Best social icon plugins for WordPress
The most popular social icon plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Social Sharing Block leads with 7K+ active installs, ahead of Social Media Widget (300+) and Simple Social Icon Widget (200+). All 13 plugins tagged “social icon” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 social icon plugins
- 1.
Social Sharing BlockThe most installed social icon plugin, with 7K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 18 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 2.
Social Media Widget300+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.5.33.
- 3.
Simple Social Icon Widget200+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.2.39.
- 4.
Social Counter & Sharer200+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 5 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 5.
Socicon200+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, updated 2 months ago.
- 6.
Social Space100+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 7 reviews, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.8.34.
- 7.
Custom Social Icons10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 8 years ago.
- 8.
TP Social Media Bar10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 4 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.9.20.
- 9.
OT Social Icons10+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, last updated 11 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.2.39.
- 10.
SX Social Icons10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.4.34.
All 13 plugins tagged “social icon”
Social Sharing Block
Up in the last 7 days:5#2,585by Nick Diego1 month ago
Easily add social share icons to your website.
- Installs
- 7K+
- Rating
- 5.0(18)
- Downloads
- 148/day
Social Media Widget
Up in the last 7 days:14#10,675by SuperHero Plugins10 years ago
Social media widget is a simple plugin to show social icons in your site sidebar . With lots of social icon themes and animations .
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Simple Social Icon Widget
Up in the last 7 days:25#11,436by Md Shafiqul Islam10 years ago
License GPLv2 or later License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html Social Icon Widget is a very simple. Easily Manage This widget.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Social Counter & Sharer
Down in the last 7 days:20#11,684by Prisna2 months ago
Ultra-lightweight plugin for sharing content on social networks. Optimized for speed with minimal impact on site performance.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Socicon
Up in the last 7 days:17#12,252by Erica Franz2 months ago
The easiest way to add Socicon, the social icon font, to your site!
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 4.0(4)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Social Space
Down in the last 7 days:28#16,410by Shah Rishabh10 years ago
A ridiculously simple plugin for showing your social network links using a simple widget so that people can connect with you more easily.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.7(7)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Custom Social Icons
Up in the last 7 days:147#30,576by Vrajesh Dave8 years ago
Custom Social Icon is used to set social links with images respectively!
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
TP Social Media Bar
#37,353by A.R. RONY4 years ago
This is Social Media Bar plugin to social media icons on the site right side for all pages.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
OT Social Icons
Down in the last 7 days:1,476#40,726by Jobayer Hossain11 years ago
An Awesome Social icons for your widget
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
SX Social Icons
Up in the last 7 days:5,350#41,840by RedWeb.tn10 years ago
SX Social Icons provides you with an easy way to display various popular social icons via widgets.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Social Media Icon
#44,587by webdzier5 years ago
Create fantabulous easy social icons. Social Media is powerful plugin and easy to use. You can create different types of icons on your website.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Cyoud AIO
Up in the last 7 days:6,351#64,650by cyoud8 years ago
Extend, speed up and customize your Wordpress site with Cyoud AIO.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day