WordPress Plugins 2011

There’s a plugin for that

Promotions with WordPress .pdf eBook

Promotions with WordPress Fall 2011 Class

Digging Into WordPress

Chapter 5 of Digging Into WordPress discusses plugins.

WP 101 Video Tutorial

• wp.tutsplus.com/tutorials/wp-101-video-training-part-14-plugins (via wp.tutsplus.com/sessions/wp101-basix-training)

How to install plugins.

Popular Plugins

• wordpress.org/extend/plugins/browse/popular
• yoast.com/top-wordpress-plugins
• sitesketch101.com/15-incredible-wordpress-plugins-you-need

Search for popular WordPress plugins.

Social Media

• wordpress.org/extend/plugins/facebook-like-button
• wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-tweet-button
• wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-plus-one
• prettylinkpro.com

It’s easy to add social media buttons to posts and pages.

Pretty link is a good way to keep track of your affiliate links or other important short urls.  See if you can find a free alternative.

Performance

• wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache

W3 Total Cache – Helpful for sites with lots of traffic.

Backup/Safety

• wordpress.org/extend/plugins/secure-wordpress
• wordpress.org/extend/plugins/akismet
• vaultpress.com

Secure WordPress – If your blog gets hacked you should be proud.

Akismet – Spam prevention.

VaultPress – My host killed my site recently, but VaultPress is not free.

RSS Feeds (Week 12/Ch6 of Digging Into WordPress)

• wordpress.org/extend/plugins/feedburner-plugin

FD FeedBurner Plugin – Redirect your default WordPress feed (something like http://YourDomain.com/ feed/) to a FeedBurner feed (http://feeds.feedburner.com/YourDomain).

Search Engine Optimization (Week 13/Ch8 of Digging Into WordPress)

• wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-seo
• wordpress.org/extend/plugins/broken-link-checker

WordPress SEO – Totally awesome.

Broken Link Checker – Don’t give Google broken links.

Video (Week 14)

• wordpress.org/extend/plugins/media-element-html5-video-and-audio-player

MediaElement.js – Have video on your site play in any browser.