Yahoo Launches Shortcuts Plugin For Wordpress Blogs : Very Cool!
Yahoo worked on this Plugin with the help of Wordpress, and being a lifelong Wordpress user (SEJ first started on Blogger, then switched to b2; which became Wordpress) I thought it my duty to not only report on the Plugin itself (with the help of SEJ’s Search News Anchor Julie Kent), but also test and use what I feel is one of the most efficient and useful Wordpress Plugins - especially for a third party branded plugin and its Flickr images tool.
Another note is that although the Yahoo Shortcuts Plugin is branded by Yahoo and serves content from Yahoo properties like Flickr, the plugin does not serve Yahoo advertisements and is not against the Google AdSense Terms of Service, for those bloggers who run Google AdSense.
If your Wordpress.org powered blog is hosted on your own server or domain, you’ll have to download and install the plugin. The plugin is not yet available for blogs hosted on Wordpress.com.
After installing the Wordpress Plugin, activating it and then opening a new entry to write a post, the Yahoo Shortcuts Plugin box appears on the right side of my Wordpress admin area, but without any matching Shortcuts since this entry is empty.
Then, the initial draft of this post is typed, and Yahoo then automatically identifies 14 different Shortcuts which can be entered into the post.
I then select the option to add these Shortcuts and preview them. Since this is a post for reviewing the new Yahoo Shortcuts Plugin, I now will ‘Convert all links to badges’. (The blogger can however pick and choose which Shortcuts they want to include or delete. A lot of the shortcuts are to Yahoo Search results and not all to embedded maps or graphs, so if the blogger does not want all of these links to Yahoo Search results, they should look into whether or not they want to include them.
In this case, the Flickr part of the Yahoo Shortcuts Plugin did not serve any related images, but if I do a search in the Flickr search box on the bottom of the preview page, images are then served and I’m given the option to add them to my blog. Let’s try this by doing a search for ‘ayers rock’ :
Multiple images are served which I can now sift through then add to the blog post in one click. I can also select the different sizes of the photos. By using this plugin, the blogger can be 100% positive that all photos are attributed to their source under Creative Commons licensing.
You’ll see that the Yahoo Shortcuts Plugin is a real time savor and value added addition to blogging, especially the maps for local oriented blogs and the Flickr photos for almost any blogger. Below is our original announcement on the new plugin, using tools from the Yahoo Shortcuts Plugin itself (just mouse over the words with dotted lines). Enjoy!
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