Best social follow plugins for WordPress
The most popular social follow plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. ShareThis Follow Buttons leads with 400+ active installs, ahead of Social Media Widget (300+) and Social Flyer (10+). All 3 plugins tagged “social follow” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 3 social follow plugins
- 1.
ShareThis Follow ButtonsThe most installed social follow plugin, with 400+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, updated 1 month ago.
- 2.
Social Media Widget300+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 5 reviews, last updated 11 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.3.34.
- 3.
Social Flyer10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 11 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.4.2.
All 3 plugins tagged “social follow”
ShareThis Follow Buttons
Up in the last 7 days:6#9,458by ShareThis1 month ago
Add responsive social follow buttons to your WordPress site in minutes with ShareThis.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Social Media Widget
Down in the last 7 days:16#10,184by ashirbad.cs11 years ago
Easily create beautiful social media link with the install of this plugin.This widget takes a simple, extendable approach for displaying your social m …
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Social Flyer
Up in the last 7 days:9,144#35,810by wptowncenter11 years ago
Social Flyer is a responsive fancy social follow WordPress plugin. Social Flyer Fly in to the center of the document(Website) on page scroll which gra …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day