User Contributed Link Feed Solutions For Wordpress

Posted in Wordpress | On 5th January 2010 | 9 Comments

There is a growing trend which I feel can be of great benefit to the design community, more and more blogs and magazines are offering a user contributed link feed which allows users to submit their design news to your site.

Some may think it just drives traffic away from your site but maybe that’s not strictly true, by offering users a bevy of news items they could opt to use your site as a hub and it could become their first stop for the latest design news, and by sharing your content on other user contributed link feeds it could drive traffic to your site.

We have recently implemented one here at WebM.ag and did a fair amount of research and testing, so here are a few solutions will will allow you to quickly get your user contributed link feed up and running.

Plugins

User Link Feed

FV Community News

Community Links Feed

Tutorials

Hack Together a User Contributed Link Feed with WordPress Comments

How to Build a Simple Community News Section with Delicious and FeedBurner

Create A Community News Section In Wordpress

User Link Feed Submit Form and Widget

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9 Comments

joyoge bookmark
January 5, 2010

great solutions, thanks for the list..
Dave
January 5, 2010

That’s pretty cool… it’s kind of scary to give up even a bit of control (letting users post links) but definitely the future of the web is user generated content.
McBonio
January 5, 2010

I agree Dave, user generated content is definitely the way it seems to be going.

The beauty of most of these plugins is you can moderate and approve content if suitable, if its not you can delete and it is never published on your site.