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Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons
Great for sharing but watch out for those automatic renewals.
Healthy
72/100
The plugin offers many free features but uses aggressive upselling and confusing branding.
Active installs
~143,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 100k+
Rating
4.8★
5,332 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-3%
Holding steady
532 → 516 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
532/day a year ago→516/day today
Reviews
what people actually saySocial Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons is a generally well-regarded plugin for adding social sharing icons to WordPress sites, but it draws notable criticism for aggressive upselling, a strict no-refund billing policy, and confusing plugin identity.
What people like
- +Easy to set up and use×5
- +Supports a wide range of social networks in one place×3
- +Core functionality is available for free×2
Common complaints
- −Key icons and features locked behind a paid premium tier, reducing the free version's usefulness×2
- −Aggressive billing practices: charges every 6 months automatically with a strict no-refund policy, even when the plugin is no longer in use
- −Plugin appears under two different names/identities in the WordPress dashboard, which users find confusing and shady
- −Popup prompts triggered by user actions (e.g., deactivating an icon), which some find annoying
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.29★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.80★
- 17%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-07-202025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 5,332 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-02-16★★★★★persistent they are.theop62
- 2026-01-18★★★★★I'll change after experiencing.kldp0007
- 2026-01-07★★★★★Will upgradecoolhandlukelsk
- 2025-12-14★★★★★nice.. and goodadinugroho01
- 2025-10-07★★★★★Easy and Goodretroarthotel
- 2025-09-09★★★★★Best Plugin For Social Mediassengkuni
- 2025-07-09★★★★★ótima ferramenta para compartilhamentosacphdvirtual
- 2025-07-03★★★★★Het werkt goed momenteel.thanksremoeng112
- 2025-07-01★★★★★Shady billing practices for premium.rscimagery
- 2025-05-26★★★★★funciona me gustajpguzman227
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNAlternatives to Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons
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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.
875
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
481
Prior 7-day baseline
826
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
15,490
Mean release-day peak (30d)
875
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+81.9%
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.
7%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
0.82
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
79%
5★ share in analyzed sample
17%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
-20%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.36 → 4.29★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered