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Social Counter & Sharer

by Prisna · Social

Also makes 2 other plugins · 8.2K+ installs across the portfolio →

Ultra-lightweight plugin for sharing content on social networks. Optimized for speed with minimal impact on site performance.

⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
86 Health · A
Maintenance 100/100
Rating quality 81/100
Support 70/100

86 health vs 55 average across 1,134 Social plugins

Directory ranking optimization

How it's scored →

How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

90 / 100

Excellent listing optimization

Biggest win: Rating quality

Update recency 100/100
WP compatibility 100/100
Rating quality 57/100
Listing tuning 100/100

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,427 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+25% vs prior 30d
-2Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

131

now · peak 730

12730d downloads · Aug 26

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

Social Counter & Sha · #11440 you Wp Social Login and · #530 Hubbub Lite · #992 Simple Social Media · #1334

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

635per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

Occasionally updated
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

2

releases in the last 12 months

3mo ago

latest release · v3.1

6

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

3.1 · 3mo ago3.0 · 9mo ago2.2.1 · 1.3y ago2.2 · 1.3y ago2.1 · 1.3y ago2.0.5 · 1.3y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 56% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v3.1 56%
v2.0 31%
v3.0 12%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “200+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
200–300 ≈250

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2015-03-20 · 1,388 observations

200Installs · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Details

Version
3.1
Last updated
13d ago
Added
2014-10-02 · 11 yrs old
Requires WP
3.6
Tested up to
7.1
Requires PHP
5.6

Recent reviews

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  1. wordpresssam
    4.4y ago

    Just works and without doing API cr*p Thanks so much!

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  2. pixer
    4.8y ago

    Please make it compatible with PHP 7.4 THANKS

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  3. s.a. faroque
    8.2y ago

    This plugin works great… thanks for this plugin go ahead…

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  4. sajid264
    8.4y ago

    The facebook api in other plugins is very frustrating. this plugin is very easy and nice with no need for api. This topic was modified 8 years, 3 months ago by sajid264.

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  5. josena80
    9.9y ago

    Very fast and customizable plugin, good work. Would be great if can add YouTube 🙂

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Known vulnerabilities

via Wordfence Intelligence

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

  1. 2025-04-24 CVE-2025-46473 Deserialization of Untrusted Data Affects <= 2.0.5 Patched in 2.1

Vulnerability records provided by Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. License and terms.

CVE records: Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. CVE terms of use.

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0.1

Low memory footprint
Low page-speed impact
Runs on latest PHP + WP
No PHP errors
No JS errors
Activates cleanly
No resource errors
No external HTTP errors
Optimized database use
Frequently updated

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-06-10 300+ → 200+ down after 1 days in tier
  2. 2026-06-09 200+ → 300+ up after 48 days in tier
  3. 2026-04-22 300+ → 200+ down after 1 days in tier
  4. 2026-04-21 200+ → 300+ up after 4 days in tier
  5. 2026-04-17 300+ → 200+ down after 5 days in tier
  6. 2026-04-12 200+ → 300+ up after 2 days in tier
  7. 2026-04-10 300+ → 200+ down after 67 days in tier
  8. 2026-02-02 200+ → 300+ up after 2 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).

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Social Counter & Sharer: 200+ active installs, 5.0★ (5 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/social-counter