Update: I have updated this article with a new plugin which also supports iOS.
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
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:
- SocialSnap
- Social Warfare plugin
- SumoMe plugin
- Add to any WordPress plugin
- Whatsapp sharing button for JetPack
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.
Hi Harsh,
That’s an awesome plugin. I am gonna use it and I am sure that it will help me to increase traffic as nowadays there are so many WhatsApp groups.
Hi Harsh
Nice info I am definitely going to use this feature.
I have a question in my mind. Please! you tell me which plugin you use for mobile friendly sharing buttons.
Thanks
this is fine
https://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/whatsapp
A really good plugin Harsh. The Whats App share option is superb given that about 70% of the internet users in India are on Whats App. I also checked, it works on Android.
Thank you so much for the share.
Hello,
its nice information to get new visitors via mobile & tablets. its helpful.
thanks.
How to add this plugin to blogger, whatsapp has great potential to drive traffic, i hope this will give new horizon to bloggers
Adding a Whatsapp Share button is going to be really helpful to increase traffic. Is there a Share to Whatsapp option in the ShareThis plugin?? And if so, how to configure it?
Woaw… XD
This is interesting, i didnt knew that.
WhatsApp sharing its something new for me. Gonna check this now.
And i’ll try to implement it on blogger too.
Thanks For Sharing This Post. Loved It <3
Get ready for the mobile world. Yeah… sure thing having an whatsapp sharing button is going to drive more traffic. Nice tip!
Wow Thanks Harsh for sharing this plugin name with us. 70% My website traffic comes from mobile and right now i was dependent on facebook and twitter only. I am definitely going to try this plugin and let you know my experience.
Thanks Once again awesome tutorial
Thanks for the info. In India most of us are using Android only. If they released for Android also then will be great.
Wow harsh, Great news!!!! Glad to know that now I can share Whats app button on my wordpress blog. It is very popular apps of smartphone. We can able to send files through it. Thanks for sharing this plugin. It will definitely boost website traffic of our blog.
Regards,
Swapnadip
Hi Harsh,
Whatsapp sharing is really cool and new for social sharing for Mobile user to share content.
Apart from this sharethis Plugins also providing inbuilt feature of Whatsapp sharing. I added this on my site and Looking cool.
Currently I’m using Blogger and looking forward to upgrade to WP. Meanwhile I found this article. I never even thought about it! It’s fully logical though. Today, no one mails a link to friends, they ‘whatsapps’ them. So thumbs up to the plug in. 🙂
Wow!! This is great news. But disappointed too that it doesnt work for Android. Looking at the india market, where most mobile devices are samsung, I think android should soon jump into the picture.
Your sharing is always commendable. I was researching on this since days but was on a wrong track. This is the reason why I link shoudmeloud in my articles. Surely going to use it on my blog, i hope this will increase traffic. Thanks for the wonderful article Mr. Harsh
Wow was really helpful for me because i used to get lot of Mobile visitors than desktop visitors. With the Whatsapp Share Button still i can boost my traffic thats really great. This would be more helpful for getting mobile Traffic.
It is really amazing plugin @Harsh and thanks you this tutorial. I will definitely try this plugin on my blog. It seem that whatsapp only work iPhone device. Am I right?
Hey Harsh! I think use of Mobile share bar plugin in our blog will certainly increase traffic. I will try this plugin. Thank you for sharing such an informative article.
Hey, this is the time to replace email to friend with whatsapp, Thanks for sharing such a good information for improving our blog traffic via mobile.