Since migrating the site from Blogger to WordPress a little over a year ago, my favorite thing about WordPress has been Plugins. There’s a plugin for just about everything, but sometimes the best plugins are a little tougher to find in the Plugin Directory of 8002 WP Plugins. I recently installed WordPress Drag to Share eXtended and loved it so much that it prompted me to share a few of my favorites. Let’s take a closer look.
WordPress Drag to Share eXtended
Easily the plugin I’m most excited about! This plugin uses the same functionality found in TechCrunch and Mashable. It works by allowing readers to drag any image on your post and drop it into a social networking site of their choice. You can select which social networks to use, which include Delicious, Digg, Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, Reddit, StumbledUpon, Technorati and Twitter. Other options include text to display while dragging and display location of icons.
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP)
I recently switched from Possibly Related Posts to YARPP and couldn’t be happier. This plugin will give your readers more relevant content and increase page views and popularity of older content. YARPP gives you a list of posts and pages related to your current post. The algorithm is based on post titles, content, tags and categories used. In addition to displaying the related posts, YARPP calculates a match score beside each related post. You can display the related posts in blog posts, RSS feeds or both. The templating system gives you quite a few options to customize what’s displayed.
Don’t let the name full you, Digg Digg gives you much more than just Digg buttons. It features the best fbShare button I could find. This plugin gives your readers vote buttons to simplify sharing for your readers. It integrates social network, which include Digg, Reddit, Dzone, Yahoo Buzz, TweetMeme (Twitter), fbShare (Facebook) and Polladium buttons. You can choose either normal size or compact buttons, select only those buttons you want to display and the location.
What do you think about these plugins? Is there any plugins you think are better or more useful? Have you tried the WP Drag to Share eXtended yet? I’d love to hear your thoughts.
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