WordPress Social Sharing Plugins 2012

WordPress is well known blogging platform because of easy availability of plugins and social sharing plugins are must for every blog. We spend tons of time in writing great articles for our blogs and in return we want to make it easy for our readers to share our written articles on social networks
so that others can easily discover. One of the best way to achieve this is to add a social buttons on every post so that your users can easily post your link to Facebook, Twitter, Google+, or elsewhere. Here are several 10 best social sharing WordPress plugins for blogs that might help your readers to share your hard work.

1. Sharebar

Sharebar is one of the most used and much attractive sharing plugin for blogs. Sharebar adds a dynamic and fully customizable vertical box to the left of a blog post that contains links/buttons to popular social networking sites. For wide blogs, a vertical bar with popular sharing icons appears on the left of your post. If the page is re-sized below 1000px (default), the vertical bar disappears and a horizontal sharebar appears under the post title. Large Buttons are used in the vertical Sharebar to the left of the post, while the Small Buttons are used in the horizontal Sharebar that appears under the post title (by default) if the width of the page is less than 1000px. The only downside to Sharebar is that it only supports a limited number of services: Twitter, Digg, Facebook, Buzz, and Email.



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2. AddToAny

AddToAny is a most powerful button-based sharing plugin that’s un-intrusive and easy to use, both from the perspective of the blog owner and the visitor sharing content. This plugin helps people to share, bookmark, and email your posts and pages using any service, such as Facebook, Twitter, StumbleUpon, Google, Digg, Delicious, and well over 100 more sharing and social bookmarking sites. New: Pinterest Pin It Button in addition to the Facebook Like Button, Twitter Tweet Button, and Google +1 Button. This sharing plugins comes with panel that lets you customize the buttons the way you want it including color scheme and more. This makes much user friendly to users and can be easily integrate it into any website without having any code knowledge.



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3. AddThis

AddThis another great plugin that includes both sharing tools and robust analytics so you know how your content is being shared. With AddThis, your readers can promote your content by sharing to 330 of the most popular social networking and bookmarking sites like Facebook, Twitter, Digg, StumbleUpon and MySpace etc. It also support address bar sharing in latest browsers.

Optionally, you can sign up for a free AddThis.com account to see how your visitors are sharing your content: which services they're using for sharing, which content is shared the most, and more. A big plus is that AddThis also includes automatic translation in over 70 languages. So if you have a huge number of different users from different countries visiting your site, this might be very helpful.



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4. Digg Digg

Digg Digg is a well known plugin and one of the most updated plugin with its new features. It features some of the latest new sharing options such as Pinterest and Buffer button. With Digg Digg you have an all in one social sharing plugin for your site. Display all your social sharing buttons nicely on your site and make it look amazing, just like Mashable. This plugin comes with great customization options like choosing floating bar on the left-hand side of your posts or use a set of sharing buttons on the top or bottom of articles. It also comes with lazy loading plugin that increase site performance.



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5. ShareThis

is one of the most well known sharing plugin that enables users to share content through Email and 50+ social networks sites including Facebook, Twitter, Google +1, Like, Send and many more. This plugin comes with many great option to configure the buttons in a number of ways, including a single icon, a series of buttons or icons, or a series of widgets with the number of shares or retweets displayed. With this plugin you can increase your audience engagement with innovative sharing tools.

Registered ShareThis users can get access to various tracking reports to see how much their content is being shared. In addition to the main sharing options, ShareThis is also testing a ShareBar for the bottom of your pages, and a Hovering Buttons bar for including share buttons in a rail style along the side of the page.



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6. Socialize

Socialize is another great social plugin comes with sharing counts. The plugin also offers a great number of the latest sharing options such as Twitter, Facebook, Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon and other services. The fact that the buttons can be placed either within your post, in the footer, or elsewhere is a big advantage for 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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7. Shareaholic Sexy Bookmarks

Shareaholic Sexy Bookmarks is a more stylized sharing plugin that makes sharing easy for online publishers. If you have a website or blog, you can put the Shareaholic code on the page and start growing your community in a matter of minutes. This plugin comes includes analytics information, official support for Google’s URL shortener, uses the Share API, and has been supported to more than 15 languages.



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8. Get Social

Get Social is an intelligent and lightweight plugin that allows users to share your articles across the social sites. GetSocial adds an floating social media sharing box on your blog posts. It comes with customization so that you can customize buttons by using Color Picker to give nice look and feel to match your blog theme and also you can add additional social media sharing buttons to it.



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9. Social Media Widget

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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10. Slick Social Share Buttons

Slick Social Share Buttons is one of the most powerful sharing plugin that adds floating buttons like Facebook, twitter, Google +1, LinkedIn, Digg, delicious, Reddit, buffer, stumbleupon and pinterest pin it social media buttons to your website in either a floating or sliding panel and see summaries of all your social metrics in the admin social statistics page.



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These are my top best social sharing plugins that makes your blog more shareable for your readers. Which of the above plugins have you tried yet? Or do you have any other options all together that I have missed in this post? Let me know in the comments.