As you probably noticed, I’ve included in the footer of my Wordpress blog several listings of items coming from “social” services (Del.icio.us, Twitter and Flickr). In this article I’ll tell you how to simply achieve a smiliar platform by presenting you some neat and easy-to-use plug-ins for Wordpress.

(If you don’t know what these services are about, you will find some ressources to look further at the bottom of this article.)

I mostly use these plug-ins in order to add valuable content to my website, but also, so that my blog acts as a kind of platform that will display my various affiliations and contributions on other web spaces.

Thanks to the great Wordpress community, I found some neat plug-ins, easy to install, use, and even customize. Here’s a small list :

Eightface’s FlickrRss

Displays the most recent photos from your Flickr feed.
You can choose how many photos you want to display and you can also display photos from Flickr groups or communities.

Alexking’s Twitter Tools

Displays the most recent “tweets” from your Twitter account.
This one has also pretty straightforward options (i.e. how many tweets to display) but it also allows you the possibility of twittering right from your Wordpress interface, create blog posts from Tweets (and vice-versa) and create a daily digest of your tweets (for the heavy Twitter users !).

Linuxbrit’s del.icio.us plug-in

Another pretty straightforward one, with the possibility of choosing how many links. Can also display tags and descriptions, but I haven’t tried these ones yet.

More ressources about these social services

As promised above, here are some links of interest concerning these social services :

(note that my own Flickr account isn’t representative, I still have to work on it ;)