WordPress Quora Badge Plugin for WP

Just like many of you, I am a big fan of Twitter and Facebook. But there is more to social media than just those two sites. Quora is an awesome social Q/A site that can teach you a thing or two. Besides, you can build your credibility in your niche by asking deep questions and helping others find answers to their questions. There are not too many Quora plugins around these days. But WPoid has developed a simple tool that adds a Quora profile badge to WordPress.

WordPress Quora Badge adds a Quora widget to WordPress. Just drop it in your sidebar, and you are set. To get the best results, you want to be active on Quora (asking questions, answering them, voting on topics, and much more). The more active you are, the more impressive your badge will look. (more…)

14 Ways to Integrate Twitter into WordPress

Twitter is such a powerful community to be a part of. Millions of people share a ton of tweets with the world every single day. Every webmaster needs to have a Twitter account for all his/her websites. Fully integrating Twitter into WordPress will let you build a more solid community and increase the amount of traffic you get on your website. Here are 14 ways to do just that:

Connect your site to Twitter: Simple Twitter Connect is a simple to use plugin that lets you fully integrate Twitter into your website. It provides support for @anywhere too. It supports commenting via Twitter credentials.

Add Twitter to your footer: Wibiya is a wonderful footer toolbar that has a ton of apps (including some for Twitter and Facebook) that could make your site more social media friendly.

Display your tweets in WordPress: HL Twitter allows you to store tweets from multiple Twitter accounts on your website and display them to the world. (more…)

10 Ways To Integrate Facebook Into WordPress

Facebook is the top social networking site these days. It is being used by millions of people already and can bring you a ton of traffic if used the right way. Adding and getting content to/from Facebook can help you take your WordPress community to the next level. Here are 10 ways to take full advantage of Facebook to take your WordPress portal to a whole new level:

Adopt Facebook Comments: many top websites have already added Facebook’s comment system to their websites. It can potentially increase your traffic and increase the level of engagement among your readers.

Add links to Facebook: adding your links and encouraging others to share your content is one of many ways to get action on Facebook. This plugin lets you do just that.

Import Facebook comments: this cool plugin can pull comments from Facebook into your own blog. It can save you a lot of time doing it.

Keep track of Facebook activity on your site: you do not necessarily need WordPress plugins to add a Facebook activity widget to your website. Facebook already has a bunch of social plugins you can take advantage of on your site. (more…)

AddThis: Make WordPress Social Media Friendly

These days, bloggers simply can’t afford not to take advantage of all the social communities available to them. Websites such as Twitter and Facebook can drive a ton of traffic to your website if you have great content on it and take time to build relationships and provide value to others on those sites. Adding call to action buttons to your website can further help you gain the attention of your visitors and get them to submit your best posts to their favorite websites. That’s where AddThis comes in. It’s a dynamic social bookmarking service that provides you with a flexible way to add social media buttons to WordPress.

The easiest way to add AddThis to your website is by grabbing the plugin and going with the standard options. You can also grab the code from its website if you plan to run this on a site that is not run on WordPress. There is more to AddThis that meets the eye. It has plenty of cool add-ons that can make your site look more dynamic and get your content more love from your visitors.

For starters, you can choose to add a simple toolbox or Sharecounter to your website. You can also combine Facebook, Twitter, and AddThis buttons to maximize the action you get on your site. If you need a slick set of social media buttons (32*32 or 64*64), AddThis has you covered there as well.

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10 Best Social Bookmarking WordPress Plugins

Social bookmarking plugins for WordPress are developed to help you encourage your visitors to submit your posts to top social websites. Not all of them are equal though. You want to download those that offer a unique value to your visitors, are attractive and customizable. These 10 social bookmarking plugins offer those and more:

Sharebar: adds floating social bookmarking and sharing buttons to your website. If you have been to Mashable, you have a good idea how this plugin will work. It lets you add additional social networks as you wish.

SexyBookmarks: an exciting plugin that adds an attractive set of social bookmarking buttons to your posts. If you are looking for flair, this plugin’s got it.

Socialize: adds social bookmarking buttons to the end of your posts and gives you the opportunity to call your visitors to take some action.

Share and Follow: a unique WordPress plugin that not only adds those standard social buttons to your website, it lets you promote your social profiles using its social tab feature. (more…)

easyShare: Add Social Sharing Buttons to WordPress

If you have visited top blogs recently, you have probably seen that they all heavily use social sharing buttons. The fact is, people are more likely to submit your posts to those social networking websites when you provide them with the appropriate buttons. I have tested this extensively, and it is clear that most people won’t take time to submit posts to Facebook or Twitter unless you have a share button available on your website. Thanks to easyShare you won’t have to worry about that.

easyShare makes it easy to add sharing buttons of your favorite social networking sites to your blog posts. All you have to do is install it and check the boxes next to your favorite social sites in this plugin’s setting page. You also have the option to display buttons in large or normal format.

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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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