SociallyViral Theme Review: Social Sharing and Ads
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SociallyViral costs $39 for use on unlimited sites, marked down from a $49 list price in MyThemeShop’s own shop. Buy it if you want a blog layout that arrives with share buttons, a trending-posts block and ad slots already wired in, and you would rather not assemble that yourself. Look elsewhere if you want a theme backed by a large, growing catalogue, because MyThemeShop now sells five paid themes in total.
Prices checked September 2026.
SociallyViral pricing
MyThemeShop sells the theme two ways.
| What you buy | Price |
| SociallyViral single licence, unlimited sites | $39 (list price $49) |
| Extended Membership, billed annually | $199 (list price $420) |
The single licence is a one-off payment that includes a year of updates and support. The membership is an annual subscription covering every paid theme and plugin in the shop.
There is also a free, cut-down SociallyViral listed next to the premium version. It is a sensible way to see how the layout handles your own posts before you spend anything.
The shop page states a 30-day money-back guarantee and instant download after payment.
Single licence or membership?
The membership only wins if you want most of the shop. MyThemeShop lists eight themes, five of them paid at $39 each and three free, alongside seven premium plugins. Five paid themes at $39 works out at $195, so the $199 membership costs about the same as buying every paid theme outright and adds the plugins on top.
For one site that needs one theme, the single licence is the obvious pick. We work through the rest of that trade-off in our MyThemeShop membership review.
What you get for the money
SociallyViral is built around one idea: make it easy for a reader to share a post, and easy for you to sell an ad next to it.
Sharing that does not need a plugin
Share icons sit above and below the article, and there is a floating set that stays with the reader as they scroll. You choose which positions are active. A trending-posts block pulls in your most-viewed articles, which is the single most useful module here for a blog trying to keep people on the site.
Because this is built into the theme, you are not adding a separate sharing plugin and its scripts.
Ad slots in the places that earn
Ad management is part of the theme rather than a bolt-on. You can drop adverts below the navigation, above the content, inside the article and in the sidebar, and set how many days a post must be live before ads appear. For an ad-funded blog that is a real time saving.
Two homepage layouts
Both homepage options give you a featured area and a grid of recent posts, and both are fully widgetised, so you can rearrange the blocks without touching code. You can lead with a large slider for your best work or hand that space to a header advert.
Single post controls
Breadcrumbs, post meta, the author box and related posts can each be switched on or off, and you can set how many related posts show. Schema markup is included, as are typography controls and 630-plus Google fonts.
The rest of the list
- Mega menus
- WooCommerce support
- Lazy-loaded images
- Ajax search that returns results as you type
- Built-in ratings and reviews
- RTL language support and translation-ready files
- Unlimited colour and background options
- A shortcode library
Where it falls short
Two honest reservations.
The first is the size of the shop behind it. A catalogue of five paid themes is a much smaller operation than the one that first sold this theme, and that matters when you are committing a site to a decade of updates. Our review of MyThemeShop’s Schema theme covers what that feels like in practice.
The second is the options panel. There is a switch for nearly everything, which is excellent once you know the theme and genuinely confusing on day one. Budget an evening for it.
If you want a theme from a shop that is shipping features quickly, look at Blocksy or Kadence instead. Both have capable free tiers.
Discounts, coupons and renewal prices
The $39 figure is a standing shop price, not a countdown, so there is little to gain from hunting a coupon on top of it.
Two things genuinely move WordPress pricing, and neither is a code. The first is the billing period: a lifetime licence is one payment, an annual plan is a payment every year, and the gap between them dwarfs any percentage off. The second is the renewal price, which is the number worth comparing. Plenty of shops advertise a cheap first year and renew at full price, so read the renewal line before you enter a card.
If you can wait, late November is when prices across the WordPress market actually move. Our WordPress Black Friday and Cyber Monday round-up tracks the shops that discount every year.
Who should buy it
SociallyViral suits a blogger or affiliate site that earns from traffic and display advertising, wants sharing and ad placement handled by the theme, and values a settled design over a fast-moving feature list. At $39 for unlimited sites it is inexpensive for what it does.
It is the wrong choice if you want a block-based theme you will extend heavily over the next few years. Look at the fastest WordPress themes for that.
Have you run a site on SociallyViral? Tell us how it held up in the comments.
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Great info about SociallyViral theme you’ve provided here. Theme is engaging, clean and fast. Always impressed with MyThemeShop. Always updated themes and support is great.