Social Plugins

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.

Admiyn Twitter will do the following:
1- Change your Twitter status whenever you publish a new article.
2- Change your Twitter status whenever a post receives a new comment.

This version supports multiple twitter users, so, you can update a lot of twitter accounts easily.

This plugin does the same thing as the the_author tag, displays the author name, only this time it is linked to hidden layer (div). By clicking on the author link the hidden layer(div) pops up with author info gathered from the profile page, plus gravatar photo (if author email is assigned with one).

Disqus, pronounced “discuss”, is a service and tool for web comments and discussions. Disqus makes commenting easier and more interactive, while connecting websites and commenters across a thriving discussion community.

This is a simple solution to bring the Facebook data to you. Using the dashboard widgets available in WordPress 2.5 and above, this plugin will process your Friends status updates RSS feed, your posted items feeds and/or your Facebook notifications feed, and add a widget for each to your WordPress admin dashboard. So now you can keep up with whats going on in your friends lives from anywhere without needing to access Facebook!

The Gigya Socialize plug-in aggregates authentication and social APIs from Facebook Connect, MySpace ID, Twitter, Google, Yahoo, LinkedIn, and AOL, giving sites the ability to:

* Authenticate users via Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, LinkedIn, Yahoo and many other OpenID providers
* Promote user activity on social networks by enabling users to invite friends to your site
* Increase site traffic by sending user status updates and newsfeed updates to Social Networks

Gregarious is a social bookmarking plugin that integrates the new Digg API and Alex King’s Share This plugin, as well as the Reddit button and Feedburner’s Feedflare into one powerful, easy to use package. The AJAX interface makes customization a breeze, and the options put you in control. Gregarious works on a module based system, which means that it can have as many or as little features as you like. Modules available include:

I Love Social Bookmarking is a simple WordPress plugin that allows your readers to submit your content to social media services via a clutter-free drop-down list of attractive icons.

IntenseDebate Comments enhance and encourage conversation on your blog or website. Custom integration with your WordPress admin panel makes moderation a piece of cake. Comment threading, reply-by-email, user accounts and reputations, comment voting, along with Twitter and friendfeed integrations enrich your readers’ experience and make more of the internet aware of your blog and comments which drives traffic to you!

Display your CV (also called Resume or Curriculum vitae) on your blog from your linkedIn public page informations.

The LinkToThisPage WordPress plugin provides a quick, simple to use, and unobtrusive way for users to obtain a link to your post for use on their own web site. The anchor text provided to the user is based upon the title of the post or page. This plug-in can help to get back-links deep into your website, eliminating home-page-only linking.

This plugin makes a widget available which lists the authors on your blog.

Notable displays a series of icons below each post allowing your readers to easily submit you to many different social bookmarking and networking sites. You can customize the character that goes between the images. The code generated validates with most common HTML validators.

This plugin will help you see which of your posts are most popular. Views, comments, etc. are tracked and given configurable point values to determine popularity. Scroll down the page to see the Popularity Contest plug in download and information links.

This plugin displays a greeting message to visitors that come from different urls (known as referrers). For example, you may want to welcome Diggers with a message that reminds them to digg your story, or you may want to ask Del.icio.us users to bookmark your post, and so on.

Not only about a cool greeting box, it greatly helps to more efficiently interacts with your readers and build a better relationship between you (your website) and them.