Best social media icons plugins for WordPress
The most popular social media icons plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. WPZOOM Connect leads with 90K+ active installs, ahead of Easy Social Icons (20K+) and Popular Brand Icons (3K+). All 12 plugins tagged “social media icons” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 social media icons plugins
- 1.
WPZOOM ConnectThe most installed social media icons plugin, with 90K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 144 reviews, updated 2 weeks ago.
- 2.
Easy Social Icons20K+ active installs. Rated 4.4 from 84 reviews, updated 1 week ago.
- 3.
Popular Brand Icons3K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 10 reviews, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.3.14.
- 4.
Customizer Social Icons10+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.35.
- 5.
Essential Social Share10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 9 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.39.
- 6.
Sticky Topbar10+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 6 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.2.30.
- 7.
WP Social Media Icon10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 9 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.8.34.
- 8.
ClikranFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 9.
MM SocialFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 6 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.4.25.
- 10.
KlooviaFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, updated 4 weeks ago.
All 12 plugins tagged “social media icons”
WPZOOM Connect
Down in the last 7 days:1#488by WPZOOM14 days ago
Social media icons and share buttons: 2,400+ icons, block, widget & Elementor. Plus a Click to Chat button for WhatsApp, Telegram & Messenger.
- Installs
- 90K+
- Rating
- 4.9(144)
- Downloads
- 844/day
Easy Social Icons
Up in the last 7 days:1#1,225by CyberNetikz9 days ago
Upload your own social media icons or choose from font-awesome. Use widget|shortcode to place icons anywhere(sidebar, header, footer, page) in theme.
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rating
- 4.4(84)
- Downloads
- 2.4K/day
Popular Brand Icons
Down in the last 7 days:5#4,076by Travis3 years ago
An easy to use lightweight SVG icons plugin with over 1500+ brand icons. Use these icons in your menus, widgets, posts, or pages.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 4.7(10)
- Downloads
- 22/day
Customizer Social Icons
#30,643by timph8 years ago
Easily change and modify dozens of Social Media networks the native way - in the WordPress Customizer!
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 3.7(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Essential Social Share
#34,375by Essential Marketer9 years ago
Essential Social Share makes it really easy at add social media icons to your website, that enables users to share your content on their social media …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Sticky Topbar
Down in the last 7 days:4,807#47,269by Anwer Ashif6 years ago
Sticky Topbar adds an area to the top of your website and lets you customize it from the WordPress setting options page. The easiest way to add a topb …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 1.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Social Media Icon
Down in the last 7 days:6,547#48,050by Rupak Raj9 years ago
WP Social Media Icon can be used in any theme of wordpress.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 1/day
Clikran
Up in the last 7 days:14,885#55,836by Kiran Samileti1 year ago
Easily add Follow us social icons anywhere on your site using a shortcode or widget. Fully customizable from a simple, user-friendly settings page.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
MM Social
#61,255by samarpitabhattacharya6 years ago
Place you social profile at your website's anywhere using shortcode : [MM_SOCIAL_ICON]
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Kloovia
Down in the last 7 days:486#62,763by gowpspark1 month ago
Fast, private social share and follow buttons. No jQuery, no tracking, no ads, and zero front-end weight on pages that do not use them.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
BS Social Icons
Down in the last 7 days:17,017#70,017by Bhadresh9 years ago
Powerful easy, quick and simple social icons integration.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 2/day