May 21st in Wordpress Plugins by Wordpress Jedi . Many of us don’t allow user registrations on our websites for various reasons (mine’s are mainly for the security challenges we have had in the past). But if you do leave that option on the table for your visitors, you should make the process of registering for new accounts easier for your visitors. One way to do that is by letting them sign up with their Facebook, Twitter, or Google+ credentials. These social plugin for WordPress make that possible:
Simple Facebook Connect: Facebook is the most popular social network around these days. Millions of people have an account with those guys. With this plugin installed, your visitors get to log onto your website using their Facebook credentials. [click to continue…]
Continue Reading May 1st in Social Media by Wordpress Jedi . These days we hear a lot about sites such as Pinterest. But it is not the only game in town. BO.LT is another exciting social page sharing community that lets you find and share exciting pages with others. BO.LT may not get as much traffic as top social networking sites such as Facebook. But it could bring image-heavy sites more visitors. It does happen to have a share button you can add to your pages so people can share your content on BO.LT.
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Continue Reading January 26th in Social Media, Wordpress Plugins by Wordpress Jedi . Having your site linked up with Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, and Google+ is a great way to solidify your community and grow the size of your audience. But those are not the only communities you can participate in to increase your traffic. Pinterest is a rising social network that could drive more people to your site and help make your content go viral.
In the past few weeks, I have been searching for plugins and scripts WordPress webmasters can use to integrate Pinterest in their website. There are not too many sophisticated ones around. But you can use these tools and scripts to make your site more Pinterest friendly:
Pinterest RSS Widget: this plugin displays your pins in your sidebar. Uses your Pinterest’s RSS feed to do that. Pretty Pinterest Pins is another plugin that offers almost the same functionality. [click to continue…]
Continue Reading 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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Continue Reading August 28th in Wordpress Plugins by Wordpress Jedi . We have all seen related post plugins in the past. These plugins allow you to display related articles from your site under each and every post. Some top sites are taking this a step further and have added a “related tweets” section under their articles. These related tweet plugins let you add this functionality to your own website:
Tweets By Post: a simple to use plugin that adds content from Twitter to the end of your posts (similar to what you can see on top portals). [click to continue…]
Continue Reading February 2nd in Social Media by Wordpress Jedi . 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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Continue Reading December 20th in Free Plug-ins by Wordpress Jedi . There are plenty of social media plugins that just add a few button to your website. If you want to go beyond that and make your website even more social media friendly, you are going to need Share and Follow. It gives you a lot of flexibility as far as the buttons you can add to your posts. Moreover, it adds a social media tab to your website to give your visitors more encouragement to follow you on Facebook, Twitter, and other websites.
Share and Follow has a ton of options and does not require you to do any coding. You can pick and choose which pages you want your buttons to show up on. You can control the text that shows up in your heading, the size of your buttons, and everything in between.
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