Twitter and WordPress

How do you integrate Twitter and your WordPress Blog the best way. In this post we have listed a few things you can do easily to leverage the strength of Twitter on your WordPress Blog.

Twitter Username in Comments

One really good plugin for making it more interesting for people commenting on your post is the WP-Twitip-ID Plugin that lets you “easily” integrate a Twitter ID field into your comments form for blog posts. Easy and adds great extra to you and your visitors.

Twitter Tools

Alex King´s plugin Twitter Tools adds the possibility to update Twitter when you create a new blog post and also the possibility to digest your daily, or weekly, tweets and publish to your blog. For developers the plugin also adds hooks, that lets you programatically do magic with the tweet (updating other services maybe).

Tweet This

Tweet this is simple plugin that adds a “Tweet this” link to your blog posts, making it quick and easy for a reader to tweet about your blog post.

Twitter Badge

Official Twitter Badge. Add your tweets as a widget easily to your blog using this official snippet of code available as Flash and HTML widget.

Other tools

There are hundreds of different tools out there, these are just a few we have used and come to like, please feel free to comment or contact us and we will happily update this post.

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January 7, 2009 · Filed under Tools

2 Comments »

  1. Steven-Sanders Said,

    January 7, 2009 @ 21:48

    I’ve seen a lot of people integrating the Twitter ID field in their comments area… but as novel as it is… I don’t care for it.

    It’s one more thing I have to type every time I make a comment on someone’s blog. Just like the annoyance of the captcha that some use.

    I understand the addition for blogs that are geared towards Twitter, but not on others.

  2. admin Said,

    January 7, 2009 @ 22:14

    I agree on the twitter-id for non-twitter-blogs and captcha, but for sites running WordPress MU it is a must using captcha if user registrations is enabled for anyone.

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