9 best social media wordpress plugins in 2014

Every blogger and website owner knows that the best source to get more traffic is through social media. You may use Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Google Plus or Instagram. But signing up with these sites isn’t enough to get more traffic.

What do you need then to increase your traffic through these sites? Experts recommend implementing social media widgets on your site. These widgets will allow your readers to share your post through their social media accounts. As a result, your posts will get anywhere.

But not all social media widgets are created equal. In this post, you’ll find the best widgets that you can use on your Worpress site to help you boost your traffic from social networking sites.

Metro Style Social Widget

MetroStyleSocialWidget

What this widget does isn’t just integrating your social networks but it makes sharing stylish and modern. It’s a plugin that doesn’t have fluff. The widget created is responsive so it’ll automatically resize depending on the user’s screen size. It gives your users the chance to share your post anywhere.

Social Media Widget

SocialMediaWidget

The number of downloads says it all. More than a million of Wodpress users have already downloaded and used this widget to their respective websites or blogs. You can choose from different icon sizes: 16×16, 24×24, 32×32, and 64×64. Or you can customize it according to your preference. It also comes with multiple animations.

Social Stickers

SocialStickers

The social networks are displayed in the form of stickers. It’s fully customizable and you can make your own theme. It supports shortcodes and it’s compatible with Wodrpress 3.5.2. It doesn’t only support the most popular social networking sites but also other not-so-popular ones.

Simple Social Icons

SimpleSocialIcons
With this widget, you can choose which social profiles to link to. You can customize its color and size of the icons. You can also opt to display it on the left, center or right. Currently, it supports WordPress 3.7 or higher.

Simply Instagram

SimpleInstagram

As the title suggests, it displays your photos from your Instagram account through this widget. It supports integration of shortcodes. You customize image display. It also comes with an option to display or not to display your profile within this widget. It has @username function that makes it easier for your visitors to follow you on Instagram.

Instapress

Instapress

It’s another widget that lets you display your Instagram photos in your site’s sidebar, post or page. It supports different languages, like German, French and Turkish. This widget lets you choose the number of Instagram photos you’d like to display.

Kebo Twitter Feed

KeboTwitterFeed

This is a great plugin to add Twitter feed to your site. It’s user-friendly and it doesn’t affect your site’s loading time. It’s also compatible with any Wodpress sites regardless of their hosts.

Facebook Like Box

FacebookLikeBox

To attract more likes to your Facebook page, use this widget that’s been trusted by more than 400,000 people. Your readers will know the number of fans you have on your page and which of their friends have already liked your page. This widget also displays your recent posts from your Facebook page.

Tweetily

Tweetily

To further drive traffic to your site, Tweetily will promote your posts to your Twitter followers. You can set the time and the number of tweets you’d like to promote and this widget will do the rest. Not only that. It

also uses hashtags to make targeting more focused.

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