Aug 26, 2009
Top WordPress Plugins for Social Media

Plugins are tiny programs which can easily be installed on your wordpress blog and you can control your blog in your own way. Today I am going to share some top social wordpress plugins which connect you with your readers and friends on different social sites like facebook, twitter etc. You have to upload and activate these plugins and then they do rest of work automatically.
Twitter for WordPress:
This plugin displays the latest tweets from your twitter account on your blog. It is very simple plugin. This plugin can placed in your widget by just dragging and dropping. The most important thing in this plugin is that it comes with its own CSS classes and you can customize it in your own way very easily.
Instant Highlighter:
Upon clicking the highlighter button: visitor’s mouse cursor changes to a pen and s/he can highlight any part of your web-page – in color. Mouse over any highlight and post it to any Social Network or Social Bookmark site with this Instant Highlighter plugin.
Social Bookmarks:
By using Social Bookmarks plugin you and your readers can easily submit the posts and articles from your blog to any social and bookmarking site. It covers almost all popular sites. It has graphical icons of these sites. Moreover you can easily disable all icons on any post if you want.
Digg Digg:
Don’t assume that this Digg Digg plugin is only for digging due to its name. You can also add other buttons like “Reddit Me Button” , “Dzone Button” , “Yahoo Buzz Button” and “TweetMeme (twitter) Button” in your posts very easily.
Add To Facebook:
This plugin adds a footer link to add the current post or page to a Facebook Mini-Feed. While the plugin is activated a link will appear after the content of the post with the text “Share on Facebook” or the Facebook icon or both. Clicking this link will bring the user to the Facebook site. If the user isn’t logged in they will be prompted to do so. Once logged into Facebook the post will be added to the Mini-Feed of the account.
FriendFeed Comments:
FriendFeed Comments plugin will grab the comments and “likes” from FriendFeed and show those comments on the same post. The comments will be equipped with the person’s name, a link to therir FriendFeed profile and profile image. Some other options are also available in this plugin.
We selected only important and most common plugins for this post. You can search other plugins for your wordpress blog to control the each and every part of your blog.
