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WordPress 2.7 Cookbook

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WordPress 2.7 Cookbook

Overview of this book

About 120,000 blogs are created every day. Most of them quickly die, but a few stay, grow up, and then become well known and respected places on the Web. If you are seriously interested in being in the top league, you will need to learn all the tricks of the trade. WordPress 2.7 Cookbook focuses on providing solutions to common WordPress problems, to make sure that your blog will be one of the ones that stay. The author's experience with WordPress enables him to share insights on using WordPress effectively, in a clear and friendly way, giving practical hands-on solutions to WordPress problems, questions, and common tasks ñ from themes to widgets and from SEO to security. Are you feeling limited with WordPress, or are you wondering how popular blogs do a certain kind of thing that you can't? With this cookbook, you will learn many WordPress secrets and techniques, with step-by-step, useful recipes dedicated to achieving a particular goal or solve a particular problem. You'll learn the secret of expensive premium themes, how to optimize your blog for SEO and online profits, and how to supercharge WordPress with killer functions used by the most popular blogs over the Internet.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
WordPress 2.7 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
2
Finding and Installing Themes
Index

Integrating Twitter on your theme using the Twitter Tools plugin


Twitter is a free micro blogging service that allows you to post short messages (less than 140 characters) by answering the simple question—What are you doing?.

Getting ready

I must admit that I was very skeptical at first about the use of Twitter for a blog. However, I decided to give it a try and found it really helpful. It is a great way to get in touch with other bloggers, interact with your readers, and promote your blog posts. By the way, my twitter URL is http://twitter.com/catswhocode, so don't hesitate to get in touch with me!

However, similar to your RSS feed, in order to invite visitors to your twitter account you have to promote it on your blog—this way your readers will know that you're using Twitter. In my opinion, the best way to tell your readers about your twitter account is to display your tweets on your blog. In this recipe, we'll see how to do it—with and without a plugin.

My favorite Twitter plugin for WordPress...