Building Your Own Social Sharing Plugin for WordPress

A social sharing plugin allows your website visitors to share your website content easily on social media sites. This helps to increase the overall awareness of your website.

There are already dozens of existing social sharing plugins that you can just install and be done with it, but where's the fun in that?

In this tutorial, I'll show you how to build your very own social sharing plugin for WordPress from scratch, which can add social sharing buttons below every post. Users can share the post simply by clicking on the desired social media site button.

Why Do You Need Social Media Share Buttons?

It's often reported that more than 80% of users consider reading content based on their friends’ recommendations. With social sharing, you give users the ability to share your content with their own networks of friends.

More than 40 billion shares are clicked each day on the web, therefore adding social sharing buttons on your WordPress website is first step to helping to market your site.

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by Narayan Prusty via SitePoint