Mar 19, 2011
If there is a sense of community and vibrant life surrounding a blog it tends to be successful and ultimately popular ? that is a fact. So, if you own a WordPress blog and you are looking for an effective way to create a real sense of user interactivity on your blog, in this post, I highlight some fantastic plug-ins and resources, that you may not know about, that can be of great help in creating a sense of involvement amongst your blog visitors.
Make Your Site Social
The Gigya Social optimization plug-in aggregates authentication and social APIs from Facebook, Twitter, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, LinkedIn, AOL and other OAuth & OpenID providers, giving sites the ability to authenticate users via social network and OpenID providers and increase site traffic by allowing users to easily share content with their friends and followers.
The plug-in is scalable and secure, using a standard authentication techniques to prevent account spoofing.
Make Your Site Social Resources & Tutorials
Simple:Press is a feature rich, completely integrated and fully scalable forum plugin for WordPress. It is fully customizable (packaged with various themes) and is fully scalable no matter what your sites membership number is.
Also included is a Private Messaging sub-system, the ability to link blog posts with forum topics, the capability to extend the forum display with custom code, a number of template tags for use outside of the forums, extensive online help that explains every option and full language support.
Simple:Press Resources & Tutorials
Commentpress is an open source theme and plugin for that allows readers to comment paragraph by paragraph in the margins of a text. Annotate, gloss, workshop, debate: with Commentpress you can do all of these things on a finer-grained level, turning a document into a conversation. It can be applied to a fixed document (paper/essay/book etc.) or to a running blog. This makes the overall discussion on the topic easier and also increases the level of interaction.
Commentpress Resources & Tutorials
Digress.it is another interesting and useful plugin, similar in functionality as Commentpress, that allows your visitors to add any kind of note (visible to everyone) in the margin of a post, just like you can do in a notebook. It is geared toward in-depth discussions of longer documents: articles, essays or even book-length.
Now, this plugin can be used to write any kind of note, whether it is an explanation or any kind of criticism.
Digress.it Resources & Tutorials
WordPress Wiki is an amazing plugin, from the developers of the WP e-Commerce plugin, that adds Wiki functionality to WordPress. It allows you to specify particular posts which can be edited by your users as a wiki page and leave other posts in the un-editable format.
WordPress Wiki Resources & Tutorials
WordPress Wiki Home & Downloads
Great post! I like it very much!