Grow for WordPress vs Social Media Share Buttons & Social Sharing Icons

Ready to grow your audience, increase engagement, and supercharge your traffic for free? Grow saves independent content creators like you time and money by helping your content stand out to the people who matter most: your readers. PRICE New to Grow? Creating an account is 100% FREE. No hidden costs, subscriptions, or charges. All you have to do is sign up today to start bringing your website to the next level. WHY CHOOSE GROW? Grow is a smarter and more efficient way to grow your audience without the expense and hassle of managing multiple platforms. Streamline your workflow, buy back time, and let Grow take care of email and audience engagement so you can focus on what you do best: crafting killer content. CONNECT WITH YOUR AUDIENCE Build stronger relationships and grow trust and loyalty faster than ever! Features like Spotlight Subscribe and Recommended Content make it easy for readers to find and engage with your content… and keep coming back for more. Spotlight Subscribe: When a user scrolls into view, it darkens the rest of the page, highlighting—or casting a spotlight—on the signup form. In-content calls-to-action encourage readers to sign up for Grow as well. Spotlight Subscribe also provides multiple ways to customize the plugin for your needs. Update images and text, and even use different widgets across different pages using the Category Targeting settings or the Manual Placement option. Recommended Content: Sit back and leave the content curation to Grow! When users log in, they’ll receive personalized recommendations based on things they’ve read, shared, or marked as favorites on your website. Meanwhile, logged-out users receive recommendations based on their browsing content and what other users like them have clicked on. Subscribe: Say goodbye to complicated form building and hello to turbocharged list growth and direct referral traffic from your newsletter with Subscribe. Subscribe allows publishers like you to simultaneously build an email list and encourage readers to sign up for Grow and consent to personalized ads. As a publisher, you get to nurture, connect, and develop growing relationships with your readers all while maximizing your earning potential from digital ads running on your website. ENGAGE YOUR AUDIENCE Customize your feature setup in the Grow Publisher Portal to crush your engagement goals as readers Favorite and Save your top posts. Enhanced Search: Designed with your readers in mind, Grow’s all-new search experience beautifully displays your most popular, latest and recommended content to maximize engagement. Grow’s all-new search beautifully displays your most popular, latest and recommended content to maximize engagement. Exclusive Content: You’re in the driver’s seat with the power to place full recipes, printables, digital downloads and more behind a login. All these benefits are available in one powerful plugin! FAST, EASY CONFIGURATION Activate Grow quickly and easily! Step #1: Start by installing the Grow plugin. If you’ve already installed Grow, go to Step #2. For instructions on how to install Grow on WordPress, visit our help doc Getting Started with Grow’s WordPress Plugin. Step #2: Once the plugin is installed, navigate to Grow in the WordPress sidebar. Step #3: From there, Connect or Create an Account and follow the steps to add the Grow WordPress plugin to your site. MORE INFORMATION ABOUT GROW Getting Started with Grow: A Resource Guide Grow Recommended Content Grow: Introducing Subscribe and the Spotlight Widget Grow’s New and Improved Search Experience Introducing Exclusive Content with Grow 1.5.3 – 2025-04-09 Prevent duplicate script attributes from appearing on Ads Scripts Increase Priority for loading of Ads Scripts Prevent accidental dynamic properties in the Options Class leading to php notices Fix persisting issues with textdomain notice 1.5.2 – 2025-01-08 Fix issue with textdomain debugging notice appearing. 1.5.1 – 2024-12-09 Prevent plugin from being optimized in some third-party site optimization plugins. 1.5.0 – 2024-07-16 Fix issues with blank page appearing when attempting to enable Journey. Fix issues with Redirection plugin when Journey is enabled. 1.4.1 – 2024-06-24 Fix issue with duplicate Journey ad slots with newer versions of Create by Mediavine. 1.4.0 – 2024-06-04 Add Journey ad slot integrations with Create By Mediavine and Trellis. 1.3.0 – 2024-04-18 Add ads.txt troubleshooting for Journey by Mediavine. Update domain for ads.txt. Add CSS class to post articles. 1.2.0 – 2024-03-29 Add support for Journey by Mediavine. 1.1.0 – 2024-03-11 Automatically redirect to Grow login page on activation. 1.0.0 – 2023-10-18 Plugin Released Update plugin assets for parsing Fix type and link for Main Menu and feature link (#83) Add support for validity and connectedness in status api (#82) Update readme and add banner (#81) Pass site path to Grow Auth (#80) fix: WordPress dev container always restarts (#79) Escape the values output in the grow script initializer (#78) fix: feature descriptions URL-escaped (#77) feature: add WP_Mock (#74) feature: add dev container support (#73) fix: non-compliant escaping and file access (#72) move screenshots to correct directory (#71) add screenshots to readme (#70) chore: update readme (#69) feat: Add settings link to Plugins Page and Update Plugin URI feat: Add Support for wp build testing workflow with alternate wp builds feat: Use Custom Lighthouse Orb fix: Update docker image Update docker image Update docker image Update docker image Fix Frontent Test 0.1.7 – 2023-08-11 fix: Adjust Typography on Settings Page fix: Bigger Images for Settings Page 0.1.6 – 2023-07-26 fix: Window Size for site authentication now larger fix: Open Help Doc Links in New Tab 0.1.5 – 2023-07-10 fix: Open Authenticated Link in new tab chore: Add Test for Authenticated View 0.1.4 – 2023-06-26 chore: Remove Author URI 0.1.3 – 2023-06-23 chore: Name changed to Grow for WP 0.1.2 – 2023-06-22 fix: Don’t Stretch Images in Settings page 0.1.1 – 2023-06-20 feat: Add changelog Generation fix: Direct Users to correct Grow Site

Try it out on your free dummy site: Click here => https://tastewp.com/plugins/ultimate-social-media-icons (this trick works for all plugins – just replace “wordpress” with “tastewp” in the plugin’s WP repo URL) Social media plugin which let’s you add share icons for RSS, Email, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Instagram, Youtube, ‘Share’ (covering 200+ other social media platforms) and upload custom share icons of your choice. This free plugin has a lot to offer. Even more can be found in the Premium Plugin, please watch this short video: See all features of the Premium plugin. The free social media plugin includes the following features: Pick from 16 different designs for your social media share icons Give several actions to one social media share icon (e.g. your facebook share icon can lead visitors to your Facebook page, and also give visitors the opportunity to like your page) Decide to give your social media icons an animation (e.g. automatic shuffling, mouse-over effects) to make your visitors aware of the share icons, increasing the chance that they follow/share your blog Make your social media icons ‘float’ or ‘sticky’ Allow visitors to subscribe to your blog by Email Add ‘counts’ to your social media buttons Decide to display a pop-up (on all or only on selected pages) asking people to follow/share you via your social media icons Decide to display sharing-buttons and social media icons at the end of every post Select from many other customization features for your socialmedia icons! For GDPR compliance, please have a look at our Social Media GDPR Compliance page. The social media plugin is very easy to use as it takes you through all the steps: Step 1: Choose which social media icons you want to display Step 2: Define what actions your social media icons should perform Step 3: Pick design & animation options for your social media icons Step 4: Add counts to your social media icons (optional) Step 5: Select from various other social share options, e.g. make your social media icons ‘float’ Step 6: Add sharing/linking icons next to each blog post (optional) Step 7: Add a customized pop-up asking people to follow or share (optional) Step 8: Add a subscription form on your site (optional) In case of issues or questions please ask in the Support forum. We hope you enjoy the free social media plugin! New premium social share plugin We released a premium social share plugin with many more exciting features: Many more social networks supported, including Snapchat share buttons, Whatsapp share buttons, Yummly share buttons, Phone button, Yelp share buttons, Soundcloud share buttons, Skype share buttons Flickr share buttons, Blogger share buttons, Reddit share buttons, Vimeo share buttons, Tumblr share buttons, Xing share buttons, Xhenta, Vkontakte share buttons (VK), Telegram share buttons, Amazon share buttons, Goodreads share buttons, Angies list share buttons, Steam share buttons, Twitch share buttons, Spotify share buttons, Odnoklassniki share buttons (OK), Buffer share buttons, Weibo share buttons, Pocket share buttons, Meneame share buttons, Frype share buttons, LiveJournal share buttons, Patreon share buttons, Dloky share buttons, Discord share buttons, Github share buttons, WordPress buttons, Etsy share buttons, Better Business Bureau share buttons, Digg share buttons, Delicious share buttons, Print share buttons, and many other share buttons! More design styles to make your social share icons look really cool & matching the design of your website Themed design styles, e.g. if you have a website about cats you can pick from social media logos which look like cats etc. Better social sharing and following features, e.g. you can define the Tweet-texts better (e.g. pull the post titles into your Tweets automatically), let people follow you on Facebook directly without leaving your site etc. Place the social icons on specific pages, i.e. you can define on which pages the icons to the social media sites should not show Position the social icons by anchor and margins, i.e. you can define the margins where your share icons should be displayed (from top/bottom/left/right), and then have them floating, or stick, still visible when user scrolls down or not etc. Optimized for mobile – you can define separate selections for your social network icons for mobile More functions for email icon, such as Share (by email), Contact you, Link to a certain page etc. Social media counters optimized to encourage more social media sharing from your visitors More pop up options which contain your social media buttons, e.g. define a limit to how often the pop-up is shown to the same user, show pop-up only when people try to leave your website etc. Friendly support in case you’re stuck Many more settings and options for your social media network icons Have a look at the Premium Plugin features