WordPress plugin comparison

Custom Floating Social Buttons vs Simple Social Icons

Custom Floating Social Buttons

by Ravi Shankar

Fewer than 10 installs

Simple Social Icons

by OsomPress

100K+ installs4.3

At a glance

Simple Social Icons has more active installs: 100K+, against fewer than 10 for Custom Floating Social Buttons.
On a typical day, Simple Social Icons is downloaded about 357 times, Custom Floating Social Buttons about 2.
Custom Floating Social Buttons has no reviews yet.
Simple Social Icons was updated more recently: Sep 17, 2026, against Jan 1, 2025 for Custom Floating Social Buttons.
Simple Social Icons is tested with a newer WordPress: 7.1.4, against 6.7.11 for Custom Floating Social Buttons.
Simple Social Icons has been around longer: since 2012, against 2024 for Custom Floating Social Buttons.

Simple Social Icons leads on 6 of 6 comparable lines.

Metric	Custom Floating Social Buttons	Simple Social Icons
Popular rank	#59,493	#440
Active installs	Fewer than 10	100K+
Downloads, last 30 days	34	8.6K
Rating	No ratings	4.3(92)
Support threads resolved	–	0%
Tested up to	6.7.11	7.1.4
Search multiplier	×0.01	×1.07
Last release	1 year ago	1 month ago
Requires PHP	7.0	7.4

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