WordPress Plugins by Lewis Southwick and Tom King

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Keep Your Wordpress Site “Plugged In” Lewis Southwick, Vice President

For The Art Institute of Houston

Date: September 20, 2011

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Keeping Your Wordpress Site “Plugged In”

– Why Should You Listen To Me

– WordPress Overview

– Plug Ins To Make Your Site Perform Better

– Plug Ins That Are Really Cool

– View The White Paper

What You Are In Store For

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Who Is Lewis Southwick and Why Is He Talking To Me Right Now

– Began in Internet Marketing in 1996

– Marketing Director For Largest E-tailer of Eyewear Until 2008

– Financial Services Industry Until 2010

– Private Consulting Since 2006

Forward Marketing – Joined in 2010 – VP & Director of Marketing Research

– Full Service Internet Marketing Firm Specializing In The Following:

Forward Marketing – Reboot Your Marketing

Market Research

Website Design

Content Management

Social Media Marketing

Brand Management

SEO & SEM

Website Analytics

Mobile Marketing & Development

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“WordPress” – the new buzz word

– An open source content management system and publishing platform

– Used by 14% of Alexa’s top 1 million websites

– Ever evolving, ever changing

– It’s FREE!

Plugins:

– Software component added to a site to enhance the functionality of the site

– Thousands of Wordpress plugins

– Custom plugins can be made for you at a very low cost

– There’s a plugin for that!

The Most Important Lesson In Choosing The RIGHT Plugin for your client

WordPress Overview

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The Most Important Lesson In Choosing The RIGHT Plugin for Your Client

– Pay attention to the ratings and reviews

– Stay within the designs of your industry/client voice/site design

Choosing Your Wordpress Plugins

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W3 Total Cache

– W3 Total Cache improves the user experience of your

site by improving your server performance, caching

every aspect of your site, reducing the download times

and improves conversion rates.

– Improves site performance by 10X

– Up to 80% bandwidth savings via minify and HTTP

compression of HTML, CSS, JavaScript and feeds

– "Instant" subsequent page views: browser caching

– Mobile support enables faster browsing on mobile devices

IT Wordpress Plugins

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Wordpress Backup to Drop Box

– WordPress Backup to Dropbox has been created to give you piece of mind that

your blog is backed up on a regular basis.Item

– Customized settings so that you can schedule

your back up

IT Wordpress Plugins

SMEStorage Multi-Cloud WP Backup

– Back your WordPress blog up to any one of

10 storage clouds

– Scheduled back up features

– A few of the cloud based storage services that work with SME: Amazon S3,

RackSpace Cloud Files, Box.net, Microsoft SkyDrive, Microsoft Live Mesh,

Google Docs, DropBox, Mezeo, FTP, and any WebDav enable cloud

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Google XML Sitemap Generator

– This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap

which will help search engines like Google, Bing,

Yahoo and Ask.com to better index your blog.

– Simplifies web spiders ability to see the complete

structure of your site and retrieve it more

efficiently

– The plugin supports all kinds of WordPress

generated pages as well as custom URLs

– Notifies all major search engines every time

you create a post about the new content.

– Customized settings to designate how frequent

search engines visit your site

Website Analytics Wordpress Plugins

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Google Analyticator

– Adds the necessary JavaScript code to enable

Google Analytics. Includes widgets for Analytics

data display.

– Eliminates the need to edit your template code to

begin logging data.

– Includes an admin dashboard widget that displays

a graph of the last 30 days of visitors, a summary

of site usage, the top pages, the top referrers, and

the top searches

– Supports outbound link tracking of all links on the

page, including links not managed by WordPress

– Google Analyticator also includes several widgets for displaying Analytics data in

the admin and on your blog.


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All in One Webmaster

– Sitemap submission to Google,Bing,Yahoo & Ask.

– Webmaster option for Google,Bing,Alexa,Yahoo, Compete.com, Quantcast,

Facebook & BlogCatalog.Item

– Adds your requested meta tags into header and java script code to footer of your

blog.Item

– Provides Warning/Success/Failure messages on sitemap submission



TinyMCE Advanced Editor

– Enables the advanced features a WordPress WYSIWYG editor

– Imports all CSS classes from the main theme stylesheet and add them to a drop-

down list.

– Support for making and editing tables.

– In-line css styles.

– Advanced list and image dialogs that offer a lot of options.

– Search and Replace while editing.

– Support for XHTML specific tags and for (div based) layers.

Post/Page Editing Wordpress Plugins


WP Super Edit

– WP Super Edit is a wysiwyg visual editor that adds functionality with more

buttons and customized editing plugins

– Drag and Drop interface for arranging the WordPress visual editor buttons.

– Access to built-in WordPress visual editor buttons and functions.

– Options for allowing users to configure visual editor settings; One editor setting

for all users, role based editor settings, and individual user editor settings.

Post/Page Editing Wordpress Plugins


Contact Form 7

– Fully customizable email contact form

– Manages multiple contact forms

– Integrates custom fields, drop box menus, check boxes, radial buttons, text

fields, required fields, captcha verification, quiz, and file upload features

– 55 different language translations

– Allows for multiple recipients to

receive email from contact form

– Supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering

Email Marketing Wordpress Plugins


Constant Contact Wordpress Widget

– Constant Contact wordpress plug-in adds a constant contact widget signup form

to your website sidebar

– Very easy and no need any coding language

knowledge to use this plug-in. Once the widget is

ready, entered email addresses are automatically

stored into your constant contact account.

– Add Constant Contact widget email subscribe form

to your sidebar with Custom title, Custom text box caption, Custom button style,

Custom text box style

– Option to send auto thanks mail to subscriber

– Option to set from email address

– Auto mail to admin when new email subscribed

– Option to update email subject & email content



SMS Text Message

– Allows a reader to submit their phone number

through a sidebar widget.

– Periodically send alerts, updates, etc via SMS to all

contacts at once

– Easy, simple administrative management interface

– Support for all the major wireless carriers

– Allows website to easily and quickly begin a new

marketing channel ~ SMS Messaging

– SMS text messaging is one of the fastest growing

marketing methods due to the spread of

mobile marketing



Thank Me Later

– Automatically send a 'thank you' e-mail to those who comment

on your page

– Prompt visitors to further engage with your blog

– Create multiple e-mail messages and to send the message

after a pre-defined amount of time, making messages appear

more unique and people-friendly

Reply Me

– Send a email to author automatically while someone

reply his comment

– 100% Customizable content that is sent to commenter

– 4 languages available



Open In A New Window

– Opens external links in a new window, keeping your blog page in the browser so

you don't lose surfers to another site

– Automatically finds links generated in scripts or pasted into posts and comments

– Powered by javascript, so this will not work in iframe pages

RSS Footer

– Makes it easy to add a line of content to the beginning or

the end of all the articles in your feeds, for instance to display

a back link

– Choose to position the sentence before your content instead of the default after

RSS Wordpress Plugins


WP RSS Import

– Import and display Feeds in your blog, use PHP, a

Widget or the Shortcode

– 39 different parameters can be set to customize

your RSS feed for optimal content and visual appeal

– 7 languages available for download

RSS Wordpress Plugins


Shadowbox JS

– Online media viewing application that allows enlargements of images, text links

to images, video enlargements, and

– Supports all types of media.

– Highly customizable and anchor can be text, video, or image

Image & Video Display Wordpress Plugins


Ultimate Carousel FREE Video Gallery

– Nice 3D carousel for flash video galleries and YouTube videos

– YouTube ads minimized.

– Plugin size autoeditable.

– Video size customizable

Image & Video


SEO by Yoast – All in one SEO solution for your WordPress site: SEO titles, meta descriptions,

XML sitemaps, breadcrumbs, and

robot directions

– Post title and meta description meta

box to change these on a per

post basis for ultimate SEO

– Focus keyword testing.

– Full page analysis functionality: see

what you need to do to further SEO

optimize your post content, page title,

headings, images etc.

– Meta Robots configuration:

Easily add noodp, noydir meta tags.

Easily noindex, or nofollow pages, taxonomies or entire archives

SEO Wordpress Plugins


Automatic SEO Links

– Choose a word and a URL and this plugin will replace all matches in the posts

and pages of your site

– For each link, you can set:

Title, Target, and Rel

– In case the plugin finds

same word in a post, it will

only change the first one.

This is to avoid black seo

and inconveniences to

the users

SEO Wordpress Plugins


Sexy Bookmarks

– Adds an attractive social bookmarking menu to your posts, pages, index, or any

combination of the three

SEM/Bookmarking Wordpress Plugins


Meet Your Commenters

– Displays web pages and social networks' profiles of your commentors in the

dashboard

– Displays web pages and profiles of those users in the dashboard, so you can

add them as friends if you are in the same social network





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Smart YouTube

– Smart Youtube plugin allows you to insert

full featured YouTube videos into your post,

comments and in RSS feed

– Supports playback of high quality videos,

works on iPhone, produces xHTML valid

code (unlike YouTube embed code),

allows you to view videos in fullscreen,

supports YouTube playlists (normal/HD)

and the new outube IFRAME embed code

YouTube Wordpress Plugins


DB YouTube RSS

– Display widget with latest videos from user

RSS channel. You can set up username,

number of thumbnails and width of thumbnail

– There are two way to display this list: activate

widget DB YouTube RSS or place <?php

if(function_exists('db_yt_rss_markup'))

{ db_yt_rss_markup(); }; ?> in your templates

YouTube Wordpress Plugins


Facebook Like Button

– Add the new Facebook Like Button to your wordpress blog with ease. Fully

configurable and

customizable to your likings.

– Configure where you want it

to be visible or you can

include it on single post with

short code

– Enables users to make

connections to your pages

and share content back to

their friends on Facebook

with one click

Facebook Wordpress Plugins


Twitter Feed For Wordpress

– A simple Twitter feed that outputs your latest tweets in HTML into your page,

template or sidebar widget

– Customizable the number of tweets, and style of output

Twitter Goodies

– Shows your tweets on Page/Post/Widget area

– Three main services in ONE plugin:

– 1) Tweet Button Integration

– 2) Twitter Goodies - Profile Widget

– 3) Twitter Goodies - Search Widget

Twitter Wordpress Plugins


Awesome Flickr Gallery

– Creates a photo gallery of your Flickr photos on your WordPress enabled

website enabling you to customize it the way you like it

– Aims at providing a simple yet customizable way to create clean and professional

looking Flickr galleries

– Fast and light - uses intelligent caching to load galleries instantly

– 2 Powerful slideshow options with thumbnail slider navigation

Awesome Flickr Gallery

– A gallery generator / lightbox view combo. Very easy to add to your post or page

using short tags or the text editor

– can also load a photoset, load descriptions of your images on the lightbox, add

images from the text editor, change image sizes of the lightbox.

Flickr Wordpress Plugins


WP Touch

– WPtouch: A simple, powerful and elegant mobile

heme for your website. WPtouch automatically

transforms your WordPress blog into an iPhone

application

– WPtouch automatically transforms your WordPress

blog into an iPhone application-style theme, complete

with ajax loading articles and effects, when viewed

from iPhone, iPod touch, Android, Palm Pre,

Samsung touch and BlackBerry Storm/Torch

mobile devices

Mobile Wordpress Plugins


Wordpress Mobile Pack

– Complete toolkit to help mobilize your WordPress site. It has

a mobile switcher, themes, widgets, and mobile admin pane

– Select themes based on the type of user that is visiting the

site, a selection of mobile themes, extra widgets, device

adaptation and a mobile administration panel to allow users

to edit the site or write new posts when out and about

– Device adaptation, including the rescaling of images,

intelligent splitting of articles and posts into multiple pages,

the simplifaction styles, and the removal of non-supported

media

Mobile Wordpress Plugins


Image Sliders

Featured Content Gallery & WP Cycle

– Create a customizable rotating image gallery anywhere within your WordPress

site

– Choose your images and display categories, pages or posts with custom overlay

text and a thumbnail carousel. Custom options include gallery size, color, style

and more

– Example:

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Democracy Widget

– Adds a sidebar widget poll or survey in just minutes

qTranslate

– Adds userfriendly multilingual content management and translation support into

WordPress

– qTranslate makes creation of multilingual content as easy as working with a

single language

AdRotate

– Add and manage the ads from the dashboard and show a random banner, or

multiple, on your site



Page Flip Image Gallery

– Flipping Book WordPress Gallery plugin helps you to create Image Gallery with

Page Flip effects on your site



WP Cumulus

– WP-Cumulus displays your tags and/or categories in 3D by placing them on a

rotating sphere

– It works just like a regular tags cloud, but is more visually exciting

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Membership Site & Ebay Feed

WishList

– Creates a membership site with tiered access,

auto-renew, email marketing integration,

PHPBay

– phpBay Pro for WordPress is the best plugin on the

market for adding targeted keyword rich Ebay

auction listings to your pages or posts



Keep Your Wordpress Site “Plugged In” Lewis Southwick, Vice President

Ph: 713-449-2000

Email: [email protected]

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WordPress Plugins by Lewis Southwick and Tom King