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7 Twitter Plugins for WordPress

John — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:58:29 +0000

Integrating Twitter and your WordPress blog is essential to keep everyone informed about what is happening now as well as what is happening next. Twitter plugins help to integrate your sites.

Twitter Tools – The amazing Twitter Tools plugin offers a complete integration system between your WordPress blog and Twitter account.

Twitter for WordPress – This plugin is designed to show your latest Tweets in your WordPress blog. Can be used as a status updater for your blog.

Twitter Widget – This plugin uses Javascript to display a Twitter badge while displaying your most recent Twitter updates as well.

Twitter Widget Pro – A plugin that requires PHP 5 and can do a lot of great functions when displaying Twitter updates and much more.

WP Twitter Pitch – This plugin is helpful for people who need to use their Twitter account like an Email account and it makes it possible to handle “pitches” or interactions between accounts through WordPress.

Twitter Blaster – Allow guests to post through your personal Twitter account with this plugin for WordPress. You can approve all of the comments on your own to prevent spam messages.

Twitter Style Links – Useful plugin to create Twitter style links to names of people in the comment that you refer to when typing up a response.

Creative Web Design

John — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 13:48:34 +0000

Dare To Think Different!

Creativity has always been the reason behind every invention & innovation that leads mankind to greater lengths of civilization since the dawn of time. Inspired to explore the universe that is within us, even in the modern technological day, captivates a great mind to excel in what he or she creates; which is termed gifted by many. The electronic media has provided an all together different play ground for these avant-garde artists striving to leave a mark with what they create.

In early days of the internet not much visual creativity was required to lure in visitors as it was information driven industry. The web has come a long way since its birth and now it’s at a point where technological excellence and creative brilliance have merged collectively to craft a launching pad for further breakthroughs in the field and challenge the creative aspect of designers. Currently, Web 2.0 allows the designers to use various tools that significantly accelerate the whole user experience. Creative Web Design can never accomplish what is required of it, if they cannot ensure its smooth functionality for the purpose it was built for on the first place which enables the visitor to use it without giving it a second thought.

Competitive global environment & advances in internet technology has set in motion the creativity of designers to attain better heights and prove their value. If you browse through the internet you’ll find various websites creatively at their best in Design & Usability.

Here are some of the websites which serve their purpose and have a unique design:
http://www.pilarberrio.com/
http://loscoloresolvidados.com/
http://margaritaacosta.com/
http://www.mastermysite.com/
http://www.teamfannypack.com/
http://www.google.com/
http://www.shoepassion.de/
http://www.kubikfoto.de/
http://demainjarrete.stpo.fr/
http://www.net4sale.net
http://twitter.com
http://www.sgdoeschwitz.de/

Creativity of someone lets you see in an all together different perspective, which is unique and might even seem obvious once seen.

http://www.solsnet.com is a Toronto based web design house.

WordPress and Twitter

John — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 06:54:56 +0000

Unless you have been hiding under a rock you will have already or will have plans to enter the twitterverse. If you are using WordPress then there is good news as there are plenty of tools to help you promote your twitter profile, manage your tweets and generally promote your tweetdom in a bid to gain more followers.

In fact if you search the WordPress Plugin archive you will find there are over 200 plugins listed that are Twitter related. It would take you several days to review them all. I know because I have done it, thereby saving you the time and effort.

This article is a round-up of the best of the best Twitter Plugins and Widgets for WordPress. Anyone with a WordPress blog and a Twitter account will want to use at least one of these applications to enhance your Twitter profile on your blog. I have tested all these widgets and know them to work with the current version of WordPress.

Twitter friendly Posts

The plugin creates a shorter link for every blog post, so instead of having:
http://webdesignlessons.com/wordpress/plugins/twitter-friendly-links/ you can use http://webdesignlessons.com/554
This will not replace your original URL’s but will provide you aditional new URL’s that you can use. When you publish a post you will be presented with a new option in the Edit Post page in your WordPress backend. That is “Tweet this Post” This abbreviates your headline and appends your short URL and allows it to post it as a tweet.

Twitter Member Linking

Anytime you’d like to link to a Twitter member’s profile, simply use: @membername anywhere within your post, page, or comment and the link will be generated automatically upon publishing. Likewise, you can do the same thing with Twitter Tags. Just use: #tagname anywhere within the post, page, or comment and the link to Twitter Search will be generated automatically upon publishing. There are many modules for WordPress that do one or more of these things but this was the only one that I found that will do all of the above in one go.

Twitter Friends Widget

http://www.paulmc.org/whatithink/wordpress/plugins/twitter-friends-widget/

Twitter Friends is a WordPress plugin that displays your Twitter followers in your sidebar in the same way that they appear on your Twitter profile. THis helps promote your followers, using the you scratch my back I scratch yours philosophy this is one widget that is sure to increase your Twitter followers. I went to install this widget and was told that it had not been tested on my version of WordPress, well I tested it and can assure you that it does. I have used it on several blogs for clients including http://jkhanok.com and plan on using it on my own.

Twitter Widget Pro
This is a great little widget that gives you greater control of how your site handles Twitter feeds. My latest plugin is a sidebar widget that handles Twitter feeds. It’s true that you could just point an RSS widget at one of the Twitter feeds, but you end up with the whole tweet as a link, @replies don’t function, etc. Twitter Widget Pro properly handles twitter feeds, including @username and link parsing, allowing you to display your twitter profile image, and even allowing you to specify a custom error message to display when Twitter is down.

Thread Twitter fetch your tweets and display them in thread style. Author: denishua
http://fairyfish.com/2009/01/19/thread-twitter/

A fairly simple widget which allows you to specify and display a Twitter search (or a Twitter hashtag) in your sidebar. Future developments will hopefully include allowing more than one of these widgets to be used at once, with different searches in them.

Simple Twitter Link
http://www.artiss.co.uk/simple-twitter-link
A great widget that I wil be implmenting on several blogs of my own and for clients. This widget allows you to let your sites visitors to “Tweet the Page”. It will create a link that your users can click whch will take them to their tweet login/post page with a prefilled tweet stating that they are reading your article and get this passes a TinyURL snippet into the tweet to boot.

Start raising your Twitter profile today by incorporating one of these tools.