Do Know Evil - A Blog by Tyler Mulligan » social networks http://www.doknowevil.net Tips and Tricks About Computers, Web Development, Linux, the Internet and the Like Sat, 16 Jul 2011 01:25:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 The Best Way to Tweet to Twitter, Post on Facebook from WordPresshttp://www.doknowevil.net/2010/07/26/the-best-way-to-tweet-to-twitter-post-on-facebook-from-wordpress/ http://www.doknowevil.net/2010/07/26/the-best-way-to-tweet-to-twitter-post-on-facebook-from-wordpress/#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 02:47:47 +0000 Tyler Mulligan http://www.doknowevil.net/?p=762 I’ve been focusing some time recently to the foundation levels of Internet marketing. I’m aiming to increase visibility as strongly as possible at the core of a website giving it the power to leverage evolving trends as simply as possible. This of course means utilizing APIs from other web applications, such as social networks. The title of this post is true but deceptive. I consider the following method the best way to tweet from WordPress but it’s actually a whole lot more than that. It’s a gateway to a large number of social media applications; one account to rule them all. ping.fm is a service that allows you to link multiple social network websites, such as facebook, twitter, linkedin and more.


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So the idea then, is to leverage then is to utilize the ping.fm application from your website. If you’re using WordPress then you’re set, the simple no frills publish 2 ping.fm plugin will allow you to interact with ping.fm from your blog/website.

I’ve tested this out with the free open-source GPL First Person Shooter, Xonotic and a new site I just started dumbtubes.com. Both have twitter accounts that you can see publishing twitter.com/dumbtubes, twitter.com/xonotic. Xonotic also publishes to many other social accounts, see the Xonotic homepage to find other accounts.

Stay tuned for more wordpress tips.

WARNING, this plugin may cause other plugins options panels not to work. I’m not sure the cause yet but be aware that it can cause the sub settings of dedicated plugin setting groups to throw access errors.

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