July 2012 WordPress Plugins Update List With Live Training Call
My team and I put together an updated list of all active plugins you should have on your WordPress site.
Because things change regularly and we are VERY serious about serving our over 300,000 clients, every month we'll be updating this list and giving YOU, our clients a free training.
Enjoy!
Sandi Krakowski
WordPress SEO by Yoast – One of the best SEO Plugins I've seen in a long time that can be used on all themes of WordPress, free or paid. By:Joost de Valk
Wibiya Toolbar – toolbar at the bottom of this page to connect all of your social connections to your blog. Improves sharing, connection and rapport building. By:Wibiya
Add From Server – Allows you to import media an files into the Worpress uploads manager from the Webservers file. By:Dion Hulse
Akismet – Check comments again spam and other robots you don't want polluting your website. By:Automattic
Contact Form 7 – Perfect for your Contact Us page and other 'form' options. By: Takayuki Miyoshi
Facebook Social Plugins – Easily integrate Facebook's social features on your blog. By: Olivier Lussier
Ultimate TinyMCE – Ultimate TinyMCE will add over 30 new buttons to the default visual tinymce editor, giving you the power to visually create your pages and posts. No need for mucking about in HTML and CSS. By: Josh Lobe
General Headers & Footers – Edit your standard headers and footers. By: David Gibbs
Google Analytics Dashboard – Google Analytics graph integration. By: Carson McDonald
Google Analytics for WordPress – This plugin makes it simple to add Google Analytics to your WordPress blog, adding lots of features, eg. custom variables and automatic clickout and download tracking. By: Joost de Valk
Google XML Sitemaps – Generate an XML sitemap with will help search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com better index your blog pages. By: Arne Brachhold
Aweber Comment Optin – With this plugin, you now have the ability to add a simple checkbox and message to the end of your comment forms to allow your users to subscribe to a Aweber list when commenting. By: Thomas Griffin
Pinterest "Pin It" Button – Add the ability to share on the most popular social network in the world to your blog! By: Phil Derksen
SEO Friendly Images – Just what it says! Make your images friendly with search engines and bring greater results to your blog when it comes to SEO! By: Vladimir Prelovac
SEO Slugs – Remove common words like "the" and "a" from your post slugs to improve your SEO results. By: Andrei Mikrukov
SEO Smart Links – provides automatic SEO benefits for your site in addition to custom keyword lists, nofollow and much more. By Vladimir Prelovac
Simple Trackback Validation – Eliminates spam trackbacks by (1) checking if the IP address of the trackback sender is equal to the IP address of the webserver the trackback URL is referring to and (2) by retrieving the web page located at the URL used in the trackback and checking if the page contains a link to your blog. By: Michael Woehrer
Subscribe to Comments – Allows readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry. By: Mark Jaquith
Subscription Options – Adds subscription option icons for your RSS Feed; your FeedBurner Email Service; your Twitter Stream and even your Facebook page. Thousands of colour options. Totally user-defined. By: Tom Saunter
The OpenHook Customizations Manager – This plugin allows you to insert arbitrary content into the many hooks that the Thesis Theme Framework provides. Never again edit a file! By: Rick Beckman
TweetMeme Button – Adds a button which easily lets you retweet your blog posts. By: TweetMeme
WordPress Hashcash Extended – Client-side javascript blocks all spam bots. XHTML 1.1 compliant. (Plain English- keep trashy people from ruining your blog!) By: Aziz B.
WordPress Post Tabs – WordPress Post Tabs will help you to easily display your WordPress Post or Page sections in structured tabs, so that if you are writing some review post, you can add distinct tabs representing each section of the review like overview, specifications, performance, final rating and so on. By: Internet Techies
WP-PostRatings – Adds an AJAX rating system for your WordPress blog's post/page. By: Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan
WP-PostViews – Enables you to display how many times a post/page had been viewed. By: Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan
W3 Total Cache – Improve site performance and user experience via caching: browser, page, object, database, minify and content delivery network support. By: Frederick Townes
Facebook Meta Tags – This plugin adds appropriate meta tags for facebook share. No Setting required. By: Matt Say
WP DBManager – Allows you to optimize database, repair database, backup database, restore database, delete backup database , drop/empty tables and run selected queries. Supports automatic scheduling of backing up, optimizing and repairing of database. (Does not work if hosted with GoDaddy) By: Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan
Online Backup for WordPress – Online Backup for WordPress allows you to easily backup your WordPress site with encryption to email, download or free 100 MB secure online storage. By: Jason Woods @ Backup Technology
Facebook – This WordPress plugin makes your site deeply social by integrating functionality from Facebook. By: Facebook
Please note if you choose to use this plugin to deactivate and delete all other Facebook plugins referenced.
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