Thursday, September 4th, 2008
WP Scoop, which launched yesterday, is yet another digg-like site, that lists the most popular posts from around the web about Wordpress plugins, themes, hacks, or anything else that has Wordpress written all over it.
Playing on the scoop theme, the website claims that “New users should.. worry not, it is as easy as eating ice-cream.” Mmm.. Wordpress flavored ice cream… sounds delicious.
But here’s the real scoop – who’s behind it?
After a quick search, I couldn’t find any names, pictures, or hints as to who started it. Why are they hiding? C’mon, we don’t bite (unless it’s Ben&Jerry’s), we just want to give you credit and follow you on Twitter.
Check out WPScoop and submit or vote on Wordpress-related posts
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Posted in News & Views | Tags: bookmarking, community, news, social, wordpress, WP Scoop | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
With the proliferation of social media networks, blogs have become only one tool in creating our online identity. The question is: how do we integrate all of the facets of our online identity so that we can actually have a life too? blah blah tech’s Socialize Me WordPress plugin is another step in this direction.
The Socialize Me WordPress plugin gives you another way to interact with visitors to your site who have come via other social networks:
Imagine one of your articles has been submitted to StumbleUpon. You’re getting a steady stream of visitors to your ‘blog. You could really connect with some of these guys — if you knew who they were.
Well here’s the thing, with Socialize Me! those visitors to your ‘blog will see a simple message when they arrive: “Hi, thanks for the visit! [I'm] on StumbleUpon, too!” with a link to your profile.
With the Socialize Me! Plugin for WordPress you can connect with people on services like: StumbleUpon, Facebook, Digg, Delicious, Pownce, Twitter, Bebo, MySpace and many, many more.
StumbleUpon is a great example of how the plugin can be used, since StumbleUpon can be a pretty good source of traffic, but the visitors are always unknown, and seem to just pass on through. This plugin can hopefully create a stronger connection with them and get them to stick around.
WordPress Plugin: Socialize Me!
Posted in Plugins | Tags: facebook, social, StumbleUpon | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
I’ve been collecting links to WordPress plugins that link WordPress blogs to facebook profiles, but Adam Hirsch has beaten me to it and put together an excellent list of WordPress-facebook plugins that allow you to cross post articles and photos to and from Facebook, display users, status, and share posts on facebook.
When I started using facebook, I discovered a built-in way to make your facebook notes display new posts on your blog. Here’s how to do it:
- Go to your profile, and click on More under Applications.
- Click on Notes. Under My Notes, on the right-hand side, there is a link that says Edit settings. Click on that.
- Add your blog RSS feed to your settings.
Now, every time you update your blog, the post appears in your Notes, and your facebook friends will see it.
The disadvantage to this is if you have more than one blog or site, then you have to choose one to publish on your profile. In that case, it’s probably worthwhile to check out the plugins listed on Adam Hirsch’s site.
10+ Facebook Wordpress Plugins and Widgets»
Posted in Plugins | Tags: facebook, social | 14 Comments »
