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.

Adding Apture to your website is a piece of cake. Just upload your logo, customize its look and feel, and upload the code to your website. You will need to enter a valid website URL and e-mail address to get it to work.

Apture is another one of those underrated tools that can help your blog get more traffic and love from social media. Apture bar is non-intrusive solution that makes your blog more social media friendly and dynamic. It gives you information on your visitors’ interests which is very helpful.

Overall, an easy way to integrate Twitter and Facebook into your WordPress blog and make your content richer for your visitors.

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.

Here you can define the size of your wave as well as other factors of your wave. Make sure you add public@a.gwave.com if you intend to create a public wave. Don’t forget to check “Full Access” box if you want others to be able to add their information to your Wave.

That’s it. Just grab the code from Google and add it to your blog. No plugin needed. The whole process should take about 10 minutes at most. Google Wave is a pretty powerful tool if you can figure out how to use it to improve your website.

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.
16. Twitt-Twoo: an Ajax plug-in that allows you to update your Twitter status from your sidebar.
17. Twitter Tools: one of the best Twitter tools ever made for WordPress. You can send updates to your Twitter account and create blog posts from your Tweet.
18. Twitter Updater: yet another WordPress plug-in that helps you promote your blog posts on Twitter.
19. Twitter WP Sidebar Widget: a plug-in that makes it easy to add Twitter to your sidebar.
20. WordTwit: yet another tool to send updates to your Twitter account when you publish posts.
21. TwitterFeed: TwitterFeed is a Twitter management plugin for WordPress. Lets you display your latest tweets too.
22. Twitter for WordPress: shows your latest tweets on your blog.
23. WP Twitip ID: adds an extra field to the comment form for user to enter their twitter username.
24. TwitThis: an amazing little plug-in which makes it easy for your readers to tweet your posts.
25. TwitURLs: shows favorite URLs on Twitter.
26. TweetRoll: show the people you are following and the number of followers you have.
27. Twitter WordPress Widget: another Twitter widget plug-in.
28. NewTweet: Set a keyword or phrase and NewsTweet constantly pulls twitter posts containing that word or phrase
29. Ajax Twitter Plugin: uses Twitter API to get and post the updates
30. Tweet This: adds a shortened Twitter link to each and every post.
31. TwitterCounter: shows the number of folks following you on your blog.
32. WP to Twitter: uses Cligs to post your blog posts to Twitter.
33. TwitterSplit: helps you gain links from your followers.
34. Twitter Style Links: converts @x in your comments to links.
35. Autolink: automatically makes @x into links.
36. TickTweet: a cool plug-in that allows you to search for a keyword and show the tweets on your blog.
37. Tweet Tweet: archive your Twitter updates in your database.
38. Twitterdoodle: allows you to create posts and categories based on Twitter keyword searches.
39. Automagic Twitter Profile URI: a cool plug-in that adds a Twitter profile link to your comments.
40. Twitter updater w/ TinyURL: a cool Twitter updater plugin but includes TinyURL functionality as well.
41. WP My Twitter: post your blog posts to Twitter automatically.
42. Add Twitter Link to Comments: adds a twitter link to comments if the comment author uses an email connected to a twitter account.
43. Twitter Digest: a cool way to create a Twitter digest for your WordPress blog.
44. Fresh From FriendFeed and Twitter: keep your blog content fresh with updates from FriendFeed and Twitter.
45. Twitter Auto Linker: Turns @[names] to links automatically.
46. Twitter User: a great plugin that makes it easy to link your post to your Twitter account.
47. LifeStream: a plug-in that makes it easy for your users to stalk you on social networks.
48. Twitter Friendly Links: creates Twitter friendly URLs from your blog posts.
49. Twitgets: adds a sidebar widget to display your Twitter Friends Timeline using Twitter’s flash scripts
50. Auto Tweet: adds a check-box to your posts, letting you choose which posts to send to Twitter.
51. Top Twitter Links by Twitturls: displays currently popular links on your WordPress website.
52. Add Twitter RSS: adds your Twitter RSS link to the header of your blog.
53. Twitter Keywords: lets you track a specific Twitter keyword on your website.
54. Twitter real time search scrolling: shows real-time Twitter search results on your website.
55. Twitter Follow Friday: lets you display your Twitter #followfriday recommendations on your blog.
56. Google Analytics Tagger: works in conjunction with Twitter Tools to tag your submissions with Google Analytics tags.
57. Digg Digg: gives you an easy way to add a floating Twitter box to your WordPress website.
58. Fixed Social Buttons: another cool social bookmarking tool that installs your Twitter button at a fixed position on your site.
59. Tweet Rooster: lets people tweet directly from your WordPress website.
60. Tweet-rank: integrates a social graph into your website, showing how you have fared on Twitter lately.

There you have it. Lots of plugins to choose from, but what did you expect? We are talking about Twitter here. Please add your suggestions below.

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.

What I like about this plugin is that it makes it easy to customize every aspect of each tweet post. You can define customized post titles and post excerpts. It’s also possible to post your Twitter updates under their very own category. You can even define a different author name for your tweet posts.

The plugin makes it easy to get rid of @reply tweets. It also gives you the ability to change the order of your tweets in your posts. You do want to make sure you define a max number for your tweets to make sure you don’t mess up your blog.

Twitter Digest is not for everyone. If you spend your days talking about what you have had for lunch on Twitter, you are better off passing on this plugin. But if you provide valuable information to your visitors, this plugin can come in very handy.

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.

Starting your own app is the easy part. Adding @Anywhere to your WordPress site is going to be a bit more complicated. Of course, you know your way around Javascript, this part should be a piece of cake. Before we go on, you need to add a call to @Anywhere to the header of your WordPress site. Make sure the call is before your headers’ closing.

Just type the script snippet from the above image onto your WordPress site and replace YOUR_API_KEY with your own API that you have gotten from Twitter. You should have the API key if you have created your app on Twitter. Now in order to implement a specific functionality on WordPress, you need to create your Javascript function and make a call to it. You can always do it in two steps, but pulling it off in one step is much more convenient.

so you are passing your function to @anywhere. Twitter will take care of the rest. Now the above is a generic structure of how your calls should look like. If you are adding a box to your website, you’ll have to define a DIV area and pass your parameters appropriately. For instance, here is how to add a tweet box to your website:

Make sure you add the following to where you want your box to show up:

It’s that simple. Twitter has a bunch of cool examples available on their site already (including the examples provided above). As long as you know how things work in general, you should have an easier time playing with the code here. @Anywhere is definitely worth playing with if you rely on Twitter to generate traffic for your blog.

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:

That’s where the the_permalink() function comes in handy. Here is how your code would look like after you add the function:

You can also change the background color and do all kinds of cool stuff if you know your CSS (changing background-color option). I do encourage you to change the height of the button if you are using this button on a dark theme. Don’t want to touch your code? Just use Facebook like plugin to get the job done.

It takes less than a few minutes to implement Facebook Like Button on your blog but the potential is limitless. Facebook is quite hot these days, so there is no reason for you not to pounce on it.

The best way to get your readers to submit your posts to Google Buzz is by adding a Google Buzz button to your blog. You can always do that by grabbing scripts from social media tracking websites. Another way to do that is by taking advantage of Google Buzz WordPress plugins.

If you find adding a Buzz plugin to your blog inconvenient, you should give Buzrr.com a try. Buzrr Button is a cool little script that puts a Google Buzz counter on your WordPress blog. Every time someone posts your story to Google, your “buzzed” count goes up by one. Of course, the more buzzes you get, the more traffic you get in return.

Installing Buzrr button on your blog couldn’t be any easier. The code is provided to you on Buzrr.com, so all you have to do is grab it and install it in your code.

Of course, if you are looking to have more control on the output on your button, you can always delve into the code and make changes to page URL and page summary attributes.

Google Buzz may not become a huge traffic driver for your website, but it’s worth giving a try. With Buzrr, you can easily integrate the service into your blog and let your readers do the rest.

Fixed Social Plugin is very easy to use and takes the pain of adding social media submission links to your blog. Once you enable it, these buttons are going to show where you want them to show up. You can choose to display these buttons on the top of your blog, horizontally or vertically. You can also pick and choose what services you want to display in your social media button bar. You can of course show the buttons at the top of your page as well.

Worried about all those outgoing links? You can nofollow all those links as well. Feed URL and Twitter credentials can be added to this plugin as well. You can also choose to open the links in a new window, just in case you don’t want people to leave your page too early.

All in all, if you are looking for an attractive plugin that adds social media buttons to your blog easily without you having to touch a single line of code, Fixed Social Buttons is a must have.

In order to take advantage of NetworkedBlogs, you need to first register your blog. The process is very easy and doesn’t take too much time. You will need to have a Facebook account to get the job done.

Once you have added your blog to NetworkedBlogs on Facebook, you are ready to grab the widget you will need to add to your WordPress website in order for your visitors to connect with your blog much more easily. You can find the widget link at the following URL:

http://apps.facebook.com/blognetworks/blog/[site-name]

You can grab the code you need to copy and paste into your sidebar from the above page by clicking on the “widget” link.

So how does this work? You grab the code from NetworkedBlogs and paste it into a text widget on your sidebar. That would embed NetworkedBlogs widgets into your website. If you are running your blog on WordPress.com, you can always use NetworkedBlogs’ badge instead. By adding the above widget to your blog, you let your visitors connect and follow your blog much more conveniently.

So why should you use NetworkedBlogs? It’s simple. It can drive additional traffic to your blog. Besides, your content can go viral much more easily if you have a serious following on Facebook. NetworkedBlogs’ widget certainly makes it easier for your visitors to connect with you and share your content with the world. It’s a free service and easy to implement. Well worth a try.

Tagometer Badge is a compact badge that lets you add Delicious and bookmarking trends to your blog post fast. It also displays the number of times that your posts have been bookmarked on Delicious. So you can always ask your visitors for a favor if your numbers are down. If you don’t like the compact design, you can always add the tall option to your Delicious code or just select the right option on Delicious.com:

I have noticed that some blog designs can’t handle the Tagometer’s graphy properly. If that is the case with your blog, you can always turn the graph off. That can be done by adding the below line to your code:

Delicious.BLOGBADGE_GRAPH_SHOW = false

If you just want to add a simple Delicious bookmarking button to your blog without all the fancy features, you can always use the below code and add it right after your content function or before your comment section:

All in all, Delicious is a cool service to add to your blog to enhance your community. If you are an expert in writing high quality posts, you can get a lot of traffic from Delicious. Adding the above codes to your blog can help make your content become even more viral. Just make sure your server can handle all the traffic if you do go viral.