Do you want your Twitter followers to be notified each time you post a new blog entry? If yes, you can use TwitterFeed to sychronise your blog with Twitter in order to automate your Twitter posts.
Here are the steps to set it up:
Step 1: Login to the Twitter account that you want to link your blog with TwitterFeed.
Step 2: Login to TwitterFeed (use the login options provided) to create a new feed. Once you have successfully logged in, you would see the following screen:
Click the “Create new feed” link.
Step 3: In the Create new Twitter screen, click “Authenticate at Twitter” to display the following screen:
Click the “Allow” button.
Step 4: The screen will indicate that you have successfully linked TwitterFeed with your Twitter account. In the screen below, type in your blog’s FeedBurner Feed URL :
Click “test rss feed” hyperlink on the right side of the screen You will be notified by the message “Feed passed OK” if you have successfully linked TwitterFeed with your Twitter account.
Lastly, remember to activate your TwitterFeed by clicking the “Create” button.
To check whether your TwitterFeed is working, create a post in your blog and see whether your blog title and description shows up in your Twitter post.
I hope this article on” How to automate your Twitter post with TwitterFeed” is useful.
Adding a Youtube video to a blog is very easy. You can either choose to add the Youtube video to your content page or sidebar.
Step 1: Go to the Youtube site to play the video that you want to embed into your blog.You should see the following when the video is playing:
Copy the video codes displayed in the “Embed” box
Step 2: Go to your WP admin/Apperarance/Widget and Add a Text widget to your sidebar. Paste the video codes onto the Text widget and click Save Changes.
Step 1: As per step 1 above
Step 2: In your post, switch to HTML format and paste the video codes onto your post. Click Publish or Update Post as the case may be.
You can change the video width and height by adjusting the video codes.
A favicon is a small image (16 x 16 pixels) that appears alongside the url address of the browser’s address bar.
Favicons will also appear beside a browser’s “favourite” url listing when a site with favicon is bookmarked as show below:
Creating a favicon
You can create a small image (16 x 16 pixels) using Fireworks, Photoshop or GIMP and then use IrfanView to convert the image to .ico format. In this case, you must save the file as favicon.ico or it will not work.
Add favicon to your blog
Upload your favicon.ico file to your site’s root web directory using your FTP program or your cpanel’s File Manager. For example, if your site name is “abcsite.com, you need to place the favison.ico file inside this folder in your server.
Next, you need to place the following code between the <head></head> in your header.php file (access via WP Appearance/Editor):
<link rel=”shortcut icon” href=”http://www.yoursitenamehere.com/favicon.ico” mce_href=”http://www.yoursitenamehere.com/favicon.ico”/>
Another way to add a favicon to your blog would be to download the MaxBlogPress plugin. This plugin has several ready made favicon images for you to choose from. If you do not like any of the ready made favicons, you can replace them with your own favicon. This can be done after you have downloaded and unzipped the plugin. You just need to replace one of the ready-made images (in the icon folder) with your own favicon prior to FTP the plugin to your Wordpress plugin folder. Remember to change your favicon file name to match the name of the file that you are replacing.