Driving Your WordPress Site

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A round up of WordPress plugins and services to help promote and manage your site.

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• Gives better control over output formatting • Set Page/Post Media, Custom Post Types and

Taxonomies (Cats & Tags) title formats

• Gives you access to Facebook Insights for pages • Set up Facebook Open Graph & Twitter card meta data

• Control your XML Sitemaps to use with Google Webmaster Tools or Bing Webmaster Central

• It has BreadCrumbs, Permalink Control, RSS feed manipulation

• My Fav – Google Preview Snippet

• Moderation, Spam Control, Stats, Related Comments & Facebook Comments too

• A whole heap of social & maintenance goodies

• WordPress.com hosted stats for your site

• Social Sharing buttons & Publicize to Social Networks

• Off-load your RSS feed to FeedBurner • Less processing for web server • Better graphical stats & formatting options • It’s part of Google – SEO bonus

• The only plugin that will automatically post to Google+ and Pinterest

• It is a premium plugin ~USD $49 for each service

• The Google+ post

• Alternative way of aggregating your posts to Social Nets • Using your RSS Feed to push out items

FeedBurner

• Configuring the feed & schedules

• Manage multiple WP sites from one Dashboard • Comments, revisions, theme, plugin & core updates,

users, backups, cloning sites, uptime monitoring, …

• Free for 5 sites & some services require accnt upgrade • Uptime Monitoring • Traffic Alerts (did something go viral?) • Backups • Cloning • White Labeling – worker plugin

• Installs a “Worker” plugin to your site