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Fixed Social Buttons – A Great WordPress Plugin

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FIxed Social Buttons is a great plugin for WordPress that adds share buttons to the most popular social networking and bookmarking sites to your wordpress pagesSeveral weeks ago I discovered a great little plugin for WordPress called Fixed Social Buttons.

This plugin automatically places buttons for popular Social Networking and Bookmarking sites at the side of your blog page, it’s very easy to set up, and the buttons stand out much better for sharing than others I have found in the body of a post.

To install the plugin on your WordPress site, go to Plugins in the Admin Panel and select Add New.  Then search for “Fixed Social Buttons.   The nice thing about the latest versions of WordPress I think everyone will agree is that plugins these days can be installed and updated at the touch of a button, and this is no exception.  It’s a lot better than having to download, unzip and FTP up to the correct folder on the server.  But I digress…

Having installed Fixed Social Buttons, a new option should appear in the Admin Panel under Settings.

Fixed Social Buttons is a plugin for WordPress sites that adds buttons for popular social bookmarking sites to your wordpress pages. Buttons may be added either horizontally or vertically and at the top or bottom of the page.The Settings couldn’t be easier to understand.  You can choose the style and size of the buttons to use, which buttons to show – currently 11 (Flickr, Delicious, Digg, Webonews, Linkedin, Myspace, Reddit, Technorati, Facebook, Twitter, and lastly subscribe to RSS feed ), whether they should appear at the Top or Bottom of the page, and whether they should be shown as Vertical or Horizontal.

You can also specify whether the links are to open in a new window or not, whether to make the links Follow or No Follow, and if you are sharing to Flickr or Twitter, add your profile details.

It’s as simple as that – simple and effective.  I hope you find this useful.
See also the Fixed Social Buttons plugin page.

Where Is Your Username Registered?

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usernamecheck.com - Where Is Your Username Registered?Ok, so as you start to create web sites and blogs, to register for Social Networking sites like Facebook, My Space, Digg, Delicious, Stumbleupon, Twitter, Squidoo and Tagfoot, you keep coming across new sites to register with, but over time it’s easy to forget some of these sites, especially if you registered with them but didn’t really do anything with that site.

Here is where usernamecheck.com comes in handy.  I just Stumbled upon this site tonight, checked it out and it’s pretty cool.

Not a lot to it really…   Type your user name (assuming you usually use the same one for most sites that you register with – I think that most of us do), click on Check, and the site will check a whole host of sites to see if your user id is registered or not.

While this is really cool to check where you have registered, the best part for me was finding plenty of sites out there that I not only haven’t registered with, I hadn’t even heard of them.

And so, it looks like I will be busy for a while yet tonight, seeing what some of these “new to me” sites are and if it’s worth my while registering.    If any sites allow posts to be generated by feeds from other sites, you are onto a winner for sure by registering and boosting your presence.

Well that’s my take on usernamecheck.com.   I hope you find it useful, and look forward to your feedback.

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