May 27

10 Most Wanted Twitter Hacks and Plugins for WordPress

Owners of WordPress ecommerce understand why people have to Twitter app for everything. Because the platform WordPress is no exception, there are many plugins for Twitter sites on WordPress themes. These plugins will help you to add functionality to the site Twitter, allowing your users to interact with the content on Twitter and make it possible to share information easy and enjoyable. All following plugins and tweaks for Twitter on WordPress platform can be very useful for any eCommerce site.

1. Twitter Follow Me Box Plugin

The first thing a user wants to make Twitter on your WordPress site - this is the button sequence «Follow me«. There is a simple way to generate a Twitter button directly from WordPress themes. However, there are a lot of different other ways to make the "Follow me!" more convincing. Twitter Follow Me Box is one of those ways. He adds "following the bird" to the side of your website.

Bird just posted there and "scrolls" while scrolling content. The features of the plugin include:

Adds block «Follow me» from Twitter-bird on one side of your markup;
The unit moves when you scroll down your WordPress site;
You can change the color of the blocks;
You can set the offset from the top of the page;
Easy to set up and use.

2. WP to Twitter Plugin

Another plugin for improved functionality and it offers the ability to automatically "tweet" with the new post’s publication. WP to Twitter plugin is a simple but powerful plugins for this features. The plugin can also add to WordPress themes such features:

Post updates to Twitter-e for publishing a new post;
Create a separate format settings tweet or write your tweet in the post editor;
You can use your WordPress tags like # hashtags;
It supports many service cuts links;
Supports Google Analytics.

3. Twitter Embed Plugin

Adding Twitter Embed to WordPress theme allows you to embed tweets into your posts or pages on the principle of adding videos from

YouTube. Just copy and paste the URL of the tweet and it will be inserted into your nice post. The features of this plugin include:

Adds a Twitter button to the following tweet;
Adds links to reply, retweet and add to favorites;
Does not copy the style of the original tweet, which, in principle, well, as some are not very good use of color in their profiles;
It requires no configuration to work immediately.

4. Twitter Mentions as Comments

All we want to know what others are saying about us, right? At least, I want to. I like to look for, who discusses my posts, refers to me, retweets or shares my content. Twitter Mentions as Comments little simplifies your task of accounting, who discussed your posts on Twitter. Unlike commenting system fro WordPress themes called Disqus, which adds tweets as a response, this plugin adds tweets as comments. The plugin’s features include:

Look for tweets on your blog URL;
Insert them as comments to your post;
You can also include your Twitter name in the list of moderation to the plugin does not add your tweets;
Adds Twitter-name as the name and the link to the profile as a URL;
The author actively supports plugin on the page on your site.

5. Juiz Last Tweet Widget

This widget displays your latest tweet or recent tweets on your WordPress-site at calling him by. This plugin does not use Javascript to load your most recent tweets, which makes it a little bit faster and allows cached tweets. The features of this plugin design for WordPress themes:

It shows your latest tweet in the widget;
You can use your own CSS, to add his own style tweet;
It shows links, hashtags, a link to the user and reference to the source;
You can choose how many recent tweets you want to show;
Available with a customizable cache system (very useful for busy sites);
Quick and easy to use.

6. Twitter Digest

Twitter Digest lets you daily or weekly to publish the post with the new tweets from your Twitter-account during the past period. This plugin uses pseudo-crown functionality to WordPress themes. Page Settings plugin gives you complete control over what you want to publish your Twitter digest. The features of plugin:

You can specify the title of the post;
Selecting the frequency (daily or weekly);
Select a category or tags to the post-digest;
The ability to exclude the responses and re-tweets from the digest;
Setting maximum and minimum number of tweets for publication.

7. Tweet Old Post

Many use Twitter to effectively drive traffic to their blogs and websites. There are several WordPress plugins that can help you with this. One such plugins is Tweet Old Post that is necessary for everyone who uses Twitter to drive traffic to websites on WordPress themes. It randomly selects an old post from your unit, and tweet it. The features of this plugin:

Extensive features allow you to set as your old tweets positions;
You can add text to the beginning or end of a tweet;
You can choose the minimum and maximum age of the post, which will tweet;
Adding interval to determine how often tweets’ old posts;
You can create hashtags to add to the tweet of the tags or categories.

8. TwitPic Plugin for WordPress themes

TwitPic plugin for WordPress shows the latest images from TwitPic your sidebar. This is really useful plugin for those who post pictures on Twitter via TwitPic.

Adding it to the sidebar allows you to take your images from the Twitter-stream and share them on your blog or site with WordPress themes. You can use the features:

You can determine the number of images that you want to show;
You can define the size of thumbnails;
You cannot change the CSS in the plugin’s settings, but you can do it in a file twitpic.css;
You can also choose how the image will be linked, your profile and your Twitter profile with TwitPic.

9. Twitter Feed

Cross-posting configuration tool is from your blog on WordPress themes to your Twitter account. It is necessary to create an account, enter the address of your RSS blog in the future the service will automatically copy the link to your new blog entry in the account’s on Twitter.

10. TweetSuite

This tweak is probably the most powerful plugin to integrate the twitter of WordPress. Let’s show tweetback (links from twitter), automatically publishes the tweets of new posts in your blog and next to each tweetfeed shows the re-tweet button, it is sometimes convenient for WordPress themes. Also displays widgets: the most discussed on Twitter, recently discussed on Twitter, my latest posts in twitter, my favorites posts to Twitter account straight from WordPress themes.

Alex Miro