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Social Media Widget

By Blink Web Effects

Communication & Messaging / Email Newsletter & Broadcasting

Social Media Widget Review - In-Depth Analysis

The Social Media Widget allows you to add links to your social media profiles with customizable icons. Choose from various sizes, styles, and animations to enhance your sidebar.

Performance Overview

WPS Score

6.97/10

User Rating

3.9/5 (based on 84+ reviews)

Active Installations

30,000+

Update Frequency

Average It is calculated using the weighted average of same category plugins.

Security Score

3 / 10 (Low Risk) It is calculated using the weighted average of all versions.

What It Does

The Social Media Widget is a simple sidebar widget that enables users to input their social media profile URLs and display icons on their website. These icons link to various social media platforms and open in a new browser window.

This widget supports numerous social media sites, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and more. You can select from multiple icon sizes and styles, ensuring a perfect fit for your site's design.

Additionally, the widget offers animation options, allowing icons to fade in, scale, or bounce. You can also customize hover text and decide whether to use the nofollow attribute in your links.

Comparing to Alternatives

Social Media Widget is a straightforward plugin for adding social media icons to your WordPress site. When compared to similar plugins, it offers basic functionality with some customization options.

Top alternatives

Strengths

Allows custom ordering of social media services
Supports adding custom services not listed by default
Simple and easy to use interface

Weaknesses

Outdated icon designs, such as old Instagram branding
Lacks advanced styling and modern icon sets
No pro version with enhanced features
Some users report issues with plugin behavior affecting site access

User Sentiment Analysis

User feedback on Social Media Widget is mixed, with appreciation for its ease of use but concerns about outdated design and functionality issues.

Positive highlights

"Easy to use. I like the flexibility of listing the services in whatever order I want." - Laura Byrne
"Good job" - fotodziadek
"I can customize for a service that is not listed." - Laura Byrne
"I want the discord icon in my Social Media Widget" - perdage

Common complaints

Outdated icon styles, especially Instagram icon
Plugin may lock users out or cause login issues
Attempts to collect email addresses for marketing
Lacks certain desired icons like Discord

Weaknesses

Old branding on some icons
Reported site access problems by some users
Limited icon selection
No updates to modernize appearance

Who Should Use This?

Best for

Users seeking a simple and easy-to-use social media icon plugin with basic customization options and no need for advanced features.

Not ideal for

Those who want modern, up-to-date icon designs, advanced styling options, or a plugin with active development and premium features.

Pricing & Value

Free version includes

The free version includes basic social media icon widgets with customizable order and the ability to add custom services.

Final Verdict

Social Media Widget is a simple and user-friendly plugin suitable for basic social media icon needs, but it suffers from outdated icon designs and some reported functionality issues.

Users looking for a modern, actively maintained plugin with premium features may want to consider alternative options.

Other Notable Features

Here are a few other notable features of this free Social Media Widget plugin.

Social media widget

Social media icons

Social media links

Screenshots

FAQ

The easiest way to include translating the Social Media widget is to install the qTranslate Plugin then using the following (example) code in the “Widget Title” and “Image Caption” text fields:

<!--:nl-->Volg ons<!--:--><!--:en-->Follow us<!--:--><!--:fr-->Suivre nous<!--:-->

Use the README.txt for that plugin for more usage.

Contributors and developers

“Social Media Widget” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Blink Web Effects

noahkagan

Free Version

WPS

6.97

Average

Ratings

3.9 out of 5 | 84

Version

4.0.9

Last updated

2 years ago

Active installations

30,000+

WordPress version

6.4.10 or higher

PHP version

or higher

Languages

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Social Media Widget Review - In-Depth Analysis

Performance Overview

What It Does

Comparing to Alternatives

User Sentiment Analysis

Who Should Use This?

Pricing & Value

Final Verdict

Other Notable Features

Screenshots

FAQ

Contributors and developers

Ratings

Reviews (84)

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Contributors & Developers

Interested in development?

Changelog

Security Status

Secure

No Unpatched Vulnerabilities

Known Vulnerabilities (2)

Previous Versions

WPS

6.97

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