Well it’s not often that I am really excited about a a new web service release but I really am about the SU.PR beta having seen Tim Ferriss from Four Hour Work Week introduce it on his blog a couple of days ago.
Stumbleupon has been amazing for driving traffic to people’s blogs, including my own, but unfortunately it has been hit and miss as to whether you get listed in the directory. This relied on people reviewing your site as you were not meant to submit your own. This new service allows you to auto publish your blog url’s along with a message to the Stumbleupon service. The URL is shortened and then the message and URL published directly to Twitter and Face Book.
It’s about 1.00 am here so I’ll come back later to explain why this will drive traffic, but seriously have a look at Tim’s cool intro above.
Unfortunately the service wasn’t automated so I made a WordPress Plugin
What I wanted was an easy way to publish my posts from WordPress, and as a plug-in didn’t exist, I wrote my own. I have published it, so it is now freely available and I will refine it over time.
If you want to drive web site traffic from Stumbleupon you can use this wordpress plugin for free. There is an video going on vimeo to explain soon. Sorry the one I just uploaded is not playing.
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great work. I just installed your plugin. I had to follow StumbleUpon on Twitter to get notifications of invite codes. As soon as I have an invite code, I plan to start using it. Thank you so much for this.
Hi Todd to to try the su.pr plugin with wordpress this invite code might work for su.pr registration “suprbeta”. http://su.pr/30YHYa
Very nice Stephen. I see you're using Thesis theme too.
so did YOU write this plugin? or hire it out?
Thanks Rob, most appreciated. I wrote it, works pretty well although I just found a bug that caused a conflict with some other plugins. Fixed now http://su.pr/30YHYa
Hi Steve. I am using Thesis Theme ( Like you) gone through all the steps and am getting this error?
Can you help?
Warning: current() [function.current]: Passed variable is not an array or object in /homepages/27/d196382007/htdocs/blog/wp-content/plugins/tuis-su-pr-publisher/tuis-su-pr-publisher.php on line 414
I Kathy. I replied by email. Lets see what the problem is. Cheers Stephen
Hi Stephen, have you also tried bit.ly?
Stephen is this the same plugin available from the su.pr website?
Thanks,jb
Stephen is this the same plugin available from the su.pr website?
Thanks,jb
Hi,
I am running this plugin on wordpress mu…… it was installed nicely and after making necessary settings, the posts from my blog are not getting forwarded to stumbleupon, nor are they forwarded to twitter account….. does it support mu?
Thanks.
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