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Social Share Buttons & Analytics Plugin – GetSocial.io

by Joao Romao · Social

Free share buttons for 30+ of your favorite social networks. Increase traffic through social sharing with GetSocial buttons.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned
How scoring works →
55 Health · C
Maintenance 19/100
Rating quality 86/100
Support 70/100

55 health vs 55 average across 1,135 Social plugins

Removal-risk signals

28/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

  • Not actively maintained. No update in about 2 years.

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.

70 / 100

Well optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 27/100
WP compatibility 77/100
Rating quality 87/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 851 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+30% vs prior 30d
11Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

316

now · peak 2.9K

30930d 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 Share Buttons · #4663 you WP Socializer · #2152 AddToAny Share Butto · #186 Buttonizer · #807

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.4Stars · Aug 26

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.

155per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

No release in a year
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.

0

releases in the last 12 months

2.3y ago

latest release · v4.5

64

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

4.5 · 2.3y ago4.4 · 2.6y agotrunk · 2.9y ago4.3.12 · 2.9y ago4.3.11 · 3.1y ago4.3.10 · 3.1y ago4.3.9 · 3.7y ago4.3.8 · 4.5y ago4.3.7 · 5.1y ago4.3.6 · 5.5y ago4.3.5 · 5.6y ago4.3.4 · 5.6y ago4.3.3 · 5.7y ago4.3.2 · 6.4y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 54% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v4.5 54%
v4.3 27%
v4.0 6.3%
Older / other versions 13%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “2K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
2K–3K ≈2.6K

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

Install history · since 2015-03-10 · 1,474 observations

2KInstalls · 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
4.5
Last updated
2.3y ago
Added
2014-11-13 · 11 yrs old
Requires WP
3.0
Tested up to
6.5.10
Requires PHP
5.2.4

Reviewer account pattern

from wp.org reviewer profiles

15 of the last 24 four- and five-star reviews came from accounts created within a month of posting the review.

Registering a wp.org account just to leave a review is common and often entirely legitimate. The share here is unusually high for the sample, so it's worth keeping in mind while reading the reviews.

Recent reviews

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  1. geodistor
    5.1y ago

    Im trying for the first time and it look great

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  2. laribey
    6.0y ago

    Odnoklassniki button – does not work! And the Viber button does not appear at all!

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  3. alex.alp
    6.0y ago

    i installed it and it changed the font of the admin panel, it asks for an email to create an account, for other features you need a subscription plan, i pass

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  4. slavarius
    6.1y ago

    Неплохой плагин по описанию. Поюзать не удалось. Цена довольно борзенькая для этого, исходя из того, что это не покупка а аренда. Другие варики есть.

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  5. deandid
    6.1y ago

    I was considering using this plugin, testing it ou but needed to deactivate it and several others for a performance test. What I found is troubling…I cannot deactivate this plugin which means now I cant even uninstall it.

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  6. javierg2007
    6.2y ago

    Muy buen plugin, limpio y funcional

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  7. cupofglory
    6.2y ago

    Awesome Plugin!Even better support! Impressive share bars & customization work seamlessly.

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  8. eobeing
    6.5y ago

    Just received my first weekly performance report for my website from GetSocial. It is gorgeous! I even don’t have to sign into the app or wordpress, to have an overview about all the visits, shares and referrals across the different channels including dark social in a very neat design, including an overview about my most shared pages, channels and locations. The analytics within the panel are even more granular. Furthermore they offer a report builder, where I can set up the emailing of my custom recurring or one time reports as pdf or ppt. I love it! The social share widgets are top notch! I could align their design easily and optimally to my overall website design. Till now I haven’t dug into Viral Alerts, Facebook Automation and Link Shortener. I’m stoked to do this pretty soon. But I surely don’t need to this, to give the tool and the team behind it well deserved 5 stars. Why the team? I had experienced two issues with the appearances of the widgets. The first has been a bit of further customization of the design, which they could solve right away. And the second: Every time I’ve opened my menu on mobile a mysterious bar or line appeared depending on the browser. They got back to me within 24 hours and had resolved it within a few days by modifying their code. It’s by fare the best website social sharing tool I’ve experienced. All the wordpress plugins I’ve tried before are a joke compared with this. The best is, it isn’t restricted to wordpress. I can utilize it also on every other website where I can add some lines of code. Every marketer or business owner which takes his website/blog shares and referrals seriously should invest in this!

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Latest updates

via wp.org changelog

Recent releases and news for this plugin

  1. Version 4.5 4.4 – Security patch fixed regarding stored cross-site scripting via admin settings 4.5
  2. Version 4.3.12 4.3.11 – Tested up to WordPress 6.2 – Add minor repository fix 4.3.12
  3. Version 4.3.10 4.3.10
  4. Version 4.3.9 4.3.9
  5. Version 4.3.8 4.3.8
  6. Version 4.3.7 4.3.7

Known vulnerabilities

via Wordfence Intelligence

2 disclosed vulnerabilities on record for this plugin, 1 still affects the current version.

  1. 2025-04-04 CVE-2025-32239 Missing Authorization Affects <= 4.5 No patch available
  2. 2023-11-29 CVE-2023-49189 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 4.3.12 Patched in 4.4

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 6.5.2

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. 2026-01-18 3K+ → 2K+ down after 317 days in tier
  2. 2025-03-07 4K+ → 3K+ down after 323 days in tier
  3. 2024-04-18 5K+ → 4K+ down after 242 days in tier
  4. 2023-08-20 6K+ → 5K+ down after 191 days in tier
  5. 2023-02-10 7K+ → 6K+ down

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 Share Buttons & Analytics Plugin – GetSocial.io: 2K+ active installs, 4.4★ (154 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/wp-share-buttons-analytics-by-getsocial