Tell-a-Friend WordPress Plugin

Nov
2008
11

posted by on The Net

9 comments

I have seen quite a few people using this plugin on their blog so I decided to check it out for myself. If you notice at the bottom of every post is a little Tell a Friend button. If you hover over it, it will bring up a box where users can tell a friend about that post via IM, E-Mail, or a Social network. What’s great about this plugin is that it allows users to do this without leaving your site to do it.

Tell a Friend was launched by Social Twist and is free to download and install. Now you don’t need to sign up to Social Twist to download the widget but if you do signup to Social Twist you are able to customize the widget and have access to usage statistics. I went ahead and signed up for an account. Once you download the plugin, just upload it to your wordpress plugins folder and active it and you a good to go. It can’t get much easier than that. The plugin can also be used on other platforms like TypePad, Blogger and Textpattern. It will be interesting to see if anyone uses the widget on the page, check it out for yourself.

Here is a video that shows how Tell a Friend can be useful to the visitors to your site.



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  • http://btr.michaelkwan.com Michael Kwan

    It would be great if they included social bookmarking on there too, like StumbleUpon and Digg. Then, it would be a truly comprehensive and efficient little widget.

  • http://www.netage.co.za Ruby Web

    Quite a great concept. It’s just a great referal system. It does add some convenience to link sharing.

  • http://www.pinkyarcade.com Mike Huang

    After I saw John using this, I really didn’t like it, but then I realized that it works a lot better than that “share this” plugin. lol.

    -Mike

  • http://www.joshz.net Josh Zehtabchi

    I’m about to try it out! Thanks for the link too, Bob!

  • http://www.timelessinformation.com Armen Shirvanian

    This appears to be somewhat similar to some available options such as the ShareThis plug-in. These plug-ins are great so that an article can be easily spread without having to manually send it over to a certain social networking site. Some of the icons on these plug-ins are quite colorful and appealing to use.

  • http://www.femaleshopper.co.uk Women’s Clothes

    Yes, useful little plug-in. You’d think people would use it…but they do!

  • http://free-power-point-templates.com Pepe

    Nice! Thank you.

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  • http://fightsweatypalms.com/ Steven Lance

    yes, this tell a friend wordpress plugin is very helpful to help you also boast your blog or website

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  • http://myelectronickit.com Mufid

    Thanks for sharing this great plug-in.