8 Best Free Wordpress social media plugins 2014

Looking for wordpress social media plugins? Here are the 8 Best Free Wordpress social media plugins of 2014

Social media play key role  to generate initial traffic to our new blog and also very helpful. After search engine social media's are the second useful sources to generate decent traffic from it. And social media's are also very curial for any online  marketing strategy.

To generate traffic from social Media's we should first have to share our content in it and allow our readers to share your content on their social profiles. To make our readers share our content we may have to provide them an option for it. Therefore, luckily wordpress users have a up point for it that they have huge collection of different plugins available to do so.

We have compiled 8 best wordpress social media plugins which make your social strategy easy for you. There are a lot of plugins available but we may use best plugins for our site which not friendly with your site.

Here we have choose the best social media plugins which are a lot prove friendly with your site.

Let's check them out.

ShareThis: Share Buttons and Social Analytics

This plugin is very useful and have great features. With this plugin you not only add share buttons in  your wordpress site but also get detailed analytics of the social shares. So, you can easily take a look on your social media that how far the targeted content goes on social media networks. T

This plugin is site friendly and not make a load on your site. Means by using this plugin your site not get slow.

This plugin also have multiple types of share buttons which are easily customizable. Below are the some important features of this plugin:
Here are the some features of this plugin:

Features:

• Choose from 120 social channels, including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Pinterest.
• Use small or large buttons, add counters or use one of the Sharing Bars
• Access to greater insights by creating a Social Analytics Dashboard account
• Daily sharing activity per registered domain
• Detailed reports on the top shared URLs of your site(s)
• Top social channel reports
• Analysis of the social quality of your site via SQI
• And many more...

Microblog Poster

This very helpful wp plugin and also save lot of time. This plugin automatically publish to social networks whenever you publish new content or post. This plugin also make cross posts between various social networks. 

Here are the currently supported social networks with this plugin:

1. twitter.com - Auto tweet backlink of new blogpost.
2. facebook.com - Auto publish to profile wall.
3. plurk.com - Auto post new plurk.
4. delicious.com - Auto submit bookmark of your blogpost to your account.
5. friendfeed.com - Auto update your status.
6. diigo.com - Auto submit bookmark of your new blogpost.
7. linkedin.com - Auto publish to profile wall
8. tumblr.com - Auto publish to your blog.
9. blogger.com (blogspot.com) - Auto publish to your blog.
10. instapaper.com - Auto submit bookmark of your new blogpost.

Features:

• Auto publish to social media networks your new blog content
• Sends out social signals and auto share to social media networks
• Social signals and backlinks auto generator
• Cross post to facebook , twitter and more
• Auto publish to facebook , tumblr
• Auto share to twitter , facebook , linkedin
• Auto post to social media networks

Floating Social Media Icon

This is another working and useful social sharing plugin. You can customize your social share buttons with 20+ different icon styles and also able make it sticky.  The another up point of this widget is that it provide a short code to you which you can use it anywhere in your site to display the sharing buttons at any place.
Here are the some features of this plugin:

Features:

• 20+ Icon Styles
• Multiple Social Media Widget Support
• Set Icon Size & Order
• Multiple Widget & Shortcode Support
• Auto/Manual Integration
• Enable/Disable Floating
• Most Downloaded Floating Social Network Plugin.
• Less Load - Essential Social Media Only
• Easy to Configure
• Detailed Help Documentation
• Featured Plugin On Many Plugin Review Sites
• Icons in content
• And many others...

Social Media Tabs

This is another great plugin which allow us to create social tabs in which we can add our profile of social feeds. We can also create custom tabs to add any external widget or to add php short code.  This plugin also provide a slider for social networks which can be used anywhere in the site.

We can easily configure the social tabs and feeds of different social networks.

Here are the some features of this plugin:

Features:

• Customize tabs
• Create custom widget tabs
• Multi functional tabs
• slider
• easily customizeable
• Easily manage social networks tabs
• many others..

Social Media Feather

Social media feather is also good light weight plugin which does not add much load at your site which make it slower. The another unique feature which it provide is that full support for the Retina and high resolution displays as used in iPad 5 and other devices!.
Here are the some features of this plugin:

Features:

• Integrated WordPress social sharing
• Full support for Retina and high resolution displays
• WordPress social sharing and following widgets
• Supports all major providers of social features
• Sharing with Facebook, Twitter, Google+, reddit, Pinterest, tumblr, Linkedin and e-mail
• Following on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest, Linkedin, YouTube, tumblr, instagram, flickr, foursquare, vimeo or RSS Feed
• Each social provider can be enabled or disabled
• Ability to select what services each provider will be exposed for
• Full customization for titles and URLs for each provider
• Super lightweight social sharing and following
• Fast unobtrusive social bookmarks for your site
• Comes with a default modern icon set

Share Buttons by AddToAny

With this plugin you can easily able to customize the sharing buttons as you want. This plugin provide a wide range icons of 100+ social networks and also mobile optimized. This plugin let able to add sharing buttons at the different pages, sidebar, between posts and anywhere you want. This plugin automatically integrated with the google analytics for social analytics.

You can also add a floating sharing bar in your site for both dimension vertical and horizental.
Here are the some features of this plugin:

Features:

• Floating share buttons — responsive & customizable, vertical & horizontal
• Vector sharing buttons
• Analytics Integration
• Mobile Optimized & Retina Ready
• Universal Share Button and Smart Menu
• Sharing Kit for individual share links
• Custom sharing icons
• Choose 100+ individual services
• 3rd party buttons include the Facebook Like Button, Twitter Tweet Button, Pinterest Pin It Button, Google+ Share Button and Google +1 Button
• Universal email sharing makes it easy to share via Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, Outlook.com, AOL Mail, and any other web and native apps.

Share Button Mashshare

This plugin is created by inspiring the mashable site theme. This plugin shows the total share counts of Facebook and Twitter at a glance It puts some beautiful and clean designed Share Buttons on top and end of your posts to get the best most possible social share feedback from your user. It´s inspired by the Share buttons Mashable is using on his website.

Features:

• Performance improvement
• Privacy protection for your user
• High-Performance caching functionality.
•  No further database requests than.
• Up to 10.000 free daily requests
• Up to 40.000 free additional daily requests with an api key (Get it free at sharedcount.com)
• Social buttons works with every Theme
• Works on pages and posts
• Automatic embedding or manual via Shortcode into posts and pages
• Simple installation and setup
• Uninstaller: Removes all plugin tables and settings in the WP database
• Service and support by the author
• Periodic updates and improvements. (Feel free to tell me your demand)
• More Share Buttons are coming soon.

Social Login, Social Sharing, Social Commenting and more!

This is another very useful plugin but it also have a downside that it have paid features with free. Means it not providing all the features in free version. To get access to full features then you need to buy this plugin. But it's free version also have some unique features.

Social Sharing feature is available with LoginRadius FREE plan where as Social Login and Social Commenting features are available with paid plans.

Features:

• Enable Social Sharing widget
• add social sharing widget anywhere
• share contents on over 90 social networks, can send contents in an email or can print!
• Choose social sharing interface designs
• A nice and clean user friendly WP admin U/I with tab structure with various options for social login, sharing and commenting
• Manage everything from your WP admin
• UI to manage Customize Social Login interface position - embed in or beside wp login/register form
• API connection check feature for error notification
• No programming skills required
• Its simple, secure and reliable
• REST API access and HTTPS support
• Compatible with Buddypress and bbPress
• Highly reliable as it runs on Cloud Computing with failover server support
• 24/7 community support, rich knowledge base, and active discussion forum
• Available in 9 languages

From editor's desk

Well, these are the some best wordpress social media plugins which may prove great in 2014. We hope that you like them and find them helpful. Let us know what you know about them.