Posted: Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 at 2:48 am. Filed in Applications, WordPress.
Tags: Applications, linkedin, WordPress
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The WordPress App for LinkedIn
Today we’re happy to announce the launch of the WordPress App for LinkedIn, the largest online network for professionals.
The WordPress App for LinkedIn helps you share ideas and updates with your LinkedIn network, keeping your trusted contacts in the loop, effortlessly.
To add the WordPress App to your LinkedIn account, visit the LinkedIn Application Directory. Select the WordPress App, enter your blog’s URL, and choose to display either all of your blog posts or just those tagged with “LinkedIn.” Save, and you’re all set!
Now your network will be notified when you post something new to your WordPress.com or WordPress.org blog. Your WordPress avatar will automatically display alongside the top post (we, of course, suggest you use Gravatar for that).
You can opt to display your WordPress blog on your LinkedIn Profile and your LinkedIn Homepage, where it’ll display as a drag-and-drop module in the right-hand column.
The WordPress App for LinkedIn is built on Open Social and is open source. If you don’t already have a LinkedIn account, head here to try it out.
Update: LinkedIn was struggling to cope with the load after launch, which caused problems for some users. Things seem to be working better now. And just to reiterate: the WordPress App for LinkedIn works with both self-hosted WordPress blogs and WordPress.com blogs.
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October 29th, 2008 at 3:18 am
Looks like a useful app.
October 29th, 2008 at 3:26 am
Brilliant. Just what bloggers who are also professionals in various fields need. I am sure this will be really useful for those who want to network. Do you have a Orkut/Facebook integration plugin coming soon? I’d love something like that.
October 29th, 2008 at 3:27 am
philramble: No orkut app in the works right now, but we’ve had one for Facebook since last year: http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2007/07/18/facebook/
October 29th, 2008 at 3:45 am
Wow! WordPress and Linkedin, 2 of the most important tools for small businesses. Thanks for another great feature!
October 29th, 2008 at 3:49 am
another great inovation from WP, I LOVE THIS!!!
October 29th, 2008 at 3:57 am
Thank you. Great feature!
October 29th, 2008 at 4:01 am
I can’t get this to work for [my blog URL] presumably because it isn’t hosted on wordpress.com.
Is there an equivalent app on the drawing board for self hosted WP blogs ?
October 29th, 2008 at 4:09 am
this is sensational, love ya work wordpress & linkedin.
October 29th, 2008 at 4:58 am
Is this only for WP.com hosted blogs, or WP.org users too?
October 29th, 2008 at 4:58 am
This should be an interesting combination, thanks
) Should make it very easy to keep up with professional associates’ thoughts.
October 29th, 2008 at 4:59 am
Looks interesting! Well done!
October 29th, 2008 at 4:59 am
Martin and Xentek: As the post above mentions, this should work for self-hosted wordpress.org blogs as well. If you are following the directions and it’s not working for you, please send an email to support@wordpress.com so that we can figure out if there’s a bug. Thanks.
October 29th, 2008 at 5:00 am
I foresee a plethora of recent-college-graduate candidates linking their embarrassing, personal blog to their LinkedIn profile…
For the professional blogger, though, or someone with a corporate blog, it’s definitely a cool tool!
October 29th, 2008 at 5:11 am
I don’t especially use my LinkedIn account; but – I have a couple of close associates who do [one of whom uses WP for one of her self-hosted blogs] and I’ll bet they haven’t seen this announcement.
I’ll mail them a link, right now.
Rock on!
October 29th, 2008 at 6:06 am
This is wonderful. WP is so awesome!
October 29th, 2008 at 7:45 am
Great news guys!
October 29th, 2008 at 8:29 am
“To add the WordPress App to your LinkedIn account, visit the LinkedIn Application Directory. Select the WordPress App, enter your blog’s URL, and choose to display either all of your blog posts or just those tagged with “LinkedIn.” Save, and you’re all set!”
Would this work with other tags or just Linkedin? By that I mean is the Linkedin tag fixed or is it configurable?
October 29th, 2008 at 8:30 am
@billbennettnz: Currently, only the “LinkedIn” tag filter is an option. This is a Version 1 app, and we’ll be making changes along the way based on feedback, so feel free to contact Support with suggestions.
October 29th, 2008 at 8:49 am
thats great!
October 29th, 2008 at 9:42 am
Works like a charm!! Thanks guys for another great idea!
October 29th, 2008 at 10:17 am
WP is always rockin’ me..!
Great…
October 29th, 2008 at 10:22 am
You continue to impress. Always thinking about how to make it better.
October 29th, 2008 at 10:28 am
This is beautiful, any plans for a facebook equal?
October 29th, 2008 at 10:28 am
Thanks a lot. I integrated it directly into my LinkedIn-account.
October 29th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
Thanks for the reply, I didn’t know a Facebook plug-in existed. Guess I’ll be using that often now.
October 29th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
Would be nice if there was an option to filter by author. Posts from co-authors are showing up in my LinkedIn profile now…
October 29th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
It looks interesting.WP rocks.
October 29th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
Wonderful!
October 29th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
What an Excellent Tool – Very user friendly – Well done WP.
October 29th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
Great!
October 29th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
guess it’s time to FINALLY get Linkedin! thanks for making it happen!
October 29th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
Sweet!
October 29th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
Cool.
What’s next? Automattic will acquire LinkedIn?
October 29th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
This is like Christmas come early – brilliant!
Thank you very much to everyone who worked on this!
regards
Stephen
October 29th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
I am having same problem as Martin and Xentek. Mine however will only display my old wordpress.com blog. When I try to change settings to hosted site, nothing happens. Email to tech support forthcoming.
October 29th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
This sure will be helpful in promoting Blog and reaching out to people.
Thanks,
Anukul
October 29th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
Perfect! I’ll be setting this up right now!
Incidentally, what is a good application to automatically post my feed to another website? I’d love to put my blog feed on my HTML site without having to constantly update the XML.
October 29th, 2008 at 5:23 pm
This is just fantastic, I’ll have to go add it right now!
October 29th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
Thank you, good function
October 29th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
feature is now working!
October 29th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
I LOVE WORDPRESS!!
October 29th, 2008 at 8:16 pm
This is great but seems to only allow me to promote one blog – whereas I happen to have 2 (both at wordpress). I tried to provide a merged feed from Yahoo Pipes but the app only allowed to specify a wordpress URL…
October 29th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
Great app. Already making use of it.
October 29th, 2008 at 8:27 pm
dats hott.
October 29th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
This is VERY helpful. I link my Blog to Plaxo and Facebook. Now I can update on LinkedIn – YEA!
Keep up the good work team,
-Eric
(a.k.a. WeirdGuy)
October 29th, 2008 at 9:30 pm
Cool. I wish I liked LinkedIn more. I just can’t get excited about it though. Maybe I will once I lose my job
October 29th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
Dear Matt and Co,
We are eternally grateful as this new Linkedin partnership is going to a massive huge development in the world of employment. Linkedin is the place for jobseekers to be in order to find the “hidden market” of jobs and hiring managers. The jobseekers who blog will have a first adopters advantage and a differentiating factor over the competition–a blog as a moving living resume!
October 29th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
In a word…AWESOME.
-Shawn
October 29th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
heather, you’re SOOO hot!
October 29th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
Great…. Nice work. I’ll wait for it.
October 29th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
Thanks so much! This really great and helpful. God bless.
October 29th, 2008 at 11:04 pm
Yep great app I’m not sure whether I’d be considered a pro or not though
October 30th, 2008 at 1:25 am
Great guys, a very usefull and much apps.
Thanks
October 30th, 2008 at 1:46 am
This is a great way to integrate platforms for small business and professionals at all levels! Nice.
October 30th, 2008 at 3:19 am
that’s great!
October 30th, 2008 at 3:24 am
Great! Thank you!
October 30th, 2008 at 4:31 am
Hey gang. Of all the apps I *could* add to my LinkedIn profile this was the first (and so far only) one I activated. Great job and it’s working precisely as advertised. As always. PS – am totally open to new networking requests on LinkedIn for those of you wanting to expand your professional network…
Gerald Buckley
Tulsa, Oklahoma
October 30th, 2008 at 4:33 am
A great app to add right away. Neat idea. This will motivate to buff up my LinkedIn profile. More interconnected-ness will spawn more collaborations, leading to more solid results. Thanks!
October 30th, 2008 at 6:03 am
Interesting…..
Linkedin – its’ a nifty networking tool that is based on invitation of those you trust in business – at least that’s how it worked 5? yrs ago – there is no financial benefit to you by increasing yr network – it is often used by those who are looking for professionals and recruitment agencies to read yr profile/cv
it’s fascinating stuff
i thought i could contact [via the site's email link] my first line’s first line [2nd line ie their trusted people]
after contacting 5? of them – up popped a page telling me i’d used up my quota and if i wished to carry on contacting people in my net work i’d have to cough up an astronomical amount for a month which would be a limited number and for a year i could put a down payment for my beach house!!
it might/well have changed – it’s improved a lot though much easier to navigate around
amazing people in it – serious over achievers!
October 30th, 2008 at 6:04 am
@hoh: LinkedIn has four levels of accounts. The benefits of each are listed here. It sounds like they’ve changed a bit since your involvement in the past.
October 30th, 2008 at 7:30 am
Really amazing feature
Keep it up.
October 30th, 2008 at 8:42 am
Thanks for giving such a nice application on LinkedIn….
i have used this on my account
regards, and keep it up!
October 30th, 2008 at 10:51 am
It is quite interesting to have one more vista of human expression It has a extra hand of WordPress in which many things woulded along with Blog.
In fact, yesterday, I was just trying to open myBlog page,which after much efforts could not be open, but fortunately the Linkedin website was opened or rather accidently,came on the screen. However, it was a good accident,inwhich I could watch very good glimpses of the up comming features.
I shall be very happy if it comes with my Blog , for which I am waiting. Thanks.
October 30th, 2008 at 11:11 am
This is the last thing I’d link to in a LinkedIn account. What, I want my professional contacts to be privy to my blog ravings? No way.
October 30th, 2008 at 11:11 am
@ian in hamburg: You can filter the content that appears on your LinkedIn profile by choosing to only display posts that you tag with “LinkedIn.” You could also create a new blog just for your professional posts
October 30th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
In Brazil and India (two of the highest growing GDPs in the world both with more than 1.3 billion inhabitants), would be even more interesting if WORDPRESS could offer a ORKUT app. Very few brazillians use Facebook or LinkedIn.
October 30th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
Absolutely fantastic that WordPress, Linkedin, Box.net, Google, as well as, other applications joined together to make this happen.
Smiling at all the sharing, fun, and information:
Jennie
October 30th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
Innovative, Synergic, Ingeneous, Superior Tool!
October 30th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
This is good news and more importantly “A TIME SAVER”. Thank you…
October 30th, 2008 at 7:45 pm
cool ! i use it from now too. it give more complete view of my profile…
October 30th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
Very interesting, I’ll have to check it out when I get home. I’ve not used linkedin a whole lot, so it might give me a good excuse to try it out.
October 30th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
As others have already said, brilliant. The ability to only show posts categorized with “LinkedIn” is a great idea. Good work!
October 31st, 2008 at 12:43 am
Thanks WordPress – I set up my LinkedIn WP Blog app within minutes of receiving an email from the LinkedIn team on Tuesday night.
October 31st, 2008 at 4:02 am
Thank you, great idea!
October 31st, 2008 at 3:16 pm
Love it! It just keeps getting better.
October 31st, 2008 at 3:23 pm
“Sorry, unable to fetch your blog (Error 500). Please try again later!”
I hope that this is related to the load problem that you mentioned, and soon subsides.
October 31st, 2008 at 6:46 pm
This could be very useful – thanks!
October 31st, 2008 at 8:47 pm
very good …
November 1st, 2008 at 5:07 am
good stuff ..
November 1st, 2008 at 6:17 am
This is fantastic.. I am using one already
November 1st, 2008 at 7:53 am
Hi, nice work. But I have a question. I have installed WordPress in my own hosting. Could it be possible to use that version to display in LinkedIn profile or it has to be Woordpress from this.
Thanks
November 1st, 2008 at 12:01 pm
Think, it’s only useful for specific and professional blogs. I don’t know %% of such.
Whether it will free one link from Website links of LinkedIn Profile?!
November 1st, 2008 at 4:10 pm
many thanks to the wp team. will give this a try soon, though i have no doubt it will be good…
November 1st, 2008 at 4:55 pm
Great! Can’t wait to integrate this. Nice feature.
November 1st, 2008 at 6:01 pm
Wow, great, thanks you.