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WordPress for LinkedIn

28 Oct 08
Raanan Bar-Cohen

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 self-hosted 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.

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  1. owen October 29th, 2008 at 9:08 am

    I’m just getting the words “Loading” on a white canvas, then the white area disappears. Is it working ok?

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  3. Raanan Bar-Cohen October 29th, 2008 at 9:54 am

    @owen –

    LinkedIn appears to be under a really heavy load and many apps are timing out. If you reload the page it should work.

  4. GoScript October 29th, 2008 at 10:36 am

    Great news especially if you don’t want to get stuck with following a rss feed in a reader. This way everyone will be notified no matter what.

  5. savvycrew October 29th, 2008 at 11:29 am

    Is there something similar for Facebook or Myspace? Thanks!

  6. Raanan Bar-Cohen October 29th, 2008 at 11:33 am

    @savvycrew -

    We do have a Facebook app available here: http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2007/07/18/facebook/

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  10. Tim Stone October 29th, 2008 at 4:07 pm

    Raanan, when I put my (self-hosted) blog url into the application, none of my blog posts with “LinkedIn” tag appear, and when I edit the application again, the url is then ‘/’ instead of the one I entered… my blog is http://words.timsworlds.com, I’ve put it in with and without the http://... I’m not sure what’s going on…

  11. Raanan Bar-Cohen October 29th, 2008 at 5:10 pm

    @ Tim.

    I would recommend trying it again. Things appear to have stabilized over at LinkedIn.

  12. Michael October 29th, 2008 at 5:23 pm

    Getting the same results as Tim, is it due to traffic at LinkedIn or is more likely something to do with my hosting company?

  13. tellyworth October 29th, 2008 at 5:30 pm

    I tested Tim’s blog URL and it works fine for me. Michael, please contact WordPress.com support with the blog URL you are using.

  14. Syamant October 29th, 2008 at 6:20 pm

    I wanted to put my self hosting blog on my profile but cannot. The message i get is I cant find a wordpress blog at this address. Could you please advise on the issue. The address is http://www.customerexperience.in

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  16. Stijn October 30th, 2008 at 5:37 am

    Same question as Syamant (two comments up). Is it possible to add a self-hosted blog via this app? If not, will this be supported in the future?

  17. Shawn October 30th, 2008 at 6:18 am

    WOW! I never would’ve thought LinkedIn wudda came out with such a unique app like this for WordPress bloggers. Oh boyee…I can see the traffic coming in now and more $gUaP$ in my hands soon! :-)

    http://www.ShawnDrewry.com

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  19. Brad Grier October 30th, 2008 at 9:42 am

    I’m getting the same issue as @Syamant: No wordpress blog at this address.

    Blog address is: blog.bradgrier.com

  20. Raanan Bar-Cohen October 30th, 2008 at 11:07 am

    @Brad –

    Thanks for trying out the app.

    The app relies on a working RSS feed. When I pull up your blog’s RSS feed I get a feedburner error “HTTP Error Code: 500″ @ http://feeds.feedburner.com/Blogbradgriernet

  21. Jack Kennard October 30th, 2008 at 11:08 am

    Just added the WordPress app and it works great. much Thanks

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  23. Ramya S October 30th, 2008 at 10:36 pm

    I get a “Authentication Failure” when I Try to add my blog url to my wordpress app on linkedin !

  24. Raanan Bar-Cohen October 30th, 2008 at 11:45 pm

    @Ramya S -

    Which browser is this happening in ?

    When I tried it in FireFox and Safari it worked just fine.

  25. Edouard Stenger, France October 31st, 2008 at 7:31 am

    Works perfectly fine for me.

    Very nice job ! Many thanks !

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  27. Matt November 1st, 2008 at 3:19 am

    First of all, great app! I had a few problems at first – it seemed to install but wasn’t showing any posts – but now it’s working fine. I have one issue though: the app shows my three most recent posts, with the first five lines of text from each one. Then it shows half of the title line of the fourth post. The title is clickable but not really legible. This is more of an aesthetic problem than a functionality problem, but was wondering if anyone else experiences the same thing, and whether it’s been flagged as an issue.

  28. Jose HC November 5th, 2008 at 8:02 pm

    This is absolutely great! I am a heavy LinkedIn user and this is perfect. I tried it and it works well… Now I have asked the good folks at LinkedIn to allow users to use that app more than once. I know quite a few people who keep several blogs going and it would be great to be able to showcase at least two blogs.

  29. Illco November 6th, 2008 at 1:59 am

    Nice app and concept. However, I don’t want to bother my contacts every time I blog so an option of turning off the automatic notification would be nice.

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  31. SF November 19th, 2008 at 5:14 am

    @Matt
    I have the same problem : only my last 3 posts appear, and I can’t go through the other ones.
    Have you found something to make it work finally?

  32. Michael A Shapiro December 21st, 2008 at 4:24 pm

    When I first tell it to install, it comes up with a message like, “can’t find wordpress blog at this url.”

    Then when I type in my blog address http://www.michaelashapiro.com/blog it says the same thing. This has happened several times in the last couple days.

  33. veronikab January 7th, 2009 at 3:49 pm

    Is it possible to switch off the automatic notification that gets sent across one’s network when a new post is added? I would add the application to my LinkedIn profile, but I do not want my contacts to be bothered by notification of new posts! Thanks.

  34. Vic January 11th, 2009 at 10:08 am

    I am also having the same issue. I have my self-hosted wordpress blog and the application in linkedin does not recognize my url.

  35. Olin January 25th, 2009 at 9:00 pm

    Is there a way to turn off automatic notification off?

  36. emilegregoire March 3rd, 2009 at 9:17 am

    A bit more customisation would be nice indeed. Plus, the WordPress application pane doesn’t show up when viewing my profile in Safari 4 Beta. Works well in Safari 3 and Firefox (all on Mac by the way). Don’t know who to contact about this.