HTML Social Share Buttons

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1. ★★★★★ samowal1201

   10.4y ago

   best Plugin for Social share – Nice design – Easy to use – And fast on-site

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2. ★★★★★ inkandfoil

   10.6y ago

   This is a great little social share plugin. It is so simple to use, does what it’s supposed to do, and it doesn’t add an advertisment to the share. Great work.

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3. ★★★★★ Chrissy

   11.0y ago

   This plugin does exactly what it promises. It looks great right out of the box and isn’t intrusive. Support is A+.

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4. ★★★★★ Gorillo

   11.0y ago

   This is a great little plugin if you just need a way to display social share buttons on your site. While lots of other plugins generate a ton of javascript, this one just adds a small amount of html. Since you probably laready have a dozen other plugins generating a lot of javascript, you don´t need another one that overloads your site and could cause conflicts with other scripts. Very nice work and a very good idea! All the essential settings you need to make it do what it´s intended to do are there, even if I could wish for a couple of more. I can really recommend this plugin.

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5. ★★★★★ cybernoelie

   11.2y ago

   I spent weeks looking through other plugins and their reviews. Tried a few, they either failed, were too complicated or else caused problems. This is a simple and elegant solution. I only wanted Facebook and Twitter not a gazillion social media options. Thank you.

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6. ★★★★★ grantdb

   11.4y ago

   Nice and easy sharing icons. Developer is responsive to support requests and updates very fast

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7. ★★★★★ saksaksak

   11.4y ago

   At the end I decided not to use this plugin because it lacks the counters but I think it deserves a good rating: – The most beautiful button design I have seen. Would even be more beautiful if RECTANGULAR buttons were an option… – A very versatile Shortcode which you can use to place your buttons whereever you want and in whatever order/selection you want! – I like the hovering effect on the buttons. – Fast – Would be great to have counter support, with cache (not to contradict with my previous point)… Thanks!

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8. ★★★★★ zeine77

   11.7y ago

   Simple and straightforward. This plugin does what is done for with no super flue. Thanks a lot.

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1 disclosed vulnerability on record for this plugin, fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

1. Medium · 6.4 Html Social share buttons <= 2.1.16 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2025-09-05 CVE-2025-9849 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 2.1.16 Patched in 2.2.0

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2026-08-31 50+ → 30+ down after 51 days in tier
2. 2026-07-11 70+ → 50+ down after 33 days in tier
3. 2026-06-08 60+ → 70+ up after 3 days in tier
4. 2026-06-05 70+ → 60+ down after 26 days in tier
5. 2026-05-10 80+ → 70+ down after 93 days in tier
6. 2026-02-06 70+ → 80+ up after 21 days in tier
7. 2026-01-16 80+ → 70+ down after 112 days in tier
8. 2025-09-26 90+ → 80+ down after 1 days in tier

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• AddToAny Share Buttons 300K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags A
• Social Sharing Plugin – Sassy Social Share 100K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags B
• Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons 100K+ installs · 4.8★ · 2 shared tags A
• Hubbub Lite – Fast, free social sharing and follow buttons 30K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags A
• Social Media Feather 10K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags A
• ShareThis Share Buttons 10K+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags B

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HTML Social Share Buttons: 30+ active installs, 4.7★ (15 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/html-social-share-buttons