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Your Guide to Wonderful WordPress Plugins
Tony Cecala, Ph.D. Digital Media Consultant
What’s the Big Deal about Plugins?
Extend the functionality of WordPress. Connect external services to your site. Make your site faster. Make your site more secure. Create a Web Application, not a Static brochure.
How Do I Know if a Plugin is Any Good?
Use the WordPress.org/plugins/ Repo Look at the Star rating Read the reviews Is the documentation is well-written? Read the “Changelog”
What about Third-Party Plugins?
Themeforest.net and CodeCanyon.net WPCore.com Reviews/Comments Is the documentation well-written? What is their History of abandoning Code?
And now, the List…
What makes these special? Longevity Quality Functionality
Contact Form 7
Just another contact form plugin. Simple but flexible. http://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7
WordPress SEO by Yoast
Improve your WordPress SEO: Write better content and have a fully optimized WordPress site using Yoast's WordPress SEO plugin. http://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo
Google Analytics by Yoast
Track your WordPress site easily with the latest tracking codes and lots added data for search result pages and error pages. http://wordpress.org/plugins/google-analytics-for-wordpress
Google Analytics by MonsterInsights
Track your WordPress site easily with the latest tracking codes and lots added data for search result pages and error pages. http://wordpress.org/plugins/google-analytics-for-wordpress
http://wordpress.org/plugins/google-analytics-for-wordpress
Widget Logic
Widget Logic lets you control on which pages widgets appear using WP's conditional tags. It also adds a 'widget_content' filter. https://wordpress.org/plugins/widget-logic/
Widget Logic
Widget Logic lets you show and hide Widgets based on page types and other if/then rules https://wordpress.org/plugins/widget-
logic/
Soliloquy Lite
The best responsive WordPress slider plugin. Made lite and free. https://wordpress.org/plugins/soliloquy-lite/
Sucuri Scan
The Sucuri WordPress Security plugin is a security toolset for security integrity monitoring, malware detection and security hardening. https://wordpress.org/plugins/sucuri-scanner/ http://j.mp/fixhack
Disable Title
Disable the title per page/post https://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-title/
3 Bonus plugins…
Special use cases Travel Photography User Interface Mods
Nomad World Map
Create your own custom travel map. Link locations on the map to blog posts and share your travel plans. https://wordpress.org/plugins/nomad-world-
map/
Bonus Plugin #1
TwentyTwenty
Show before-and-after pictures in your blog, with an interactive slider that allows users to compare them. https://wordpress.org/plugins/responsive-menu/
Bonus Plugin #2
Menu Image
Adds a field to load the image in a menu item and displays the image inside the link in the menu before the text. https://wordpress.org/plugins/menu-image/
Bonus Plugin #3
3 More Bonus plugins…for Optimization
Too many plugins and features can impact server performance and make a site load slowly. So, of course, there’s a plugin for that!
W3 Total Cache
Easy Web Performance Optimization (WPO) using caching: browser, page, object, database, minify and content delivery network support. https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/
Bonus Plugin #4
Better WordPress Minify
Allows you to combine and minify your CSS and JS files to improve page load time. https://wordpress.org/plugins/bwp-minify/
Bonus Plugin #5
Lazy Load for Videos
Speed up your site by replacing embedded Youtube and Vimeo videos with a clickable preview image. Visitors simply click on the image to play the video https://wordpress.org/plugins/lazy-load-for-videos/
Bonus Plugin #6
The 2016 Wonderful Plugin List
Jetpack
Increase your traffic, view your stats, speed up your site, and protect yourself from hackers with Jetpack.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/jetpack/
Facebook Messenger LiveChathttps://wordpress.org/plugins/fb-messenger-livechat/
Advanced Custom Fields https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-custom-fields/
WooCommerce Amazon Affiliates
UberMenu
Essential Gridhttps://codecanyon.net/item/essential-grid-wordpress-plugin/7563340
Subtitles
add subtitles easily and elegantly
https://wordpress.org/plugins/subtitles/
WordPress Social Streamhttps://codecanyon.net/item/wordpress-social-stream/2201708
Flow Flow Social Streamhttps://wordpress.org/plugins/flow-flow-social-streams/
UberGrid
UberGrid is a powerful responsive grid / gallery builder for WordPress that can build nice looking walls of square items defined manually or pulled automatically using your WordPress posts includi WooCommerce products and custom post types created by third party plugins or themes. You can use UberGrid to present your portfolio, team, products, photos, blog posts, or anything else that can be presented with square cells. Its unique customisability will adopt to almost any needs.
https://codecanyon.net/item/ubergrid-responsive-grid-builder-for-wordpress/4851992
Logos Showcase
CMS Tree Page View https://wordpress.org/plugins/cms-tree-page-view/
BackWPup
Edit Flow
Enhanced Media Library
Media Categories for categorizing and filtering media items in WordPress admin. This feature alone will save you hours of searching through a media library with even as few as 100 images.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/enhanced-media-library/
Revive Old Posts
Plugin to share about your old posts on twitter, facebook, linkedin to get more hits for them and keep them alive.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/tweet-old-post/
Title Experiments Free
Split (A/B) test multiple titles for a post and discover which gets more page views. Great way to increase click through rates.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-experiments-free/
Title Experiments Pro
Split (A/B) test multiple titles for a post and discover which gets more page views. Great way to increase click through rates.
https://wpexperiments.com/title-experiments-pro/
Title Experiments Pro
Split (A/B) test multiple titles for a post and discover which gets more page views. Great way to increase click through rates.
https://wpexperiments.com/title-experiments-pro/
Worth The Read
A little adjustable progress meter showing how much of the post the user has scrolled through.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/worth-the-read/
Social Share Buttons - Social Pug
Social share buttons with style that will increase your social shares and user interaction with your website.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/social-pug/
WooCommerce Order Testhttps://wordpress.org/plugins/woo-order-test/
LocateAnything - Searchable map Plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/locateanything/
Inline Related Posts
variable positioning for related posts
https://wordpress.org/plugins/intelly-related-posts/
Automatic Alternative (“Alt”) Text https://wordpress.org/plugins/automatic-alternative-text
how about adding some AI to your blog?
automatically determines the image contents and adds the alt text to new uploaded images
requires a free key to Microsoft's Cognitive Services Computer Vision API
Learn more about Plugins https://www.sitepoint.com/wordpress/
One more thing…
New plugin directory is coming soon.
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