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Simple Share Buttons Adder
Beautiful buttons that might accidentally crash your entire website.
GrowingPoor rating
53/100
Easy customization is overshadowed by critical server errors and heavy tracking.
Active installs
~45,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 40k+
Rating
4.3★
626 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+75%
Growing fast
163 → 286 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MAJORverified rating is 2.94★
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
Growing fast · +75% in the last year
163/day a year ago→286/day today
Reviews
what people actually saySimple Share Buttons Adder is a straightforward sharing plugin that works well for basic use cases, but is undermined by serious concerns about an infinite loop bug causing server overload, embedded third-party trackers hurting page performance, and a lack of modern social network support.
What people like
- +Easy to set up and use×4
- +Clean visual output with flexible styles×2
- +Responsive and courteous support
Common complaints
- −Causes an infinite loop / 508 resource error that can overload server memory and take sites down (since 8.4.4)×4
- −Embeds over 10 third-party trackers that collect visitor data and negatively impact page speed
- −Missing key social networks such as Mastodon, Instagram, and YouTube×3
- −PHP undefined array key warning thrown by the plugin code
- −General performance concerns beyond the loop bug
Review trustMostly organic
- 2.94★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.30★
- 10%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 33% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-09-182025-02-092026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 626 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2024-08-15★★★★★I get multiple black warnings!dangyen
- 2024-04-11★★★★★its ok, needs better performancepeq42
- 2023-08-22★★★★★mission social networksTim Embler
- 2023-05-22★★★★★Nice widgetkatrinleppik
- 2023-03-21★★★★★Simple and effectiveericbrooksdotcom
- 2023-01-27★★★★★Plugin causes overload server's memory because of infinity loop.dhhuy07041-shot
- 2023-01-27★★★★★508 Loop ErrorScottjb9276
- 2022-12-16★★★★★great flexible plugin, good communicationNightL
- 2022-12-16★★★★★Since updatestevebethere2
- 2022-12-16★★★★★No Instagram. No YoutubeFrancisco T. Arquer
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNAlternatives to Simple Share Buttons Adder
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.
459
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
326
Prior 7-day baseline
437
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
4,768
Mean release-day peak (30d)
413
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+40.8%
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.
33%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
3.21
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
43%
5★ share in analyzed sample
10%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
3.00 → 2.94★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered