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In the present era of social networking, one’s social media profiles bears evidence to one’s online identity. Product promotion, brand visibility, business publicity, blogging, networking, fun and gaming are the bread and butter applications of social media. That is why; promoting social media profiles is an unavoidable issue. The use of WordPress plugins makes it easier to perform the task by integrating your social media profiles with your WordPress blog. WordPress is two in one – a blogging platform and a content management system. Promoting your social media profiles using WordPress plugins is as important as promoting your WordPress blogs using social media applications. I have assorted a few highly innovative WordPress plugins for your benefit.

DandyID Services – with a support for nearly 330 social networks, the DandyID Services is the most useful WordPress extension. You can integrate any of your social media profiles with your WordPress blog using this plugin. It requires the user to create a free account with DandyID. The plugin is customizable.

Social Media Page – This WordPress plugin comes handy for social butterflies. It is supportive for near about 140 social networks. It lets you integrate your social media profiles with any page or post. Using the plugin, you can link to your social networking profiles instead of cramming the sidebar with multiple icons.

Social Profilr – Though not all inclusive, this plugin is useful for WordPress bloggers with 14 important social media profiles. The Social Profilr works with a simple line of code (HTML or non HTML). It integrates the social media profiles with the WordPress About page.

FriendFeed Activity Widget – It is a popular lifestreaming plugin, convenient to use. What you need to use the plugin is a FriendFeed account. You can set it up simply by logging in to your account. It allows you to keep Twitter @replies hid on your WordPress blog pages. It is easy to use because of its minimalistic design.

Lifestream – This plugin offers an independent use. It does not entail a third party account to keep your social media profiles in tune with your WordPress blog. You can utilize it either as a sidebar widget or an icon on a WordPress page or blog post. Lifestream too comes with the option to hide Twitter @replies from the stream of your social media activities.

Lifestream.fm – This plugin offers support for the largest number of social networks to let your stream your social media activity onto your WordPress blog. You need to have an account with the Lifestream.fm. Setting it up as a sidebar widget is simple. The only downside of this plugin is the display of all your tweets including @replies.

Retaggr – Supportive for over 180 social networks, Retaggr lets you not only promote your social media profiles but also the profile information of your commenters from the tiny icon next to the comments. The social media profile information of the commenters pops up at the rolling of the mouse over the icon.

Social Profiles – This plugin is tailor-made for multi-authored blogs and sites with registered users. It lets your visitors register for your WordPress blogs to promote their own social media profiles through effective comments on your blog posts. The Social Profiles plugin provides fields for the visitors to put their usernames for ten social networks.

WP Twitip ID – It is a Twitter oriented plugin. It integrates your social media profiles with the comment form of your WordPress blog. It requires your commenters to have Twitter account. Inserting an extra line of code in the comment template file of your WordPress blog, this plugin provides a field for the commenters to put their Twitter usernames.

Tweetmeme – Tweetmeme is among the plugins to promote both blog posts and social media profiles simultaneously. Akin to the Digg style vote button, this plugin lets your readers retweet your posts easily. By default, it retweets a post as ‘RT @tweetmeme” along with the post title and URL. It is customizable in size. It comes with an option to let you select its position. It can be displayed on your RSS feed.

Hurry up to use these WordPress plugins for promoting your social media profiles and get the best of social networks. Make sure to let me know your feedback.

Tags: Plugins, Social Media, WordPress

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