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plugins for Wordpress? your favorite? (11 posts)

Topic tags: plugins, Wordpress

Dea Irby said
1 year, 3 months ago:
Through the forum discussions, I have realized that I need a self-hosted blog. I am moving my wordpress to godaddy (by recommendation of @kristi-hines ) and will then be able to use all the special plugins I’m missing.
That being said…..now what? Which ones are your favorite? Which ones do you think should be the first to install?
Which ones are a waste of time and energy?
Are they free?
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Melissa Agnes said
1 year, 3 months ago:
@deairby
Can I please make a small suggestion… Before you move your hosting to GoDaddy, I just want to make sure that you’re aware of the whole SOPA ordeal, and how they supported it – until they lost hundreds of thousands of domains and customers, and then they didn’t take it back, but said they “don’t agree or disagree”. I know SOPA is over, for now, but if you disagree with these types of actions, then in the future one, GoDaddy may always agree with them and help them out… It’s a personal choice, I just wanted to make sure that you know what you’re signing up with before you do, just in case…
If you’re looking for alternative hosting companies, I always recommend Netfirms (the company I’ve been with for 4 years).
And a lot of people left GoDaddy to go with NameCheap (but I don’t know much about them).
Congrats on your new blog
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Kristi Hines said
1 year, 3 months ago:
@deairby There’s a lot of great suggestions in these threads.
http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/forums/tag/plugins
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Dea Irby said
1 year, 3 months ago:
Kristi, what do you think about Melissa’s comments about godaddy? @kristi-hines Thanks, I may just wait one more day before spending a lot of money! @melissaagnes
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Kristi Hines said
1 year, 3 months ago:
@deairby @melissaagnes I shared my thoughts on that here - http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/clubs/blogging/forum/topic/godaddy-pulls-a-netflix/#post-2161 but to summarize…
- Godaddy can’t win. People love to hate them no matter what. They hated them for supporting the bill, and they hated them for changing their mind after the backlash.
- LOTS of other companies supported SOPA, but none got the backlash Godaddy did.
For me, Godaddy is a local business and out of three other hosting / domain registrars I’ve worked with, they have hands down provided me the best service and the least problems. Hence, I still recommend them.
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Melissa Agnes said
1 year, 3 months ago:
@kristi-hines @deairby
It’s definitely a personal choice, and Kristi has first hand experience and valid points! Do whatever feels right for you
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Marlene Gavens said
1 year, 3 months ago:
Most wordpress plugins are free. My thought would be to start with some basics:
A plugin for SEO (like All in One SEO). One to control spam (like Akismet). One for the search engine bots (like Google XML Sitemat). One to backup your site (like Backup Buddy). One for social bookmarking (like Sexy Bookmarks).
Depending on what your blog is for you may want plugins for social sharing,a contact form, one that manages comments, etc.
The plugins I suggested are ones that I’ve used and liked. Not sure they’re the best although all are pretty common/popular.
You may find these sites helpful – http://www.technobuzz.net/12-must-have-wordpress-plugins-for-your-blog-infographic/ and http://www.websitemagazine.com/content/blogs/posts/archive/2011/06/21/wordpress-plugins-from-a-to-z.aspx.
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Dea Irby said
1 year, 3 months ago:
Thanks, Marlene. I appreciate your input. I’ll check out the links. @marlenegavens
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Glen Gorham said
1 year, 3 months ago:
@deairby here is a link to an SME article written by Naomi Trower that covers plug ins. I know there was a thread about that previously as well. That ought to get you started. In addition to her suggestions I highly recommend you use Spam Free Wordpress. Once I installed that I simply stopped getting any spam. I will post a link to the other thread once I find it (applying tags to all posts is on my list!)
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Paul Wylie said
1 year, 3 months ago:
@deairby Content management is my focus as my world seems to revolve around content more so now than ever before. Wordpress is my preferred platform as it has a robust support base.
Plugins are a necessity to build core functionality however, some can be malicious so you do need to take care. Posting content is the mechanics of Wordpress. So I have a a good Editorial Calendar plugin to manage the content posts.
I get most content from other contributors usually full of typos and grammar problems that need edited however, more importantly the article needs some SEO titles, an unique description and importantly a keyword phrase.
For this I use 2 plugins to speed the posting process.
1. Inbound Writer - InboundWriter enables writers, bloggers, and marketers to easily create and improve online content for increased reach, engagement and conversions.
2. Wordpress SEO - all-in-one SEO solution for WordPress, including on-page content analysis, XML sitemaps and much more.
3. All the time I am plagued with broken links. Overtime links do get broken just happens. To save me a bunch of headaches I uses this handy tool. Broken Link Checker
Hope that helps you out
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Stanford Smith said
1 year, 3 months ago:
I use:
- Editorial Calendar to schedule my blog posts.
- Digg Digg for social sharing buttons.
- All-In-One-SEO for SEO chores
- Scribe for post keyword research
After these, I get super picky about plugins. Too many start to slow down your blog speed.
Stan
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