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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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!

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The challenge is coordinating all of the places that we appear on the web. Previously we discussed possible ways to combine your blog with facebook. You could also use add the ShowYourself Widget to your blog sidebar, which allows you to collect and display your online identities on various community sites in one place. Here’s a sample:

ShowYourself Widget

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The WordPress OpenID plugin lets visitors to a WordPress blog quickly register, login, and leave comments using their OpenID Identity. Says it’s designed for WP 2.0.3 to 2.1, but may work with 2.3.

WordPress OpenID Plugin

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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:

1. Go to your profile, and click on More under Applications.
2. Click on Notes. Under My Notes, on the right-hand side, there is a link that says Edit settings. Click on that.
3. 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»

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The Comment Email Responder plugin is one of those plugins that make you wonder why no one else ever thought of it. This handy plugin makes it easy for a WordPress administrator to respond to a comment and simultaneously send an email to the commenter. If the commenter has subscribed to receive notification of any new comments, the email is not sent. Brilliant! I’ve often found myself responding to a commenter, and then searching through my comments in the admin for their email address so I can send them an email saying that I’ve responded. This plugin pares the process down to one simple step.

WordPress Plugin: Comment Email Responder>>

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I recently posted a comment on a blog, and was surprised to get a trackback link as a result from their blog. Suddenly I understood what all the excitement is over turning off the NoFollow links from commenters. Why not make those links real? So I’ve installed DoFollow here on WordPressGarage.com, and we’ll see how it goes.

I chose to install the Semiologic plugin because it is the most simple – it just turns on all comment links. The reason I felt that this was sufficient is that I have this blog set up so that I have to approve comments the first time they are posted from a reader, and then after that they appear automatically. So I’m not worried that comments that appear are spam, since I’ve approved them.

DoFollow plugin>>

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Subscribe to Comments is an excellent plugin that increases the functionality and “sociability” of comments on a WordPress blog. Commenters can select to receive notification of new comments on a certain post, and even those who haven’t commented can enter their email address to receive notification of new comments. I just installed it on this site.

Subscribe to Comments>> 

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[This plugin] will disable the automatic rel="nofollow" attributes added to external links. You may want to do this if you have good spam filtering for your comments, or if your blog is moderated. Optionally you can also set a comment age limit for adding the attributes.

DoFollow>>

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The SocialList plugin does the following:

SocialList is a WordPress plugin that adds a page to your admin area allowing you to view details on submissions of your pages to social bookmarking sites. Currently only del.icio.us and digg are supported, but I’m hoping to add more in a future version.

The creator says that he only tested the plugin on his installation, and many of the commenters seem to have encountered problems, so I’m not sure if it’s a good idea to install it until things have been ironed out. But it’s an interesting idea, and yet another way to try to satisfy the analytics obsessions of bloggers!

SocialList plugin>> 

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