WordPress and Social Media are like chocolate and peanut butter. They are great apart but when combined they create something even better tasting. It worked for Reese’s. You should allow your readers various ways to interact with your blog be it bookmarking, sharing, saving, or emailing. Given the chance they could be your greatest promoters.
While there are many more social media plugins these are the more popular ones and are proven to work. As always use with caution as too many can cause your site to slow down.
Social Media WordPress Plugins
1. Add To Any – Compatible 2.0 – 2.7.1
Allows readers to share, save, bookmark, and email your posts using 122 different social sites. Very easy to use and compact, also allows you to customize the look.
2. WP Digg This – Compatible 2.2 – 2.7
Adds the Digg button to your posts with the added option of choosing which posts you want to add it too.
3. Social Bookmarks – Compatible 2.5.1 – 2.7
Adds the social media buttons to the end of your posts. You can also select which media site to show and use.
4. HB Social Bookmarks – Compatible 2.3.3 – 2.7
If you’d like to add the feature to a sidebar this plugin will do just that. You can choose which site to show and use.
5. Share This – Compatible 1.5 – 2.7?
This is possibly the most popular social media plugin. It’s very simple, compact, and clean looking.
6. Sociable – Compatible 2.2 – 2.7
You can’t go wrong with a plugin by Joost de Valk aka Yoast. It adds the social sites to the end of your posts and again you can choose which to use.
7. Twitter For WordPress – Compatible 2.1 – 2.7
This will display your Tweets on your sidebar.
8. WP To Twitter – Compatible 2.5 – 2.7.1
This works in the opposite direction of the above. It send a Twitter Update when you post something new on your blog.
9. Meet Your Commenters – Compatible 2.5 – 2.7
This is a very unique and smart plugin. When someone leaves a comment it will show the profiles of the sites they are a member of in the dashboard so that you may add them.
You couldn’t read this post without using my Share This now could you? Any Digg, Stumble, or any other media action would be greatly appreciated.
I hadn’t seen the “meet your commenters” before. That’s really cool. I will look into that one.
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You just provided me with the plug-in I was looking for: WP To Twitter
Thanks again for more great blogging resources.
Regards,
Robert
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let me try one of these.
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Oh i use blogger. I have twitter and i’m not sure how to put a button from blogger to twitter like to invite them to follow me in twitter
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Are the ten icons on your Share This icon the Social Markers you would recommend then??
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I use the Sociable plugin and it will let you choose which, out of many icons, you want to display. I use those 10 as I feel they are the most popular.