I’ve never been one for instant messengers and avoided them until a few months ago when I was tempted with a new phone and that was it, love at first skype!

Not a great one for talking on the phone, this suited me down to the ground – free messages from my mobile and also should I feel the need, I can call for free too.  Skype on my computer has been a great success too, right now I have the chat box open with my latest conversation with our blogmistress!

I thought this plugin would be great for anyone who is a skype addict, like me, or if you want your readers/customers to be able to contact you quickly and easily.

The only thing that you have to remember to do after installing, activating and setting it up is go into your skype privacy settings and make sure “Allow my status to be shown on the web” is checked, otherwise you will always appear offline.

I suppose the only downside to this is that you will need to make sure your skype status is up to date, but if you are like me I am always online unless I turn my phone off!

This plugin comes with plenty of display options, the one I am showing you is every option available but you can just have an online/offline button showing.

Here’s the link for more info and download – http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/skype-online-status/

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