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How To Log In To WordPress Using A Social Network

From Kevin Muldoon
May 29th, 2012
10 Comments

WordPress has a fairly straightforward registration system. To register, you only need to submit a user name and your email address. A password is then emailed to you and you can log in. This registration process can actually be made quicker by enabling visitors to sign up and log in ...

25 Social Media Plugins For WordPress

From Kevin Muldoon
February 22nd, 2012
34 Comments

After search engine traffic, visitors from social media services are the second biggest source of traffic. Facebook, Twitter and Google+ have established themselves as the mostly used social sharing websites though Digg, StumbleUpon and LinkedIn are not far behind. Whilst great articles will always be shared by visitors, how well social ...

How To Integrate Facebook, Twitter And Google+ In WordPress

From Kevin Muldoon
January 19th, 2012
106 Comments

Integrating social media services in your website design is vital if you want to make it easy for readers to share your content. While some users are happy with the social media buttons that come built into their design template, the majority of WordPress users install a plugin to automatically ...

How To Build A Media Site On WordPress (Part 2)

From Jonathan Wold
June 8th, 2011
49 Comments

The default “category” and “tag” taxonomies in WordPress offer a lot of flexibility to those with imagination and in my development experience I have seen a wide range of creative implementations. With the introduction of custom taxonomies and their growing ease of use, though, we need no longer be bound ...

How To Build A Media Site On WordPress (Part 1)

From Jonathan Wold
June 2nd, 2011
96 Comments

WordPress is amazing. With its growing popularity and continual development, it is becoming the tool of choice for many designers and developers. WordPress projects, though, are pushing well beyond the confines of mere “posts” and “pages”. How do you go about adding and organizing media and all its complexities? With ...

How To Integrate Facebook With WordPress

From Thiemo Fetzer
September 14th, 2009
139 Comments

Facebook is one of those Web phenomena that impress everyone with numbers. To cite some: about 250 million users are on Facebook, and together they spend more than 5 billion minutes on Facebook… every day. These numbers suggest that we should start thinking about how to use Facebook for blogging ...

15 Useful Twitter Hacks and Plug-Ins For WordPress

From Jean-Baptiste Jung
March 4th, 2009
95 Comments

Since its launch in 2006, Twitter has grown to create what most people would call a social media revolution. By the very nature of the short messages it hosts, Twitter is a wonderful marketing and promotion tool that no serious blogger can ignore. In this article, we have compiled 15 most ...

Introducing Tweetbacks Plugin for WordPress

From Smashing Editorial Team
January 9th, 2009
56 Comments

Just yesterday we introduced Twitter Avatars In Comments plugin for WordPress that enables bloggers to have both Twitter and Gravatar avatars in blog comments. We are certainly not going to turn Smashing Magazine into a repository of Twitter plugins for WordPress, but we are confident that it does make sense ...

Twitter Avatars In Comments WordPress Plugin

From Smashing Editorial Team
January 8th, 2009
179 Comments

Over the last months Twitter has become extremely popular across the Web, with more blogs, magazines and companies using it to communicate with their audience and their customers. Even we started twittering a couple of months ago and have over 3,650 followers now. Please feel free to join us and ...