December 25th in Social Media, Wordpress Plugins by Wordpress Jedi .
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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October 19th in Premium Themes by Wordpress Jedi .
You’ve got to love what WordPress is all about. Not only is it a killer content management system but it also lets you create sophisticated websites fast. You can even try to clone what others have done in the past. Whether you are interested in cloning Facebook or just want to have the look and feel of Digg on your site, you can do it all with WordPress clone themes. Most of these themes are cheap or free, so you won’t have to spend too much money to get started with your project.
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. [click to continue…]
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September 21st in Wordpress Plugins by Wordpress Jedi .
Every webmaster needs and wants more traffic for his/her website. The more people visit your site, the more will get to see your great content, and the more chances you have of increasing the conversion rates. Sharing your content on social networking websites such as Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn gives you the chance to bring more attention to your articles and even go viral.
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. [click to continue…]
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April 23rd in Social Media by Wordpress Jedi .
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. [click to continue…]
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November 7th in Wordpress Plugins by Wordpress Jedi .
For the past few months, I have been searching for a social sharing plugin that would make it easier for my readers on my blog to share my top stories with their friends. There are plenty of social plugins available for WordPress. Finding one that does everything you need it to do can be quite challenging. Digg Digg is a one of a kind plugin that adds social media buttons to your website and does almost everything one would look for in a social bookmarking plugin. It is not only flexible, it covers a lot of those top social networks. It’s quite dynamic too.
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. [click to continue…]
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April 28th in Social Media by Wordpress Jedi .
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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May 23rd in Free Themes by Wordpress Jedi .
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!
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