How to Optimize your Social Media Presence with WordPress – Best 2011 Tutorials
4th Jan 2012 | Posted by Eko S. | 1 CommentSocial media website such as twitter and facebook today is become a powerful tools that can help you to expand your business. Social media also can bring communication, brand exposure and traffic to your wordpress website.
But how we can optimize the benefit of social media with our wordpress website? Below we have collected 20 best wordpress tutorials that can help you in optimizing your social media presence.
The Complete Guide to Optimizing Your WordPress Site for Sharing on Facebook
by Sarah Goding
In this article we’ll cover seven key ways to optimize your site for when people share it on Facebook. You don’t need to go overboard and implement all of the tips below.
How to Add Facebook Open Graph Meta Data in WordPress Themes
by WPBeginner
Well in this article, we will share how you can add facebook open graph meta information in WordPress themes which will solve all of those issues.
How to Get Facebook Insights for Your WordPress Site
by WPBeginner
In this article, we will show you how to get facebook insights for your WordPress site, so you can take full advantage of what facebook has to offer.
How to Add Facebook Send Button in WordPress
by WPBeginner
In this article, we will show you how to add the Facebook Send Button in your WordPress blog.
How to Add the Official Twitter Follow Button in WordPress
by WPBeginner
In this article we will cover what is the twitter follow button, and how you can add it in your WordPress site.
Get Twitter Follower Count with PHP
by Pippin Williamson
Almost every web design / development blog, and the majority of other blogs, like to display the number of people they have following their Twitter account. Their are a variety of ways to do this, and dozens of plugins that do it for you, but as a developer it is a really good if you know how to do it without relying on a plugin.
Create a TwitterRSS Stats Widget for WordPress
by Ajay Patel
In this tutorial, I’ll walk you through the steps of setting up a widget, its settings form, and displaying it on your site. At the end of the tutorial, you can download an example plugin to build from. Of course, you can apply this to your themes as well.
Create a “Mashable-Inspired” Sidebar Social Widget for WordPress
by Ariff Shah
I’ve had a lot of requests lately to share a tutorial on how I created the sidebar widget on my personal blog. It looks nice and most important, it works! With some simple PHP and CSS, I’m sure everybody can implement this on their blogs easily. Today I’m going to show you how to create mine… in hopes that you’ll be able to create your own custom version for your own projects!
Easy Way to Add Social Media Count Button in WordPress
by Eko Setiawan
In this tutorial, we will learn how to add manually social media count widget button on wordpress site.
How To: Show Off Your Social Counters in WordPress
by kovshenin
You know it’s all about social these days, and this post is about showing off how social you are on your WordPress website. I’m sure you’re using tonnes of social networks and all of them have friends, followers, fans and subscribers metrics, but let’s start from simple: Twitter, Facebook and RSS.
Social Buttons: Adding them to your site & Tracking them
by Joost de Valk
I’ve had a lot of questions recently (like literally, several a day) on how I implemented the social buttons in WordPress, whether I was using a plugin or using a theme. First of all I’m glad to see all of you noticing my social buttons section so much. Second, I’d love to share with you how I built this, because I actually made it load nice and fast too and would love for you to have that.
How to Create and Setup Google+ Brand Page for Your WordPress Site
by WPBeginner
n this article, we will show you how to create and setup your Google+ Brand page for your WordPress site.
How to Post From Google+ to Your WordPress Blog
by Sarah Goding
Follow these simple steps to give yourself the ability to post from your Google+ account. Don’t worry, it won’t post every update – just the public ones that you identify with your chosen #hashtag.
Adding A Google +1 Button To Your WordPress Blog
by Tom Chubb
This tutorial will show you how to make some simple modifications to your WordPress blog to show the Google +1 button – without using a plugin.
Three Ways To Display Your Latest Google+ Updates On WordPress
by Kevin Muldoon
In this tutorial I will be showing you three ways to can show your latest updates from your Google+ profile on your WordPress website.
Building An Awesome Flickr Widget: Screencast Included
by George Gecewicz
Today, we’re going to look at using this process to generate some jQuery that pulls in images from a Flickr account. This particular widget is super simple and probably not something you’d release as a full WordPress plugin, but it’ll hopefully get you comfortable with the Widget API and the flexibility it has.
Create a Basic Flickr Widget Using the Widget API
by Rohan Mehta
In this tutorial, we will be using the WordPress widget API and the Flickr API to create a basic Flickr widget. The widget will be a multiple-use widget; it asks the user for a username and number of pictures to display, and uses that information to display Flickr photos.
Daily Tip: Set up a News Aggregator on Your WordPress Blog
by Tim Gregg
If you’re looking for a way to add more content to your WordPress blog, it’s fairly easy to incorporate a Google News-style aggregator into your site.
Add the WordPress RSS Feed Anywhere In Your Theme
by Craig Morgan
This tutorial will show you how to take an RSS feed and put it anywhere in your theme, including a page or post template. This is a great solution for you folks out there using RSS feed generators (say goodbye to small footer credits) or plugins (say hello to a faster website)!
How To Publish RSS Exclusive Posts
by Briley Kenney
In an effort to boost RSS readers and subscribers it might be beneficial to sometimes release an RSS exclusive post that doesn’t show up on a blogs home page or in regularly scheduled postings.
This would basically provide followers with a great reason to subscribe to an RSS feed, especially if they are fans of the blog in question.
Conclusion
We hope you found this tutorial collection is useful. Or do you have another wordpress social network tutorials? Please share with us in the comment below.
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