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 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…]
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 July 24th in Wordpress Plugins by Wordpress Jedi . Many of us spend hours everyday communicating with our customers, prospects, friends, and colleagues on Twitter. Twitter is also a great source of useful information and can be used as a news tracking service too. There are plenty of Twitter plugins that let you add your Twitter updates to your website fast. Many of these plugins are limited in many ways. Tweet Blender is one of the most powerful Twitter plugins that we have tested. It has a ton of options to allow you to get the most out of Twitter on your website. [click to continue…]
Continue Reading July 18th in Wordpress Plugins by Wordpress Jedi . Twitter can be a great traffic driver for your website, especially if you have made a habit out of creating great content. Just because you wrote an article months ago does not mean you can’t share it on Twitter. In fact, doing so can bring even more traffic to your website. You just want to be careful not to promote content that may be ancient. By creating a category for your timeless content, you can keep your content more organized and only share the right type of content on Twitter. These three tools make sharing old posts on Twitter a whole lot easier:
Tweet Old Post: a wonderful plugin that gives you a ton of options when it comes to sharing your older posts with your Twitter followers. It lets you define maximum age and your tweet frequency. You can also omit categories and posts.
Hootsuite: it is a powerful suite to take advantage of to automate all your posts. You can create and upload a CSV file with your older posts and the date you want them to be retweeted. The rest is done by Hootsuite. [click to continue…]
Continue Reading May 5th in Social Media by Wordpress Jedi . 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. [click to continue…]
Continue Reading November 9th in Wordpress Tips by Wordpress Jedi . Twitter is one of the best services to use to drive traffic to any blog. As long as you have some success attracting people who are interested in your niche on Twitter, there are plenty of ways you can use Twitter to drive targeted traffic to your website. Adding a Twitter update ticker can be helpful for your readers too. It can help them discover interesting tweets and get the latest updates right on our website. iTicker is a fun social bar for your website that lets you do that and more. It can be used as a Twitter ticker and a social sharing bar.
iTicker is very easy to set up. All you need is a Twitter account, and you are ready to start customizing your toolbar. You can disable the ticker or the share bar if you prefer. The position and color of the tool-bar can be changed too. I prefer the sit-center setting though the other two could work better for your blog (depending on your layout).
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