I found a sweet plug-in for WordPress that allows you to have visitors plug in their information and it automatically populates in your Highrise account. I hope it helps. If it does leave me the link to your site so I can check yours out. (WARNING: My plugin is creating multiple duplicates of people who enter their information so I”m disabling it for now until I get some answers on how to fix it! I’ll update this post when I have more news.)
How to add a "retweet" button to your WordPress site
Twitter’s exploding because it makes it easy to share you articles, thoughts and insights. Here’s how you can add the “Retweet” button on your WordPress.org based web site through a plug-in from TweetMeMe. Here’s a video tutorial for ya! You can follow me @andytraub
Did it work? Leave me a comment and let me know. Add a link to your site too…it’ll help you traffic;)
How to add Facebook "Like" button to WordPress
You’ll notice a new Facebook “Like” button directly below this post. In case you haven’t heard, Facebook is taking over the world so just embrace it. I choose to embrace it by adding the “Like” button to my WordPress site. I’m lazy so I did it via a plug in. I tried to do a few different plug ins but many of them were confusing (which is ironic because a Facbook plug-in by definition is supposed to be simple, that’s why it’s a plug-in).
Below is a short video on how to add a Facebook “Like” button to your posts and pages. Did it work for you? Leave the link to your page and I’ll go “Like” something, I promise.
* – This plugin will NOT work on WordPress.com based sites. If you’d like to move your .com site to a self-hosted WordPress.org site then contact me and I’ll tell you how.
How to use Instapaper with folders
Let’s say you surf the web often and come across helpful articles and are looking for a way to capture them for future reading. That’s why there’s Instapaper. It’s an incredibly easy method for capturing content for future reference and you can even sort those articles into folders within your instapaper account / ipad / ipod app. Here’s a video preview.
Do you use Instapaper or a different service/method for capturing content to read later?
Bonus: By request…
How to reorder folders in Instapaper
How to add Google Reader list to your web site
Google Reader is one of the most powerful ways to consume content published via RSS feeds. Reader allows you to post a folder of your RSS feeds in a handy widget. Here’s how to embed a widget of your starred articles. You can follow the same process for embedding any folder in your Reader account.
Here’s a messy view of my Google Reader page:
– Embedding a list of your starred articles only works if you have “Starred” an article in your Google Reader (duh) – you can see the starred article in Engadget about the iPhone 4’s case.
– Click on “Settings” on the top right corner of your Google Reader page
– Click on “Reader Settings”
– Click on “Folders and Tags”
– Click on “add a clip to your site”
– The window below will pop up. You can customize the color of your Google Reader widget as well as the title, # of items displayed and notes you add in your reader account (didn’t know you could add notes to your articles in Google Reader did you?!
– Highlight the code by clicking inside the code and hitting CTRL + A (or Command + A on a Mac). Copy the text by hitting CTRL + C (or Command + C on a Mac).
– I prefer to put the widget in the sidebar of my WordPress Blog. If you use WordPress you should go to your Dashboard – Appearance – Widgets – Text Widget
– Here’s the text widget with the code pasted in (Use CTRL + V to paste the code you copied earlier using CTRL + C).
– Here’s the final widget in my sidebar with the “iPhone 4’s out case…” article that I starred. Remember that you can do the same thing with any folder you set up in your Google Reader account.
– Let me know if that helped or if you have any other questions about embedding a Google Reader widget in your (WordPress) sidebar.
If you think this might help other people then you can retweet it using the button at the top of this post.
