Recently Facebook released what they call social plugins, with these plugins you can easily integrate your blog or website with many Facebook features.
Wordpress programmers made the work for you and wrote excellent and simple plugins although if you know a bit of code you can always go to http://developers.facebook.com/plugins and check the plugins by facebook, try it here :http://developers.facebook.com/plugins.
now if you want it the easy way, here are some of the best we found for you, actually for all your facebook connect purposes.
Facebook Comments
Facebook comments is a WordPress plugin that will import comments from your facebook notes back into your wordpress blog.
sometime you need a plugin you can’t find free on the web, codecanyon.net is a very good place to find these [remium wordpress plugins, here are some of the best:
From time to time we review some elegant and very good looking themes for you to use. this time is the portfolio turn, here are some of the latest portfolio themes around:
We are happy to release our new Premium multimedia theme for wordpress wopshow.
as we already know, many people want to create their own video website using Wordpress, this theme helps you create a unique and exclusive look and feel for your website.
One of the main new features will be available in the new wordpress version is the merging with Wordpress Multi user platform, it will be called Wordpress Multi Sites or Network. here are some steps you need to take in order to enable the network feature.
1. first you need to add this line to your wp-config.php file:
define(’WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE’, true);
after that you will see a new option under Tools, it will be called Network.
Now you need to follow the regular Wordpress Mu steps and then press the install button.
This week I’ve downloaded and installed locally the much anticipated wordpress 3 version. the much talked about version where wordpress Mu will no longer exist and will merge into wordpress, it will be called Wordpress Multi Site. apart from that feature there are numerous new and exciting features in wordpress 3.0, here are some of them:
New Registration Details, No More Admin and generated password
Wordpress 3.0 is changing right from the very first stage, installation and registration, no more default admin user name and generated password, now the admin can set is own username and insert the desired password by himself.
Sometimes you find yourself in need for maps in your blog. here’s a list of the top wordpress and google maps plugins:
Google Maps for WordPress
This plugin allows you to easily insert Google Maps into your blog, making use of the new shortCode system in WordPress 2.5. The maps can be configured to offer directions to or from the location, show or hide the zoom/pan controls, show/hide map type (street view, satellite, etc), activate zoom using mouse wheel, and more. PHP5 Required.
This plugin allows you to easily insert Google Map or Google Earth Plugin Maps into your blog. You just have to add a link to your self defined Map from My Google Maps, Picasa Webalbum Picture Map, any geoRSS Feed (like Flickr), your uploaded Google Earth file (kmz, kml) or any other dynamic or static Google Earth file (umapper.com, flickr.com, etc.)
Upload in wp-content/plugins folder on your server
Activate the plugin from Plugin Dashboard
Done! A new Google Buzz Button will start appearing after the post content on each single page. You can customize the location of Buzz Button.
Usage of Google Buzz Button Plugin
On Google Buzz Button plugin settings panel, you can change the location of button. For example, you can place the button after or before the content of the post or page.
1. If you have selected ‘Manual Insertion’ from the Google Buzz Button settings page, then insert the below code in the Wordpress Loop wherever you want
if ( function_exists( ‘add_google_buzz_button’ ) ) {
add_google_buzz_button();}
