Post by admin on July 04, 2009 | Tags: Blog, networking, Plugins, social media, WordPress
If you are a webmaster but you do not have any social media presence then believe it or not but you are wasting your time senselessly on the Internet. Readers of multiple websites have started to use various social networking websites to track their favorite authors and their articles.
WordPress bloggers always have the advantage of using multiple plugins that increase the social reach of their blogs exponentially. Here we will talk about 15 best plugins that make your WordPress blog more social.
P.S. Plugins under each of the three categories have been listed according to the number of downloads since their launch.
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Firstly, let us start with those plugins that bring in all the social bookmarking sites together at one place.
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– This is by far the best social bookmarking plugin available on the Internet. Multiple blogs use this plugin due to its simplicity.
Requires WordPress Version: 1.5 or higher
Compatible up to: 2.6
Download ShareThis (Plugin Homepage)
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– This includes around 50 social bookmark sites and is another famous WordPress plugin for social media bookmarking.
Requires WordPress Version: 2.0.0 or higher
Compatible up to: 2.6.3
Download Bookmarkify (Plugin Homepage)
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– A light plugin that features many foreign languages which makes it quiet unique.
Requires WordPress Version: 2.1 or higher
Compatible up to: 2.5.1
Download Bookmark Me (Plugin Homepage)
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– As the name indicates, this plugin lists most of the social bookmarking sites in a drop down list.
Requires WordPress Version: 1.5 or higher
Compatible up to: 2.5.1
Download Social Dropdown (Plugin Homepage)
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– Another simple to use WordPress plugin that features most of the social bookmarking websites
Requires WordPress Version: 1.5 or higher
Compatible up to: 2.3.3
Download I Love Social Bookmarking (Plugin Homepage)
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Here we will feature 5 plugins that concentrate on one single social bookmarking website. Must use for those who want to concentrate their marketing efforts to one single place and rule that place.
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– This single plugin integrates Digg, Reddit Me, Dzone, and Yahoo Buzz buttons into your WordPress blogs.
Requires WordPress Version: 2.0 or higher
Compatible up to: 2.7
Download Digg Digg (Plugin Homepage)
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– This plugin pulls out the streams from FriendFeed and shares it with your blog visitors.
Requires WordPress Version: 2.5 or higher
Compatible up to: 2.5.1
Download FriendFeed Activity Widget (Plugin Homepage)
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– This appends a widget in sidebar that displays the twitter updates.
Requires WordPress Version: 2.2 or higher
Compatible up to: 2.5
Download Twitter Widget (Plugin Homepage)
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– This gathers the likes and comments from your FriendFeed posts and places those on posts to which they are related to.
Requires WordPress Version: 2.3 or higher
Compatible up to: 2.6.1 bleeding
Download FriendFeed Comments (Plugin Homepage)
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– It updates your twitter account with the latest post from your blog and also uses the TinyURL feature.
Requires WordPress Version: 2.5 or higher
Compatible up to: 2.6
Download Twitter Update w/ TinyURL (Plugin Homepage)
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Here we will concentrate on those plugins that link you to various social networking (NOT bookmarking!)websites.
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– This will display your feeds plus your photos like they are shown on different social networking website.
Requires WordPress Version: 2.5 or higher
Compatible up to: 2.7.1
Download Lifestream (Plugin Homepage)
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– This unique plugin uses the Google Social Graph API to display profiles of users who left comment on your blog. If you are in same social networking website then you can add them as friends.
Requires WordPress Version: 2.5 or higher
Compatible up to: 2.7
Download MeetYour Commenters (Plugin Homepage)
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– This automatically shows the dig button for multiple posts and pages.
Requires WordPress Version: 2.7 or higher
Compatible up to: 2.7.1
Download diggZ-ET (Plugin Homepage)
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– This shows multiple social networking websites for participants and gives the users the chance to rate various posts plus comments.
Download SezWho (Plugin Homepage)
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– This displays all social media profiles within one single window.
Requires WordPress Version: 2.0.2 or higher
Compatible up to: 2.6
Download Follow Me (Plugin Homepage)
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Great post!
i love social bookmarking
Rather interesting. Has few times re-read for this purpose to remember. Thanks for interesting article. Waiting for trackback