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title: "How to Add a Facebook Share Button to Your WordPress Website"
description: "Social media is a great resource to help drive traffic to your website. Allowing your visitors the ability to share content from your website to Facebook can provide an avenue, much like putting your..."
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date: 2018-04-04
modified: 2021-11-19
author: "InMotion Hosting Contributor"
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# How to Add a Facebook Share Button to Your WordPress Website

Social media is a great resource to help drive traffic to your website. Allowing your visitors the ability to **share content from your website to Facebook** can provide an avenue, much like putting your ad in the Yellow Pages, for example. In this guide, you can learn **how to use the AddToAny Share Buttons plugin to add a Facebook share button to your WordPress website**.

**WARNING:** The instructions in this guide require that you have installed the **AddToAny Share Buttons** *By AddToAny* plugin. If you have not installed the plugin yet, you can follow the instructions in our guide, “[How to Install the AddToAny Share Buttons Plugin](/support/edu/wordpress/how-to-install-the-addtoany-share-buttons-plugin/)“. Once you have installed the plugin, you will be able to follow the instructions below.

## Add a Facebook Share Button

**AddToAny** simply adds *Share buttons* on your website, depending on the settings you configure. In this section, you can learn how to **configure *AddToAny Share Settings*** to display the *Facebook share button* as a floating icon on your website.

**NOTE:** There are many ways you can customize the settings to adjust the appearance of your *Share Buttons*. The following instructions will guide you through the process of *enabling a floating **Facebook share button** on the right side of your website* (on every Page/URL). However, you may add **Google+**, **Twitter** and many more social media *Share buttons*.

1. [Log into your WordPress Administrative Dashboard](/support/edu/wordpress/logging-into-wordpress-dashboard/#how_to_login).
2. Hover over *Settings* then click the **AddToAny** option.
3. You should land on the *AddToAny Share Settings* page and the **Standard** tab appears by default. The *Icon Style* settings will remain unchanged for our example. In the *Share Buttons* section, click on the **Add/Remove Services** button.
4. By default, Facebook, Twitter and Google+ buttons will be enabled. You can click on other services in the list to enable them. **NOTICE:** You can click on a selected/enabled service to unselect/disable it. You can also rearrange services by dragging and dropping the icons above the list. In our example, we disabled the Google+ and Twitter share buttons.
5. Under the *Placement* section, click each checkbox to **uncheck** them all. Since we are going to configure a floating icon we do not need to display it in these areas as well.
6. Click on the *Menu Options* drop-down arrow. A setting will appear to “**Only show the universal share menu when the user clicks the universal share button**“. Click this checkbox, to require a visitor to click (rather than a mouse over) to open the **Universal Share Button**.
7. Scroll down to the very bottom of the page and click on the **Save Changes** button to preserve these settings. Once the settings are saved, the following message will appear: *Settings saved.*
8. Next, click on the **Floating** tab.
9. Under the *Vertical Buttons* section, click on the radio button to select **Right docked** for the *Placement* setting.
10. Scroll down to the very bottom of the page and click on the **Save Changes** button to preserve these settings. Once the settings are saved, the following message will appear: *Settings saved.*

Now that you have *AddToAny* configured, you can [install the *Open Graph for Facebook, Google+ and Twitter Card Tags* plugin](/support/edu/wordpress/install-open-graph-facebook-twitter-plugin/) to control the content that will appear, when a Page from your WordPress website is shared on Facebook.