Integrate Google Buzz With Your WordPress Blog With Plugins And Widgets
Everyone is raving about the new Google Buzz. Alright, maybe not everyone. Though if you are interested in it and want to know how to integrate Buzz in the best possible way into your WordPress blog read on.
As it currently stands, there is no direct way to Buzz something. There are a few workarounds such as the Google Buzz Button and WP Google-buzz, both of which are very good solutions. Though each has it’s own ups and downs.
The best, and most productive, way to integrate Buzz into your WP Blog is to use a plugin called WPBuzzer. Why? Because it has styling options, size options and even Bit.ly integration!
When you use the Bit.ly integration you are able to track how many people Buzz about your topic (just like on Mashable). How cool is that?
But what if you also want to display your Buzz to the public’s prying eyes, you will need Google Buzz ER. Google Buzz ER gives you a awesome widget to use with WP. It can go anywhere a widget can go. Once you install it, under the admin menu go to Appearance -> Widgets and place it in your sidebar.
To wrap up, you’ll need two plugins for maximum effect:
- WPBuzzer
- Google Buzz ER
Both of them can be installed from inside of WordPress by going to Plugins -> Add New and search for “WPBuzzer” and then “Google Buzz ER”. Both searches, you will want the first result with the same names. Good luck.
If you have any other great Google Buzz plugins for WP, let us know in the comments.
Original plugin list from Mashable.
Sphere: Related ContentBest WordPress Video Plugin
There are plenty of video plugins for WordPress. A few of which aren’t even really needed, though there is one that stands out from all the rest: Viper’s Video Quicktags. Why? Because it’s one behemoth of a plugin. It supports a gargantuan amount of services and several proprietary formats which makes it the most ‘complete’ video plugin ever.
Best of all, for each service and feature you enable it has a settings tab so you can set up specific modes and settings just for that service! Neat. It supports all these services and features: FLV videos, Youtube, Google Video, Daily Motion, Vimeo, Veoh, Viddler, Metacafe, Blip.tv, Flickr video, IFilm/Spike, Myspace TV and even Quicktime and ‘general’ video files. That’s amazingly a lot!
Let’s get down into it. How to install Viper’s Video Quicktags, how to configure it and how to use it.
Before that though, here is a preview of how the plugin can fits a video nicely into my blog:
Sphere: Related ContentWordPress Quick Speed Optimizations
Having a good blog isn’t all about SEO, linking and content. The experience must also be good for the user. And if the user has to wait till their coffee is cold before your blog loads, they are sure to not come back again. Heck, they will probably not wait longer than 10 seconds, and that’s if you’re lucky.
In today’s fast paces world you need fast and efficient websites. With the help of this article, you can speed up your Wordpress blog in just a few minutes and little work on your part.
This quick tutorial is based upon the full 38 Way To Speed Up Your WP Blog article on WPGarage. I have picked out some of the tips for you to use here. The tips I have here won’t take you as long as the full 38 steps. Using the steps I went from a monstrous tested 18second full load time down to a nice ~3.5seconds load time. Very nice improvement. Does anyone else notice that my blog feels snappier and faster?
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