You’ve probably noticed a lot of A-List blogs include pictures and graphics in their content. It is something that boosts the quality of the user experience, the value of the content, and the professional “feel” of a site.The problem for most bloggers is taking the time to dress up a good post with relevant graphics and information to enhance the value of the piece. We are usually in a hurry, once we are done writing, to post and get on with other things.
Yahoo has a new Wordpress plugin that makes dressing up your posts a lot easier. No more cut and paste and less reason to leave your future posts “naked.”
What Yahoo Shortcuts Plugin Does
After a simple install and no set up or configuration whatsoever, you are ready to use this plugin on your next post. While you are typing the plugin is searching Yahoo and Flickr for images, maps, stock tickers and other data to go with your post.
When you are done writing you should have some “shortcuts” to look at in a new browser added to your admin writing area that shows all the things Yahoo found to go with your post.
It can be images that match keywords in your post from Flickr or a Yahoo map if you blogged about a destination of any kind, like New York, NY.
You can choose to leave everything out if you don’t like what’s recommended or just the things you want left in and scrap the rest.
On this marketing blog, it’s been difficult at times pulling up relevant photos, maps, etc. but for other blogs in other niches the content available seems pretty rich.
Check Out Yahoo Shortcuts Wordpress Plugin
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Thanks for this recommendation Jack – I spend about half an hour searching for photos to match a post. This should save me a lot of time.
Thanks Jack.
I’ve just started to try to add images to my posts and this will save me tons of time!
Great stuff!
Thanks for Sharing,
I really will benefit a lot with this plugins. I used to spend lots of time searching for relevant image. This surely will save lots of my time.
Cheers
Merry Christmas
Thanks for the tip – I recently found a similar plugin that searched Yahoo for tags for the post – just one click and it suggests several tags based on tags on similar page topics as the post I created. I wish I could remember where I found that plugin and I would post it here.
This looks to be real useful for me jack. I have a marketing blog but I also blog on climate change and health…
WoooHoooo!!
Alex
Well whaddya know, this answers a question that has been burnign at the back of mind for ages: “Where do they get all those images? Surely they can’t spend the time searching for them, tehmselves.?’
Now I have the answer.
Many, many thanks.
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