Social Rocket – Social Sharing Plugin
by socialrocket · Social
Add fully-customizable social sharing buttons to your site. Easy to use and packed with many additional social networking features.
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Health
A 86/100
no flags
Active installs
1K+
≈1.5K estimated
Momentum
+41%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: Swap “social media”, “social share” and “social share buttons” for “networking”, “social sharing” and “sharing”. “social media” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “networking” sits at #9 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. “social share” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “social sharing” sits at #13 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. “social share buttons” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “sharing” sits at #16 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. All five slots are taken, so one has to go.
86 health vs 58 average across 1,835 Social plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →1.6%
of downloads still active
At least 1K of 62.6K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Social plugin keeps 0.5%, across 1,277 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Social plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.
This plugin shipped 3 releases in the last 12 months, and every existing install that updated counted as another download. wp.org publishes no split between first installs and updates, so we show the raw rate rather than guess at one.
Details
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.
Excellent listing optimization
Most to gain: Rating quality
Updated 26 days ago
Tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, the current branch or newer
5.0★ over 12 reviews, smoothed to 4.27★ and held back under 25 reviews
5 of 5 tags set · short description in place
To rank higher: Too few reviews to rank on quality — nudge happy users to leave one.
Get the full rank-higher report →Search visibility
How it's tracked →Directory searches this plugin turns up in, and which way each one is moving. WordPress.org publishes no history of search positions, so this starts the day we first tracked a keyword and never backfills.
39
Momentum
Mixed: one swing, the rest drifting
+0.2
Velocity
places per keyword, 28d
20%
Breadth
of keywords climbing, 28d
-0.4
Acceleration
recent half vs earlier
wp.org is where the directory puts the plugin for that search. On merit is where it would sit if results were ranked on rating, support and updates, without the install boost. The last column is how far the wp.org position moved, from our first reading in the last 90 days to the latest.
| Keyword | wp.org | On merit | wp.org move, 90 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| rocket | #1 | #2 | 0 |
| social networking | #2 | #3 | up 2 |
| digg | #3 | #6 | up 3 |
| social sharing plugin | #8 | #18 | up 2 |
| rocket wordpress plugin | #4 | #13 | 0 |
| networking | #9 | #17 | down 2 |
| bitly | #7 | #10 | up 2 |
| social sharing | #13 | #23 | up 4 |
| social sharing buttons | #13 | #20 | up 1 |
| sharing | #16 | #24 | up 8 |
| share counts your tag | #21 | #22 | down 1 |
| social buttons your tag | #22 | #22 | 0 |
| click to tweet | #14 | #21 | up 4 |
| wp rocket | #9 | #21 | 0 |
| sharing buttons | #21 | #21 | down 1 |
| vkontakte | #15 | #22 | up 1 |
| buffer | #17 | #17 | up 4 |
| social media sharing | #19 | #23 | down 1 |
| social network sharing | #11 | #22 | 0 |
| social preview | #21 | #22 | down 2 |
| social media your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| social share your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| social share buttons your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
70 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 20 listed. 41 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 3 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.
What to do about it
- Swap “social media”, “social share” and “social share buttons” for “networking”, “social sharing” and “sharing”. “social media” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “networking” sits at #9 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. “social share” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “social sharing” sits at #13 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. “social share buttons” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “sharing” sits at #16 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. All five slots are taken, so one has to go.
Daily downloads
Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,489 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 2.5K · peaks are release surges
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
Health trend
Composite health score, snapshotted daily
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.
Release cadence
Occasionally updatedHow often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.
3
releases in the last 12 months
26d ago
latest release · v1.3.6 · 6 Oct 2026
26
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare of active installs on each version of this plugin · 99% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.
Estimated active installs
The public count shows “1K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 10 months ago; the previous band took 14 months to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.
Install history since 20 Mar 2021
Security history
via Wordfence IntelligenceAll 8 disclosed vulnerabilities are patched in the current version (1.3.6). Sites still on an older version should update.
- Patched High · 7.2 Social Rocket – Social Sharing Plugin <= 1.3.5 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗2026-10-05 CVE-2026-42418 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation Affects <= 1.3.5 Patched in 1.3.6
- Patched Medium · 6.4 Social Rocket – Social Sharing Plugin <= 1.3.4.2 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via id ↗2026-04-22 CVE-2026-1923 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation Affects <= 1.3.4.2 Patched in 1.3.5
- Patched Medium · 6.4 Social Rocket <= 1.3.4 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Shortcode ↗2025-01-06 CVE-2024-9702 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation Affects <= 1.3.4 Patched in 1.3.4.1
- 2024-06-27 CVE-2024-37258 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation Affects <= 1.3.3 Patched in 1.3.4
- Patched Medium · 5.5 Social Rocket <= 1.3.2 - Authenticated (Administrator+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗2022-09-19 CVE-2022-3136 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation Affects <= 1.3.2 Patched in 1.3.3
- 2020-07-22 Cross-Site Request Forgery Affects <= 1.2.9 Patched in 1.2.10
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.
Languages
via translate.wordpress.orgTranslated into 3 languages, 2 at 90% or more
AI assistants
How it's measured →Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.
Not measured yet for this plugin’s topics. Its tracked searches are not among the measured topics. See the topics measured so far.
Readme readiness
4 of 8 pass · checked 29 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ✓ Says what it does "Add fully-customizable social sharing buttons to your site. Easy to use and packed with many additional soc..."
- ! Has a FAQ Only 2 questions in the FAQ; 3 or more gives an assistant something to match.
- ! FAQ asks real questions 0 of 2 FAQ entries are headings, not questions ("undefined").
- ! Names who it is for Never says who the plugin is for or what they use it for.
- ✓ Names what it works with Mentions WooCommerce, Gutenberg, Easy Digital Downloads, Telegram and 5 more.
- ✓ Headings and lists 3 headings and 3 lists.
- ✓ Enough to quote 2,140 characters of description.
- ! Tags match the text Only 0 of 5 tags appear in the text ("share counts", "social buttons", "social media", "social share", "Social Share Buttons" missing).
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-01-09 2K+ → 1K+ down after 418 days in tier
- 2024-11-17 3K+ → 2K+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2024-11-16 2K+ → 3K+ up after 7 days in tier
- 2024-11-09 3K+ → 2K+ down after 4 days in tier
- 2024-11-05 2K+ → 3K+ up after 3 days in tier
- 2024-11-02 3K+ → 2K+ down after 760 days in tier
- 2022-10-04 2K+ → 3K+ up
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 Sharing Plugin – Sassy Social Share 100K+ installs · 4.7★ · 3 shared tags C -
Hubbub Lite – Fast, free social sharing and follow buttons 30K+ installs · 4.7★ · 3 shared tags A -
WP-Socialight 20+ installs · 4.1★ · 3 shared tags D -
Simple Social Media Share Buttons – Social Sharing for Everyone 20K+ 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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