I think something really brief on what social media is, and how it "integrates" with WP. Sometimes people use a lot of buzzwords and verbiage only to find what they really want is a link in the sidebar or somewhere.
So highlighting that it's twofold - pushing posts out to social media, and just linking out to social media sites, and directing to different search terms for the plugins repo. a. *who defers to Otto, unless he is wrong ;) On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Lorelle on WordPress < [email protected]> wrote: > LOL! Love the PS at the end. > > Let's see what others think. I'm not looking for a full blown thesis, just > something that let's the world know that these shortcodes are there and how > to use them, and talk about how to add feeds and such. That's where the > Codex really excels, not in trying to answer everything. > > Thanks, > > Lorelle > > > > On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Otto <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Lorelle on WordPress >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > That's what I thought, but the more I think about it, the more I think >> it >> > could have value if we say something and link to appropriate tags in the >> > Plugin Directory. >> > >> > Like defining what integration means. In my classes I call them Share, >> Push, >> > and Pull - Share means you "share" information manually through social >> > media, Push is to tell the world through social media, and pull is to >> bring >> > social media to your blog. >> > >> > Using that analogy, it would be ideal for the Codex to cover getting a >> short >> > link to share manually (aren't they adding the short URL to the core?), >> > examples of how to automate the process to push posts to social media, >> and >> > how to use the Feed Widget to pull social media stuff into the site, and >> > feature links to Plugin tags that do the pushing and pulling for >> examples of >> > WordPress Plugins that make it easier. >> > >> > This could be a WordPress Lesson. I'm sure there are more sophisticated >> > techniques, but I think we need to have a page that gives some basics to >> > answering the question of how and can I integrate my blog to social >> media. >> > >> > More brainstorming ideas? >> > >> > Lorelle >> >> Shortlinks are already in core, have been since... err.. 2.9 or 3.0. I >> use them in my Simple Twitter Connect and Simple Facebook Connect >> plugins (Simple Google Connect is in progress). >> >> I dunno. I think this is too big a concept, with too many opinions* >> and ways of doing it. "Integration" is a big thing, with a lot of >> separate sub-topics and such. You can break it down into parts, but >> even in those parts there's dozens of possible ones, each has >> different upsides and downsides, etc. >> >> -Otto >> >> >> * my opinions and methods for doing this sort of thing are the only >> correct ones, of course, but not everybody agrees. ;) >> _______________________________________________ >> wp-docs mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-docs >> > > > _______________________________________________ > wp-docs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-docs > > -- -- Andrea Rennick, http://wpebooks.com and http://ronandandrea.com Co-author of WordPress All-In-One For Dummies http://rml.me/aio
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