Using Facebook People directory you can browse your Facebook friends alphabetically by name. But remember it only includes people who have Facebook Public Search Listings, people who have increased their privacy are out from this list because anyone can opt out of appearing in this directory by changing their Facebook Search Privacy settings.
Here’s something new for video bloggers. If you like making a collection of your favorite YouTube videos in your WordPress blog then you can make it more easy. WordPress Oembed makes video posting easier but now you can make it more easier, no need to embed any video fusing Iframe, shortcode or direct URL (via Oembed). For posting any YouTube Video in Your WordPress blog all you need to like it on YouTube. Just favorite any YouTube video and it will get automatically posted on your WordPress blog as custom post type.
There are many YouTube plugins available in WordPress.ORG plugin’s directory, some works good and some create conflicts so making it more easy for you to select the right YouTube plugin for your website, check following collection of some cool YouTube plugins.
You might have listened about a WordPress plugin called SEO Smart Links, it provides automatic SEO benefits for your WordPress blog in addition to custom keyword lists, nofollow and much more.
Tabs shortens your blog posts and give them more presentable and cool look. In my last postI discussed about one tab plugin and it is the best so far I know but while searching for a perfect tab plugin I encountered various other tab plugins and they all are working really nice. So first of all check WP UI – Tabs, Accordions, Sliders (if not already) then here is a list of other 5 good working plugins that allows you to create a tabbed post.
Easily add Tabs, accordion, dialogs and sliders to your WordPress blog posts by using 14 fresh & Unique CSS3 styles and 24 multiple jQuery UI custom themes.
You can encourage your visitors to read any post by showing them estimated post reading time. Post Reading Time is a WordPress plugin that estimates the time a reader will need to go through the article. Likewise an average visitor takes a minute to read 250 – 300, so you can change the default settings in way you like, the default for this plugin is 200 words per minute.
Urtak is a WordPress plugin that creates conversations powered by questions. It brings both simplicity and structure to any online conversation, it simply allows your users to ask questions to each other. It gives you chance to understand your audience better and know what actually they are thinking about your website, this way your site can engage more people.
You might have seen this feature in Wikipedia. It shows a random article button that allows you to quickly jump to a random article. You can add this feature in your WordPress site by following two simple steps, it makes your blog more engaging.
For WordPress tags, default is fine but when it comes to categories and when you have a lot of categories in your blog then for selecting any category you have to scroll down and look after it but now by using a WordPress plugin you can make it simple. It filters your blog’s categories as soon you type a few beginning words of the category you like to use in your post and shows you the related categories, you simply click your category and that’s all. Just like Google and Facebook (now Twitter also) search suggestions.
Add more features and more control over default WordPress search. Search Everything, a WordPress plugin increases default search functionality of your WordPress site in three easy steps.
Sharing anything on Google Plus is fast, most sites offer Google Plus Share with +1 button so using this trick you can share each and everything you like on internet very easily and more quickly by using Google Plus as a bloging medium to your WordPress site ;-) Following few simple steps you can easily start your blogging from Google Plus by sending your Google Plus posts to your WordPress blog as new blog posts.
Feed+ is a Google Chrome app that allows you to generate Google+ Profile/Page RSS feed. After Generating feed you may use if on Google Reader or anywhere else you like, feed is public. If you like using it then follow few simple steps given here and in next coming post I will be discussing how you can post your Google+ posts using this RSS feed to your WordPress blog as individual articles.
I know Google Plus only provides a read only API hence creating auto posting apps for Google Plus is yet not possible but PHP solves this problem. Dmitry Sandalov’s standalone PHP script makes auto publishing to Google+ possible.
Everywhere we use Ctrl-S for saving our content. We use it while saving images on Photoshop, saving web pages, saving content on writer, spreadsheets etc etc. We are using it since long because its simple so from now you can use this keyboard combination on WordPress too.