WordPress has improved the blogging world for almost eight years now. One of the best things about WordPress is how easy it is to download and install Plugins (other programs) that allow you to easily customize your site and make it look like you have all the magical tricks it takes to design a professional site.
Twitter is also an integral component in the blogging and online world. No wonder the worlds of WordPress and Twitter decided to collide and put the site owner and content manager in the middle. Here’s some great Plugins to help take your site to the top of the WordPress/Twitter mountain.
Wickett Twitter Widget
This plugin allows you to show tweets from multiple public accounts in a sidebar on your blog. This also has features that allow you to customize the display to use your CSS theme and also select the number of tweets shown. You can filter out replies from your displayed tweets and opt to include re-tweets or not.
Tweet Suite
This is a fully-featured tweet back service with buttons via widgets in the side bar of your blog. You can customize which widget buttons you display in your sidebar. There are buttons for favorite tweets, last tweets, tweet backs, recently tweeted, most tweeted, and more. Most-Tweeted displays your blog entries that get the most attention into your sidebar, making it one of the most beneficial features.
Tweet This
A Tweet This link on your site enables users to share posts in one click. You can use the Write Tweet page to schedule and publish tweets. It also uses short URLs and creates a twitter link automatically for each post. The shortened URL’s are cashed as a custom field in a post-meta table, speeding up load times. Also, the plugin doesn’t insert links with JavaScript, iFrames, or other third-parties.
TweetMe
Standard for re-tweeting on any site, this allows users to re-tweet your blog post or site. It also gives you a live count of how many re-tweets you’re receiving via Twitter.
Simple Twitter Link
If you want a basic Twitter feature, this is it. It simply displays a link letting Twitter followers update their status with a link back to your site.
Twitter Tools
This plugin creates a bridge between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account. With it, you can pull your tweets right into the blog and write new oneswithin WordPress.
Twitter Feed
This is for the blogger dealing with more than one Twitter account. You can include and link to tweets form more than one Twitter account.
TwitThis Button
TwitThis makes it easy to re-tweet your post in one click. You can also customize where the button displays on your blog.
Twitter Badge
Don’t like the Twitter badges offered by other places? With this add-in, you can customize your own text and colors.It doesn’t use images, flash, or java-script, making it extremely user friendly.
TwitterLink Comments
This is a newer plugin and let’s fellow Twitter friends include their username with their comments. This allows for a follow-me link to be displayed by their details.
All these Twitter Plugins are available for free to download from the WordPress website.