032 Social Media For WordPress: Episode 3

PRESS HERE TO SEE YOUTUB CLIP: THE MAKING OF WP-TONIC SOCIAL MEDIA AND WORDPRESS BY JONATHAN DENWOOD AND BILL CONRAD     Social Media and WordPress Social Media over the past couple of years has really become an important part in the lives of all types of WordPress users from online eCommerce storeowners to people who are running online courses to individuals trying to sell digital products. It’s also become one of the main ways that WordPress designers and developers market their products and themselves online. We going to show you how to set-up your WordPress website to be really social media friendly to visitors and also that allows you easily publishing your website content through social medial. We going look at a number of social media WordPress plugins that can really help you put your social media on steroids we also going to subdivide these plugins into 3 areas. 1.     Social Media Sharing 2.     Social Media Following 3.     Social Media Comments Social Media Sharing You got to get your post/article shared on social media. This is mostly done by using buttons on your website that make it easy for people to share your content on all the leading social media platforms.   We are going to look at some the best WordPress plugins that allow you to do this. However there also different ways of showing button on your website. Online Social Media Sharing Services However, you probably thinking why I should use one of these services compared to just using a WordPress plugins. The main reasons are theses. 1-    It can cut down on the number of individual social media plugins you will have to install on your website. 2-    If you have a plugin conflict and you need to keep the plugin that is conflicting with your normal social media plugin choices. 3-    Some hosting providers like WP-Engine will not allow you to install some of the most popular social media plugins because of stability and security concerns. ShareThis: are a well know service not only for WordPress powered websites but for a number of CMS (content management systems.) The nice thing is that service that is of interest connected to social media sharing is free and they also provide a nice WordPress plugin system that makes it really easy to integrate their online service. Shareaholic: is another easy to use social media button sharing online service that also totally free. They also provide a real...