10 Best WordPress Plugins to Add Floating Social Buttons on Your blog

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Floating Social Buttons allow social media share options to remain on your screen no matter where the user is. You can choose vertical, horizontal, large or small buttons and enable the Twitter bird to fly across the screen.

The biggest advantage is instant connect, where the reader to your blog can share your content with the world through LinkedIn, Facebook, Google Plus, Twitter, Stumbleupon, Reddit, Digg etc. When you consider the importance that Google gives to votes on social media sites, Floating Social Buttons become essential.

Floating Social Buttons

When you look for Plugins, ensure they have great features and support options for great service. Here are our top 10 recommendations for the best WordPress Plugins to add floating social buttons to your blog.

Floating Social Buttons for Your Blog

1. Sociable

Sociable has cool options including drag and drop for prioritizing those social media sites you prefer and backend options. Do you want your own media icons displayed on your blog? No problem! Sociable will allow you to do that too.

2. Sharebar

Often considered to be the best plugin in social sharing, this plugin allows you to add a vertical box that can be customized, to the left of your blog post. You will be able to find the most popular social media sites and dress them up in your choice of colors, backgrounds and margins.

3. GetSocial

Get Social

GetSocial adds a lightweight and intelligent floating social media sharing box on your blog posts. It’s really easy to add any other Social Sharing buttons, just by adding a code snippet to it. It is also looks great that you get the option to fade out the background and only have the buttons floating down.

4. Sexy Bookmarks/ Shareaholic

To ensure that you never have to choose what’s most important among index, posts and pages, this plugin lets you bookmark all three or a combination you’d like. Use analytics to help you keep track of shares and get to some of the best social media sites and bookmark them. If you want more, more, more, choose this plugin with a massive number of options and features. Analytics, number count, widgets for better page view- you’ll find it all in Shareaholic.

5. Digg Digg

The most used plugin of 2012, Digg Digg allows you to choose a static button at the bottom or the top or a floating sidebar and you are guaranteed better page loading speed with the lazy load effect.

6. ShareThis

This plugin gives you access to all the top social media sites like Google +1, Facebook, Twitter and Send. You can choose between big buttons, simple icons or those with counters. ShareThis takes its sharing seriously as is evident from the Social Quality Index for publishers to gain the maximum value for content.

7. Social Metrics

Social-Metrics

Social Metrics will help you track the popularity of your blog on social media sites. It does this by showing the share buttons with your blog posts. This will help you keep track of the traffic to your blog.

8. Simple Share Buttons

This plugin has ten buttons on the administrator panel. You can decide on how the buttons look and display them on pages like Tags, Single Page, Homepage and Categories. You can access Twitter and FB too.

9. Social Widgets

If you’re looking for simple sharing methods and Twitter, Facebook and Google Plus will do for you, just install the plugin and the buttons will show up with your posts. Whether it is Flickr or Yelp, sizes or icons, animation or alignment, social widgets are easy to use and effective as well.

10. WP Socializer

WP Socializer is an advanced plugin for inserting all kinds of Social bookmarking & sharing buttons. It has super cool features to insert the buttons into posts, sidebar. It also has Floating sharebar.

With Floating Social Buttons, there is a lot more you can do with your blog. The buttons extend the visibility and life of your content and are vital tools to have, in making your presence felt, in a word-filled world.

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