Twitter @Anywhere is a fairly new, exciting service that aims to make it easy for webmasters to get more out of this great social network. Webmasters can use Twitter to drive traffic to their blogs and portals. But Twitter is more than just that. It’s a great tool to build a community around a blog and build solid relationships with people and businesses around the world. Twitter @Anywhere is not that hard to implement. We have covered a summary of how it works in the past. Not every-one’s comfortable with coding however. Thankfully, there is a plugin that webmasters can use to introduce this exciting new service to their WordPress blogs. Twitter @Anywhere Plus plug-in not only lets you do some cool things with @Anywhere platform, it also gives you some flexibility when adding @Anywhere to WordPress.
This plugin makes it quite easy to use Twitter @Anywhere for those of you who do not know any coding or just do not want to mess with any of it. You still need to get your API key from Twitter to get this to work. Once you have done that, you can choose the options you want to go with, and the plugin takes care of the rest. Auto-Linkification of Twitter user-names is very nice if you tend to use Twitter usernames in your blog posts. Hovercards are even more neat as they give your visitors an attractive way to connect with you and other Twitter users on your website. The Follow Button feature is pretty straightforward though make sure you define your DOM element properly.
PHPBB is one of the most popular forum software solutions on the market. Those who don’t want to spend money on a premium solution such as vBulletin can take advantage of PHPBB to create a powerful forum on their domain. Sometimes it is better to have a blog and forum on the same domain. While both PHPBB and WordPress are built using PHP, they don’t have too much in common. So in order to integrate these two, you are going to need a third-party plugin. That’s where WP2BB comes in. It lets you integrate your WordPress blog with your forum and get more out of both of them.
WP2BB is pretty straight forward to use. It enables you to add a new topic per each WordPress post on your blog to your forum. So you can think of it as a way to encourage more discussions about what you write about on your blog. I also like the fact that the plugin doesn’t mess up your whole forum. You can create a special section just for your posts without taking away your readers ability to participate in other parts of your forum.
Getting a premium theme for your WordPress blog is not an easy decision. You want to make sure you take time to get familiar with what all offers and try to find one that applies to your situation the best. You also don’t want to pay more than you have to get your hands on these themes. That’s where WordPress coupons can come in handy. Many theme developers give discounts on multiple purchases, and if you own more than one website, you are leaving money on the table if you don’t take advantage of these coupons.
The WordPress coupon market changes on a daily basis, but the below coupons should be valid for a while:
There are plenty of cool WordPress membership websites that you can join to get high quality premium themes for your blogs. Premium themes are useful not only for beginners but for professional designers who want to get a head-start with their theme design and modify an existing theme to create unique flavor of it. Templatic is one of the best WordPress theme clubs around. While it may not have the most premium themes on the market, it arguably has the best looking themes. Best of all, a lot of its themes work great for businesses and startups.
What we like about Templatic themes is the fact that they are very flexible and easy to customize. The back-end functions are some of the best we have seen. Best of all, new themes are added on a consistent basis, and they are getting better. With that in mind, here are [X] theme worth a try:
Job Board Theme: Job Board theme enables you to create your own job board using WordPress fast. You can host it on your sub-domain or just link it up with your existing blog.
iPhone App Theme: it’s a very attractive and easy to customize theme for anyone who has developed an iPhone application.
Kidz Store: it’s a clean, highly customizable theme for anyone who wants to start an online shop fast. Has a ton of features to help you manage you store more effectively.
WordPress has made developing websites and putting them live online a whole lot easier than before. There are plenty of premium themes available on the market that allow you to go live with your website fast. In most cases, you will have to make some modifications to the underlying code of your theme to customize its look and feel. iThemes Builder Theme aims to change all that. It’s an innovative theme that lets you change the layout and look and feel of your blog fast and create a killer portal for your niche (with many options to choose from).
Here is what’s intriguing about Builder Theme. It’s an all in one solution that would allow you to develop all kinds of websites using your theme. It’s very flexible and makes changing things without writing code easy. Here is a video by the folks at iThemes that explains its functionality:
For those of you interested, iThemes has a long e-seminar on this theme that shows you how you can take advantage of this theme. The theme is obviously not for everyone but if you are looking for a flexible theme for your not-so-certain projects, Builder Theme could come in handy.
The year 2009 is ending, and there has never been a better time to pick up new themes to get ready for the new year, especially since many premium theme developers are giving discounts on their products. If you are looking for a premium WordPress theme, here are some holiday WP theme discounts you should take advantage of:
After weeks of waiting, WordPress 2.9 is finally released and available for download. The new release has tons of cool new features (my favorite one is the trash feature). It also promises to help keep your WordPress website optimized and protected. This video from the people at WordPress.com puts it best:
