When I wrote my earlier post on best social media sharing WordPress plugin, I realized there are few more plugins which need to be on the list. Especially I couldn’t find many options for floating social sharing buttons and one of the most popular plugin till now is Digg-Digg.
Here at ShoutMeLoud I use SumoMe plugin to show floating social sharing buttons both on desktop & mobile.
SumoMe WordPress plugin is one of the easy to configure plugin for showing beautiful looking social sharing buttons on your blog posts. This service supports all major social network sites such as Twitter, Fb, LinkedIn, Pocket, Google plus and Buffer. These social sharing buttons help in getting more social share as it stays all the time in the visible area while someone is reading your content.
This also supports adding social sharing buttons in your mobile view of the site. The placement can be controlled
How to configure SumoMe WordPress plugin?
To get started with SumoMe, you need to create a free account here.
Add your website URL & click on Try it now.
This will complete your signup & next stage it to add SumoMe on your blog. If you are using WordPress you can easily integrate it with plugin. I have a video below which shows you how to use it. You can simply search for “Floating social share bar” from Add plugins option and install it on your blog. Once you have installed and activated the plugin, you will configure the plugin by going to Settings >SumoMe.
One good thing about SumoMe is; it also supports other platform. So if you have a side project which is not on WordPress, you can still integrate the social media sharing button on them using SumoMe.
Now, I suggest you to watch these two videos which will show how exactly SumoMe works & how you can configure it for your blog:
The updated version of plugin now enables social sharing button on your WordPress mobile site. The buttons are responsive and mobile friendly.
Don’t forget to share this plugin with your friends on Facebook and Google plus.
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Harsh, my blog has adsense ads. Will there be any problem if I use your floating social media plugin.
Coz i have read it somewhere.
I like it, but de-activated because it shown content of my one page, privacy policy disappeared, it was showing before, after activating, i was surfing , content was not there, After i de-activate, content showing
Don’t know why, if you want to solve it, reply and i will reply back…I have clicked on : Notify me of follow-up comments by email.
Thank you, Nice plugin, two suggestions, make popup window for it and fix that problem!
I have installed this plugin it is working properly.Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
Hello Harsh, I’m having problems with the plugin. After I added the plugin, I’m seeing URL of each post on the first line of the post. I first thought that this was caused by deactivating the FLARE plugin I used first, but the problem is caused by your plugin. I really loved this plugin, but I now deleted the plugin because I’m having this error. Please rectify this. Thanks.
@Abhijith
I have just rolled out a new update (V 3.1) and that should fix your issue. Try it and let me know!
I’m testing this plugin. It’s visible in mobile site and affecting the readability.
@Raghu
Thanks for letting me know and I’m launching an updated version soon which will fix this issue.
Great. I see you have LinkedIn in this post as an Sharing option, but the plugin doesn’t have it. Can you enable that as well?
Thanks.
thanks for sharing such a beautiful plugin. i was looking for something like this and found your more interesting.
but when we open a page in browser the share plugin comes over the text can you fix this.
@Vinayak
Thanks for letting me know about the issue and it’s fixed now! 🙂
Thanks harsh for providing this plugin. It is really sexy and I have been searching like this from a long time.
Recently I am using Digg Digg. Your plugin is a great replacement of it.
Can you please say, which plugin you are using for your social like box widget?
I have just installed Floating Social Share bar WordPress plugin in my website. It’s working fine and perfectly. Awesome Design and simple settings. Thank you.
@Jithin
Do update the plugin as latest version now let you add social sharing buttons on the mobile version of site.