One of the best ways to add some spice to your website is to add in a social media feed. Your social media feed will help feed the content and updates that you’re posting through social media into your main blog.
The feed will appear as a widget that displays on the side of your screen. You can generally choose how big or small you want the feed to be, so you can customize how much attention to direct to the feed.
Here’s how to add social media updates to your blog.
Twitter Widget
To get started, go to the Twitter widget section.
https://twitter.com/about/resources/widgets
Click on “Create new.”
Then choose the “User Timeline”.
Enter the username that you want to generate a feed for. This can be your own username or someone else’s.
A preview of the feed will appear on the right. Once the feed looks right to you, just click “Create Widget” to copy and paste the code onto your website.
Facebook Widget
To access Facebook’s activity feed, go to:
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/
Then click on “Activity Feed.”
Scroll down, then type in the domain of the site whose feed you want to display. The feed on the right will show you what your feed will look like.
Click “Get Code” on the bottom once you’re ready to post it to your website.
Google+
Google+ doesn’t have a built-in widget creator. However, there are several outside tools you can use to add this functionality.
These options include:
Widgetplus.com
Widgplus.com
Wordpress Plugin
Here’s how Widgplus widget looks. You can access it here:
Start by entering your Google ID. This is the string of numbers you see in your URL when you access your own profile.
Then specify the settings you want to use to generate the Widget’s feed.
The embed code will be displayed above the customization box. Copy and paste it onto your server.
Adding a Pinterest Widget
Pinterest doesn’t have a built-in widget system. However, there are a number of different WordPress plugins you can use to create a Pinterest widget on your WordPress blog.
To get started, go to your plugins search field and type in “Pinterest widget.”
The most popular and highly rated one at the time of writing is the “Pinterest Pinboard Widget.” Choose one plugin and install then activate it.
Then go into your WordPress widgets (under “Appearance”) and drag and drop the widget. Then configure the widget to look exactly as you want it to.
Your Pinterest widget will now appear in your sidebar!
Adding a social media widget to your site can really help add interactivity and help cultivate a sense of consistency within your brand. It’ll help join your social media site and your website together into one community. If you’re going to take the time to build up content in social media, why not link it up to your main site?