Posts Tagged ‘Wordpress’

10 Great Reasons to Use WordPress as a CMS

// March 11th, 2010 // No Comments » // Wordpress

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WordPress as a CMS

Why use WordPress as a CMS?

WordPress has become my development platform of choice & I felt that it was time to spread the love by letting you know about the 10 greatest reasons to use it as a CMS.

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WP Quote Tweets Plugin

// July 1st, 2009 // 5 Comments » // Featured Articles, Wordpress

Have you ever wanted to embed specific twitter quotes in your blog posts?

With the new WP Quote Tweets plugin by Tanin Ehrami you can! The WordPress WP Quote Tweets Plugin by Tanin Ehrami makes it possible to embed specific twitter status updates in your WordPress blog via shortcodes. Like this:

2009 Knysna Oyster Festival opens tonight! See you in Knysna...www.oysterfestival.co.za On 7:57 AM Jul 1st 2009 from web

Nice, huh?

The official line from the plugin author is:

Allows authors to quote Twitter updates in posts or pages using a simple shortcode. {quotetweet tweetid=123456789}. The tweetid can be found in the URL of the tweet that is to be quoted.

Why would you embed Tweets in your blog posts?

Embedding specific Twitter quotes in your blog posts could be a great way to socialize content and really integrate it with the social web. Right off the top of my head I can think of a few uses, some of which I hope to highlight in successive blog posts.

The WP Quote Tweets plugin is available for download at WP Codex or you can Visit the plugin site.

Update: The new version of the WP Quote Tweets plugin and it now supports templates. PLease visit the plugin site for more info.

I’ll share another cool Twitter plugin for WordPress with you soon, it’s something called TweetSuite by Dan Zarrella and it puts major foot to ass in the WordPress Twitter plugins department.

Stay Tuned.