Best social media sharing plugins for WordPress
The most popular social media sharing plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Revive Social leads with 20K+ active installs, ahead of Essential Social Share (10+) and Jumbo Share (10+). All 6 plugins tagged “social media sharing” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 4 social media sharing plugins
- 1.
Revive SocialThe most installed social media sharing plugin, with 20K+ active installs. Rated 4.0 from 556 reviews, updated 4 days ago.
- 2.
Essential Social Share10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 9 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.39.
- 3.
Jumbo Share10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.3.34.
- 4.WP Tweetbox
10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 16 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.0.5.
All 6 plugins tagged “social media sharing”

Revive Social
Down in the last 7 days:9#1,373by rsocial4 days ago
Automatically share your WordPress posts on multiple social networks like Facebook, X (Twitter), LinkedIn, Instagram and more.
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rating
- 4.0(556)
- Downloads
- 240/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

Jumbo Share
Up in the last 7 days:1,132#45,633by WPManiax11 years ago
Add Mashable.com like social share bar to your web site.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Tweetbox
Down in the last 7 days:1,314#47,263by Riyaz16 years ago
WP Tweetbox adds a highly customizable Tweetbox at the end of blog posts and pages. Tweets are branded with your own website URL.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day