The Yahoo! Shortcuts powered Wordpress plugin is an easy way for webmasters to enrich blog posts with great content (maps, finance quotes, news headlines, Flickr photos, and much more.) A well placed Shortcut:

• Makes it easy for your readers to see interesting related content in the context of your post.
• Makes your blog more engaging and informative.

How does it work?

As you compose your blog post, the Shortcuts plugin looks for content related to what you are writing about. A Shortcut may lead your reader to a finance quote for a public company, a map of a point of interest, a Flickr image, or information about specific companies, products, and people. When it finds relevant content, it lets you know.

Shortcut recommendations appear on the Shortcuts review page. You control which Shortcuts to add and which to remove. There are two presentation options for Shortcuts.

• You can display the Shortcut to readers as a term underlined with a blue dotted line that shows the related content when the reader’s cursor hovers over the term.
• You can present the recommended content as a badge or image embedded in your post.

This Shortcuts plugin works best with English language blog posts.

–From the Yahoo! Shortcuts website

Website: shortcuts.yahoo.com

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Tags: badges, blogging, content maps, map, news headlines, photos, point of interest, presentation options, relevant content, widgets, wordpress

Updated on March 20th, 2008