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Connecting WordPress with Social Media
Gravatar, avatars and linking to social media through WordPress Global.
If you have blog content, you may want your readers to share that content. In this article, Linda offers a variety of ways to help your readers share what you've written. The focus in this article is on Gravatar, avatars and linking to social media through WordPress Global.
Getting Started at WordPress Global
When you arrive at the WordPress page (different than the WordPress download or WordPress Codex), you'll see that you can log in at the registration area in the upper left of your screen. If you are not a member of the WP site, you cannot gain access to an API code, and you may want this tool down the road to activate other tools such as Askimet to help delete spam at your blog's source.
When you sign up with WP, you do not need to create a blog immediately. However, if you are new to WordPress, this feature might help you get accustomed to WP's features in a safe environment. While there are some limitations to hosting a blog on WP, they offer widgets, templates and stats that make this whole blogging process much easier than it would be if you hosted the blog on a server.
Plus, when you host a blog at WP, you get to experience some features that other WP users may not experience, ever, or – at least – not until WP developers make those features into apps that you can use on your own hosted WP blog.
Even if you do not create a blog at WP, you have the option to develop a profile and much more at WP Global. By combining WP Global and Gravatar, you can pull in some significant social network tools that can promote your blog to thousands of other readers as you make your rounds on the Web. Allow me to show you what I mean...
Linda Goin
Linda Goin carries an A.A. in graphic design, a B.F.A. in visual communications with a minor in business and marketing and an M.A. in American History with a minor in the Reformation. While the latter degree doesn't seem to fit with the first two educational experiences, Linda used her 25-year design expertise on archaeological digs and in the study of material culture. Now she uses her education and experiences in social media experiments.
Accolades for her work include fifteen first-place Colorado Press Association awards, numerous fine art and graphic design awards, and interviews about content development with The Wall St. Journal, Chicago Tribune, Psychology Today, and L.A. Times.