Best social profiles plugins for WordPress
The most popular social profiles plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Simple Social Icons leads with 100K+ active installs, ahead of Lightweight Social Icons (20K+) and Socials Ignited (2K+). All 12 plugins tagged “social profiles” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 social profiles plugins
- 1.
Simple Social IconsThe most installed social profiles plugin, with 100K+ active installs. Rated 4.3 from 92 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 2.
Lightweight Social Icons20K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 63 reviews, last updated 6 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.4.25.
- 3.
Socials Ignited2K+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 4.
More Widgets1K+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.4.14.
- 5.
User Social Profiles200+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 7 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.0.31.
- 6.
Structured Social Profiles40+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, last updated 11 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.1.42.
- 7.
SocialWiggle20+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 12 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.7.41.
- 8.
xBooster Social Icons with Counter10+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 12 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.7.41.
- 9.
Social Media Share & Widget10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 7 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.2.30.
- 10.
Social Profile Icons Widget10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.5.33.
All 12 plugins tagged “social profiles”
Simple Social Icons
Up in the last 7 days:2#440by OsomPress1 month ago
Display icons linking to your social profiles, via the classic widget or the core Social Icons block variations.
- Installs
- 100K+
- Rating
- 4.3(92)
- Downloads
- 359/day
Lightweight Social Icons
Down in the last 7 days:2#1,091by Tom6 years ago
Looking to add simple social icons to your widget areas? Choose the size and color of your icons, and then choose from 47 different social profiles.
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rating
- 4.7(63)
- Downloads
- 28/day
Socials Ignited
Down in the last 7 days:7#4,672by Anastis Sourgoutsidis1 year ago
The Socials Ignited plugin gives you a widget, allowing you to display and link icons on your website of more than 50 social networks.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 4.3(4)
- Downloads
- 11/day
More Widgets
Down in the last 7 days:35#6,565by WPExplorer3 years ago
The More Widgets plugin adds extra widgets to use with your widgetized areas within your WordPress site. Use this plugin instead of built-in theme wid …
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
User Social Profiles
Down in the last 7 days:90#12,233by Patryk Kachel8 years ago
Plugin adds social fields to user profile in admin panel (Dashboard > Users).
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Structured Social Profiles
Up in the last 7 days:59#22,818by Alex Moss11 years ago
This plugin adds structured data to Google search results.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
SocialWiggle
Up in the last 7 days:115#25,296by bradvin12 years ago
Display your social network profiles using catchy looking Metro tiles that wiggle to catch your visitor's attention
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
xBooster Social Icons with Counter
Down in the last 7 days:993#34,494by acbaltaci13 years ago
xBooster social icons with counter is providing, icons for social network sharing and social profile links as widget, shortcode and autoplacement in c …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 4.5(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Social Media Share & Widget
Down in the last 7 days:7,064#45,755by Istiaq Nirab7 years ago
Social Icons Widget to displays links to social sharing websites. Currently its Supports Only 15 sites.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Social Profile Icons Widget
Down in the last 7 days:8,532#47,096by Fabian10 years ago
Displays highly customizable social media icons based on user profiles in a widget area.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Social Repeater Widget
Up in the last 7 days:10,233#59,563by Shabab Ahmed6 years ago
A simple and nice plugin to add simple social icons and profile link, which allows you to easily add the social profile to your site widget area.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
MM Social
#62,631by samarpitabhattacharya6 years ago
Place you social profile at your website's anywhere using shortcode : [MM_SOCIAL_ICON]
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day