the best social media plugins for wordpress
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Another Apex Minute
The Best Social Media
Plugins for WordPress
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Introduction
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Overview
1.What is WordPress
2.What are Plugins
3.The best social media plugins
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What is WordPress?
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WordPress
•An open source website
creation tool
•Originally used as a blogging
platform and is now known as
one of the best and easiest to
use website content
management system (or CMS)
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What are Plugins?
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Plugins
• A software used to extend and expand the functionality of WordPress sites
• Thousands of free and premium (paid) plugins are available from the WordPress.org Plugin Directory
• Premium plugins usually come with a full time support staff and developers that work to maintain the security and compatibility of purchased plugins
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The Best Social Media Plugins
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JetPack
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JetPack• Lightweight and responsive themes that are
great for phones and tablets
• Customizable designs through a CSS editor
• Notification alerts for monitoring site activity
• Readers can share posts via their favorite social
networks
• Over 12 million downloads
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Shareaholic
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Shareaholic
• Award winning share buttons for sharing social media content
• Share Counters for multiple platforms including Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Google Plus, etc.
• Analytics that can be used by 3rd party services like Google Analytics
• Customizable themes and several others to choose from to match the design and brand of the user’s sites
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Social Media Feather
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Social Media Feather
• Lightweight plugin that allows users to quickly add social sharing and following features to their posts
• The only social sharing plugin that fully supports Retina & high resolution displays
• Load times are kept to a minimum to not interfere with the experience of visitors who just want to access content
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Floating Social Bar
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Floating Social Bar
• Light-weight, easy to set up and configure
• Asynchronous loading for fast loading icons that don’t add any weight
• Share buttons are displayed at the top of the page when the user scrolls down to ensures the buttons are always showing
• Only supports Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, and Pinterest.
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ShareThis
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ShareThis
• Over 120 social channels to choose from including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Pinterest
• Analytical reports and the ability to track when visitors copy URLs with the CopyNShare feature
• Launched in 2005 and now has over 2 million downloads
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Final Note
These are just some of the WordPress
plugins for social media that we
have chosen to highlight.
Remember the Wordpress.org and
sites like Themeforest directory has
many more plugins, so feel free to
explore and see what else is out
there to choose from.
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