When ever you write something on your blog you always want to share it with others, even your blog readers want the same (if they like it off course) . To do this there are lots of wordpress plugins available giving readers the ability to bookmark your site to a number of social networking and bookmarking sites.
I tried to compile a list of more than 35 plugins that will let you make your WordPress blog more social. I suggest you do not install all of them just choose one which you like the most or think is the best.
1. Sociable
Sociable is a plugin which adds social media buttons to your posts, and does so easily, and beautifully.
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2. Bookmark Me
Bookmark me is a WordPress plugin made to add the “social bookmark buttons” on each post. It is different to other social bookmarks plugins because it’s focused on collecting non-english bookmarks site.
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3. Bookmarkify
The Social Media Marketing Plugin that lets you put social bookmarking links in your posts and other pages. Help your readers promote your blog and watch your traffic grow!
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4. ShareThis
This is very widely used plugin.
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5. PingPressFM
PingPressFM is a WordPress plugin which submits your posts to Ping.fm. A service which can update more than 30 snetworks from one source.
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6. obsocialbookmarker
obsocialbookmarker is a social bookmarking plugin which adds user-submission links at the bottom of each post for various social bookmarking sites.
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7. iBegin Share
iBegin Share is the 100% open source solution that makes sharing and spreading your content easier than ever, all while giving you complete control.
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8. I Love Social Bookmarking
I Love Social Bookmarking is a simple WordPress plugin that allows your readers to submit your content to social media services via a clutter-free drop-down list of attractive icons.
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9. Social Bookmarking RELOADED
The Social Bookmarking RELOADED plugin for WordPress adds a list of XHTML compliant graphic links at the end of your posts and/or pages that allow your visitors to easily submit them in a number of social bookmarking sites.
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10. Social Bookmarks
Gives you 50 social bookmarking submission icons to choose from including all of the major bookmarking services and lots of smaller ones.
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11. Social Dropdown
This plugin displays several social bookmarking options in a dropdown. Unlike other social bookmarking displays, this does not cause clutter and takes up little screen space.
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12. SociBook
A really simple plugin that will add bookmark links of Del.icio.us, Digg it, Slashdot, RawSugar, Yahoo! MyWeb, and many other links to your wordpress. You can decide which bookmark services you want to show and in what order. You also can define, a own iconset.
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13. SocioFluid
SocioFluid adds to your wordpress posts the buttons to the major bookmarking sites.
I am using this plugin on this blog. As i like its look and big icons display.
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14. WP PunchCard
WP PunchCard is a WordPress plugin for installing PunchCard into WordPress with extreme simplicity.
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15. ComplexLife
This is a lifestreaming WP plugin.
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16. Follow Me
The Follow Me widget allows you to display links to all your social media profiles in one, easy-to-access button or window.
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17. LifeStream
Lifestream displays your social feeds and photos much like you would see it on many of the social networking sites.
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18. Meet Your Commenters
When someone comments on your blog and writes a comment with his/her URL, is leaving more information than you think. This wordpress plugin displays web pages and profiles of those users in the dashboard, so you can add them as friends if you are in the same social network
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19. Retaggr
Using this plugin you can make your virtual business card which links to your social networking profiles.
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20. SezWho
Using this plugin you can make your virtual business card which links to your social networking profiles.
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21. Social Homes
A WordPress plug-in which adds a sidebar widget containing a subtle list of all your social homes as linked favicons.
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22. Digg Digg
Digg Digg is a social vote button wordpress plugin, which including Digg, Reddit, Dzone and Yahoo Buzz buttons wordpress content integration.
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23. Digg This
Digg this wordpress plugin is a plugin that detects incoming links from Digg.com to your wordpress post and automatically display a link back to the digg post, for people to digg your story.
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24. DiggZ-Et
It automatically displays a “digg” button for each post/page.
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25. Dugg Widget
Displays your past 10 dugg stories and make it a widget.
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26. FriendFeed Activity Widget
The FriendFeed Activity Widget is a simple WordPress widget plugin that pulls your FriendFeed stream, pretties it up a bit and shares it with visitors to your blog. It’s essentially a lifestream plugin that requires just a few steps to set up.
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27. FriendFeed Comments WordPress Plugin
This plugin will allow you to display on your own site the comments that people make on FriendFeed about your post.
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28. Stumble Reviews
Allows you to add the reviews that appear on StumbleUpon (StumbleUpon reviews) for a given page to be displayed on that page.
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29. Twitter Updater
The Twitter Updater automatically sends a Twitter status update to your Twitter account when you create, publish, or edit your WordPress post.
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30. WordPress Twitter Widget
Twitter Widget Pro properly handles twitter feeds, including @username and link parsing, feeds that include friends or just one user, and can even display profile images for the users.
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31. WP-Profilactic
The WP-Profilactic Plugin publishes your LifeStream or informs readers where to find you online by parseing your aggregated online activity feed from Profilactic.
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32. Hocus Pocus Buttons
Hocus Pocus Buttons is a WordPress-Plugin that provides sidebar widget with a widerange set of buttons for social bookmarking websites.
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33. KnxDT Bookmarks
With this plugin you can send and share your favorites posts (your readers can do this too) to popular social bookmarking services like Digg, Meneame, Delicious, Technorati, Yahoo, Google.
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34. Gregarious
The Gregarious plugin supersedes the Digg This Reloaded Plugin and allows for seamless integration between your WordPress Blog and social bookmarking sites such as Digg.com, Del.icio.us, Reddit and more.
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35. Hey Social
Hey Social is the coolest way to interact with the visitors of your blog,
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If you are already using anyone of above do comment about its usability and function.
Great post. I’ll certainly share this with my subscribers. As an avid blogger, I’m always looking for ways to automate my blogging and other Web 2.0 tasks.
Cómo se llama ese plugin que usas para presentar tus botones de social media ??
(Like this post? Share it!)
Llevo buscando por todos lados y no encuentro, mashable también lo usa, pero no veo como.
Gracias
Thank you for your great post. I also made a list of Top 15 Social bookmarking WordPress Plugin. Pls come and visit if you care.
Great list, thanks for sharing
Wow I’m totally blwon away by the list.Thanks for sharing some of the useful plugins for wordpress.
great list ! well done. what plugin are you using for your social media buttons at the bottom of your article?
i am using SocioFluid plugin
Great post! Checking out a few I was not familiar with.
I personally prefer AddToAny – they have a great subscribe tool as well.
another very good plugin: http://www.addthis.com
Nice list, but I personally prefer creating my own social bookmarking list.
For swedish users, the Sociable WP plugin is available here: http://www.joinsimon.se/social-swe/
I love it! That is way cool man! The steps weren’t that complicated too, which is great.
Very nice blog. I totally agree with your thoughts.
Thanks for good post
Excellent blog, very imformative and to the point, keep up the good work.
Great post! Just wanted to let you know you have a new subscriber- me!
Thanks. I was looking all over for something like SocioFluid.
I really liked this post. Can I copy it to my site? Thank you in advance.
The best information i have found exactly here. Keep going Thank you
I’ve just got downloaded sociable. Thanks anyway.
Just came across your post. I found it informative for me and I’m sure many others. I did also have small trouble subscribing to the blog but figured it out; I’m still a 2-finger typist
. Thank you and keep your blogging spirit going strong.
I usually don’t post in Blogs but your blog forced me to, amazing work.. beautiful …
Its really an awesome list. Thanks for sharing good things.
Thanks mate…i really needed this badly
The best information i have found exactly here. Keep going Thank you
woow.. The list is very nice Thanks a lot
Wow! Thank you! I always wanted to write in my site something like that. Can I take part of your post to my blog?
Great list, thanks so much for sharing. Great work.
Thanks for sharing …
Very nice Post! Really love it your post! thank you very much for your Information
I don’t know If I said it already but …Hey good stuff…keep up the good work!
I read a lot of blogs on a daily basis and for the most part, people lack substance but, I just wanted to make a quick comment to say I’m glad I found your blog. Thanks,)
A definite great read..Tony Brown
Great post! I tried out “Hey Social” (no. 35 on the list), but didn’t get that to work on on WordPress. So I went all the way up to no. 1, Sociable, and that works as a charm. Impressive amount of services to choose from there!
thanks for this article i love it !
really useful article. which plugin do you use on this site?
Hey there!
Thanks for the post, I am curious which plugin you used to get your facebook,twitter and link icons on the left of your browser window?
it’s “Cute Profiles” plugin
Great post, i was just thinking of using some social tools like these, it’s really cool. thanks
thanks for this article it’s really nice
That’s a cool collection of sharing tools. Thank you. I use “addthis” on my site. It looks pretty nice and is very customizable.
thnnx a lot ,my blog is so dull ,may be i’ll use some of these
Thank you . But I want one which counts the “hits” , like the facebook counter you are using (which is NOT SocioFluid you mentioned in 13 that you are using).
So which one are YOU using in this blog, that displays clicks count?
Thanks bro! Nice summary of these social bookmarking plugins. I will use a few of them immediately. Cheers
Hi.. what plugin do you use to put the bookmark icons at the bottom of your posts??
well i did it manually
Great lists, but it is better if all the plugins have screenshots, so i have not to try all the plugins.
It takes time.
BTW thanks.
Hi, great list but would you like to share the name of the plugin that you use (left side).
Thanks
nice info. thanks..
I’ll choose one of them.
Thanks for this wonderful list! Going to check few right now.
Nice article. I’m using digg digg
Wondering can u suggest any plugin where the counts of the shares on facebook, stumbleupon, twitter and digg also shows?
Thanks for the post, I am curious which plugin you used to get the “LIKE THIS POST?”SHARE IT?” thang added to the end of your post!?
Can you please help me with that info
well Sascha i was using plugin before but now i have done it manually
Many Thanks! I got them workin!
Many thanks. Useful collection.
Very Useful collection, nice article… , Thank you …
sociable is the one that i use, i find other bookmarking plugins not to work very well.
Nice Tips Thanx
Thanks for sharing. I was looking for some good ones.
I love ShareThis plugin and using it on my blog.
thanks for sharing.. it help me a lot
Can you tell me how to get the plugin for the “share it” you have at the bottim. I have seen it at the top of many blogs too. I actually think this may not be a plugin. If not, do you know of a turtorial to add those? (howtomakemyblog.com has it at the top of the post) Thanks.
Thanks for the list. Although some of these plugins are broken for the newest version 3.*.*
Surprised that Sexy Bookmarks isn't listed here.
Thanks for the review. Very comprehensive list. Sexy bookmarks and addthis wordpress plugin which is nice, small and unobtrusive. Both worth taking a look at depending on what you need. Thanks
Agreed with you,.Nicely put and good as reference to me and everybody.Definitely will bookmark this page.Thanks!
Hi there, great list you have there. I just wanted to ask, which plugin you used for the “You might also like” at the bottom of your post?
Hi there, great list you have there. I just wanted to ask, which plugin you used for the “You might also like” at the bottom of your post?
very good blog and very interesting article I also I have a blog and utilis wordperss and wondered how I could put these issues in my blog
Thanks for this! any plan on updating this?
I did also have small trouble subscribing to the blog but figured it out; I’m still a 2-finger typist
. Thank you and keep your blogging spirit going strong
Bloy very good and very interesting article liked me to come back to visit you sure thank you for all
thanx
Thanks for these great plugins
This is really a great post from an expert and
thank you very much for sharing this enlightening information around. I was looking wordpress plug-in. Its really useful for me.
thanks,
wow cool!!
nice plugin!!
Which is the plug in on the side of this page, I am envious, where do I go to get it?
Quite surprised to see Sexy Bookmarks is not on your list.
Hey, Awesome post. can you please tell me which little floating plugin you are using in your sidebar right now to share content ??
Than 35 plugins, I choose SocioFluid and I already use for my blog. SocioFluid looks simple and I like it. thank you …
Great List of Plugins. I have used Share This…