Hopefully by now, everyone is aware of Google Analytics. If not, it’s a free* application by Google that lets you analyze your web traffic to very finite levels. Google released a new feature this month called Activity Stream. It helps you monitor and gather insights about how your site is socially shared on the web. [...]
Logging in to WordPress would normally require an actual WordPress account. However, Samuel Wood (aka @Otto42), developed a few WordPress plugins to integrate the social service of your choice and login to WordPress with your Facebook, Twitter, or Google+ account. Login to WordPress with Facebook Beyond just logging in with Facebook, Simple Facebook Connect offers [...]
The code snippets below will provide you a function that you can echo anywhere on your site, to get the count for each social service. The snippets below will let you get your Twitter follower count, your Facebook like count, and your Google+ circle count. Let’s take a look at the code. Twitter Follower Count [...]
When Google chose to go with WordPress.com as the new home for Google Knols, it said a lot about both WordPress and Blogger. Firstly, it says that WordPress is more than just a blogging application. So many say that WordPress is only for blogging, or it’s not enterprise ready (read: scalability), or this or that. [...]
In an article by Sarah Perez on TechCrunch, she reports that Google+ will soon be integrating with Blogger. This is the first of many attacks on blogging services networks like WordPress.com and Tumblr.com. This move by Google comes at no surprise to me. It’s obvious that both WordPress.com and Tumblr.com have a ton of traffic [...]
Jonathan Dingman is a passionate blogger who loves writing about WordPress news, reporting on events, theme releases, awesome plugins, and more. He started using WordPress in 2004 and ran the first WordCamp NYC in 2008.