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There are so many cool plugins for WordPress so I’ve decided to do one quick post each day featuring a favourite plugin.

So without further ado, today’s feature plugin in ‘The Daily Plug’ is Wibiya.

Wibiya, a fantastic plugin for your blog


I came across Wibiya and was so impressed, it is actually THE plugin that has inspired ‘The Daily Plug’. Woot Woot Wibiya.

Wibiya creates a tool bar for your blog (see mine below). The toolbar lives at the base of the reader’s window (see below) and can be collapsed out of the way or expanded to reveal all of the cool functions and features it offers.

Wibiya plugin - fantastic for social media and increasing reader interaction

There are a number of apps integrated into the Wibiya plugin to enhance the reader experience AND both increase your page views and user interaction. This is especially handy because now rather than install multiple different plugins, you can install one to cover a number of features, for example follow on twitter or facebook can now be seamlessly integrated into the one toolbar.

Wibiya provides you with flexible options so you can tailor it to suit your site.

Social Media – Facebook and Twitter

  • Readers can tweet, write on your facebook fan page and share your content without leaving your website
  • Enjoy the full twitter experience including search, latest tweets, tweets for each page and more
  • Add facebook toolbar applications and stream traffic from your fan page to your website and back again

Increase Page Views and Traffic

  • Generate more page views using available apps such as Latest Posts, Popular Posts, , Popular Articles, Real Time Users and more…
  • Promote your content using great 3D galleries, games, live broadcasting, RSS
  • Track your traffic growth, sources and trends with easy to use analytics
  • Easy access to your Image Gallery or YouTube gallery
  • Broaden your reach with the integrated language translator

Communicate with your Readers

  • Broadcast messages, notifications and alerts in real time
  • Share all your tweets with your readers
  • Participate in live chat rooms using unique web toolbar applications – How cool is that? You can live chat with your readers on your site!

Integrate Popular Apps

  • Over 40 apps (and growing) that can be selected for your toolbar with a simple click. They are incredibly simple to select.
  • Some of my favourite apps would have to be the language translator and the easy “share” features.

Earn Money

  • You can include a button to request donations, great if you are a developer
  • You can create affiliate links to external sites without altering user experience
  • And there is a project board so you can work collaboratively with others

Quickly looking at design options, it has flexibility with the colour of the tool bar so you can match it to your site- very nice.

The only thing  I stumbled on is that when you install the app you need to paste a Wibiya Tool path into a configuration window.  When I pasted mine the plugin didn’t work initially- then I realised I had copied and pasted the path including the full stop  (or period) at the end.  Save yourself from this minor dufus moment and don’t include it! :)

Eg: http://cdn.wibiya.com/Toolbars/dir_0563/Toolbar_563680/Loader_563680.js this was my path but I first had .js.

wibiya configuration

It’s might be difficult to find another plugin as impressive and as useful as this. Go get it!

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