BackType Connect Plugin for WordPress

BackType Connect Plugin

Show related conversations from BackType Connect on your blog

This plugin uses BackType Connect to find conversations on other social media that's related to your content and displays them inline or alongside the comments on your blog

Download Version 0.2.5 for WordPress »

Features

• Display comments from other blogs, Twitter, FriendFeed, Digg, Reddit, and more
• You can configure exactly what sources you want to display related conversations from
• Summarize, display comments inline, or append them to the end of your comments section
• Your readers can even respond to the comments BackType Connect displays

Currently, we support conversations from:

• Twitter – tweets that link your posts
• FriendFeed – on the entries for your posts
• Digg – on the submissions for your posts
• Reddit – on the submissions for your posts
• Hacker News – on the submissions for your posts
• Other blogs – whenever someone links one of your posts

Installation

Note: It is recommended that you backup your database before installing

1. Download the plugin
2. Unzip the plugin and upload the backtype-connect directory to /wp-content/plugins/
3. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
4. Configure the plugin through the 'Settings' > 'BackType Connect' menu option
5. Click the 'Enable' button to start importing comments

Screenshots

You can see the plugin running live on our blog, but here's a screenshot of what it looks like: