WP Share
by Alex Ilie · Social
Add social sharing buttons to your content in 5 minutes. You can choose from 3 different icon styles including the original ones.
41 health vs 61 average across 426 Social plugins
High removal-risk signals
63/100Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.
- Long abandoned. No update in 12+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.9.40, well behind 6.8.
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.
Under-optimized
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 4470 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
Get the full rank-higher report →Daily downloads
Since 2022-10-05 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
44
now · peak 144
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
Downloads per 1k installs · 30d
Engagement proxy · release spikes are signal, a long slide is an aging base
Estimated active installs
wp.org reports only “10+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,375 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2025-12-27 20+ → 10+ down after 518 days in band
- 2024-07-27 30+ → 20+ down after 91 days in band
- 2024-04-27 20+ → 30+ up after 26 days in band
- 2024-04-01 30+ → 20+ down after 159 days in band
- 2023-10-25 20+ → 30+ up after 4 days in band
- 2023-10-21 30+ → 20+ down after 333 days in band
- 2022-11-22 40+ → 30+ down after 3 days in band
- 2022-11-19 30+ → 40+ up after 8 days in band
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Share This Image 1K+ installs · 4.1★ · 3 shared tags B -
Simpliest Social Share 600+ installs · 3.9★ · 3 shared tags D -
Nextend Social Login and Register 200K+ installs · 4.9★ · 2 shared tags A -
Social Media Widget 30K+ installs · 3.9★ · 2 shared tags D -
Professional Social Sharing Buttons, Icons & Related Posts – Shareaholic 10K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags C -
Seed Social 6K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags C
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<iframe src="https://plugins.wpmayor.com/embed/wp-share" width="480" height="300" style="border:0" loading="lazy" title="WP Share — Plugin Pulse"></iframe> WP Share: 10+ active installs, 0.0★ (0 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/wp-share