» ShareThis! Social Bookmarking Widget
July 30th, 2008 Sammy Russo
The buzz across the web and all the Search Engine Conferences for the last couple of years has been social media marketing or SMM. The social media platform can be a very powerful tool for your blog, feed or website.
My favorite social media plugin is ShareThis! for Wordpress. ShareThis! actually started (and still is) a widget that can be customized to your liking and placed on your website or blog. With Wordpress you still have to go to the web and register for a ShareThis! Account and the plugin makes it easy to include the button in your content.
I like ShareThis! for a few reasons…
- It allows for interaction with all the top social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Stumble Upon, Technorati etc.
- It also has an email a friend function.
- Reporting features in the ShareThis! web panel.
- Compact.. it doesn’t add 25 little buttons to your content.
- Within Worpress.. very easy to manually configure where you want your ShareThis! Button to be placed if you don’t like the auto placement.
» A Great New Anti Spam Bot Plugin
June 7th, 2008 Sammy RussoI came across a great new plugin this morning.. I’ve been looking for this exact plugin for a while now. The plugin is called is_human() by Nick Berlette. With one tiny snippet of code placed into the comments.php file and you have catpcha security integrated into you site. Upon activation it automatically embeds it self in your Wordpress Registration page.
I have a blog called Tehachapi Daily which is completely open to the community to post to the site. They are granted contributor level access immediately upon registration and get worried sometimes about all the spam registers I get. Now with is_human(), I’ve got Catpha security.
Thanks Nick for developing this new plugin.
