#415 by installs
Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons
Share buttons and pop up share icons for social media sharing
- Installs
- 100,000+
- Rating
- 4.8 (5.3K)
- Updated
- 43 days ago
AddToAny Share Buttons
Share buttons for WordPress including the AddToAny button, Facebook, Bluesky, Mastodon, WhatsApp, Pinterest, Reddit, many more, and follow icons too.
- Active installs
- 300,000+
- #184 of 1,000
- Downloads, all time
- 19.1M
- 19,101,951
- Downloads, 30 days
- 33.7K
- 9.2K in the last 7
- Rating
- 4.7 / 5
- 1,114 reviews
- Last updated
- 5 months ago
- May 22, 2026
- Version
- 1.8.18
- 260 releases
Upkeep and compatibility
| Last updated | May 22, 2026Updated in the last year |
|---|---|
| Tested up to | WordPress 7.0.8Older than WordPress 7.1.4, the current release |
| Needs WordPress | 4.5 or newer |
| Needs PHP | 5.6 or newer |
| First published | March 17, 2007 |
| Support, last two months | 1 of 1 threads resolved (100%) |
Reviews
4.7 / 5 from 1,114 reviews
| 5 stars | 1,004 |
|---|---|
| 4 stars | 38 |
| 3 stars | 15 |
| 2 stars | 14 |
| 1 star | 43 |
Downloads, last 30 days
What the author says it does
The AddToAny Share Buttons plugin for WordPress increases traffic & engagement by helping people share your posts and pages to any service. Services include Facebook, Bluesky, Mastodon, Pinterest, WhatsApp, LinkedIn, Threads, Tumblr, Reddit, X, WeChat, and many more sharing and social media sites & apps.
AddToAny is the home of universal sharing, and the AddToAny plugin is the most popular share plugin for WordPress, making sites social media ready since 2006.
Share Buttons
- Standard share buttons — share each piece of content
- Floating share buttons — responsive & customizable, vertical & horizontal
- Counters — fast & official share counts in the same style
- Follow buttons — social media links to your Instagram, YouTube, Discord, Snapchat
- Image sharing buttons – share buttons for sharing images
- Vector share buttons & follow buttons — custom color SVG icons
- Custom share icons — use your own if you prefer
- Official buttons including the Facebook Like Button, Pinterest Save Button, and LinkedIn Share Button
- Universal email sharing makes it easy to share via Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Outlook.com (Hotmail), AOL Mail, and any other web or native apps
Custom Placement & Appearance
- Before content, after content, or before & after content
- Vertical Floating Share Bar, and Horizontal Floating Share Bar
- As a shortcode, or a widget within a theme’s layout
The opening of the plugin's own description. The full text, installation notes and changelog are on its WordPress.org page.
Questions the author answers
Where are the options, and how can I customize the sharing plugin?
In WordPress, go to Settings > AddToAny.
Setup Follow buttons (like Instagram, YouTube, etc.) using the AddToAny Follow widget in Appearance > Widgets (or Appearance > Customize).
To further customize AddToAny, see the WordPress sharing documentation for the AddToAny plugin. Many customizations will have you copy & paste one or more lines of code into your “Additional JavaScript” or “Additional CSS” box.
Something is wrong. What should I try first?
Try temporarily switching themes and deactivating other plugins to identify a potential conflict. If you find a conflict, try contacting that theme or plugin author. If an issue persists on a default theme with all other plugins deactivated, search the WordPress plugin’s support forum.
The share buttons are not displaying for me. Why, and what should I try?
Something on your own device/browser/connection is likely filtering out major social buttons.
Try another web browser, device, and/or Internet connection to see if the buttons appear. Tools like browserling.com will give you an idea of what other people are seeing. The usual cause for this uncommon issue is 3rd party browser add-on software that blocks ads and optionally filters out major social buttons.
What is the shortcode for sharing?
You can place your share buttons exactly where you want them by inserting the following shortcode:
[addtoany]
Customize the shared URL like so:
[addtoany url="https://www.example.com/page.html" title="Some Example Page"]
Display specific share buttons by specifying comma-separated service codes:
[addtoany buttons="facebook,mastodon,email"]
For Facebook sharing, how can I set the thumbnail image and description Facebook uses?
Facebook expects the Title, Description, and preview image of a shared page to be defined in the Open Graph meta tags of a shared page.
Use Facebook’s Sharing Debugger on your pages to see how Facebook reads your site. “Scrape Again” to test site changes and clear Facebook’s cache of a page, or use the Batch Invalidator to purge Facebook’s cache of multiple URLs.
Why do share links route through AddToAny?
AddToAny routing enables publisher customization, visitor personalization, and keeps the AddToAny plugin remarkably lightweight without the need for constant plugin updates. In AddToAny menus, visitors see the services they actually use. On mobile, AddToAny presents the choice of sharing to a service’s native app or mobile site and the preference is used on the next share.
Latest changelog entry
- Update admin styling for WordPress 7.0+
See changelog.txt in the plugin’s directory for the full changelog.
Screenshots
AddToAny vector share buttons (SVG icons) are pixel-perfect and customizable 
Mini share menu that drops down when visitors use the universal share button 
Full universal share menu modal that includes all services 
Settings for Standard Share Buttons
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Where this page's numbers come from
Read from the WordPress.org plugin API on , when WordPress 7.1.4 was the current release. WordPress.org rounds active installs into buckets. These are the directory's figures, not my verdict, and I haven't tested this plugin.