Many social media or PR agencies will recommend WordPress as the best open-source CMS available. Aside from its user-friendly interface, excellent support network and simple format for publishing content, WordPress also allows users to install a wide variety of plugins that provide social media integration.
If you have a presence on various social networking platforms then you can integrate these into your WordPress website with ease from the vast assortment of plugins available. If you don't know where to start, here are a few of the best social media plugins available.
Sociable - Sociable is one of the most popular plugins available for social media integration. By installing the plugin, anyone reading your content will easily be able to share it across their own social networks with the click of a mouse, helping to spread your content further to reach new audiences.
AddToAny - another of the most popular plugins available, AddToAny essentially performs the same function as Sociable in allowing site users to share your content across their social networks and bookmarking sites. It might be worth trying them both out and seeing which one you prefer.
Lifestream - displays social feeds from over 50 possible networking sites, so whichever networks you have a presence on you can seamlessly stream all your activity to your main website. There's no limit on the amount of streams you can add, and it also comes with the ability to store all feed history and summarise activities.
TweetMeme Retweet Button - retweeting has really taken off recently, and this little plugin allows visitors to easily retweet your content via their Twitter accounts if they like what they read.
Discover What Works for You
There are hundreds of social media plugins available on WordPress which you can integrate with your website or blog content, and this is just a start. There are also lots of specific plugins for each of your networks, such as the LinkedIn App and the Facebook Like Button, as well as other more general plugins such as ShareThis.
A social media agency will often recommend that you explore the plugins and experiment with a few until you find the ones that work best for you. Plugins make it very easy to integrate your social media networks with a WordPress website, so see what you can discover.