Continuing the talk about content curation tools we bring collection wordpress plugins for embedding additional information in your blog’s articles.What tools will help you make your blog more interesting with embedding to posts graphics, videos and expert’s quotes. As talk their creators, some of them even allow content auto-writing, but we don’t recommend automating content creation so overly. Even best bot can’t replace live writer. In best case it will be relevant to each other collections of articles, without comment and additional value. So even RSS-reader may be more valuable than your blog.

So that, all this tools you should use for saving time or fast finding relevant media-content.

First of all, we would like to say that this article of course not full-list of content curation plugins for WordPress. Instead of trying to describe the whole variety of existing tools, we picked few by balance of usability, price and functionality. But all plugins in this list have a many alternatives.

MyCurator

Plugins like MyCurator it’s the basic tool that you should use if you want to become a best information source by any topic for your readers. It saves your time to search information for articles, creating a post and embedding information etc. In general it allows save 3-4 actions to creating curated article. In that tool’s category included: Zemanta, MyCurator, Insights and many others. We recommend MyCurator because it has a free plan. You can test all functions and features before to buy paid plan.

LikeHack - personal content curation

 
Wordpress plugin by our team that shows in blog’s sidebar recent links from your Facebook&Twitter feeds and connected RSS-streams. You can setup “show options”: show links tha you shared only or include links from your friends, exclude links by keywords in url or title, exclude all media or include media only.

It is very helpful. For example you can subscribe for best curators in your topic, filter all personal and irrelevant, and provide to readers fresh stream of recent news.

Repost

 
It is collaboration plugin for bloggers. All users are grouped together to share content between blogs in network. You need new article about principles social media marketing but you don’t have time to write it? You can join to Repost network, probably there will find what you need.

Related Posts Network Plugin

For sure you have plugin that show related posts in the end or in sidebar for each article. BlogGlue allows show related not only between your posts, but also in other blogs inside BlogGlue Network. And your articles will be shown in other blog too, so you can attract additional traffic to blog!

The BlogGlue Related Posts Network Plugin lets you quickly build up loyal readers on your blog through BlogGlue Communities. Minutes after publishing your posts BlogGlue creates links to your post on other blogs within your community. Those links will be optimized based on viewer interaction as time goes by.

Insight

One more plugin that allow embed additional information to your articles in one click. For example you are writing article about information overload and you need to insert the quote from Wikipedia, few photos from Flickr and expert’s comment. Usually you go to Wikipedia, Flickr and Google, manually find that stuff and insert it into post. Insight helps to make it all right from the admin panel of your blog.

With Insights you can very quickly (in couple of seconds) do the following:

• Search your blog for posts, edit them or insert links to them into the current post;
• Insert Flickr Images;
• Insert Youtube videos;
• Search and link to Wikipedia;
• Search Google;
• Search News;
• Google Blog Search;
• Insert a Google Map.

Snap Shots

That users rarely went away from your blog by links, you can provide them with the ability to preview the page for a link with this plugin. It will look like this:

Snap Shots products are used on over 2,000,000 websites and blogs, who appreciates the improved experience we provide their users along with the additional advertising inventory we create. Our Engage products help major content owners add depth to their own offerings and extend their reach across our network to build awareness, traffic and revenue. Together, they comprise a complete solution that’s helping to reaggregate content and users in an increasingly fragmented Internet.