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		<title>107 Twitter plugins for WordPress displays yours latest tweets in your WordPress blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 21:07:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter Brelsford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Skyje has posted up a large and particularly useful list of wordpress plugins that deal specifically with twitter, if your looking for any type of twitter support on your blog then I suggest you click on over and read up. Here&#8217;s a small part of his list. 1-Twitter Tools Twitter Tools is a plugin that [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span dir="ltr"><a href="http://skyje.com/2009/05/107-wordpress-twitter-plugins/" target="_blank">Skyje </a> has posted up a large and particularly useful list of wordpress plugins that deal specifically with twitter, if your looking for any type of twitter support on your blog then I suggest you click on over and read up.  Here&#8217;s a small part of his list.<br />
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<p class="plugin-block"><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitter-tools/">1-Twitter Tools</a></p>
<p class="plugin-block">Twitter Tools is a plugin that creates a complete integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account.</p>
<p class="plugin-block"><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitter-sharts-plug-in-for-wordpress/">2-Twitter Sharts</a></p>
<p class="plugin-block">‘Shart’ your <strong>twitter</strong> status anywhere within your wordpress blog posts or pages! <br class="clear" /></p>
<p class="plugin-block"><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitter-for-wordpress/">3-Twitter for WordPress</a></p>
<p class="plugin-block">Twitter for WordPress displays yours latest tweets in your WordPress blog.</p>
<p class="plugin-block"><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitter-widget/">4-Twitter Widget</a></p>
<p class="plugin-block">Adds a sidebar widget to display <strong>Twitter</strong> updates<br class="clear" /></p>
<p class="plugin-block"><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/elegant-twitter-widget/">5-Elegant Twitter Widget</a></p>
<p class="plugin-block">A WordPress widget that displays twitter updates in yummy valid semantic XHTML code. The code is heavily commented and the output is in template functions so everything is fully customizable.</p>
<p class="plugin-block"><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitter-this/">6-Twitter This</a></p>
<p class="plugin-block">Allow to your readers sharing your blog post at <strong>twitter</strong> .<br class="clear" /></p>
<p class="plugin-block"><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitter-widget-pro/">7-Twitter Widget Pro</a></p>
<p class="plugin-block">A widget that properly handles <strong>twitter</strong> feeds, including @username and link .<br class="clear" /></p>
<p class="plugin-block"><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitter-swell/">8-Twitter Swell</a></p>
<p class="plugin-block">You coult post message to your Twitter and show it.</p>
<p class="plugin-block"><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-twitterpitch/">9-WP Twitter Pitch</a></p>
<p class="plugin-block">WP-TwitterPitch is all about getting the pitch delivered to you in the form you want to get it delivered &#8211; in other words in Twitter format. If you’re like me, then your Twitter direct message box is a lot like your email inbox.</p>
<p class="plugin-block"><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitter-blaster/">10-Twitter Blaster</a></p>
<p class="plugin-block">allow your visitors to post to your <strong>Twitter</strong> account. Once installed your users can update .<br class="clear" /></p>
<p class="plugin-block"><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitter-style-links/">11-Twitter style links</a></p>
<p class="plugin-block">This plugin allows you to add <strong>Twitter</strong> style links to comments.<br class="clear" /></p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitter-feed/">12-Twitter Feed</a></p>
<p>The control functions such as connecting to a Twitter account and storing information on the tweets/blogs, can be accessed through the “Twitter Control” GUI in the WordPress admin panel.</p>
<p class="plugin-block"><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitter-updater-using-tinyurl/">13-Twitter updater w/ TinyURL</a></p>
<p class="plugin-block">com status with the latest post that you’ve made. It also has the option of including a link back to your post so can people can easily click on it to view the post.</p>
<p class="plugin-block"><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitter-to-ttf/">14-Twitter To TTF</a></p>
<p class="plugin-block">displays it in a TTF Simple. Asks you for your <strong>Twitter</strong> ID. Grabs your latest tweet.<br class="clear" /></p>
<p class="plugin-block"><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/kish-twitter/">15-Kish Twitter</a></p>
<p class="plugin-block">This plugin is using the Twitter API to get and post the updates. You need to have a twitter account to post updates.</p>
<p class="plugin-block"><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/post-to-twitter/">16-Post to Twitter</a></p>
<p class="plugin-block">Create a tweet on <strong>Twitter</strong> whenever you post<br class="clear" /></p>
<p class="plugin-block"><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-to-twitter/">17-WP to Twitter</a></p>
<p class="plugin-block">The WP-to-Twitter plugin posts a Twitter status update from your blog using the Cli.gs URL shortening service to provide a link back to your post from Twitter.</p>
<p class="plugin-block"><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitter-links/">18-Twitter Links</a></p>
<p class="plugin-block">This plugin will convert valid <a title="Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/" title="Twitter">Twitter</a> usernames mentioned in comments into a link to their Twitter profile page.</p>
<p class="plugin-block"><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitter-status/">19-Twitter Status</a></p>
<p class="plugin-block">Twitter Status is a very simple no-fuzz plugin that gets the current Twitter message from the Twitter ID specified</p>
<p class="plugin-block"><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/latest-twitter-sidebar-widget/">20-Latest Twitter Sidebar Widget</a></p>
<p class="plugin-block">Creates a sidebar widget that displays the latest <strong>Twitter</strong> update for any given user.<br class="clear" /></p>
<p class="plugin-block"><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twittertowire/">21-Twitter To Wire</a></p>
<p class="plugin-block">This plugin allows your twitter posts to show up in your buddypress wire.</p>
<p class="plugin-block"><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/top-twitter-links-by-twitturls/">22-Top Twitter Links by Twitturls</a></p>
<p class="plugin-block">Widget that displays currently popular links from <strong>Twitter</strong> . <br class="clear" /></p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/thread-twitter/">23-Thread Twitter</a></p>
<p>fetch your tweets and display them in thread style.</p>
<p class="plugin-block"><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitter/">24-Twitter</a></p>
<p class="plugin-block">Customizable <strong>twitter</strong> widget for your sidebar. <strong>Twitter</strong> Widget displays your tweets on your sidebar. <br class="clear" /></p>
<p class="plugin-block"><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitter-link/">25-Twitter Link</a></p>
<p>Converts @username mentions in posts and pages into links to <strong>Twitter</strong> .</p>
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<p>Find out more, and read the rest of skyje&#8217;s top twitter plugins for wordpress on his blog below</p>
<p>Via  <span style="color: #000000;"><span dir="ltr"><a href="http://skyje.com/2009/05/107-wordpress-twitter-plugins/" target="_blank"><em>107 Twitter plugins</em> for <em>WordPress</em> displays yours latest tweets in your <em>WordPress</em> blog<img style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline; float: none; color: black; background-image: none; background-color: transparent; min-height: 0pt; min-width: 0pt; line-height: 0.8; position: relative; left: 0px; top: 0px; width: 16px; height: 16px;" src="chrome://easygestures/skin/xLink.png" alt="" /> </a> </span> </span></p>


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		<title>My Firefox Design Plugins</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:44:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter Brelsford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey guys its finally time for me to share with you all the wonderful Firefox plug-ins I use almost daily to help me with development and design no matter what website Im working on. Be it an old table driven website from the ice age, or a modern CMS driven wordpress site, these tools can [...]


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey guys its finally time for me to share with you all the wonderful Firefox plug-ins<span id="more-221"></span> I use almost daily to help me with development and design no matter what website Im working on. Be it an old table driven website from the ice age, or a modern CMS driven wordpress site, these tools can help reduce the complexity of updates, speed up development,  and quickly provide you with the information you require.</p>
<h3><img style="padding: 2px; float: right; border: 1px solid #999999; clear: both;" src="http://www.cssOrigins.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/seoquake.jpg" alt="" /> First SEO Quake found at <a title="SEO quake" href="http://www.seoquake.com/" target="_blank">seoquake.com</a></h3>
<p>Seo quake is both for Firefox and IE, and its primary function in is to help quantitatively define the information presented on a website or page being viewed. The main feature I would point you guys too is the keyword density ability, basically it can read through your pages and find out how many times a word or group of words appears on your site. VERY HANDY if your going for SEO optimizations this is a must, try and get your good key words between 5-20 density for maximum effect on your home page.</p>
<h3><img style="padding: 2px; float: right; clear: both; border: 1px solid #999999;" src="http://www.cssOrigins.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/devtoolbar.jpg" alt="" /> Next we have the all powerful Developers toolbar from <a title="Developers toolbar" href="http://chrispederick.com/" target="_blank">Chris Derick</a></h3>
<p>The toolbar can be downloaded from <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60" target="_blank">addons.mozilla.org</a></p>
<p>Developers tool bar is a multifunction toolbar allowing users to view style information, edit css, outline styles, edit their browsers width and height and so much more. Just with those key features makes the developers toolbar the #1 Firefox extension any kind of web personnel should have. Being able to specifically target a browsers width and height is something I think we all have had to do at a specific time, and with 2 clicks boom you can view the site in that exact resolution.</p>
<p>Being able to edit css on the fly even on another website and save it off also a helpful or potentially a time saving feature. and of course most praised feature in my opinion is the ability to highlight hovered objects, and see their css roots. See what div, what class and what id they came from, makes editing your styles that must faster.</p>
<h3><img style="padding: 2px; float: right; clear: both; border: 1px solid #999999;" src="http://www.cssOrigins.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/colorzilla.jpg" alt="" /> Umm lets see, Colorzilla downloadable over there <a title="colorzilla" href="http://www.colorzilla.com/firefox/" target="_blank">colorzilla.com</a> !!</h3>
<p>Colorzilla is simple, it places an icon down in the lower left hand corner status bar and  you just select it to get an eye dropper in Firefox, thus allowing you to retrieve any color on the firefox screen. Oh its sOo handy.</p>
<h3>Finally we have Firebug available <a title="firebug" href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843" target="_blank">addons.mozilla.org</a></h3>
<h3><img style="padding: 2px; float: right; clear: both; border: 1px solid #999999;" src="http://www.cssOrigins.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/firebug.jpg" alt="" /></h3>
<p>Firebug has some similarities with the developers toolbar but its a lot more complex. In other words it can be used to help diagnose css related issues and help you dig deep to find what id or class your having trouble with, but where this thing has shined for me in the past is with the development of dynamic sites, the ability to track what files are specifically slowing down the loading or display of my site.</p>
<p>My list of Firefox plug-in&#8217;s again are</p>
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<li><a title="SEO quake" href="http://www.seoquake.com/" target="_blank">SEO quake</a></li>
<li><a title="Developers toolbar" href="https:https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60//addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60" target="_blank">Developers toolbar</a></li>
<li><a title="colorzilla" href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/271" target="_blank">Colorzilla</a></li>
<li><a title="Firebug" href="http://getfirebug.com/" target="_blank">Firebug</a></li>
<li>and of course <a title="Firefox 3" href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/personal.html" target="_blank">Firefox </a> is the browser.</li>
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<p>Do you  have your own plug-in you think should be included in this, feel free to comment and let everyone know about it.</p>


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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:40:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter Brelsford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SEO ideas that have come to me through various sources, whether it be from working at 1 Call Service, from my friends blog or just general research, I believe there are some tips to help you update your own wordpress website.


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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Seo, one of the hottest vocabulary words in 2009.<span id="more-42"></span> With the market continue to plummet getting down to the lowest to the lowest point since the depression of 1929. With the dollar not going as far and there general not being as much money to spend people are looking for a better way to invest in their business, and in their advertising. For this type of market SEO (search engine optimization) make perfect sense. The internet is a global market and has the ability to advertise to anyone and everyone who stumbles upon your website, but seo makes sure more people do just that. In relative terms the money spent on seo is vastly less costly then what an average company might spend on advertising in a year.</p>
<p>Anyways, through development of my own site I&#8217;ve come up with a good list of plug-ins and information that could be useful when optimizing your own website.</p>
<h3>1. SEO optimization plug-in for wordpress.</h3>
<p>there are lots of plug-ins out there even in the seo field, I currently have been using the &#8220;<a title="WordPress plug-in Download" href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/" target="_blank">ALL IN ONE SEO</a> &#8221; plug-in produced by <a title="SEO link to semperfiwebdesign" href="http://semperfiwebdesign.com/" target="_blank">semper fi web design</a> . Highlights include</p>
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<li>automatically optimizes your <strong>titles</strong> for search engines</li>
<li>Generates <strong>META tags automatically</strong></li>
<li>Avoids the typical duplicate content found on WordPress blogs</li>
<li>For WordPress 2.7.1 you don&#8217;t even have to look at the options, it works out-of-the-box. Just install.</li>
<li>You can override any title and set any META description and any META keywords you want.</li>
<li>You can fine-tune everything</li>
<li>Backward-Compatibility with many other plug-ins, like Auto Meta, Ultimate Tag Warrior and others.</li>
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<h3>2. robots.txt</h3>
<p>Your robots.txt file is important to your website and your seo optimization specifically with a wordpress site because it will disallow indexing duplicate content in your website or blog. Most people know that links back and forth in your site and to other sites help bring up your natural listings in search engines and they do but duplicate content can actually hurt you as well.  With that being said wordpress has no static pages at all, all pages are generating from a header.php page. So if we only wanted to index the pages that don&#8217;t have duplicated content on it what do we index and what don&#8217;t we?</p>
<p>That is a very difficult question to answer, unless your extremely familiar with the inner workings of wordpress you may not know what&#8217;s what or where to disallow, so let me share my two cents and we will compare and contract with some of what others have said.</p>
<p>My robots.txt can be found <a title="cssOrigins.com robots.txt seo optimization" href="http://www.cssorigins.com/robots.txt" target="_blank">here</a> .</p>
<pre>User-agent:  *   &lt;-- * means everyone that would try to index my page all bots
Disallow: /cgi-bin/  &lt;-- our first disallow statement, removed this directory from being indexed by *(all)</pre>
<p>There are many disallow statements in my robots.txt they all cover different folders or file extensions. But the real controversial ones would be something like this</p>
<pre>User-agent:  *
Disallow: /wp-*</pre>
<p>That would completely disallow the indexing of all of your wordpress folders. wp-admin, wp-includes, and wp-content. wp-content being where your theme files are save I in my own opinion think that this area should be indexed and loaded along with some if not all of your plug-ins. My reason for believing this is because these pages are called with content attached to them when the page is generated originally. All of your files in the theme folder I consider to be as important to seo as any normal websites pages would be to it. Please someone enlighten me.</p>
<h3>3. SEO friendly permalink structure</h3>
<p>The wordpress default permalink structure looks something like this { <code>http://www.yourwebsite.com/?p=123 ie:UGLY</code> } when you publish a new page or post you get returned a string query for your post name. It&#8217;s well coded and it works but it&#8217;s</p>
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<li>not easy to remember</li>
<li>not seo friendly</li>
<li>on average makes several more calls to your database then required</li>
</ol>
<p>permalink structures in wordpress are completely designable based on the criteria that your wanting to get across, for larger sites with lots of extra pages i would try and start your structure with a number like /%year% the numbers help wordpress distinguish between post URI and page URI and is mainly a performance consideration.</p>
<p>The second basic not to do is to have just /%postname%/ ie { http://www.yourwebsite.com /%postname%/ } in wordpress 2+ it can break some of the functionality and limit your websites ability to access some of the files on site.<br />
I personally will be using this permalink structure. /%year % /%postname%/<br />
more information about the wordpress permalink structure at their <a title="WordPress Codex" href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks">codex</a> .</p>


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