Nearly everyone nowadays has a social media account that connects them with hundreds of colleagues, friends, and family members.
Enabling your site’s viewership to share your content on social media networks is a surefire way to boost traffic and page views. The WordPress market is saturated with all kinds of social share buttons; each with different, unique features that set them apart from the others.
Though it might be hard to believe, finding a good social sharing plugin for WordPress is quite difficult. In this article, I’ll review one such plugin, Easy Social Share Buttons for WordPress, and walk you through an in-depth tutorial on getting started with actually setting it up on your WordPress site and using it.
Let’s get started!
Brief Overview
The popularity of social share buttons rises to the surface based on one simple fact: the easier it is to share your content, the more traffic you’ll get.
Social share buttons make it easier for your site’s viewership to share your posts, pages, and special offers on their social media networks. Google’s ranking algorithm takes posts shared on social media networks into account. This basically means that the more shares you get, the better your site will rank.
Social sharing is a great way to promote your site to new viewers in hopes of increasing your site’s subscribers. Millions of Internet users log into their social media accounts every day and increasing your brand exposure through this diverse, wide-spread network is extremely advantageous.
An Introduction to Easy Social Share Buttons for WordPress
According to Code Canyon’s elite author and developer of Easy Social Share Buttons for WordPress,
We made the most feature packed social sharing plugin for WordPress that will increase your social shares and drive traffic.
The premium plugin has feature-rich social sharing buttons on offer that help webmasters build strong and lasting social followers without compromising your site’s page load time. The Easy Social Share Buttons for WordPress plugin is blazingly fast and displays an unparalleled visual experience on all themes.
Easy Social Share Buttons for WordPress has been voted as the best-selling social sharing plugin for WordPress. It enables users to supercharge their social shares all the while monitoring your social popularity without having to leave the WordPress admin panel.
Whether you’re running an e-commerce site or a simple, niche-specific blog, this top-notch social sharing solution has something in store for you. The latest updates have improved the plugin’s speed even further by pre-compiling static resources and improved social share optimization.
Easy Social Share Buttons for WordPress’ Features
Easy Social Share Buttons for WordPress is an incredibly lightweight plugin that’s loaded with tons of functionality. As is the case with the best plugins in any category, this social sharing solution’s wide range of features set it apart from the competition.
Support for Over 40 Social Network Platforms
The Easy Social Share Buttons for WordPress enables users to add social sharing buttons for up to 40 different social network platforms on their WordPress site – from the popular Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn to the lesser known Line, Weibo, and Odnoklassniki. Not only does it support traditional social media networks but it also enables users to share your site’s content on their mobile applications, such as WhatsApp and Viber.
Web developers can add and organize as many available social media buttons as they’d like to a custom social sharing bar for their WordPress site by simply dragging and dropping them into place. As far as the buttons’ personalization options go, users can customize each button for their display positions or post types.
The plugin also enables users to customize the text that’s displayed on each button denoting the social network. So, if you’d rather have a button read FB instead of Facebook to save screen space, that’s entirely possible with Easy Social Share Buttons for WordPress.
Assorted Social Buttons Placements
The developers behind Easy Social Share Buttons for WordPress understand that a WordPress site’s different pages have different layouts (and thus different social sharing needs). Perhaps the theme you’re using makes it so it’s best to display the social share buttons at the end of each post. Or maybe displaying a vertical social sharing bar on your blog page would be more visually appealing.
Keeping this in mind, the Easy Social Share Buttons for WordPress plugin enables users to display their customized bar of social share buttons in 20 different locations based on the existing layout of their content. The plugin also enables webmasters to combine multiple display locations. Three of the 20 different social media buttons’ placements are optimized for mobile devices to cater for smartphone and tablet users.
Advanced Social Share Button Triggers
This feature would have to be my all-time favorite when it comes to social sharing buttons is its automatic share button triggers functionality. Most of you probably recognize this feature from opt-in forms – it works just like that but with social share buttons. The social share button triggers enable webmasters to leverage their viewership’s attention by presenting them with social share buttons when they’re either in danger of leaving your site or are fully captivated by your content.
The social share trigger feature can be customized based on different strategies, including:
- Timed delay. The trigger is initiated after a pre-specified duration of time.
- Upon percentage scroll. The trigger is initiated after the user has scrolled a given percentage down the page.
- Bottom of content. The trigger is initiated once your reader reaches the bottom of the page.
- After commenting. The trigger is initiated when the user comments on a post or page.
- After purchase. If your site is e-commerce based, you can set this trigger to initiate once your customer has made a purchase.
- Exit intent. The trigger is initiated if the user leaves the browser/tab.
Fully Customizable
Once you’ve set up a website, it’s often difficult to find plugins whose design elements are anything but tacky. Easy Social Share Buttons for WordPress comes with a behemoth of customizability options right out of the box for seamless design integration.
With each license, you’ll get 27 social share templates, a ton of different button styles, and advanced options for share counters. With this premium plugin, your site’s social share buttons will fit right in with your brand identity.
Easy Social Share Buttons for WordPress also lets webmasters add social share counters with their buttons. Best of all, you can set a minimum limit on the share counters which ensures that it’ll be hidden till the minimum value is reached.
Getting Started with Easy Social Share Buttons for WordPress
Now that we’ve covered the standout features Easy Social Share Buttons for WordPress has to offer, let’s walk through a tutorial on getting started with the plugin.
Installation
Once you’ve purchased the Easy Social Share Buttons for WordPress license, install it to your WordPress site using the steps outlined below:
- Log in to your WordPress admin panel.
- Navigate to Plugins > Add New.
- From the Add Plugins page, click on the Upload Plugin button in the top-left corner.
- Click Choose File to browse your computer’s drive and select the plugin’s .zip file.
- Click the Install Now button to proceed with the installation.
Once the plugin is installed, navigate to Plugins > Installed Plugins and activate it. You can tinker with Easy Social Share Buttons for WordPress’ extensive settings menu to fine tune the plugin for your site by clicking on the Settings button after plugin activation.
Adding a Customized Social Share Bar
To add a customized social share bar to our WordPress site using the flexible Easy Social Share Buttons for WordPress plugin, we’re going to start out by clicking on the Quick Setup Wizard button from the Settings panel.
This built-in feature makes it easy to set up a personalized set of social share buttons in minutes.
Step 1: Select the template you’d like to use for the social share buttons on your site and click Next to continue.
Step 2: Select the button style you’d like have implemented in your social share bar. From the same screen, you can also select:
- Button style
- Alignment
- Spacing
- Width
Step 3: Once you’re done customizing the appearance of the social share buttons, select the social media networks you’d like to have displayed and drag and drop them into your preferred order.
Step 4: If you’d like to display a running counter of social shares on your social buttons, toggle the Display counter of sharing button to Yes.
- Choose one counter update mode – Real-time or cached.
- Select display options for Button Counters and Total Counter.
Step 5: Select the post types and pages you’d like to display the social shares bar on.
Step 6: Select the placement of your social share buttons. The plugin’s settings enable you to select two locations:
- Primary content display position
- Additional button display position
Step 7: Those of you who receive significant traffic from mobile devices can fine tune the plugin’s mobile settings to alter the display position for mobile users.
Step 8: From the Final Settings screen, you can tick options to further optimize the social share buttons on your site.
That’s all there is to it! By now you should have a customized set of social share buttons added to selected post types and pages on your WordPress website.
Wrapping It Up
Easy Social Share Buttons for WordPress is one of the most flexible and feature-rich social sharing solutions out there. Its functionality and customization options make it an excellent choice for all sorts of WordPress sites.
In this article, we covered the standout features on offer with the Easy Social Share Buttons for WordPress and walked you through an in-depth tutorial to get started with the plugin. Hopefully, you’re in a better position now to take things further and customize the social share bar to your own personal preferences.
Have you tried Easy Social Share Buttons for WordPress? Did you run into any problems following the tutorial? We’d love to hear what you have to say so let us know in the comments section below!
Wonderful plugin for installing share buttons on the blog. I will love to install it on my blog. Thanks.