support when it works.
What people like
- +Helpful and responsive support
- +Works for the reviewer’s posts
Common complaints
- −Options are not saved
- −Buttons do not display properly
- −Fatal error after updating to version 2.1.10 (since 2.1.10)
- −Plugin fails to work at all for some users
- −Incompatible with caching plugins
- −Causes site crashes, white space, and header errors
- −Requires user registration/account, raising privacy concerns×2
- −GDPR compliance tool re-activates even when disabled
- −Slow loading performance
- −Relies on Google services (e.g., QR code) that are blocked in some regions
- −Appends buttons even when disabled, overriding shortcodes
- −Facebook share preview fails to generate
- −Loads adware links and significantly slows the site
Review trustReviews look organic
- 3.50★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 3.50★
- 8%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-11-172025-03-112026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 26 total
Latest reviews · 26 analyzed
- 2025-04-25★★★★★It's not saving the options.borayeris
- 2024-09-03★★★★★Excelente pluginCarlos Peniche
- 2024-02-27★★★★★Best Social Share Plugin compared to othersdevshagor
- 2023-12-08★★★★★Worst Ever. Button aren't properly showshaor
- 2023-10-21★★★★★Error after last updateweb star egypt
- 2023-03-27★★★★★Plugin Not Working ProperlyMehadi Hasan Juber
- 2023-02-27★★★★★Not working.asif2369
- 2023-01-16★★★★★I loved itErika Barreto
- 2022-09-21★★★★★How can I make it work with a catching plugin?mrlukas
- 2021-09-30★★★★★Warning!cybergrace
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNAlternatives to ShareThis Share Buttons
Top Social plugins, ranked by score.For developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
139
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
119
Prior 7-day baseline
185
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
1,859
Mean release-day peak (30d)
176
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+16.8%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
20%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
2.32
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
50%
5★ share in analyzed sample
8%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
3.46 → 3.50★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered