Best shares plugins for WordPress
The most popular shares plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Posts Social Shares Count leads with 300+ active installs, ahead of Awesome Social Media Icons (10+) and Post Admin Social Stats (10+). All 9 plugins tagged “shares” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
Installs aren’t everything: a recent release, a “Tested up to” that matches the current WordPress, and support threads that get resolved show a plugin is looked after. Open any plugin for its downloads, rank history and alternatives.
Research this niche or see all plugins.
Top 8 shares plugins
- 1.
Posts Social Shares CountThe most installed shares plugin, with 300+ active installs. Rated 3.7 from 6 reviews, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.3.34.
- 2.
Awesome Social Media Icons10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.35.
- 3.
Post Admin Social Stats10+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 12 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.8.41.
- 4.
List the S&P 500 Constituents Financials10+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 2 months ago.
- 5.
SEO Friendly Social Share Buttons10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 9 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.39.
- 6.
Most shared content10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.4.34.
- 7.
Share computyFewer than 10 active installs. Only 1 review so far, updated 7 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 8.
All social share buttonFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 9 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.5.2.
All 9 plugins tagged “shares”
Posts Social Shares Count
#10,489by Bishoy.A11 years ago
Plugin that gives you shortcodes and PHP functions to count posts/pages shares on 6 social networks!
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 3.7(6)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Awesome Social Media Icons
Up in the last 7 days:4,021#35,836by Skywave Info Solutions8 years ago
Using a socialicon plugin you can add the social link into your wordpress site.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Post Admin Social Stats
Up in the last 7 days:6,242#39,467by GreatBlakes13 years ago
Add social stats to the Dashboard and "Edit" pages of the WordPress admin.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 4.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
List the S&P 500 Constituents Financials
#40,984by Maksym Marko2 months ago
The plugin display the list of S&P 500 companies.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
SEO Friendly Social Share Buttons
Down in the last 7 days:3,998#43,124by djenciduquene9 years ago
SEO Friendly Social Share Buttons is a plugin that lets people share your content on social media. It does not use any Javascript so it does not slow down the pagespeed. Therefore this plugin is an easy way to keep the…
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Most shared content
Down in the last 7 days:212#48,493by shabbirbhimani11 years ago
Finds the Facebook's share counter of all posts and display the most shared content.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Share computy
Up in the last 7 days:11,338#52,525by calliko7 months ago
Displaying share buttons for an article, page or product card using the [buttons_share_computy] shortcode.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
All social share button
Down in the last 7 days:3,784#57,188by ajaymalhotra159 years ago
This a very simple plugin for WordPress. What it does is add easy social networking sharing button for each of your blog posts.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day