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Simple Social Media Share Buttons – Social Sharing for Everyone
A simple veteran that sticks to the basics.
Healthy
83/100
Users enjoy the easy setup despite some minor bugs and limited free features.
Active installs
~25,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 20k+
Rating
4.8★
193 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-3%
Holding steady
130 → 126 installs/day
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 · -3% in the last year
130/day a year ago→126/day today
Reviews
what people actually saySimple Social Media Share Buttons is well-regarded as a lightweight, easy-to-set-up sharing plugin with responsive support, though a small number of users report functional issues including a blank X/Twitter pop-up after updating and, in at least one case, the plugin failing to display anything at all.
What people like
- +Easy to set up and use, with an intuitive interface×5
- +Does its job reliably without unnecessary complexity×4
- +Fast and kind support responses×2
- +Works with Elementor and supports post type distinctions
- +Long-term reliability reported by multi-year users×2
Common complaints
- −X/Twitter share pop-up window is blank after updating to the version with the new X icon
- −Plugin fails to display share buttons at all for at least one user despite correct setup
- −Missing social network icons noted as a gap
- −X/Twitter button still labeled 'Tweet' rather than updated branding
- −No clipboard/copy-link button available
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.87★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.80★
- 12%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-08-192025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 193 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-05-17★★★★★Simple Social Media Share ButtonsGeorge Braidwood
- 2025-12-06★★★★★Greatwizfinger
- 2025-06-26★★★★★Great Plugin & Works Exactly as Advertised!techjaws
- 2025-06-21★★★★★Easy. So Easy.thecanuckian
- 2025-04-02★★★★★عالیابوالقاسم کریمی
- 2025-02-26★★★★★Highly appreciate8268987s
- 2024-12-03★★★★★Works properlymedinfe
- 2024-09-26★★★★★Great plugin and excellent supportAndrew Macaulay
- 2024-09-11★★★★★useless in free versiondemoos
- 2024-08-26★★★★★So Far So Good80smixed
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNAlternatives to Simple Social Media 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.
99
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
123
Prior 7-day baseline
99
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
373
Mean release-day peak (30d)
118
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-19.5%
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.
9%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
1.15
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
96%
5★ share in analyzed sample
12%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
-67%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.89 → 4.87★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered