Supermoon WordPress Theme

Supermoon is an enchanting and clean Twenty Ten child theme with six original headers based on images of the March 19th Supermoon photographed by Deltina Hay.

The theme features a nice Google web script font and transparent navigation items. A shout out to Zeaks at Zeaks.org for his great tutorial on adding opacity to menu items.

A WordPress child theme is a theme that inherits all of the features and functionality of its parent theme, while maintaining a custom look and feel. Social Media Power chose to create child themes using the WordPress default theme, Twenty Ten, because it is regularly updated and has many nice features.

Find out more about this theme and view the five additional header images on the Supermoon theme page. And check out our other themes, too!

If you are unsure what I am talking about, look at the image below. When you post a link on your Facebook news feed or share a site by “liking” it, you are given several thumbnail images to choose from to represent the link as depicted. In this example, there are seven choices.

The problem is that Facebook will often grab images that are unrelated to the linked page. For example, images from sidebars or ads may appear instead of relevant images. To discover which image Facebook sees as most relevant for any page of your Website, use the Facebook URL Linter Tool.

Luckily, you do have control over which image is used as the thumbnail when you and others share content from your Website on Facebook. There are a few options available.

First, you can place a line of code in the header of your Website that will force Facebook to use the same image for all of the pages on your site. Here is the line of code I use to ensure that my logo is used as the thumbnail image when a page from Social Media Power is “liked” or shared on Facebook:

Place this line of code (once it is replaced with your own image link) in the HEAD section of the home page of your Website. If you are using WordPress to power your site, you can place this code in your header.php file. The result will be only one choice of image, as shown here:

If you want more control over which image Facebook uses for each page of your site as opposed to the same image for every page, you can use Facebook’s open graph meta tags. You also want to use this method for individual products or listings.

Finally, if your site is powered by WordPress there is an easier way to control your Facebook thumbnails. The Facebook Like Thumbnail plugin is a nice way to gain control over which images Facebook uses to represent any page or post on your site.

(Thanks go out to Stephanie Barko for suggesting this topic as a Social Media Tip of the Day. Do you have a topic to suggest?)

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About the Author:

Deltina Hay is the author of the critically acclaimed book, The Social Media Survival Guide, already in its second edition. She also teaches the online version of Drury University’s Social Media Certificate program. Learn more about Deltina and her availability for speaking engagements at Deltina.com. You may also enjoy listening to her video tutorial series on YouTube.

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Bug on Flower Header

Critters is a refreshing and clean Twenty Ten child theme with five original headers based on the nature photography of Deltina Hay.

A WordPress child theme is a theme that inherits all of the features and functionality of its parent theme, while maintaining a custom look and feel.

Social Media Power chose to create child themes using the WordPress default theme, Twenty Ten, because it is regularly updated and has many nice features.

Find out more about this theme and view the four additional header images (Lizard, Vulture, Heron, and Butterfly) on the social media theme page.

The latest entry in the WordPress segment of the  Internet Empowerment Series of video tutorials, this video walks you through how to configure and maintain the All-In-One SEO Pack plugin for WordPress.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKBqEU7aU60

The latest entry in our  Internet Empowerment Series of video tutorials, this video shows how to create and place custom widgets on your WordPress blog or Website:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIRkYcTKlJE

The widgets and badges you place on your site should be part of your overall social media strategy. They should be in line with specific objectives, for instance:

• Highlighting your Social Web presence
• Promoting products or services
• Enhancing your reader’s experience

Create your own objectives based on your strategy to assess whether a widget or badge is necessary. Sites can start to look cluttered with too many widgets.

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About the Author:

Deltina Hay is the author of the critically acclaimed book, A Survival Guide to Social Media and Web 2.0 Optimization. The second edition of her book, renamed The Social Media Survival Guide, will be released in spring 2011. Learn more about Deltina, her books, and her availability for speaking engagements at Deltina.com. You may also enjoy listening to Deltina’s video tutorial series on YouTube: The Internet Empowerment Series.

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The latest entry in the WordPress segment of our Internet Empowerment Series of video tutorials, this video is an introduction to WordPress themes.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy90nSmSAEU

The latest entry in the WordPress segment of our Internet Empowerment Series of video tutorials, this video gives an overview of the general areas that make up a WordPress Website:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LiWF6isRHQ

Most social sites make it easy for you to find your personal feed URL (also called a feed address), while others can be more challenging.

Your feed URL lists all your activity within a social site or service. These feeds consist of images, video, recent blog posts, presentations, tweets, whatever is relevant to a particular service.

This video shows you how to find your:

• WordPress feed URL or address
• Flickr feed URL or address
• YouTube feed URL or address
• Twitter feed URL or address
• Slideshare feed URL or address
• and more

The video tutorial from the Internet Empowerment Series on YouTube also demonstrates methods for finding feed URLs on any site by using your Web browser or searching the site’s page source.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sw2ePwWW-fg

Number 6 in this series shows you how to create an optimized blog post in WordPress.

This video shows you how to optimize your blog posts so they get the best exposure in search engines. By using key terms wisely, linking your text properly, and including finishing touches like image alt and title tags, you can give your posts the best possible start…

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQRI-da7Gbc