rdardour

<ul>
<li>The Hull plugin allows you to benefit from the full power of http://hull.io without any complicated setup.</li>
<li>Offer your users a cross-domain social login with Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Github, LinkedIn, Foursquare, Google, Tumblr, Vkontakte with 1 line of code.</li>
<li>Show personalized activity feeds, comments, ratings, likes, leaderboards, collections, user media uploads, list of friends and much more without any coding.</li>
<li>Access the Facebook, Twitter or Instagram API without any backend code, and build amazing applications only in Javascript in your wordpress site!</li>
<li>If you have multiple domains and your blog is only one of your properties, then you need hull because it’s the only solution that recognizes users and offers these engagement features across all your web sites, whatever the technology they use.</li>
<li>All the tracking and integration with Analytics, transactional email hosting, CDN is already done for you, you have nothing to code to have the best social infrastructure as a service available. If you’re a developer you will get even more from Hull’s flexibility.</li>
</ul>
<p>What does it do?<br />
* All Posts are automatically referenced in your Hull App.<br />
* Hull.js is automatically configured and initialized<br />
* The Widgets and Templates defined in your WordPress Theme are automatically loaded.</p>
<h3>Authentication with hull.io</h3>
<p>The plugin hooks the authentication mechanics of wordpress so the users can login with hull to your blog.</p>
<p>Simply add the following HTML to the login page of your theme so users can also login with hull:</p>
<pre><code><div data-hull-widget="identity@hull"></div><h3>Creating and using Widgets in your Theme</h3>
</code></pre>
<p>You can create widgets in individual javascript files inside your Theme.</p>
<p>Theme structure:</p>
<pre><code>wp-content
└── themes
    └── my_theme
        ├── home.php
        ├── index.php
        ├── Hull
        │   └── widgets
        │       └── my_widget
        │           ├── main.js
        │           └── my_template.hbs
        ├── page.php
        └── single.php
</code></pre>
<p><strong>wp-content/themes/my-theme/hull/my_widget/my_template/my_widget.hbs</strong></p>
<pre><code>Hello from my widget
</code></pre>
<p>and then, to use this widget inside your views :</p>
<pre><code><?php hull_widget('my_widget') ?>
=> <div data-hull-widget='my_widget'></div><h3>Widgets Helpers</h3>
</code></pre>
<p><strong>hull_widget($name, $options=array(), $tagName = “div”, $placeholder=””)</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><code>$name</code>: The widget’s name</li>
<li><code>$options</code>: <code>array(key => val)</code> translated to <code>data-hull-$key="$val"</code></li>
<li><code>$tagName</code>: name of the wrapping tag</li>
<li><code>$placeholder</code>: Initial content placed inside your widget before first rendering</li>
</ul>
<p>example</p>
<pre><code><?php hull_widget('identity', array('provider' => 'facebook')) >
</code></pre>
<p><strong>hull_comments_widget($post_id, $options=array())</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><code>$post_id</code>: the id of the WordPress post you want to display the comments for.</li>
<li><code>$options</code>: same as <code>hull_widget</code></li>
</ul>
<p>example</p>
<pre><code><?php hull_comments_widget($post->ID) ?>
</code></pre>
<p><strong>hull_reviews_widget($post_id, $options=array())</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><code>$post_id</code>: the id of the WordPress post you want to display the reviews for.</li>
<li><code>$options</code>: same as <code>hull_widget</code></li>
</ul>
<p>example</p>
<pre><code><?php hull_reviews_widget($post->ID) ?>
</code></pre>


Hull.io

The Hull plugins makes it easy to integrate your wordpress blog with Hull.io and get social login, engagement features across all your websites

ginoplusio

<p>This plugin collects social data (without slowing down your site!) and shows you which of your posts and authors are most popular based on how many times each post has been shared on various social networks.</p>
<p>Top Social Stories are your best posts, the most shared on social networks. This plugin gives you a social metrics tool to analyze and discover your most viral posts: you can see statistics about how many Facebook, Google+, Twitter, Pinterest, Linkedin and Vkontakte interactions you have every day for each post, each author and globally for all your site. When you install it wait some days to let the plugin collect data from social networks and then it will build ranks for authors and posts.</p>
<p>If you are you using social share buttons on your site, than you need this plugin to save data and monitor social interactions!</p>
<h4>Upgrading to Top Social Stories complete version</h4>
<p>This plugin is the free version of a more complete plugin available for purchase ($19 on CodeCanyon.net).<br />
It’s quick and painless to get the complete version (if you want to upgrade from Free version). Simply get <a href="http://codecanyon.net/item/top-social-stories-plugin-and-widget/5888553?ref=ginoplusio" rel="nofollow ugc">Top Social Stories on CodeCanyon</a> remove the Free plugin and install your new plugin! You can then see charts of already collected data, and use many more settings & features and enjoy the benefits of the complete version such as the authors’rank widget, shortcodes and more!</p>
<h4>Features added in full version</h4>
<ol>
<li>No period limits in analytics</li>
<li>Charts analytics for collected data</li>
<li>Widget without period limit</li>
<li>Widget for best authors</li>
<li>Email alerts for authors</li>
</ol>


Hull.io vs Top Social Stories Free