Mandatory WordPress Plugins
Mar 23, 2010 Best Practices
I’ve been running wordpress sites for quite some time now and I have been doing it professionally for almost as long. There are some plugins that I always install on client and personal sites. Here are a few of them.
All in One SEO Pack – Gives you an easy way to target the SEO of your posts and the entire site. Very comprehensive.
Askimet – duh its comes built in and was written by the guy who wrote wordpress. I am constantly surprised by its accuracy. I enabled it on kidcudi.com and saw the amout of spam comments drop from thousands a day to darn close to none.
Faster Image Insert – One complaint I hear from my clients is that waiting for the modal popup window of the media upload and insert is a pain in the neck. Get it faster with this. Turns it into a metabox like old school wordpress. Only really useful if you are posting a bunch of media.
Flexupload multithread uploader – LOVE this one. Just install it! Turn your uploading into pure joy.
Google Analyticator – I use google analytics on all my sites. Its free, its pretty, its awesome. This plugin has a dashboard widget with a graph of traffic over the last month and a list of your top pages and refers. Its nice because it does not break your workflow to check analytics quickly.
Login LockDown – This one should be incorporated into wordpress core. Restricts brute force attempts at login. Priceless.
WP-PageNavi – Enables a numerical list of pages at the bottom of catagory lists or search results so you can navigate several pages back without having to hit next or prev a bunch of times. Quick and easy.
W3 Total Cache – Lots of people like wp-super-cache, and it may be a bit faster, but I dont like being restricted to running apache or having to hack .htaccess to run on lighttpd. My systems that I have full control of run nginx, so the caching redirection is run through php so I dont have to mess around with it.
PageMASH or CMS – pick one for whichever makes more sense for your install. Both of these offer nice ways of reordering your page list menus. CMS if you are making your site a CMS, pageMASH if not. I’m running WordPress 3 alpha and these will be obsolete when it comes out. But until then its the least hackish way to order your page lists.
Very simple wordpress site for my sister
Mar 16, 2010 Sites
She needed one for school, so I hooked her up with The Human Resources and Labor Relations Restorative Initiative.
Enjoy
Just finished www.rptempering.com
Mar 11, 2010 Uncategorized
Just completed www.rptempering.com
I used WP-Filebase for the PDF lists so my clients could easily upload documents and have page update to reflect the file list.
Used more jquery plugins for image sliders and crossfade transitions, suckerfish nav bar.
Changed the background of the wp template to look like carbon fiber on client request.
Fun stuff.
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