How To Add WhatsApp Sharing Button On WordPress For More Traffic

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Update: I have updated this article with a new plugin which also supports iOS.

Add WhatsApp Sharing Button On WordPress
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A few days back, I shared the best Social media sharing plugins for WordPress, and most of these plugins are optimized for web-version of your blog. You must be aware of the fact that mobile usage is increasing every day, and it’s important for you to optimize your mobile version of the site for sharing and conversions.

When it comes to mobile Apps, Whatsapp is one of the most popular messaging apps and you must be having it right now on your phone. Since Whatsapp is now available on web, it’s important for you to add it as a part of your blog marketing & promotion.

Have you ever thought of adding Whatsapp sharing button on your blog? Imagine what kind of immense traffic it can bring to your site as it will make sharing so easier. Your readers read an article, and if they find it interesting they can quickly forward it to their friends/team view Whatsapp.

Before I share the way to add Whatsapp button on your WordPress blog, let me quickly share some interesting stats with you.

Popular Website Buzzfeed added WhatsApp button sometime back, and now Whatsapp button is generating more share than Twitter Share button. In a conversation with Re-code, Buzzfeed President Jon Steinberg added: “Every time we looked at WhatsApp’s numbers, it blew us away“.

After all, it makes complete sense as Whatsapp sharing button on mobile phone works like “Email to friend” option and the difference are that it’s faster and happens in real-time. Undoubtedly it has the power to make anything go viral too.

Let’s look at the way by which you can add Whatsapp social sharing button on your blog. WhatsApp button was earlier available only on Android, and now it supports iOS too. The first plugin listed below supports iOS only.

WhatsApp Share button plugin for iOS & Android

Update: Socialwarfare WordPress Plugin supports whatsapp & works seamlessly on Android & iOS.

WhatsApp share button is the simplest plugin to add Whatsapp button on your blog. This is a free plugin, and it also supports URL tracking via Google Analytics.

I suggest not to enable this, as it adds an extra parameter to the URL shared by your readers, and it makes it look ugly. This could be avoided if the plugin is integrated with any URL shortener. You can download the plugin from here.

The plugin comes with settings option, and you can automatically add the Whatsapp button on posts, pages including all your custom post type. You also have an option to add the button manually via Shortcode. (I’m using this plugin here at ShoutMeLoud)

How to Add Whatsapp sharing button on your blog-

Here is a step by step guide for you to use this plugin. Download & install Social Warfare plugin.

Go to SocialWarfare settings > Display & move the whatsapp button from inactive to Active

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Click on save & that’s it! Social Warfare plugin will take care of showing Whatsapp sharing button on your mobile device.

Here are other plugins that you can use to add Whatsapp sharing button on your WordPress website:

If you know of more plugins which now supports Whatsapp sharing button, you can let me know via comments.

Overall, After Pocket button, this is the second new sharing button I’m trying here at ShoutMeLoud, and I will share my learning soon. I will look forward to your experience and traffic details after integrating Whatsapp sharing button on your blog.

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A Blogger, Author and a speaker! Harsh Agrawal is recognized as a leader in digital marketing and FinTech space. Fountainhead of ShoutMeLoud, and a Speaker at ASW, Hero Mindmine, Inorbit, IBM, India blockchain summit. Also, an award-winning blogger.

43 thoughts on “How To Add WhatsApp Sharing Button On WordPress For More Traffic”

  1. StatusXP

    Social Warfare is very good plugin. I am using Newspaper theme and it has built in WhatsApp sharing, but when I on the feature still it’s not showing on my website. Anybody know this issue? Please help.

  2. Harpreet Kumar

    Wow was really helpful for me because i used to get lot of Mobile visitors than desktop visitors. I am sure after adding a Whatsapp Share button is going to be really helpful to increase my blog traffic. Thanks sir 🙂

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