Tweet Import: Import Twitter Posts Into WordPress

Twitter is one of the most vibrant social networks around. Millions of new tweets are added to the website constantly. Many Twitter users are quite active and add a significant number of tweets to that site on a daily or monthly basis. Importing all your tweets into your site can be very time consuming. Tweet Import is a user friendly plugin that saves you time adding tweets from multiple accounts to your website.

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6 Ways To Add Pinterest to WordPress

Having your site linked up with Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, and Google+ is a great way to solidify your community and grow the size of your audience. But those are not the only communities you can participate in to increase your traffic. Pinterest is a rising social network that could drive more people to your site and help make your content go viral.

In the past few weeks, I have been searching for plugins and scripts WordPress webmasters can use to integrate Pinterest in their website. There are not too many sophisticated ones around. But you can use these tools and scripts to make your site more Pinterest friendly:

Pinterest RSS Widget: this plugin displays your pins in your sidebar. Uses your Pinterest’s RSS feed to do that. Pretty Pinterest Pins is another plugin that offers almost the same functionality. (more…)

How to Add the Pinterest “Pin It” Button to WordPress

Pinterest is a very exciting community to be a part of. It is an online pin-board site you can use to keep track of interesting ideas and anything else you find on the Internet. The community is growing and has the potential to drive some traffic to your website. But you will need to get your site pinned a bunch before you start seeing some real traffic. Adding a “Pin It” button to your website goes a long way towards helping you get some attention on Pinterest.

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How To Connect WordPress To Google+, Facebook, and Twitter

Google+, Facebook, and Twitter are highly popular these days. Millions of people are active in those sites. Integrating those services into your WordPress site can help you build a more solid community around it. You can get started with Google+, Facebook, and Twitter integration by letting your visitors log on to your WordPress site using their credentials on those sites. Here are 4 plugins that let you do just that:

WP Google Plus Connect: lets your visitors register or log on to your website using their Google+ login credentials.

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How To Publish Your Blog to Google Currents

Google Currents is a new project by Google to challenge the likes of Flipboard. It creates personalized e-magazines from content from around the web in a flash. No matter how ugly a site, Google Currents is capable of displaying its content in an elegant fashion. Google Currents users can always add sites by searching for them. As a webmaster, you can make their job easier by creating your very own edition and publishing it to Google Currents. The main benefit of doing that is the fact that you will have more control on what shows up in your Google Currents edition.

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6 Essential Practices To Keep WordPress Secure

Many webmasters assume that as long as they use WordPress on their site and install a couple of security plugins on their site, their website will become hackerproof. No matter how strong your defenses, hackers are always likely to find a way around them. Your job as a webmaster is to make the process as difficult as possible for them. We all know about the basic steps we all need to take to keep our site secure. But adopting a strict security policy in your organization will give you a better chance to keep your business protected against hack attacks. Here are 6 simple security practices that you should follow to avoid disasters in your business:

1. watch out for the rogue plugins: many WordPress webmasters are too plugin-happy. In other words, they download every cool, little plugin that they find online. Not all plugins are coded the right way. Many of them contain holes hackers can take advantage of to compromise your website. The same applies to scripts too. Using plugins and scripts on your website without knowing their weaknesses is asking for trouble.
2. not every theme is safe: going back to the previous point, not every theme you find online is safe. Many of them contain malware and security holes that could put your business in jeopardy. Don’t just assume that your theme is safe because you have paid a decent amount of money for it. You should always try to find out about the reputation of your favorite theme’s developer before deploying it on your site. (more…)

6 Ways To Integrate Google+ Into WordPress

Google+ is still changing. Every couple of weeks, Google introduces new features to improve the community. You may not be impressed with Google+ yet. But this social network has a bright future. No webmaster affords to ignore the potential traffic Google+ can drive to his/her site. By integrating Google+ into WordPress, you will have an easier time getting more out of your G+ efforts. Here are 6 ways to do that:

Add Google +1 Button to WordPress: +1 votes are very similar to Facebook likes. Adding these buttons to your site increases the chances of your content getting more positive votes. (more…)