The official Twitter plugin helps you to share your blog using twitter cards to make your links stand out from the card, gives you a follow button and the ability to customise your embedded tweets. Alongside all this, you get access to enhanced twitter analytics, so what are you waiting for? 3 steps to setting […]
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Make sure Jetpack G+ publicize settings work for you.
Just a quick post covering the G+ sharing in Jetpack publicize settings, but it caught me out at the weekend, so I thought I’d share in case anyone else has done the same thing. When you set up Jetpack publicize you can connect a number of different networks, including Google+. I’d done this for my […]
Twitter cards – what they are and how to integrate.
Twitter cards are the latest upgrade to twitter that allows you to add extra information to your tweet when sharing a link. They come in a number of different formats – the one that is most likely to be useful to a business or personal blog is the summary card, which adds a headline, excerpt […]
More on G+ – authorship on self hosted wordpress including multi author sites.
Yesterday I wrote about how to claim authorship for your wordpress.com site. The technique I used included displaying a profile badge on your blog. You might not want to do that (perhaps you’d like to display a page badge instead, more on that in another article), or you may have more than one author on […]
Getting into the g+ groove – google authorship and wordpress.com
There’s a new social network in town, and it’s not going to go away in a hurry. If you’re getting ready to hangout on g+ (see what I did there?) one of the things you should be thinking about is claiming authorship. Don’t know what that is? Quite simple. If you try checking out the […]
Ten minute tip – Jetpack extra sidebar widgets.
Yesterday I posted about adding sharing and following options to this blog, and the solution I settled on was Jetpack. I’m not 100% happy with the sharing buttons. It appears that you can’t customise the tweet that goes out without hacking adjusting the code yourself, and while I’m perfectly capable of getting down and dirty […]