Content Curation Via 7 WordPress Plugins – Free and Paid
Written By: Patrick Cole for TWB
We have all curated content throughout our lives.
- As students, we conducted research on specific topics as we wrote essays and papers. We took information from other sources and put it into our own words.
- As content marketers who write blog posts and other articles. We conduct research to get data to support the points we are making. When we use that data, we are curating content.
- And we also read the posts and articles that other have written on a topic and use some of those ideas as start points for our own content.
- We may re-post on our own blog or social media channel a post that someone else has written (with attribution of course).
- We dig up old blog posts, update and re-write them, thus curating our own content.
By now, you have the basic idea – when we use the ideas, thoughts, and data that others or we ourselves have published, and produce an original piece of custom writing from those things, we are curating content. Or, we re-publish great content directly and provide attribution. The challenge becomes finding content to curate, especially if you are maintaining a blog or posting on several social media sites.
There are several WordPress plugins for content curation – free and paid. Here are some options you have.
Fee-Based Plugins
Curation Traffic
This tool is for curating the great content that others have written and that you want to share on social media or your blog. The Bookmarklet feature is probably the most used. Once you locate an article, you go into “one-click” mode. Here is what happens: [click to continue]
Thanks for sharing these plugins here! I like them a lot. I am going to create my website soon too, and I will be using some templates from https://www.templatemonster.com/category/games-wordpress-themes/ Will those plugins here work nicely with the templates from Templatemonster?