# Making WordPress More Shareable and Likeable

**TL;DR:** WordPress can push your posts out to social networks and pull the conversation back into your site. These are the slides from my CrushIQ talk, plus some of the plugins I covered.

Published 2011-11-14 · [View on Ben Balter's site](https://ben.balter.com/2011/11/14/making-wordpress-more-shareable-sociable-and-likeable/)

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Slides from my presentation at Washington's [CrushIQ](https://crushiq.com) on how to use WordPress to push content to social networks, pull social content in to your site, encourage sharing, engage visitors, and earn fans.

View the slides on [SlideShare](https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/10156115).

## Some of the plugins discussed

- [Simple Facebook Connect](http://ottopress.com/wordpress-plugins/simple-facebook-connect/)
- [Simple Twitter Connect](http://ottopress.com/wordpress-plugins/simple-twitter-connect/)
- [Jetpack by WordPress.com](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/Jetpack/)
- [Embedly](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/embedly/)
- [AddThis](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/addthis/)/ [ShareThis](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/share-this/)
- [PollDaddy](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/polldaddy/)
- [Twitter Mentions as Comments](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitter-mentions-as-comments/)
- [Disqus](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/disqus-comment-system/)