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.
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Lion Social Sharev1.0.0
Beautiful social sharing plugin with 40+ networks, 10 button styles, sticky sidebar, and clean design.
HTML + CSS share buttons and profile links with blocks, builders, local icons, and no frontend JavaScript by default.
DP Easy Social Sharev2.0.0
A lightweight, customizable social sharing plugin for WordPress that adds social icons to your posts, pages and custom post types.
The best social media share buttons plugin with 40+ social networks, inline sharing icons, floating share bar, and AI assistant summaries.
SGS Social Sharing Buttons is a lightweight, accessible, and feature-rich plugin that adds fixed social media sharing buttons to your WordPress site.
Add beautiful social sharing buttons to your WordPress site. Supports Facebook, X (Twitter), LinkedIn, WhatsApp, and more.
Simple & easy plugin to add social media sharing icons, buttons like Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Instagram & more
This Social Share Plugin adds advanced social media sharing buttons to your WordPress sites, such as Facebook, WhatsApp, X, LinkedIn, & Pinterest.
Tacet Sharev1.0.0
Lightweight, private social share buttons. No third-party scripts, no cookies, no share counts, and nothing that tracks your readers.