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

Simple Facebook Connect: it fully integrates Facebook into WordPress. Lets your visitors log on to your website or leave comments on it using their accounts. It includes Facebook’s social plugins as well.

Simple Twitter Connect: makes it possible your visitors to log in on your website using their Twitter account. Commenting can be done the same way. It offers @anywhere support.

WP Facebook Connect: a simple plugin that brings the power of Facebook to your WordPress site. It uses the Facebook API to create WordPress user accounts.

There are plenty of other Twitter and Facebook connect plugins you can pick up to integrate those services into your site. But the above plugins are simple to use and more than capable of getting the job done.

Here are 35 fun WordPress clone themes that let you duplicate the design of some of the most popular sites on the Internet:

1. OneNews: you can clone the legendary AllTop portal on WordPress with OneNews. Very easy to customize too. Just add your feeds, and you are ready to go.

2. Newspaper: Newspaper is a unique theme that lets you clone the Huffington Post’s design on your very own website. This is fully widgetized and fairly easy to customize.

3. Accumulo: Accumulo for WordPress is another AllTop clone template. It’s a RSS feed aggregator theme that lets you enter your favorite feeds and categorize them as you wish.

4. Nominate: if you want to clone Digg or a site such as Sphinn, Nominate is a solid WordPress theme to take advantage of. You won’t be needing Pligg to start your own social voting site thanks to this.

5. Answers: Answers theme essentially aims to bring you the same functionality as Yahoo! Answers and other Q/A sites. Pretty solid theme.

6. iBlogPro: iBlog Pro lets you duplicate the look and feel of Apple blog on your website. It has a ton of customization options too.

7. WhiteHouse Pro: so you want your site to have a similar look and feel to the White House’s website? Then WhiteHouse Pro is for you. It comes with an optional BBpress addon as well.

8. PopURLs Clone: clone the good old PopURLs aggregator on your WordPress blog with PopURLs Clone for WordPress.

9. Facebook WordPress Theme: FWT lets you clone Facebook’s blog on your WordPress site.

10. CryBook Theme: Crybook is a very cool clone of Facebook. Get your Facebook WordPress site up fast!

11. Facebook Lover: Facebook Lover is the mother of all Facebook clones. Looks awfully close to the real thing.

12. Smells Life Facebook: SLF is another fantastic Facebook WordPress clone. If you are in love with Facebook, you should try this.

13. Celebrity Gossip: create a celebrity website with the look and feel of Kineda with Celebrity Gossip.

14. New Yorker 2 Theme: clone NY Times on your WordPress blog with New Yorker 2.

15. The Beeb Theme: The Beeb Theme is one cool BBC clone for WordPress. Highly flexible too.

16.The Gazzette: a CNN clone that lets you create your own news site fast.

17. WNN: as the name suggests, WNN allows you to clone CNN on your WordPress website.

18. Fresh Tweet Theme: clone Twitter on WordPress with Fresh Tweet Theme.

19. Prolouge: Prolouge is another cool Twitter clone theme for WordPress. Easy to install and works right out of the box. Not as close to Twitter’s design as the previous theme but still very good.

20. TumbleLog: TumbleLog is a Tumblr clone that lets you get a fairly similar design to Tumblr on your WordPress blog.

21. Digg-like Theme: duplicate the look and feel of Digg.com on your WordPress website. This is a free theme as well.

22. Retro Mac Os: get the old Mac OS’ look and feel on your WordPress blog with Retro Mac OS theme.

23. Wiggle: an awfully well-done Google clone WordPress theme. Just make sure people don’t mistake your site for the real thing!

24. Woogle: another cool theme that lets you clone Google on your WordPress blog. It’s lightweight and fun to play with.

25. MSNLog: may be you are interested in Google but love MSN more. MSNLog lets you clone MSN Messenger on your WordPress site.

26. ThemedVista: I am not a big fan of Vista, but if you are, you can duplicate its look and feel on your blog with ThemedVista.

27. GameMaker: clone GameSpot right on your WordPress blog for free with GameMaker!

28. Shared Pro Theme: duplicates the look and feel of WordPress.org blog on your WordPress website.

29. WP Dashboard: WP Dashboard is another WordPress clone theme for anyone who’s in love with their WordPress dashboard.

30. CMS Proton: duplicate the look and feel of Liverpool FC’s website on your WordPress blog with CMS Proton.

31. EWPN: clone ESPN on your WordPress blog with EWPN. It’s a free theme.

32. Journal: Journal is a wonderful theme to create your own political WordPress blog fast. Very flexible and SEO friendly too! Lets you clone top news sites fast.

33. Google Chrome: if you are in love with Chrome, you are going to love this theme. Chrome lets you clone Google Chrome on your blog. As simple as that.

34. CrunchTech: clone TechCrunch with WordPress via CrunchTech. It looks awfully close to the real thing!

35. WordPress Wiki: not an exact clone of Wikipedia, but WP Wiki does let you start a Wiki website quickly. It’s pretty flexible and easy to customize.

Your turn: any suggestions? Please add them below.

Services such as Hootsuite make it easy for you to post all your content to top social networks. But if you don’t want to deal with a third-party application, WordSocial is your best friend. It sits on top of your WordPress site and allows you to submit your content to Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. It gives you the option to post your articles immediately or with a delay.

It has multiple URL shorterning services integrated to keep your social posts short. It even gives you the chance to optimize your tweets for the search engines. For Facebook, you can choose to show images. You can define a default image for your articles too.

All in all, WordSocial a pretty solid social networking plugin for those of you who want to spread your content on sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. It is simple to deploy and gets the job done.

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.

Bring traffic back from Facebook: don’t want people to just read your content on Facebook? This plugin can help you pull people in.

Get more Facebook likes for your pages: Facebook Members is one of many plugins that can add a like box to your website. The more likes you get, the better chance you have of making it big on Facebook.

Keep your fans in the loop: Facebook Like for tags is a powerful plugin that enables you send updates to folks who have liked your posts with certain tags. Another way to use to keep the attention of your Facebook fans.

Add Facebook content to WordPress: want to add content from Facebook to your website? WordPress Facebook Grabber has you covered.

Add a social tool bar: social toolbars such as Wibiya allow you to bring Facebook and other social networking sites to your WordPress site in a dynamic fashion. Wibiya is a freemium toolbar and has a ton of useful apps.

Take control of your content on Facebook: when somebody likes your page on Facebook, Facebook automatically grabs certain information from your website (e.g an image). Facebook Opengraph gives you more control on how your content will be displayed on Facebook.

Facebook can do wonders for your WordPress site if you come up with the right plan for it. Fully integrating Facebook into your WordPress site is just a start.

Digg Digg gives you some options when it comes to adding social buttons to your website. You can choose to display your buttons before or after your posts. Digg Digg also has a floating button mode in which you can get a Mashable-like button effect on your website.

Digg Digg is developed to help you avoid tweaking your code all by yourself. You can just add your username from Twitter in the back-end to get proper attribution everytime someone tweets your stories. You can also pick and choose which networks you want to show first on your website. Just put the right number next to each social network, and you are set.

Many top social networks are supported in this plugin. You can even add Facebook Like and Delicious buttons to your posts or have them shown up in your floating box. In order to get the most out of Digg Digg, you want to make sure you adjust the position of your buttons by changing the margin information in this plugin’s back-end.

You don’t want to add every single button to your website. You are probably better off testing different settings to find out which buttons are performing the best for your website. This plugin is flexible enough to let you test only certain categories on your website.

Digg Digg is one of the best plugins in its category. It is simple to use and can be easily customized to fit your website’s needs. The developers behind this plugin seem to be working on a social bar. The future is bright for this plugin.

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.

Facebook is one of the hottest properties on the Internet these days. Millions of people use it to communicate with their friends and colleagues and connect with others online. But what if you are not in love with Facebook but want to clone its design on your WordPress blog? That’s exactly what you can do with Crybook theme. It’s an amazingly identical clone of Facebook that lets you start your very own blog with the look and feel of Facebook. Furthermore, it’s so flexible you can go beyond what’s offered on Facebook to make your blog look unique to your visitors.

CryBaby also allows you to change the color and look and feel of the website fast. You can choose your favorite color by taking advantage of the color picker feature at the top right side of your theme. You get 5 colors to choose from. The logo can be easily changed as well. The theme also supports threaded comments and has an integrated feed counter to help you keep track of your subscribers easily.

The custom admin panel is easy to use as well, and you can also manage your AdSense and analytics codes easily on this theme. Overall, if you are looking for a free, SEO-friendly theme that looks awfully close to Facebook, you ought to give CryBaby a try. It’s the cheapest way to clone Facebook!

It feels like yesterday when Facebook was launched. But it has quickly become one of the biggest social communities around the world with millions of people using it on a daily basis. If you have your own WordPress blog, you should not ignore Facebook. Thankfully, there are lots of Facebook plug-ins that you can use to integrate Facebook into your blog:

• Facebook Connect: Facebook connect WordPress plug-in makes it easy for you to bring Facebook to your blog. If the guys at Tech Crunch use FB Connect, there is no reason you shouldn’t!
• Facebook Photos: Show your Facebook photos right on your blog without too much fuss.
• Wordbook: post your blogs to your Facebook wall.
• Facebook Dashboard Widget: brings Facebook data right to your WordPress blog.
• Socialize Me!: add your blog posts to Facebook and other social networking sites.
• StatusPress: Facebook updates on your blog.
• Fotobook: show your Facebook photos on WordPress.
• Friend Bookmarklet: detect Facebook users on your blog.
• WP Facebox: display your Facebook images using Facebox.
• Add To Facebook: allow others to add your posts to Facebook.
• Social Profiles: Social Profiles allows you to add social network profile links to the comments of your users.
• Facelook: Display a Facebook Badge in your sidebar.
• Wassup: track your visitors like a pro.
• Facebook Status Widget: show your Facebook status on your blog.
• Lifestream: show your social media updates on your blog.
• WP Greet Box: greet different welcome messages to folks from different social communities.
• WPBook: integrate WordPress with your Facebook account.
• Social Homes: proudly display Facebook and other social media favicons on your blog.
• PrefPass Universal Login and Registration: allow your users to log on using their Facebook info.
• Facebook Posted Items: fetch your posted items from Facebook and show them on your blog.
• Publish To Facebook: Publishes posts, pages or both to your Facebook Mini-Feed directly from WordPress.
• Facebook Share Preview: add meta-data to your media files.
• DandyID Services: display your Facebook information on your WordPress blog.
• QuailPress: another plug-in that allows your users to share your posts on their Facebook accounts.
• Fresh From FriendFeed and Twitter: post unique content to your blog from Friendfeed and Twitter. Connect your Facebook account to this plug-in and you are all set.

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If you are a heavy Facebook user, you have probably heard of FaceBook Connect. It’s an amazing way of bringing the power of Facebook to your blog. Think about it. People being able to comment on your blog with Facebook tracking your latest Facebook visitors. And talk about your visitor’s network. Facebook connect can explode your traffic by leveraging Facebook’s power.

Now, if you are an aspiring developer, you can use the sample code provided by Facebook to implement FB Connect on your WordPress blog. But thankfully, the good guys at Socialable have developed a Facebook WP plug-in that makes things so easy for WordPress users. The plug-in is very easy to use. But you need to watch the video provided by the developers to set up the Facebook side of things. In essence, you need to create an application per blog and use the application and secret keys per application to activate the plug-in.

Once you activate the plug-in, you are going to see the latest visitor from Facebook, and your visitors get to comment on your blog without having to log in. This is a very innovative feature and something that you need to jump on before everyone else does.

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