Top 10 WordPress Plugins.

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1 Top 10 WordPress Plugins

2 Thank you for downloading this ebook. I wrote this guide to help others learn which plugins are the best to install to use with WordPress. This ebook is a guide, and the purpose is to guide you to find the best plugins without doing hours of research On the following pages you will find my favorite plugins, that I include with nearly every new WordPress installation. I want to thank my subscribers for your support. I hope this free guide can begin to repay you for the time and attention that you ve give me. If you have any questions, don t hesitate to contact me. Dustin@YourWebsiteEngineer.com Here s to your success on the web! 2

3 Audio Player Audio Player is a highly configurable but simple mp3 player for all your audio needs. Features include: configurable color scheme to match your blog theme volume control right-to-left layout switch for Arabic and Hebrew language sites many options such as autostart and loop player can count up or count down ID3 tag support (custom track info also available) If your website is going to feature a podcast, Audio Player plugin for the job. 3

4 All in One SEO Pack Some features: Works with Scribe SEO Support for Custom Post Types Advanced Canonical URLs Fine tune Page Navigational Links Built-in API so other plugins/themes can access and extend functionality ONLY plugin to provide SEO Integration for WP e- Commerce sites Automatically optimizes your titles for search engines Generates META tags automatically Avoids the typical duplicate content found on WordPress blogs For beginners, you don't even have to look at the options, it works out-of-the-box. Just install. For advanced users, you can fine-tune everything You can override any title and set any META description and any META keywords you want. 4

5 Google Analytics Features: Simple installation through integration with Google Analytics API: authenticate, select the site you want to track and you're done. Plugin uses the asynchronous tracking code, the fastest and most reliable tracking code for Google Analytics. Outbound link & downloads tracking. Configurable options to track outbound links either as pageviews. Option to track just downloads as pageviews. Allows usage of custom variables to track meta data on pages. Support for the following custom variables: Author Single category and / or multiple categories Post type (especially useful if you use custom post types) Logged in users Publication Year Tags 5

6 Gravity Forms Are you looking for a contact form plugin for WordPress? If you value simplicity and flexibility, Gravity Forms is the best choice. It allows you to flexibly design the form. Everything is drag and drop and it automatically generates the notification for you. In addition, it supports many features including AJAX submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering, file uploading, etc. This is the only plugin that s a premium (paid) plugin, but definitely worth it! 6

7 WooCommerce COUPONS AND UP-SELLS WooCommerce makes this easy by allowing you to set sales prices for any of the products that is eligible for your sale.and then WooCommerce also includes the features that distinguishes online retail from its offline equivalent: product reviews from your customers, automatic up-sells & cross-sells and related products. WooCommerce is intelligent in this way and attempts to maximize your revenue from every single sale. Features MANAGING YOUR INVENTORY WooCommerce won t allow you to sell a product that isn t in stock and we ll even highlight products that are running low on stock. WE VE GOT YOU COVERED WooCommerce has developed a superb API for payments, which allows you to seamlessly plug your payment gateway of choice into WooCommerce and start processing orders immediately. It supports: 1 PayPal Pro 2 Google Checkout 3 2Checkout.com 4 Inspire Commerce 5 Authorize.net 7

8 AntiSpam Bee AntiSpam Bee is a personal favorite when it comes to monitoring spam comments. Akismet comes with WordPress; however to use it on business sites, you have to pay for their services, whereas AntiSpam Bee is free. Settings AntiSpam Bee is also much easier to configure. There is only one settings panel and no need to go and register an API key. Some Features of AntiSpam Bee Allow comments only in certain language Consider comments which are already marked as spam Dashboard History Stats Block comments and pings from specific countries Optional strict check for incomming comments notifications about new spam comments Trackback and pingback check Spam counter on dashboard Quick & Dirty: activate, set settings, done! AntiSpam Bee is better than Akismet comes with WordPress 8

9 Pretty Link Lite Have you ever wanted to tell someone to check out a certain blog post or affiliate link? It s painful to tell them or Now you can create your own short links. You can redirect to an affiliate link or create a short link to a favorite blog post so it s easier to tell people about your great content. And the best part? It tracks the number of clicks too! Tracks the Number of Hits per link Tracks the Number of Unique Hits per link Provides a reporting interface where you can see a configurable chart of clicks per day. This report can be filtered by the specific link clicked, date range, and/or unique clicks. View click details including ip address, remote host, browser (including browser version), operating system, and referring site Download hit details in CSV format 9

10 WP-Testimonials Looking for an easy way to add testimonials to your WordPress site? This is THE plugin. WP-Testimonials has the ability to display testimonials on pages and in a widget Features: Add your clients name, company and website Manage both page and widget testimonials in the same area Add image for the testimonial Automatically creates a link to company website if provide Uses theme css to ensure the testimonials look like the rest of the site 10

11 WP-DBManager Always have a backup to your website, ALWAYS. There is one thing that we humans always forget to do and that is backup our digital stuff. We all know that hard drives can and will crash eventually, well, the same holds true for web servers. WP-DBManager will backup your SQL database in a regular interval that you set. From daily to monthly, you choose how much data you can afford to lose. Once it s backed up it sends the.sql file to you in an . Set it up and never worry about backups again! Be ready when a catastrophe happens to your website! 11

12 Theme Authenticity Checker This a very useful plugin that needs to be installed and run anytime you download a new theme, especially free themes. The plugin will scan the source code of your theme to make sure no encrypted code is found that would cause your site to not run properly. This is also a great tool to use when you think your files might be infected by a virus. 12

13 Thank You So Much! I hope you have found some value from this ebook. I can t thank you enough for your continued support of Your Website Engineer blog and everything I do. I appreciate each and every one of you for taking time out of your day and if you have an extra second, I would love to hear what you think about it. If you would like to contact me in person, shoot me an . I read every single and comment, so don t be afraid to say hi! If you are a fan and enjoy the podcast, please leave a review on itunes, I would great appreciate it. Te xt Finally, if you aren t already, feel free to follow me on Twitter (@DHartzler10) or become my friend on Facebook. Thanks again and I wish you the best with your online endeavors! Dustin R. Hartzler Dustin@YourWebsiteEngineer.com 13