Traffic Sharing Plugins for WordPress
Traffic-sharing plugins let visitors to your WordPress site email, bookmark and share your website or blog content. Dozens of traffic-sharing plugins are available for download from the WordPress plugin directory. AddToAny, SexyBookmarks, Socialize and AddThis are four of the highest-rated and most-downloaded solutions available at the time of publication.
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AddToAny
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With almost two million downloads at the time of publication, AddToAny is the most popular traffic sharing plugins available for WordPress. It has full integration with more than 100 individual sharing services and social networking sites, including Twitter, Facebook, Digg, Delicious, StumbleUpon and Google+. It also has native email integration with Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail and other popular email services. Additional features include Google Analytics integration, a long list of customizable parameters and localized language support in English, Spanish, French, Italian, Russian and almost a dozen other languages. AddToAny requires WordPress 2.8 or higher and is compatible with versions up to and including 3.2.1.
SexyBookmarks
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SexyBookmarks is the second most downloaded WordPress traffic-sharing plugin at the time of publication. Its features include attractive stylized icons that can be completely customized, broad sharing support for popular services like Facebook, Twitter and Google+, and the ability to place sharing icons almost anywhere on your WordPress posts and pages. SexyBookmarks also has native support for popular online email clients like Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo! Mail and Buzzster. It has language localization for 15 different languages. SexyBookmarks requires WordPress 2.7 or higher and is compatible with versions up to and including 3.2.1.
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Socialize
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Socialize lets you place traffic-sharing icons inside the body of your WordPress content or at the bottom of posts and pages. Its features include its own administration panel within the WordPress dashboard, broad service integration and a statistics panel that lets you track who has been clicking your traffic-sharing icons. Installing Socialize also adds a small administrative panel to the post-editing window in the WordPress dashboard. Rather than displaying the same traffic-sharing icons for every post, this Socialize panel lets you choose which traffic-sharing icons you’d like to display in each post. Socialize requires WordPress 2.7 or higher and is compatible with versions up to and including 3.2.1.
AddThis
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The AddThis plugin lets you choose between 295 social networking and bookmark sites. Rather than displaying individual icons, AddThis creates a small, unobtrusive button that your visitors click to share your content. Clicking the button opens a small window that displays a list of different traffic-sharing services to choose from. The plugin also features support for address bar sharing in a variety of Web browsers. AddThis requires WordPress 2.9 or higher and is compatible with versions up to and including 3.2.0.
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