SexyBookmarks: Add Sexy Social Bookmarking Buttons To WordPress

Let’s face it. Not everyone who comes to your website will take time to submit your posts to social media websites. It would be great if everyone did that. In reality, only a small fraction of people do it. That’s why all webmasters should add social media buttons to their websites. That way you get to remind people about sharing your content on top social networking websites. If your content is good enough, there is a good chance you can improve your submission rate significantly by using these scripts.

SexyBookmarks is one of the most good looking and comprehensive social bookmarking plugins around. It covers plenty of services and adds a set of attractive buttons to your website in a flash.

There are plenty of similar plugins that do not come with high quality button images. There is a reason this plugin is called “sexy.” It does help that it’s quite dynamic and makes adding tens of these buttons to your website convenient, as it auto-collapses.

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Make Your Blog More Dynamic with Apture

WordPress is a great platform to build a blog or portal with and share your thoughts and content with the world. It’s easy to assume that people will take time to go through the hassle of spreading your content around without you doing anything to make the process easy for them. In reality, websites that take advantage of social media tools have a better chance of going viral on Twitter or Facebook. Apture is one of those tools. It adds a social bar to the top of your WordPress website and gives your visitors an easier way to submit your stories to Facebook, Twitter, or share it with others via e-mail.

Apture not only adds that customizable header to your blog, it also makes your blog more dynamic. Your visitors can search for what they are looking for by selecting a phrase or a word on your blog. Since this is a Javascript-based solution, they won’t have to leave your website to do their search.

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How To Integrate Google Wave Into WordPress

Google Wave may be ahead of its time a bit, but it is expected to revolutionize the way we communicate with each other. Let’s face it. The e-mail technology has been around forever. It has major issues that have not been addressed in the past few years. Google Wave is a great tool for collaboration. It makes sharing content and discussing ideas with others much easier. There are plenty of plugins that you can take advantage of to add Google Wave to your blog. But what if you don’t want to use a plugin? Thankfully, there is an easy way to get the job done.

As long as you have a Google Wave account, you should be ready to go (if you have a Google account, you are set). Once you have logged on to your account, you need to grab the link for the wave that you want to add to your blog. Grab the link from the top of your browser and use Google Wave Element tool to grab the code you will need to add Wave to your website.

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60 Best Twitter WordPress Plugins

So you are interested in getting more out of Twitter? WordPress has some cool plugins that you can use to integrate Twitter into your Word Press community and drive more traffic to your website. Whether you want folks to vote for your stories on tweetmeme or just find out who is linking to you from Twitter, there is a plugin for you.

Here are 60 best Twitter plugins to get the most out of Twitter on your blog:

1. Twitter @Anywhere Plus: adds @Anywhere functionality to your WordPress website without you having to know too much about programming.
2. TweetSuite: a complete Twitter solution for your blog. Adds all kinds of useful widgets to your website.
3. Tweet Stats: adds “Most Tweeted Posts” and “Recently Tweeted Posts” to your blog’s sidebar.
4. Social Media E-Mail Alerts: a very handy plugin that alerts you when you get traffic from a specific social networking site.
5. Twitter Publisher: sends your posts to Twitter and shortens them using bit.ly or awe.sm.
6. WP Twitter Users: lets you show-case readers who have used their Twitter handles on your blog.
7. Twitter Goodies: adds your profile / Twitter searches to your blog using a widget.
8. Twitter Tracker: allows you to display Twitter search in your side-bar.
9. Twitter Bubble: a nice, different way to show your Twitter discussions on your blog.
10. Tweetbacks: another tweetback plug-in for WordPress.
11. Twittar: a plug-in that uses Twitter to show avatars in comments.
12. Twitter LiveBlog: lets you liveblog on your WordPress blog.
13. Twitter Counter Cache-rizer: it records your number of followers and displays it even when Twitter is down.
14. BirdFeeder: yet another Twitter plug-in that sends your posts to your Twitter account.
15. MyTwitter: show your Twitter status on your blog and update it from your WordPress blog. (more…)

Turn Your Tweets To WordPress Posts with Twitter Digest

Are you a Twitter junkie? If you spend hours of your day chatting with others on Twitter and sharing information with Twitterverse, you probably are. I personally spend a few hours of my day sharing information on Twitter and reading what others have to say about various topics. You may not think much of your individual tweets, but you’d be surprised how much value you can provide to your blog visitors if you turn your tweets into blog posts on a daily basis (depends on the type of content you share on Twitter).

You can always write a script that digs up your Twitter posts and adds them to your blog. But why do that when you can use Twitter Digest. It’s an innovative plugin for WordPress that grabs you tweets and groups them together, turning them into blog posts. You do get to define post frequency for your tweet posts. If daily posts are too much for you, you can always go with weekly tweet posts.

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How To: Add Twitter @Anywhere To WordPress

In case you missed it, Twitter launched @Anywhere service just a while ago. The service allows webmasters to fully integrate Twitter into their websites and get more action going in the process. As long as you know some Javascript, you should be able to do some cool things with @Anywhere. But first things first. To get started with @Anywhere on WordPress, you need to log on to Twitter and start a new application at http://dev.twitter.com/apps/new/. Here is what your app form will look like:

Your application website and your callback URL should be the URL of your website, unless you have something else in mind. Since you are using Twitter on your website, your application stypehould be “Browser.” Don’t forget to check the Read&Write access before uploading your application Icon. (more…)

How To Add Facebook Like Button To WordPress

Just in case you missed it, Facebook has introduced a few new tools for webmasters to take advantage of to help spread the word about their sites. If you are a WordPress owner, you want to take advantage of some of these tools to solidify your community and get people to interact with Facebook on your blog. Facebook Like Button is a cool new tool that lets your visitors give your blog posts a “like” vote. Of course, the more “like” votes you receive, the better off your website will be.

The process of adding a Like Button to your WordPress blog could not be any easier. Knowing some coding would definitely help, but you certainly do not have to know anything about programming to implement this feature. Facebook gives you the ability to pick your options and grab the code you need to install on your website with a couple of clicks.

The problem with using this interface is that you will have to change the URL code to make it dynamic for your website. In essence, you want to change the code below and add a PHP function to automatically pass your post URL to this code:

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