Must-have Toolbars For WordPress Blog
Jul 23
Toolbars used in WordPress installations as plugins become more and more popular and effective.
I find the most popular, interesting and eye-catching WordPress toolbar plugins you could use daily to increase pageviews, comments, sharing, twitter followers, subscriptions and more. Some of these plugins even offer online chat with your readers, let us know your favorite toolbar plugin!
1.Extendy Toolbar
This plugin installs the Extendy toolbar to your blog without having to make edits to any of your template files. Note that you must have an Extendy account, available for free at http://extendy.com . Extendy lets visitors share their favorite pages, search your content, view your latest tweets and blog posts, connect with you across social networks, and more.
2.Notification Toolbar
This is a very nice and highly customizable toolbar. Your custom notifications will appear on the toolbar at the bottom of your blog and can be closed or opened at any time.
3. Meebo Bar
- Real-time sharing. Your users can easily share your website with their friends through IM, Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, and email. The Meebo Bar engages your existing users and brings in new users.
- Custom buttons for your bar. Choose from a host of buttons to add to your bar.
- Personal stats dashboard. See statistics about pageviews, sharing from your site, and which of your Meebo Bar buttons are being clicked, all from your own secure site. You can even give other users their own personal login to access the dashboard.
- Instant messaging from your site. Meebo knows web-based IM better than anyone, and your site visitors will be able to chat and share with their IM friends from AIM, Yahoo!, MSN, Facebook, and a ton of other networks.
4.Gigya Toolbar
The Gigya Toolbar increases your blog’s traffic and provides an oppurtunity to make extra revenues. Here are features Gigya offers:
- Get return traffic when users share and tweet from the toolbar.
- Supports 80 social destinations and includes a Facebook fan page and Twitter updates buttons.
- The toolbar does not affect page load time. It loads only after the page is fully loaded.
5. WordPress Toolbar Plugin
Static Toolbar displays a static toolbar in the bottom of the page, which may contain last posts, rss feed, search engine, social network and sharing links.
6.WordPress Toolbar
This WordPress toolbar will automatically enable a toolbar for all outgoing links from your blog, it is similar as Digg or Stumbleupon. It helps to keep visitors coming back and write some comment or social bookmarking. Great tool.
7. mit3xxx.de Toolbar
Adds the mit3xxx.de toolbar to your website.
The mit3xxx toolbar allows you to add the following features to your site: navigate to the start pageintegrate a button to your rss-feed,let your users tweet your content, share your content to social network sites such as Delicious, Digg, Facebookanr more. It also provides more then 20 themes.
8. WordPress Theme Demo Bar
WordPress Theme Demo Bar is a plugin for wordpress (compatible up to WP 2.8.3) allowing to preview any wordpress theme without activating. Demo bar is customisable in admin panel, with several CSS style files as well. Very handy for theme developers or Wordpres theme related articles.
9. The WordPress Bar
“Seen the DiggBar on Digg.com? Add a similar feature to your WordPress blog. Use your blog as a short link service with Easy Link Creation. Feature any link on the internet with a custom URL such as http://www.internetriot.com/?bing. Also feature social network links such as Facebook, Twitter, and Digg.”
