Twitter Tools WordPress Plugin

Hooked on Twitter and WordPress Blogging? Simplify the relationship with the free Twitter Tools Wordpress Plugin from Alex King.

Twitter Tools allows you to pull your tweets into your blog (as posts and digests) and create new tweets each time you create a blog post from within WordPress.

1) Once you’ve downloaded and unzipped the Plugin Files, just upload the entire /twitter-tools folder it to your /wp-contents/plugins/ directory.

2) Log into your Wordpress Admin area, navigate to Plugins , then click “Activate” text by “Twitter Tools”. Once activated, you’ll need to perform a few basic configurations. Access the Twitter Tools configuration menu by clicking on “Settings” then selecting “Twitter Tools”. The setup is easy and takes about 45 seconds.

3) To show the last X number of your tweets in your sidebar: Navigate to Appearance -> Widgets -> enable the Twitter Tools Widget. Here you can set a few basic display configurations and choose where to display the widget.

BlackBerry Curve 8330 Wireless Blogging

This is my first attempt posting to wordpress directly through the Blackberry web browser. Everything seems straight-forward.

How did I do it? Go to browser on home menu screen. Once the browser page has loaded, click the menu button and select “GO TO”, then type the url of your wordpress admin page.

The admin menu is lengthy on any mobile browser. I look forward to investigating plugins aimed at simplifying mobile blogging over the next few weeks, so stay tuned.

Time to catch my flight.

All in One SEO Pack WordPress Plugin

Lately I’ve had a need for broad SEO tweaking on various websites I’ve been converting over to WordPress.   Many of these sites are coming in with very generic title structures and keyword placements.  One of the first steps I take to immediately improve search optimization is install the  “All in one SEO Pack”.

Info & Download:  http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/

Feature Overview:

• Automatically optimizes your titles for search engines
• Generates META tags automatically
• Avoids the typical duplicate content found on Wordpress blogs
• For Wordpress 2.7 you don’t even have to look at the options, it works out-of-the-box. Just install.
• You can override any title and set any META description and any META keywords you want.
• You can fine-tune everything
• Backward-Compatibility with many other plugins, like Auto Meta, Ultimate Tag Warrior and others.

Contact Form 7 for WordPress

Contact Form 7

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/contact-form-7/

Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms and multiple recipients, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents with simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on. I’m using it on this site, and several customer’s sites. So far it has been quite flexible and reliable.

To install Contact Form 7, upload all of the files to a directory inside wp-conten/plugins/ . Activate the plugin. If you click “Tools” in the right side navigation menu of WP 2.7, you should see Contact Form 7 on the sub-navigation menu. You can create the form here. You will then copy a simple tag into your page(s) and the form will automatically appear in these locations.

WordPress Plugin Automatically Turn Urls into Clickable Links

This plugin seeks to address certain shortcomings with WordPress’s default auto-hyperlinking function. This tweaks the pattern matching expressions to prevent inappropriate adjacent characters from becoming part of the link (such as a trailing period when a link ends a sentence, links that are parenthesized or braced, comma-separated, etc) and it prevents invalid text from becoming a mailto: link (i.e. smart@ss) or for invalid URIs (i.e. http://blah) from becoming links.

This plugin will recognize any protocol-specified URI (http|https|ftp|news)://, etc, as well as e-mail addresses. It also adds the new ability to recognize Class B domain references (i.e. “somesite.net”, not just domains prepended with “www.”) as valid links (i.e. “wordpress.org” would now get auto-hyperlinked)

Download this Plugin Free: http://coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/auto-hyperlink-urls/ (this url was converted to a clickable link by the AutoHyperLinks Plugin)