6 ways to turn your Wordpress blog into a web socialite

23 Jul 2010

A blog is usually a place where individuals or groups publish thoughts and ideas on niche topics, current affairs or daily occurrences. But how do you make a WordPress blog more social and attractive to people wanting to interact and bring it to life?

6 ways to turn your Wordpress blog into a web socialite

Can you turn your shy, introverted blog into a bubbling, web socialite? WordPress, the popular blogging platform, has a number of solutions that you can use.

Here are six ideas that really work:

1. Enhance user commenting

Start off by allowing users to login and comment with their Facebook or Twitter accounts. The Janrain Engage (formerly RPX) plug-in aims to handle this. This allows users to use their established online identity to air their views, while remaining on your platform where you can share other articles, promote products or services, and attempt to lead the user to whichever conversion goals you may have in place.

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