A “social footer” on your blog

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.

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Tags: del.icio.us, flickr, plug-in, twitter, wordpress
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Managing a bilingual blog

Here’s a nifty Wordpress plug-in to maintain a bilingual blog. It displays the main language as a standard blog post and adds, below, an excerpt in your second language.

It’s really cool to offer a bilingual information, without havong to translate the whole articles everytime.

Check out the Basic Bilingual plug-in.

Tags: bilingual, language, plug-in, translation, wordpress
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