In order to do so quickly and easily, though, there are several plugins available to help with incorporating WordPress with Twitter. The top 6 are:

1. TweetSuite gives you several options to add Twitter to your blog. You can Re-tweet, use tweet-backs and automatically tweet on particular posts. If you have a new blog post you can set it up to automatically post to your Twitter account, expanding your viewers from those on your site alone to those following you on Twitter also.
2. TweetThis is a simple tool but one that is extremely handy. This adds a “Tweet this” icon to every post. Visitors to your WordPress blog can see content they want to share with their own network and can click on the link to automatically tweet about the post. Making the sharing of posts very easy for visitors encourages them to help market your site all for free.
3. Twitter Badge will add an icon to your posts that you decide to Tweet or share on your Twitter account. This way people can see which posts are popular on Twitter and can help a post continue to get exposure or help out a new post by tweeting about that one.
4. Twitter Sharts allows you to incorporate your Twitter status anywhere in your WordPress blog. This is a fun and interesting way to make your site more personable and interactive.
5. Wickett Twitter Widget is a plugin you can add to your WordPress blog to display Twitter posts or tweets on your side bar. This will help add to your relevant content increasing your SEO. Plus it will help add interest to your WordPress blog allowing viewers to see additional information. It may even spark some ideas for expanded posts on your blog.
6. WP Twitip ID allows you to incorporate your users’ Twitter ID’s to their blog posts and comments. You can increase your Twitter following by adding all the users on your site to your Twitter account and encourage cross promotion of your site via Twitter and post tweets.

Nowadays almost everyone has a Twitter account. Making it easy and quick for users to help promote your site by tweeting on your WordPress blog posts is a must. Using Twitter and WordPress as compatible and related formats to cross promote your site is a great way to attract more visitors and expose your message to more people. Use the top six Twitter and WordPress plugins to accomplish this goal easily.

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Facebook is the most popular social networking site today. As most people are aware social networking is a highly valuable tool to use in marketing. Whether to garner additional exposure for your site or to utilize for additional search engine optimization or SEO, Facebook is a site that should be used to help promote your blog. It is no wonder that there are many plugins to help WordPress users more easily incorporate Facebook into their posts. The top 10 are listed and reviewed below:

1. Add to Facebook is a plugin that allows users of your site to easily share a post or comment with their network of friends on their account. Instead of having to manually log in to their Facebook account and update their status or add a link, this plugin allows them to do it automatically. There is a link at the bottom of the post with the Facebook logo or a text link encouraging sharing the post. The visitor can simply click on this icon and the post will be automatically added to their live news feed for all their friends to see. This is a great way to garner additional exposure to your site by allowing your interactive community to help spread the word.
2. Facebook Comments is a great way to use your Facebook account to add content to your WordPress blog. As your friends and extended network post comments to your Facebook account you can incorporate them automatically onto your blog as well. This gives you additional content that is regularly updated, something that will be interesting to visitors but also beneficial from an SEO standpoint.
3. Wassup is a Facebook application that can be used in conjunction with your WordPress blog. It gives details of your visitors to your blog in real time that can be used to see where your users are coming from. This is a great tool for internal tracking purposes but also an interesting application to encourage additional participation from people in similar areas.
4. Facebook Dashboard Widget is a fun way to incorporate your Facebook dashboard onto your WordPress blog. Latest news and status updates from your friends can be shown in real time on your blog as a new post. This can add a bit of personality to your blog and encourage cross promotion between your blog and your Facebook account.
5. Fotobook allows you to use your photo albums from your Facebook account into your blog. This will help with SEO as images are valuable assets when it comes to increasing SEO. It will also help make your site more interesting to visitors and encourage additional interactivity.
6. WordBook allows you to add a box to your Facebook where your network of friends can look to see your blog post updates in real time. You can incorporate links so Facebook friends can directly visit and comment on your blog or they can simply view the material presented. This has the potential to increase SEO, increase traffic to your site and potentially increase sales or participation in your blog.
7. StatusPress is a tool that will allow you to update your WordPress blog automatically every time your Facebook status changes. This is a fun way to let your interactive community on your WordPress blog know what you are thinking and give a more personal view to your site.
8. WP-FB Connect allows you to input your Facebook data one time and your settings will be saved. The live news feeds will be automatically displayed when updated and the Facebook avatars will also be used adding an interesting and fun element to your WordPress blog.
9. Gigya is a plugin that can be used not only with Facebook but with other popular social networking sites also. It offers users a secure area where they can sign in. You can easily update your status across multiple sites and invite your network of friends and family to your WordPress blog.
10. Sociable allows you to see your latest visitors, add comments and invite your Facebook friends to your blog easily. You can log into your blog via your Facebook account and easily administer the results. You can cross promote your blog to your Facebook network.

Social networking sites are a valuable marketing tool and one that is used more now than ever. With the top ten Facebook plugins for WordPress you can easily use Facebook to your advantage with your blog. You can cross promote between your WordPress blog and your Facebook account expanding your network in both areas and increasing your page ranking for your website by optimizing your page.

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1. Google Maps in Posts: We are going first to our friends over at WordPress.org, as we know they have a massive range of resources and guides for WordPress applications.  They offer the Google Maps plugin as a download in their download area and can be found here http://WordPress.org/extend/plugins/google-maps-in-posts/.  This means that posts relating to events can be mapped and specific locations shown, plus you can add a ‘home’ location for yourself should you need to. You need to be running WordPress 2.2 or higher for this plugin to work.
2. Calendar: We think you are going to see a lot of WordPress.org for these plugins; we go back to them now for their calendar plugin.  This is an excellent tool that means you can set up and manage your events calendar and share them with your users. It is simple to use. Have a look here at http://WordPress.org/extend/plugins/calendar/ for more information or to download it. It has all the usual calendar features, including a good range of viewing options from monthly view to viewing events by specific category.
3. WP Newsletter Plugin for WordPress: A proper plugin bundle here, if you want to be able to offer your users a newsletter and be able to handle email subscribers with opt in and opt out facilities then this could be for you. You can easily set up a newsletter then download your contact list and bulk mail the letter to them. For more information visit the lovely people at SendBlaster.com where you can download all you need to get started: http://www.sendblaster.com/WordPress-newsletter-double-optin-widget/
4. Business Directory Plugin: This really does what it says and provides you with a plugin that allows you to have a directory on your blog that you can either add to or invite your users to add their details to, depending on your business needs.  The site offers a good range of supporting documentation and help pages, and you can find all of this and download the plug in here: http://businessdirectory.squarecompass.com/
5. FAQ Builder: Another excellent business tool for your WordPress is a FAQ section meaning you can offer your clients important information that crops up regularly in a more sensibly structured way than a series of posts to the blog, which gets messy and isn’t very user friendly.  The FAQ builder from Square Compass is an excellent tool that isn’t hard to get to grips with and comes from the same people as the business directory people, so again you get a good level of supporting documentation and help pages. Download the FAQ Builder here: http://faqbuilder.squarecompass.com/

Hopefully you have found at least one plugin you can use that will enhance the usability of your WordPress blog. Presenting a professional image will tell your visitors that you are serious about your blog and that you want to give them a good experience while they are visiting your site.

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1. Try keeping page sizes fewer than 100 Kbytes and under 50 Kbytes is really ideal. Many times people add too much stuff to their sites not realizing that the page size is increasing exponentially. Webpages will typically have images that may not have been optimized for the web, flash files, JavaScript and videos. Hosting your videos on YouTube and linking to them is better than hosting the videos on your site.
2. Check on the performance of any plugins you are using on your WordPress blog. Some plugins are very resource intensive and will definitely slow down your site. To check the plugins you will need to deactivate them and then spot check your site. If your site is running faster without the plugins, don’t worry, you do not need to get rid of all your plugins. Simply activate each plugin one at a time, then go back and spot check the site again. Paying particular attention to the areas that were previously running slowly. If, after activating one of the plugins, the site begins to run slow again, you have found the culprit. There are two choices you have if one of the plugins is the problem. Try contacting the author and asking them to take a look at the plugin for possible problems, or you can find a different plugin that will do the same task for you.
3. Themes are great and can add a very nice look and feel to your blog, however, the theme may be the reason your site is running slow, especially if the theme includes a lot of javascripting, or large image files. To test the theme, default back to the original WordPress theme and then check your site. If it is now running quickly, you need to consider an alternate theme. Or you can try to debug the theme using Firebug which is a Firefox debugging tool.
4. Post version tracking is a tool that writes post revisions to the database whenever you save a post. Sometimes, with heavy blogging, this feature can create a bottle neck. If you don’t think you need to save post revisions, you can turn this feature off. Blogs that have been saving post revisions for quite some time may need to have the revisions deleted. Of course you should make a backup copy of your blog before you attempt to delete the post revisions. Deleting post revisions will make the overall size of your blog smaller which may enhance its performance.
5. WordPress will ping any servers you have listed in your ping list. The reason for pinging is to let servers know of changes and posts to the blog. This helps bring in traffic which is why people have a ping list. Sometimes pings will time out during the process of pinging. When this happens, slow downs can occur. WordPress will also notify sites of any links that you have made in your posts by doing what is called a pingback, however, this can also time out. To find out if this is what is slowing your site down, clear the ping list and also disable the pingback option. Check your site to see if it is faster.
6. If you have data that is constantly needed to be retrieved, try using a caching plugin to retrieve data.
7. Reducing the image file size is such an easy thing to do and will greatly improve the function of your WordPress blog if it is running slow. Photos taken with a typical digital camera are way too large in file size to be loaded onto a WordPress blog without reducing them in some way. There are a few different programs that will do this. I use Photoshop and it works great. You can also use Gimp, which is a free photo editing software. The ideal size for a WordPress photo is 96 dpi for resolution and about 280×280 pixels. Of course the size of the photo will change depending on the orientation (horizontal or vertical).

Having a blog is a lot of fun and for some people it is a way of making a living. Ensuring that your blog is running well and is providing a good experience for your visitors can sometimes not only be important, but vital as well if you are running an income producing blog. The tips in this article should get your blog running well again in no time.

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The following steps will guide you through the wordpress.com user account registration process.

1. Visit the wordpress.com web site by entering the URL: http://wordpress.com
   

   Wordpress.com Web Site

2. Click Sign Up Now button.
3. You will be taken to the Wordpress sign up page.
   

   Wordpress User Registration

   Key in the following details:

   • Enter your username in the username text. Use letters and number only. This username can not be changed for the blog you are creating right now.
   • Enter the password of your choice in the Password box the in the Confirm box.
   • Enter your email address in the email address box.
   • Check the Legal Flotsam check box
   • Select either Gimme a Blog! or Just a username, Please.  The Gimme a Blog! option sets you up with a new wordpress.com blog.
4. Click next button
5. Blog details page:
   

   Wordpress Blog Details Page

   • By default, wordpress.com will fill the Blog Domain text box with your username for you. The domain name of your blog does not have to be the same as your username. You can choose any domain name you want as your blog domain name.  However, once it is set, you can not change it later. The domain name you enter here becomes the URL address of your blog.
   • In the Blog Title text box, enter the name for your blog. You can change the title later using Administration panel.
   • Default language selected is English.
   • By default, the Privacy check box is select. If you want to run a private blog, uncheck this box. Note: Search engine would not be able to index your blog if this is unchecked.
6. Click Sign Up button.
   

   Complete Wordpress Registration

7. You will receive an email from Wordpress.com containing a link to activate your account.  Click the activation link to activate your account.
   

   Wordpress Confirmation Email

8. You are done and you can start making your first post.

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1. Upload images using Wordpress Image Uploader (please read Insert Images into Your Blog Post). Instead of clicking the Insert into Post Button, click gallery tab at the top of the image uploader window. If you don’t the Gallery tab, try to reload the image uploader window.
   

   Photo Gallery

2. On the Gallery tab, the order column determines the sequence in which the image is displayed. Type the number 1 if you want an image to display first. This step is optional.
   

   Order of Images

3. Set the options for your gallery:
   • Link Thumbnails To:  Select Image File or Attachment Page
   • Order Images By: You can select Menu order, Name, or Date/Time
   • Order: Show the images in ascending order or descending order.
   • Gallery columns: Select how many columns of images you would like to display in your gallery.
   

   Photo Gallery Settings

4. Click the Save All Changes button.
5. Click the Insert Gallery Button
6. Below is the sample Photo Gallery

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