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Social Media for Wordpress: Build Communities, Engage Members and Promote Your Site

You're reading from   Social Media for Wordpress: Build Communities, Engage Members and Promote Your Site A quicker way to build communities, engage members, and promote your site with this book and ebook

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Published in Apr 2012
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ISBN-13 9781847199805
Length 166 pages
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Social Media for WordPress
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
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1. Preface
1. Share it the Easy Way 2. Building the Social Network: BuddyPress and WP Symposium FREE CHAPTER 3. Community Forums for the Masses 4. VIP Memberships 5. Keeping Up with the Stats 6. Managing your Site 7. Beyond the Plugins Towards True Engagement Further Reading Pop quiz Answers

Time for action—how to enable users to share your content


By now, sharing content using social media icons is common practice. If you visit any publishing site, you will see multiple buttons that make it easier for the reader to share a story. In this case, you're going to enable authors to share their content more easily. The last thing people want to do is click on the browser's address bar, copy the link, start up a new browser session, paste the link somewhere and then send it off to a friend. It's not what they're used to, so let's provide this same functionality found on many other sites to simplify this process.

Part 2—simplifying the process of sharing user reviews

  1. 1. Since BuddyPress doesn't ship with automatic sharing capabilities through Facebook, Twitter, or any other social network out of the box, we'll use AddThis instead. If you don't have a Facebook, Twitter, Google, or Open ID account, register for a free AddThis account at http://www.addthis.com, by clicking on the Join...

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