How To Integrate Twitter In Your WordPress Blog
Reaching almost 18 million users, Twitter grew as one of the favorite networking platform for many people. And with other platforms trying to reach up, here are some great tips on how to integrate Twitter inside your WordPress blog.
These tips include the best twitter wordpress plugins and widgets you can get for free and also some of the best WordPress themes with Twitter embedded trough them to maximize exposure of your Twitter account. Also as a bonus a list of the widely used Twitter desktop applications that you can install to be updated on the go.
WordPress Twitter Plugins
The simplest way of integrating Twitter with your blog is by installing a wide range of Twitter plugins that can show off you latest tweets, post directly from the WordPress dashboard, show off your followers or simply linking to your account so that others can reach and follow you.
Maybe the best Twitter plugin for your blog. With 260k download and counting on the WordPress plugin directory Twitter Tools is the ultimate Twitter app. for WordPress. It simply integrates everything Twitter has to offer with your WordPress blog.
It integrates or “Sharts” your Twitter status anywhere on your blog posts or pages. A great yet simple plugin to install. Works out of the box 2 click install and it does the job like it suppose to.
A WordPress widget that displays your latest Tweets. The simplest plugin you need to display your latest tweets and shouts. Great for those who want a simple widget to show off their social interractions.
A simple and elegant twitter widget that displays twitter updates in yummy valid semantic XHTML code. The code is fully commented and easy as hell to customize. The perfect customizable widget.
A simple plugin that allows your users to retweet your article in Twitter. This is similar to TweetMeme but more simpler.
A simple yet effective Twitter widget that handles twitter feeds, including @username, #hashtag, and link parsing. It supports displaying profiles images, and even lets you control whether to display the time and date of a tweet or how log ago it happened (about 5 hours ago, etc).
A innovative Twitter plugin that allows your users to post updates trough your Twitter account. It enables your users to post tweets as a moderated post, then you can choose if you would like it to post and/or post it to Twitter.
It simply changes a commenting users nickname into a Twitter style name. For example if you write “@john is here” the plugin will search @john in the comment section and add a link to the name.
A complete integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account. You can post updates to Twitter directly from your WordPress blog.
This plugin will install a TweetMeme plugin that will allow your Twitter users to retweet your article. It also supports a retweeted counter to see how much has your article been retweeted.
WordPress Twitter themes
Having a Twitter plugin installed inside your WordPress blog sometimes isn’t enough so here are a few Twitter ready wordpress themes that have Twitter embedded inside. Mostly the themes offer a link to your account that you can specify within a theme options page. This eliminates the hard coding Twitter account inside your theme.
BlackSapphire WordPress Theme
Craviora WordPress Theme
Gazette WordPress Theme
Literane WordPress Theme
LucentView WordPress Theme
TypeMix WordPress Theme
UpRight WordPress Theme
RedTime wordpress theme
DynaBlue wordpress theme
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Bonus – Tweetdecks
Often I am too lazy to log on the Twitter website to update my status so, I downloaded a Tweeter desktop application to manage my whole Twitter account. These applications are standalone installations that synchronize with your Twitter account to do all of the thing you do on Twitter and even so much more.
The best of the best. TweetDeck shows you everything you want to see at once, so you can stay organised and up to date. It works on every major operation system right out of the box and the special feature is that it is free.
So this is how to integrate Twitter in your life. The fastest growing social networking website that connects people all around the world.
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September 16th, 2009 at 10:47 am
Thanks for the article about Twitter integration as I finally want to sit down and actually integrate it into WordPress (and well, maybe update my site too) =)
FYI, I have used TweetDeck and Twirl. I am just not an Adobe AIR fan (the runtime needed for these) and am pretty happy with using HootSuite (2.0) for now as it runs in just about any browser without a lot of overhead or installing anything.
http://www.HootSuite.com
September 18th, 2009 at 7:32 pm
One good twitter plugin I found is tweet suite. It allows you to put tweets on your sidebar, put a retweet this button, and even automatically update your twitter account when you post a blog post. Best of all, it’s free.
-lilmike.
September 21st, 2009 at 3:38 am
How To Integrate Twitter In Your WordPress Blog…
Reaching almost 18 million users, Twitter grew as one of the favorite networking platform for many people. And with other platforms trying to reach up, here are some great tips on how to integrate Twitter inside your WordPr…
September 21st, 2009 at 11:37 am
Great blog, reading it through RSS feed as well
September 22nd, 2009 at 1:34 pm
Sorry for the double post, just wanted to let you know that i think something is wrong with the RSS feed of your blog and you might want to check it out, thanks
September 23rd, 2009 at 1:25 am
RSS is working now, thanks
February 18th, 2010 at 11:55 pm
i always update my Twitter and i love to twitter my daily activities to my friends and loved ones. i also maintain a personal blog for entries which requires more detail.
March 26th, 2010 at 6:55 pm
I can’t wait to see how Twitter turn their brand equity and traffic into money.
If I were them, I’d come up with some sort of Adsense-like program with revenue share to the Twitter page owner and sell small and tasteful banner ads on profile pages at a cost per impression and a cost per click.