Wordpress and 3rd party web applications - Jason Tucker - OC Podcasters

Wordpress and 3rd party web applications
Recorded live via uStream.Tv at the March 2009 OC Podcasters Meetup

I started out with a quick intro on wordpress themes (I should have included how a widget works in the slides but I did discuss that which you can see in the video) then later went into something new and fresh: Facebook Connect. This tech enables you to allow your readers to login to your wordpress site using their Facebook login info. The plugin I finally settled with was the one developed by sixjumps which took the basics of just authenticating with wordpress to a new level. With this you can leave a comment on the blog and allow the comment to be sent over to facebook. You can also share links from the site to facebook with ease and lastly be able to see who else is using the site from facebook. Pretty cool stuff to be totally honest.

Later I went into some plugins to connect wordpress with Twitter: TwitterTools by Alex King, TwitMe by Johnny Mast and Tweetbacks by Joost de Valk. I love Alex and Joosts work and their plugins kick some serious ass. TwitMe and its dev are new to me but there are some great features he put into that plugin. Lastly I discussed sharing posts with friends using using Joosts plugin Sociable and ShareThis.

One thing I learned with this is the power of the masses If your doing a presentation on social media or new media, get your audience involved by asking them to get their friends involved. At the beginning of the demo I put a tinyurl link up on the screen and asked everyone to hop on twitter and send that link out to as a tweet so we can get some people in the chatroom. I also learned to have a videotape in the camera before using a sony camera as a videosource. Ends up that without a tape the camera goes into store demo mode and did all sorts of fun with the video demoing how you can do mosaic and sepia and other things. Next time I need to drag Jacob Morales out and have him record me with his kick ass setup. :)

Discussion includes Wordpress, Facebook Connect, Sixjump's Facebook Connect plugin, Twitter, TwitTools by Alex King, TwitMe by Johnny Mast, Tweetbacks by Joost de Valk. Sociable by Joost de Valk and ShareThis

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Howto & Style

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• Wordpress
• Facebook Connect
• Twitter
• TwitTools
• Alex
• King
• TwitMe
• by
• Johnny Mast