WordPress Database Backup Plugin

As your site develops you will begin to wonder what would happen if your wordpress site suddenly got hacked or destroyed (yes it could happen for any number of reasons) and its at this point that you need to start thinking about backing up the databases you have created and safeguarding the information in your theme, images and plugins.

WordPress Backup makes this possible. Installing it is simple and it includes an option to have the backup files emailed directly to you for saving on your local computer but this may prove impossible as the file size grows.

Do not get caught out, back up your files!

Author: Blog Traffic Exchange

WordPress backup Plugin information:
Download the WordPress Backup Database plugin.

WordPress Tweetmeme plugin

If you have been reading blogs recently you will have spotted on a good majority of them a little speech bubble shaped button wit ha green bar under it which includes the words “tweet this”.

This distinctive green button is essential as it allows visitors to ReTweet your post or information in a single click, with minimal effort to their network on twitter.

As well as this it also serves to offer an idea of how important or popular visitors have deemed your post to be as the count of ReTweets is displayed in the button itself, the higher the number the mor e likely the next visitor will deem it as valuable and ReTweet it accordingly.  Tweetmeme also serves up, on its homepage, a list of the most ReTweeted and popular articles of the day, http://tweetmeme.com/ and this is an excellent method to generate traffic.

Bear in mind though that it only generates traffic and users will ultimately on ReTweet (RT) the information if they deem it as quality, you cannot manipulate this in effect, by automation or other means so the contetn better be good.

Simple to install, it also has a option to add in your own twitter name in the settings section so once someone hits the ReTweet button you will be notified via Twitter, via an @yourname, allowing you to respond to the person who ReTweeted your post appropriately with a thank you, or in some form of engagement, response, commentary or conversation.

Author: TweetMeme

Download the Tweetmeme plugin for WordPress.

WordPress Sociable plugin

Originally developed by Joost de Valk (no I’m not stuttering it is him again!) he passed control of the plguin over to the guys at Blog Play. Quite similar to the Share This plugin in the functionality it aims to meet it is a little more simple to install and displays its options in a very different manner.

With a more “upfront” display manner it is very customisable in managing the order of the icons to display and even the selection of what networks to include all managed by a simple tick box display.

Another customisation you can perform includes changing the images you wish to display for the network icons but this requires so coding and imaging skills.

Author: Joost de Valk (now managed by Blog Play)

Download the Sociable Plugin