Integrating WordPress & Twitter

To keep your website really fresh and your readers/followers up to date, use the Twitter Tools Plugin to completely integrate your WordPress blog and your Twitter account.

Some of the best features of Twitter Tools are:

• New blog posts automatically tweeted on your twitter account
• Add your latest tweets to your website sidebar or a page of your choice
• Automatic weekly digest post of all your tweets
• Send tweets to your Twitter account from inside WordPress

Download the Twitter Tools Plugin…

My Latest Tweets

Create a Latest Tweets Page

Once twitter tools is activated and your Twitter account details are entered on the settings page,  show your latest 5 tweets on any page or post on your WordPress website (like mine above)  just add this code where you want the tweets to display. Just change the 5 to show a different number of tweets.

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Screenshots + Notes = Blog Visuals

Jing is a really easy way to capture an image on your computer screen and write your own notes and visual cues on it. Add coloured boxes, text and arrows to explain or enhance your screenshot, then email it, tweet it, post to Flickr or on your website.

A blog adds personality to your website content, Jing adds personality to the images you post.

Ways to Use Screencasts

Use Jing for Instructions -You will see from the screenshot below that it is a great way for me to show you an aspect of WordPress,then explain visually how to use it. This took me 3 minutes to create and save. You can also view here – http://www.screencast.com/users/CreativeWebIdeas/folders/Jing/media/74c805d0-8eb0-4027-8924-2a3093abae31 on screencast.com.

• Add notes to a design project (multiple users can add to same file)
• Show customers how to use your software
• Share a snapshot of a document
• Add comments to your holiday photos
• Turn your blog photos into cartoon-style images
• Comment on employees/contributors/syudents work
• Post visuals of things you like on Twitter & Facebook [Read more]

Metal Exchange Website

WordPress website designed for Metal Exchange in Auckland.

Design based on the Genesis theme framework.. This theme uses widgets for homepage and navigation bar as well as the sidebar. Graphics in sidebar sourced from Fotolia. Includes Google map on contact page.

Visit the website…