ShareThis Share Buttons

by ShareThis

Description

Make it easy for your audience to share your content across 40+ of the most popular social channels including Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter, and Pinterest.

The free plugin includes the following features:

Configure your buttons to stay anchored on the sidebar as visitors scroll or inline near your headline or product on the page for ideal visibility
Customize the design including the alignment, size, and color (unlimited options) to match your brand
Increase social shares with our responsive, lightweight, code which loads asynchronously and won’t slow down your site.
Select your preferred language from over 15 options (English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Dutch, Arabic, Bengali, Hindi, Turkish, and Vietnamese).
Page and post editor controls which give you the power to enable or disable your buttons on specific posts and pages regardless of your default settings.

Start expanding the reach of your content organically and grow the audience of your WordPress website with the ShareThis Share Buttons plugin.

WordPress Features

Inline Share Buttons

Enable or disable inline share buttons at the top and bottom of post and page bodies.
Pixel perfect placement with top and bottom margin controls.
Shortcode and PHP snippets.
Page and post editor controls let you enable or disable inline share buttons on specific posts and pages regardless of your default settings.

Sticky Share Buttons

Enable or disable sticky share buttons on the home page, all pages, all posts, custom posts, author pages, as well as tag and category archives.
Exclude sticky share buttons on specific pages and category archives with a searchable page exception.
Page and post editor controls let you enable or disable sticky share buttons on specific posts and pages regardless of your default settings.

Privacy

By creating an account with ShareThis, you agree to our terms of use which includes the ability to keep track of user interactions with our buttons. You can read our privacy policy here: https://www.sharethis.com/privacy/

Questions? Submit an inquiry through our support forum and our team will be happy to assist.

Installation

Install ShareThis Share Buttons just like any other plugin. Simply download the file directly from this page or search for us in the WordPress directory and click “Install”. After you install and activate the plugin, simply configure your buttons and create an account.

If you’re already using the new ShareThis buttons, and want to migrate to our WordPress plugin, we’ve got your back. Install the plugin, then from the first configuration screen click, connect to an existing property. Login, and select your property from the list. We’ll sync your settings from our platform. Don’t forget to remove the hard coded JS, and any hard coded inline share button divs!

Screenshots

Inline share button design options.
Inline share button settings.
Example of Inline share buttons.
Sticky share button design options.
Sticky share button settings.
Example of Sticky share buttons.
Share button controls included on post and page editors.
Consent management platforom settings.

Faq

I reconfigured my buttons on the ShareThis platform, but nothing happened on my site. What’s going on here?

We cache your ShareThis platform button configurations (social networks, button size, labels etc.) to optimize their performance. Sometimes changes you make on the ShareThis platform take a couple minutes to update on your site. Also, if you activate a new button type from the settings page you may experience a similar lag.

Reviews

It's not saving the options.

By borayeris on April 25, 2025

The plug in looks promising but it's not saving the options.

Excelente plugin

By Carlos Peniche (cpeniche) on September 3, 2024

Busqué entre muchos, y encontré este que es perfecto. Me funcionó muy bien para mi WordPress Multisitio.

Best Social Share Plugin compared to others

By devshagor (shagors) on February 27, 2024

Seems everything is working as expect and working fine.

Everything seemed to be working as expected and functioning smoothly; however, despite their popularity, I did not find the options to share on Instagram and TikTok. I anticipate that these sharing options will be added in the next update.

Best Regards

Worst Ever. Button aren't properly show

By shaor on December 8, 2023

Fully Disappoint with this. I was wrong thought about it. I thought it will be good.

Error after last update

By web star egypt (webstaregypt) on October 21, 2023

The plugin has been updated to version 2.1.10 but it caused a fatal error that is saying:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ')' in /home/webstarc/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sharethis-share-buttons/php/class-share-buttons.php on line 511

Please advise!

Plugin Not Working Properly

By Mehadi Hasan Juber (mehadihasan01) on August 21, 2023

I already checked this plugin 4 months ago. Some of options not working properly. I think you should debug. This plugin wasted my time. So I give this feedback.

Not working.

By asif2369 on February 27, 2023

It does not work. Total waste of time.

I loved it

By Erika Barreto on January 14, 2023

I really liked the plugin! I use it in all my posts.
I like the support even more! Very thoughtful! And it went way beyond due discovering that the problem was in the template and how to fix it.
I just hope that maybe we will have other buttons in the future, like in the picture: prnt.sc/Q2ffEMlPlVfj
Thank you, guys. Happy new year.

How can I make it work with a catching plugin?

By mrlukas on April 25, 2022

I tried a few most popular catching plugin and when I turn them on it stops working. Do you have any recommendations how can I make it work with a catching plugin?

Warning!

By cybergrace on September 30, 2021

I don't care if ShareThis wants me to register an account, hey they are providing this service for free. What I do care about though is not having this plugin crash my site. Like an idiot I didn't preview my site with staging software and bam! this plugin created a white space on the top of my website. Eek! So, I uninstalled it. It was still there. So I clicked into the white space and hit delete to try and get rid of the white space. It got rid of most of it, but it gave me errors in my header file and I could no longer update any posts or pages! Of course "I'm sorry" didn't cut it for my client so I had to export files and delete WordPress & theme install and re-set up! I was using an up-to-date block-based premium Genesis theme (Mai theme), not a cheap theme. So... warning. If you use this plugin, be sure to use staging software or this could happen to you too.

Changelog

2.3.7

Fix dir path
Fix minute control warning
Test in 6.8.2

2.3.6

Fix fatal error.

2.3.5

Fix text domain warning.
Fix metabox controls.
Fix post warning.
Test to 6.8.1.

2.3.4

Add Bluesky and Threads networks

2.3.3

Test wp ver 6.7.1

2.3.2

Additional security checks.

2.3.1

Fix XSS security hole in shortcode

2.3.0

Fix 8.2 deprecations.
Test wp ver 6.5.2.

2.2.0

Add new social networks.

2.1.11

Remove leading commas for backwards compatibility

2.1.10

Remove restapi action.

2.1.9

Fix position option saves.
Fix random enable on update.

2.1.8

Fix missing update/reset buttons.
Fix conflict with other share this menus.

2.1.7

Add check for first product use.

2.1.6

Test with WordPress 6.1.1.

2.1.5

Add source.

2.1.4

Add disable/enable tool buttons to gdpr.
Fix reset if tool is turned off and on.

2.1.2

Add disable tool button.s

2.1.1

Fix issue with PHP 5.X compatibility.

2.1.0

Add smart share buttons.
Add new social networks options.

2.0.0

Remove account registration.
Add custom share button color options.
Change UI to tabs.

1.5.8

Test with WordPress 6.0.1 and PHP8.

1.5.7

Fix critical error.
Test with WordPress 5.9.2.
Remove random gif.

1.5.6

Sanitize inputs/outputs and improve code quality.
Test with WordPress 5.9.1.

1.5.5

Fix Ajax
Test with WordPress 5.9.

1.5.4

Fix markup for data-url output.

1.5.3

Fix jquery attr call and php warning.
Remove GDPR global scope.

1.5.2

Add Snapchat, BLM and Live Journal network options.

1.5.1

Fix position config update save.

1.5.0

Fix missing update in stick config.
Fix language selector.

1.4.1

Fix GDPR compliance on/off.

1.4.0

Added GDPR compliance tool option and config.

1.3.0

Fix registration sticky configurations.
Add DB data removal on deactivate.
Add new companies to network list.
Add notice for ad blockers.

1.2.10

Fix endpoint update.

1.2.9

Add German to language list.
Remove Native counts.
Replace api endpoints.

1.2.8

Made WordPress 5+ compatible.
Added new Gutenberg block category and block for adding inline buttons.
Fixed backwards compatibility for accounts without secrets.

1.1.8

Added multi-language options for translating share buttons.

1.1.7

Added loading gifs to registration to avoid user double clicks.
Added new Messenger button to network list.

1.1.6

Menu logic for use by future ShareThis plugins.
Fix button size selector.

1.1.5

Create an account and design your share buttons without leaving the plugin!
Link the plugin and sync buttons settings with an existing property on our Platform.

1.0.5

Add a widget for sidebars to include buttons.

1.0.4

Added data-url attribute to non the-excerpt filter excerpts.

1.0.3

Fixed random share buttons on homepage base issue.

1.0.2

Changed first product set function to add if doesn’t exist instead of looking at transient.

1.0.1

Fixed excerpt filter solving excerpt display issue.

1.0.0

Brand new plugin submission.