Add Sharing buttons without a plugin in your custom WordPress Theme
Dimitar Krumov
Technical SEO Professional and CEO of SEO Book Pro | Help businesses improve their organic search rankings through technical SEO audits, website migrations, and content optimization.
Still use WordPress plugins for adding the share buttons in your Themplate?
In my years of experience i do a simple code to add Share buttons in WordPress Theme without a plugin. Adding Social Sharing Buttons to your #WordPress Themes Manually is much better than adding a Plugins for sharing buttons because of the Java Scripts and some special codes which slow down your WordPress powered website/s. If you develop custom WordPress Theme for your clients you can use this simple peace of HTML, some php and CSS to add buttons for social sharing in your Theme which will work on any WordPress Updates.
To add share buttons for the Social Networks above you need to add a few lines of HTML, php and CSS in your page or post layout.
You can read more how to add social share buttons in your WordPress Themes easy without a plugin here