7 Awesome Social Media Plugins for WordPress

Are you looking to be a little more social on your WordPress blog? Check ou tthe 7 awesome social media plugins for WordPress below!

1. Our Favorite: Digg Digg – http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/digg-digg/

Your all in one share buttons plugin. Add a floating bar with share buttons to your blog. Just like Mashable! (see the bar on the right!)

2. Livefyre Realtime Comments – http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/livefyre-comments/

Livefyre replaces your outdated comment section with a real-time social conversation. Post comments live, tag friends from Facebook and Twitter, and more…

3. Sharebar – http://devgrow.com/sharebar-wordpress-plugin/

Sharebar adds a dynamic and fully customizable vertical box to the left of a blog post that contains links/buttons to popular social networking sites. For wide blogs, a vertical bar with popular sharing icons appears on the left of your post. If the page is resized, the vertical bar disappears and a horizontal sharebar appears under the post title.

4. Socialize – http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/socialize/

Provides an easy way to selectively add actionable social bookmarks to your posts content or below the post in a ‘Call To Action’ box.

5. Tweet2Download – http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tweet2download/

Tweet2Download allows a wordpress blog to require a tweet and a follow in exchange for the downloads or article parts available on the blog.

6. WP Social Toolbar – http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/social-toolbar/

Plugin for adding a highly customizable toolbar with color selection, social network icons, recent tweet and share buttons into footer.

7. SocialMetrics –
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/social-metrics/

Track how’s your blog doing across the leading social networking websites and services.