Best Responsive Social Plugin?

byMEisenberg

947 followers

9 years ago

No offense to Kyle and the rest of you who are fans of the Sociable plugin, but that just wasn't cutting it for me. I needed more than just the icons at the bottom of the post.

I needed the nice streamlined look of the left-floating desktop sidebar and the responsive mobile bottom bar.

In addition I wanted icons both above and below my content.

After a lot of researching, and a lot of installing and deleting of many different plugins, I found Share Buttons by AddThis.

It totally delivered. Gave me everything I was looking for and more.

A lot of times I was torn whether to only show Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Google+ (the platforms I was active on), thus sacrificing the visitor's ability to share elsewhere, or whether to show all the platforms, and risk the sidebar looking too bulky and distracting.

AddThis has a feature which chooses the best four or five icons based on location and web activity. Dilemma solved!

And all that for free. No upgrade required! Highly, highly recommend it!

Hope that helps some of you who have been wracking your brain over social plugins.

Best of success to all,

Mark