THE BEST WORDPRESS PLUGINS FOR EVERY PURPOSE (RECOMMENDED BY DEVELOPERS)

GEOFF MYERS PRESENTS

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BEFORE WE BEGIN…

ABOUT GEOFF MYERS▸ Founded SimDex in 2004

▸ Web Solutions for Small + Medium Sized Businesses

▸ Digital Marketing Consultant + Strategist

▸ 10+ Years as Full Stack Web Designer + Developer

▸ 5+ Years of WordPress Development Experience

▸ 50+ WordPress Sites Built, Maintained + Marketed

▸ Formal Background in Computer Science

▸ Get In Touch: geoff@simdex.org or simdex.org or 414.455.6675

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THE BEST WORDPRESS PLUGINS FOR EVERY PURPOSE

WHAT SHOULD I CONSIDER WHEN RESEARCHING A PLUGIN?

1. Features + Functionality

2. User Interface + Experience (UI/UX)

3. Customization + Flexibility

4. Responsive Design + Mobile Friendliness

5. Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

6. Performance + Speed

7. Security + Stability

8. Developer + Community Support

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THE BEST WORDPRESS PLUGINS FOR EVERY PURPOSE

IMPORTANT QUESTIONS TO ASK FIRST

▸ What features and functionality do you need?

▸ What integrations do you want with other plugins?

▸ How compatible is your theme?

▸ How technologically savvy are you?

▸ What is your budget?

▸ How willing are you to learn?

▸ How much support do you need?

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THE BEST WORDPRESS PLUGINS FOR EVERY PURPOSE

WHERE SHOULD I GO TO FIND A PLUGIN?

▸ WordPress Plugin Directory (wordpress.org/plugins)

▸ WooThemes (woothemes.com)

▸ Elegant Themes (elegantthemes.com)

▸ WPMU DEV (wpmudev.org)

▸ CodeCanyon (codecanyon.net)

▸ Plugin Developer Websites(gravityforms.com, yoast.com…)

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THE BEST WORDPRESS PLUGINS FOR EVERY PURPOSE

A SMALL SAMPLE OF PLUGIN CATEGORIES

▸ Analytics

▸ Backups

▸ Calendars/Events

▸ Comments

▸ Development

▸ Ecommerce

▸ Email Marketing

▸ Forms

▸ Forums/Discussions

▸ Images/Videos

▸ Import/Export

▸ Maps

▸ Migrations/Cloning

▸ Performance

▸ Security

▸ SEO

▸ Social Media

▸ Tools/Utilities

▸ More…

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THE BEST WORDPRESS PLUGINS FOR EVERY PURPOSE

BEST PLUGINS FOR WEBSITE ANALYTICS + INSIGHTS

▸ Google Analyticator

▸ Google Analytics by Yoast

▸ Google Analytics Dashboard for WP

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THE BEST WORDPRESS PLUGINS FOR EVERY PURPOSE

BEST PLUGINS FOR WEBSITE BACKUPS

▸ BackupBuddy

▸ BackUpWordPress

▸ UpdraftPlus

▸ WP-DB-Backup

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THE BEST WORDPRESS PLUGINS FOR EVERY PURPOSE

BEST PLUGINS FOR CALENDARS + EVENTS

▸ Events Manager

▸ The Events Calendar

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THE BEST WORDPRESS PLUGINS FOR EVERY PURPOSE

BEST PLUGINS FOR USER COMMENTS

▸ Akismet

▸ Disable Comments

▸ Disqus Comment System

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THE BEST WORDPRESS PLUGINS FOR EVERY PURPOSE

BEST PLUGINS FOR DEVELOPERS

▸ Advanced Custom Fields (create create custom fields)

▸ Child Theme Configurator (create child themes)

▸ Custom Post Type UI (create custom post types and taxonomies)

▸ Theme Check (check WordPress theme best practices)

▸ Types (create custom post types,taxonomies,and custom fields)

▸ What The File (identity templates)

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THE BEST WORDPRESS PLUGINS FOR EVERY PURPOSE

BEST PLUGINS FOR ECOMMERCE + SHOPPING CARTS

▸ WooCommerce

▸ WooCommerce Premium Extensions (many, many plugins with various features)

▸ Braintree (payment processor)

▸ PayPal Pro (payment processor)

▸ Stripe (payment processor)

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THE BEST WORDPRESS PLUGINS FOR EVERY PURPOSE

BEST PLUGINS FOR EMAIL MARKETING INTEGRATION

▸ MailChimp for WordPress

▸ MailPoet Newsletters

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THE BEST WORDPRESS PLUGINS FOR EVERY PURPOSE

BEST PLUGINS FOR CUSTOM FORMS

▸ Contact Form 7

▸ Fast Secure Contact Form

▸ Gravity Forms

▸ Ninja Forms

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THE BEST WORDPRESS PLUGINS FOR EVERY PURPOSE

BEST PLUGINS FOR FORUMS + DISCUSSION BOARDS

▸ bbPress

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THE BEST WORDPRESS PLUGINS FOR EVERY PURPOSE

BEST PLUGINS FOR IMAGE + VIDEO GALLERIES + SLIDERS

▸ Gallery

▸ Image Widget

▸ Meta Slider

▸ NextGEN Gallery

▸ Slider

▸ Slider Revolution

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THE BEST WORDPRESS PLUGINS FOR EVERY PURPOSE

BEST PLUGINS FOR IMPORTING + EXPORTING DATA

▸ WordPress Importer

▸ WP All Import

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THE BEST WORDPRESS PLUGINS FOR EVERY PURPOSE

BEST PLUGINS FOR EMBEDDING MAPS

▸ Google Maps Widget

▸ MapPress

▸ WP Google Maps

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THE BEST WORDPRESS PLUGINS FOR EVERY PURPOSE

BEST PLUGINS FOR CLONING + MIGRATING WEBSITES

▸ All-in-One WP Migration

▸ Duplicator

▸ WP Migrate DB

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THE BEST WORDPRESS PLUGINS FOR EVERY PURPOSE

BEST PLUGINS FOR PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION (PART 1 OF 2)

▸ CloudFlare (content delivery network)

▸ EWWW Image Optimizer (image optimization)

▸ Imsanity (automatic image resizing)

▸ P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler) (diagnostics + troubleshooting)

▸ Query Monitor (diagnostics + troubleshooting)

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THE BEST WORDPRESS PLUGINS FOR EVERY PURPOSE

▸ W3 Total Cache (caching + minification)

▸ WP-Optimize (database optimization)

▸ WP Smush (image optimization)

▸ WP Super Cache(caching + minification)

BEST PLUGINS FOR PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION (PART 2 OF 2)

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THE BEST WORDPRESS PLUGINS FOR EVERY PURPOSE

BEST PLUGINS FOR SECURITY + PRIVACY

▸ Advanced Automatic Updates (automatic WP updates)

▸ Easy Updates Manager (automatic WP updates)

▸ iThemes Security (security best practices)

▸ Login LockDown (login protection)

▸ Really Simple SSL (force HTTPS/SSL)

▸ Sucuri Security (malware scanner)

▸ Wordfence Security (malware scanner)

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THE BEST WORDPRESS PLUGINS FOR EVERY PURPOSE

BEST PLUGINS FOR SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION (SEO)

▸ All in One SEO Pack

▸ Google XML Sitemaps

▸ Yoast SEO

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THE BEST WORDPRESS PLUGINS FOR EVERY PURPOSE

BEST PLUGINS FOR SOCIAL MEDIA SHARING + INTEGRATION

▸ AddThis

▸ AddToAny

▸ Custom Facebook Feed

▸ Shareaholic

▸ ShareThis

▸ Social Networks Auto-Poster

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THE BEST WORDPRESS PLUGINS FOR EVERY PURPOSE

BEST PLUGINS FOR SOCIAL NETWORKS + COMMUNITY BUILDING

▸ BuddyPress

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THE BEST WORDPRESS PLUGINS FOR EVERY PURPOSE

BEST PLUGINS FOR TOOLS + UTILITIES (PART 1 OF 2)

▸ Admin Columns (view, edit, filter, and sort posts and pages inline)

▸ Better Search Replace (find and replace in MySQL database)

▸ Broken Link Checker (find and fix links + images with 404 errors)

▸ InfiniteWP (manage multiple WordPress sites)

▸ ManageWP (manage multiple WordPres sites)

▸ Multi Plugin Installer (bulk install plugins automatically)

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THE BEST WORDPRESS PLUGINS FOR EVERY PURPOSE

BEST PLUGINS FOR TOOLS + UTILITIES (PART 2 OF 2)

▸ Nav Menu Roles (control access to menus)

▸ Page Restrict (control access to content)

▸ Redirection (easily create 301 redirects)

▸ Regenerate Thumbnails (recreate image thumbnails)

▸ Simple History (log user activity)

▸ User Role Editor(edit user + group permissions)

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THE BEST WORDPRESS PLUGINS FOR EVERY PURPOSE

BEST PLUGINS FOR MISCELLANEOUS (PART 1 OF 2)

▸ Display Widgets (conditionally show widgets)

▸ Duplicate Post (copy posts and pages)

▸ DuracellTomi's Google Tag Manager

▸ Jetpack (many, many features)

▸ Page Builder by Site Origin(visual layout builder)

▸ Shortcodes Ultimate(pre-formatted modules)

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THE BEST WORDPRESS PLUGINS FOR EVERY PURPOSE

BEST PLUGINS FOR MISCELLANEOUS (PART 2 OF 2)

▸ TablePress (create and edit tables)

▸ TinyMCE Advanced (WYSIWYG editor)

▸ Visual Composer (visual layout builder)

▸ WPtouch (mobile-friendliness)

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THAT’S IT FOR NOW…

THANK YOU!

Questions? Comments?

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THAT’S IT FOR NOW…

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