{"id":315,"date":"2015-08-31T17:45:03","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T00:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.opte.website\/?p=315"},"modified":"2018-05-16T13:17:34","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T13:17:34","slug":"picking-a-social-media-plugin-for-your-new-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opte.io\/blog\/picking-a-social-media-plugin-for-your-new-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media plugins and your new Opte Website"},"content":{"rendered":"

Social Media is the bread and butter of online presence.<\/h2>\n

In today’s internet, social media<\/strong> has become a pillar of online presence, as it is undeniably one of the best ways to share your content with the ever growing audience of the world wide web.\u00a0By integrating social bookmarking and sharing buttons, you will let your readers quickly share your blog posts on their favorite social networking sites. This will help you to drive more traffic from social media sites and it helps to improve your\u00a0search engine ranking<\/strong> (SEO).<\/p>\n

You may already know the\u00a0advantages of social media sharing for SEO<\/a>, and how\u00a0important it is for every blogger or web person to add social media sharing buttons to\u00a0their site\u00a0from day one. There are many WordPress social media plugins which will let you do that, and in this article is a compiled list of some of the best plugins you can use to build\u00a0your online presence through social media.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Keep in mind that with web design, as discussed in the blog on choosing a color scheme<\/a>, less is more. Simplicity is a key tool in communication, and this goes for social media integration as well. We’ll start with the basics.<\/p>\n

WordPress Floating Social Sharing Buttons – simple and efficient<\/h2>\n

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Here is WordPress’s solution for adding floating social media sharing buttons<\/strong> with counters. Using this plugin, you can add social media sharing buttons to both\u00a0your desktop and mobile site. This plugin supports all popular social media buttons with counters, and you can enable or disable any of the plugin\u2019s placements.<\/p>\n

Jetpack. WP’s favorite multi-functional plugin. Powerful and versatile<\/h2>\n

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Jetpack<\/strong> is one of the most popular WordPress plugins, and it has the capacity to add many features to\u00a0your blog. One of the features of this plugin allows you to add social-media sharing buttons to\u00a0your blog. If you are using the Jetpack plugin, you can activate the sharing module and add these buttons. You can learn more about the\u00a0Jetpack plugin<\/a> here. You can also check out this official page<\/a> on activating Jetpack sharing buttons.<\/p>\n

Social Media Icons Widget. Another way useful way to display<\/h2>\n

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The Social Media Icons<\/strong> widget takes a simple, extendable approach to displaying links to your social media profiles in WordPress. The purpose of this plugin was to strip away the complexities I found most other plugins to have and simply display a set of basic social icons in an unordered list. There’s no frills and no fanciness, making it easy to style to your website’s look.<\/p>\n

Last but not least, Opte’s favorite social media solution, the sexy, end-all be-all or wordpress social media plugins, Monarch<\/strong> by Elegant Themes.<\/h2>\n

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If you are looking for a paid social media sharing plugin for your Opte site, look no further than Monarch. Not only does this plugin let you add social media sharing buttons in\u00a0various places on your blog, the buttons\u00a0are created with a goal\u00a0of encouraging sharing. This plugin looks beautiful on any theme, and can be customized to fit any color scheme or design. We think it looks especially great with Divi. Find out more about Monarch, in this video:<\/p>\n