These days, being social is everything for websites – especially for blogs. Even search engines take account of websites’ activity on social media, so ignoring social networks and focusing on ancient SEO techniques is also out of question…
Recently, I got an email from a user asking: How to implement twitter @Anywhere Hovercard in WordPress. Adding @anywhere is relatively an easy process. You can either add the twitter anywhere hovercard manually or install a plugin…
Twitter is a goldmine of information for people who know how to take advantage of it. You could always keep up with the latest trends and developments in your market by keeping an eye on relevant Twitter searches. Displaying Twitter search results on your website could prove useful for your visitors too. These 5 plugins add Twitter search…
Twitter Bootstrap is a HTML, CSS and Javascript toolkit that provides a framework to develop front-end user interfaces for web applications. Sounds too complex? In easy words it is a collection of HTML, CSS, Javascript code that…
There are three fields on the WordPress profile page that many people seem to have little use for and so want to remove to cut down on the clutter. They are the fields for AIM, Yahoo IM, and Jabber…
If you’re using Twitter, you maybe want to display your latest tweets on your blog. You can use a plugin for that, or you can use this code to display your tweets without using…
Twitter is one of the most vibrant social networks around. Millions of new tweets are added to the website constantly. Many Twitter users are quite active and add a significant number of tweets to that site on a daily or monthly…
I would like to share a simple way to have your Twitter follower counter or Feedburner total reader counter using custom styling on your WordPress website…
I was not much of a Twitter fan, I just recently rediscovered the potential of it and how useful, fun, and addictive it is. Now I understand why people want a Twitter App with everything. As a platform WordPress is no different…
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…
In this tutorial, I’ll walk you through the steps of setting up a widget, its settings form, and displaying it on your site. At the end of the tutorial, you can download an example plugin to build from. Of course, you can apply this to your themes…
One of my biggest bugbears used to be releasing my new WordPress posts into the social media world…
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…
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…
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…
Email opt-in is a common strategy used by some webmasters when promoting a download. You know the drill, if you want to download the file you have to join their email list. While there is nothing wrong with this some…
You may have noticed a floating social media box to the left hand side of all pages on WP Mods over the last week. I have been looking for a way of showing social media voting buttons more prominently here without annoying anyone with them (difficult I know). I then stumbled across a great plugin called Smart Sharing from WP Beginner…
The other day I was doing a little browsing and I came across a new WordPress plugin called “Tweet & Get It” which you can download at the plugin directory. This plugin will allow you to set up your download links on your sites so users will first have to follow you on twitter in order to access the download.
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…
Social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter have become great sources of traffic for bloggers, portal developers, and anyone who owns a decent website. As long as you have great content that people want to consume, there is no reason you can’t go viral on those sites and get a ton of tweets and likes. Social Discussions is a handy WordPress plugin that enables you to maximize your social media…