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Posts Tagged ‘twitter’

Plugin Review: WP Greet Box

By Austin On February 8, 2009 1 Comment

Yesterday I found and downloaded the WP Greet Box plugin from Omni Noggin. This plugin could be a very useful tool and keeping visitors from various sites, asking them to subscribe to your RSS feed.

A great feature of this plugin is the ability to allow or disallow a user to remove the banner if they so choose to. Another great example is the different icons and text that show up from where the user come from. For example if this post was to get tweeted by yourself or

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Tested: Twitip ID Plugin

By Austin On February 7, 2009 No Comments

There is a really neat plugin named Twitip-ID for WordPress. As you can see, if you have commented on this site I was using this plugin.

While it is still in beta testing I feel that it is a really nice plugin, plus it will automatically put the required field into your comments template without any editing. I choice to to manually input the field for custom css and styling.

This plugin is really awesome and allows for other to employ their Twitter ID for other to follow them, giving a little more incentive

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Beyond Twitter: Tweetsuite & Tweetbacks

By Austin On February 4, 2009 No Comments

Every one is aware of Twitter, I hope. Well there are many, many plugins for your WordPress that you can use. So I am not going to be like every one else and write a post with 3o twitter plugins for WordPress. I am just going to talk about one special plugin that is hitting the WP community.

Tweet Suite: a Twitter-WordPress integration plugin that includes the following features:

  • Server-side (no-JS or remote calls) TweetBacks
  • ReTweet-This buttons for each TweetBack
  • A digg-like Tweet-This Button
  • Automatic Tweeting of new posts
  • A Most-Tweeted Widget
  • A Recently-Tweeted Widget
  • A
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Twitter avatars inside your WordPress comments

By Austin On January 15, 2009 5 Comments

Ricardo Sousa, who writes for Smashing Magazine created a great plugin called Twittar.

This plugin will use someones Twitter Gravatar if their email address is not connected with a Gravatar.

For more info check out the full post at Twitter Avatars in Comments: A WordPress plugin

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Post this to Twitter

By Austin On December 5, 2008 No Comments

Hey, do you have a list a social bookmark links? Does it have a Twitter link?
Well here is a way you can link a post to your Twitter.

<a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Blog Post: <?php the_permalink(); ?>" class="external" title="Click to send this post to Twitter!">Twitter</a>

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