Most Popular Social Plugins For WordPress

by AndrewG

Previously we have posted some useful articles on WordPress topic and now it’s high time to add something that might be interesting and handy for our readers! Every day we get more and more socialized and can’t imagine our life without it. Due to the wide use and dissemination of social networking sites a huge number of extensions for WordPress – the world’s leading CMS systems that maximize the functional integration of the site with such popular services like Twitter and Facebook – have appeared. If you are looking to get more social on your blog or website, you should check out these plugins, test some of them and choose something to add to your site!

Add Link to Facebook

Automatically add links to published posts or pages to your Facebook wall, pages or groups and more

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AddThis

The AddThis Social Bookmarking Widget allows any visitor to bookmark and share your site easily with many popular services.

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AddToAny

Help people share, bookmark, and email your posts & pages using any service, such as Facebook, Twitter, StumbleUpon, Digg and many more.

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BuddyPress

Social networking in a box. Build a social network for your company, school, sports team or niche community all based on the power and flexibility of WordPress.

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BuddyPress Album+

Photo Albums for BuddyPress. Includes Posts to Wire, Member Comments, and Gallery Privacy Controls.
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Digg Digg

All-in-One Social Buttons.

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Disqus Comment System

Disqus, pronounced “discuss”, is a service and tool for web comments and discussions. Disqus makes commenting easier and more interactive, while connecting websites and commenters across a thriving discussion community.
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Easy Popular Posts

An easy to use WordPress function to add popular posts to any WordPress theme.

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Facebook Comments for WordPress

Allows your visitors to comment on posts using their Facebook profile. Supports custom styles, notifications, combined comment counts, recent comments.

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Facebook Like Button

Add the new Facebook Like button and Facebook Recommendations widget to your wordpress blog.

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Facebook Members

Facebook Members is a WordPres Social Plugin that enables Facebook Page owners to attract and gain Likes from their own website.

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GRAND Flash Album Gallery

GRAND Flash Album Gallery is a fully integrated (flash skin based, slideshow option) Image Gallery plugin with a powerful admin panel.

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HL Twitter

HL Twitter stores tweets from multiple accounts and displays them via widget, archives and shortcodes as well as auto-tweeting new posts.

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Janrain Engage

Janrain Engage – Social Login and Social Sharing with multiple providers including Facebook, Twitter, Google, Yahoo! and OpenID.

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Jetpack by WordPress.com

Jetpack supercharges your self?hosted WordPress site with the awesome cloud power of WordPress.com.

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Network Publisher

Automatically publish your blog posts to multiple Social Networks including Twitter, Facebook Profile, Facebook Pages, LinkedIn, MySpace, Yammer etc.

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NextGEN Gallery

NextGEN Gallery is a full integrated Image Gallery plugin for WordPress with dozens of options and features.

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Pretty Link Lite

Shrink, track and share any URL on the Internet from your WordPress website. Create short links suitable for Twitter using your own domain name!

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SexyBookmarks

Adds an attractive social bookmarking menu to your posts, pages, index, or any combination of the three.

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Share and Follow

Add Share Icons, Follow Links, Facebook Like, Twitter Tweet and other buttons on your site in the way you want. Simple & adapatable social network.

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ShareThis

Used on over 1,000,000 sites, the ShareThis plugin allows users to share your content through email and 50+ social networks including Facebook, Twitter, Digg, StumbleUpon and Google Buzz.

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Simple Facebook Connect

Simple Facebook Connect is a series of plugins that let you add any sort of Facebook Connect functionality you like to a WordPress blog. This lets you have an integrated site without a lot of coding, and still letting you customize it exactly the way you’d like.

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Simple Twitter Connect

Makes it easy for your site to use Twitter, in a wholly modular way.

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Smart YouTube

Smart Youtube plugin allows you to insert full featured YouTube videos into your post, comments and in RSS feed.

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Social Media Widget

The Social Media Widget is a simple sidebar widget that allows users to input their social media website profile URLs and other subscription options to show an icon on the sidebar to that social media site and more that open up in a separate browser window.

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Social Slider

This plugin adds links to your social networking sites’ profiles in a box floating at the left side of the screen.

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Socialize

Provides an easy way to selectively add actionable social bookmarks to your posts content or below the post in a ‘Call To Action’ box.

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Socialize This

Socialize This is a WordPress plugin that allows the user to easily generate Social Widgets (Icons) and spread to word about their blog posts. It works out-of-the-box with little to no configuration required.

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Tweet Blender

Provides several Twitter widgets: show your own tweets, show tweets relevant to post’s tags, show tweets for Twitter lists, show tweets for hasht.

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Tweetable

Tweetable is intended to help integrate Twitter into your blog. It can automatically tweet links to your blog posts as they are published.

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TweetMeme Button

Adds a button which easily lets you retweet your blog posts.

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Twitter Blackbird Pie

Add awesome looking embedded HTML representations of actual tweets in your blog posts just by adding simple shortcodes.

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Twitter Tools

Twitter Tools is a plugin that creates a complete integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account.
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Wordbooker

This plugin allows you to cross-post your blog posts to your Facebook Wall. You can also “cross polinate” comments between Facebook and your WordPress blog.

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WordTwit

WordTwit is a plugin that uses the Twitter API to automatically push a published post to your Twitter account as a tweet.

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WP Google-Buzz

Official Google Buzz with Counter Option. Best Google-buzz integration with wordpress + 5 different options.

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WP Greet Box

Display a different greeting message to your visitor depending on which site they are coming from.

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WP Social Blogroll

WP Social Blogroll adds a social blogroll to your blog. It will follow and display all updates of the sites in your blogroll.

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WP to Twitter

The WP-to-Twitter plugin posts a Twitter status update from your WordPress blog using your selected URL shortening service to provide a link back to your post from Twitter.

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WP Tweet Button

The WordPress implementation of the official Twitter Tweet Button.

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Xhanch – My Twitter

The best plugin to display your latest tweets, replies, direct messages, retweets, auto and manual tweet and lots more. Support multiple accounts.

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YOURLS

Use YOURLS (a free GPL URL shortener service) or another public service (tinyURL…) to create short URL of your posts and tweet them.

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