25 Apr 2012

Essential Features of WordPress Social Media Plug-in

In the world of Internet Marketing, it is much important to use blogs for promoting your website as well as increasing traffic. Many web masters are taking help of Social Networking Sites for giving latest up dates to their clients about the new things occurred in their business. This can be done by using WordPress Social Media Plug-in. Using Social Media Plug-in is very important for web masters as from such place, they are getting massive traffic.

Previously, it was much difficult for users to get latest information quickly but, with Social Networking Sites, one can get instant update instantly. One of the great advantages of using WordPress Social Media Plug-in is one can easily share their blog’s post to their friends, colleagues and also their followers. New WordPress plug-in comes with common feature that gathers massive traffic through blog or website by sharing content to your Facebook account or Twitter account.

Latest feature of customization is also added in this plug-in through which webmaster can post daily updates on auto pilot by doing some setting on their site. Even, one can easily arrange site’s promotion any time they want. By launching number of promotion, webmaster can easily create Instant Social Media Traffic to their website, in order to add social links in your post; one can use “ShareThis” WordPress plugin. After plug-in, webmasters can able to share content via Email, Facebook, Twitter, Google +1, and many others.

One can see plug-in in every web page of their website. But, there are some pages in which you don’t want. For that, you just have to remove coding by going through settings panel. Here, you will find coding of social media link. You just have to copy this code and paste such code in function.php of theme folder and it displays result in admin side.

Copy and paste below code in you function.php file:

[code]$themename = "Your Theme";

$shortname = "wpc";

$options = array (

array( "name" => "Social Media Settings","type" => "title"),

array( "type" => "open"),

array( "name" => "Facebook ID",

"desc" => "Enter Facebook ID to Follow.",

"id" => $shortname." _facebook_id ",

"std" => "",

"type" => "text"),

array( "type" => "close")

);</pre>
<form method="post">
<table style="background-color: #dceefc; padding: 5px 10px;" width="100%" border="0">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"></td>
</tr>
case ‘text’:?>
<tr>
<td rowspan="2" valign="middle" width="20%"></td>
<td width="80%"><input id="" style="width: 400px;" type="text" name="<?php echo $value[‘id’]; ?>" value="" />" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td style="margin-bottom: 5px; border-bottom: 1px dotted #000000;" colspan="2"></td>
<td colspan="2"></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<input type="text" value="Save changes" />

<input type="text" value="reset" /></form>
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To display in front side of wordpress theme paste below code where you want Icons links.

[code]

<a href="http://facebook.com/<?php echo $wpc_facebook_id;?>"><img src="<?php bloginfo( ‘template_url’ ); ?>/images/facebook_icon.jpg" alt="" /></a>[/code]

Above is facebook coding, if you want entire coding of various social networking sites then you can simply mail us at support@xhtmljunkies.com.

Author: Harshal Shah

Harshal Shah is CEO & Founder of Xhtmljunkies, Located in Gujarat, India, XHTML Junkies is one of the best companies that offer unique eCommerce solutions by the virtue of its dedicated professionals. Our professionals are extremely proficient in offering development services pertaining to eCommerce. You can find Harshal on Google+ and Twitter.