Social media has grown a lot in importance over the last few years. Basically, if you don't have your profile on at least a couple of the most popular social networks, then you might as well not exist at all, right? Well, no matter if you agree with this or not, it certainly rings true for your website. In other words, if you hope to attract any kind of audience and somehow convince them to keep coming back to your website, you absolutely have to (have to!) integrate it with social media.
Luckily, WordPress lets you do this in a more or less easy-to-grasp way. Even though social media integration is not a built-in feature per se, it can still be enabled via different plugins or other mechanisms. In this chapter, you will learn all about these features. We'll cover things such as how to enable simple social media share buttons...