WordPress Plugins
Plugins are small programs that allow you to customize your WordPress blog. They Allow you to add SEO packages, e-commerce add-on's, sitemaps and much more.
Plugins We USE and SUGGEST:
All in one SEO- All in one SEO is a search engine optimization program that helps search engines find your blog. It allows you to type in keyword tags and descriptions for every post you type and every page you create giving the search engines unique content for web users to search.
Social Bookmarks – After trying several different social bookmarking plug-ins, I recommend this because it is the easiest to use and looks the most professional. You can use chose from 41 social bookmarking buttons to add to your site to allow your guests to advertise for you. To learn more about social bookmarks please check out Marketing Step 1:SEO.
Google Sitemap XML - creates a sitemap in one step to help Google search your site more effectively.
WordPress Mobile Edition: Shows your a more condensed version of our WordPress Blog designed for our mobile visitors.
Post Template: This plugin allows you to create post templates in order to save time writing posts having the same structure.
Post Ideas: Helps us keep track of all of our ideas on articles, keywords, posts, wordpress updates, and much more.
AuthImage: Helps us combat spam in our comments by creating an authentication image.
E-Commerce Blog:
WP Shopping Cart - This is an all in one E-commerce plugin. It adds everything you need to start an online store to include a shopping cart, checkout, and products pages. It even lets you get paid by Pay Pal or Google. The King Cart is a great resource with plenty downloadable shopping icons and a free shopping WordPress theme. Here is an example of their free theme with the WP Shopping Cart..
Directory Blog;
- Article Directory - plugin, that displays the structured list of categories.
- Role Manager - allows you to define and manage multiple subscriber profiles - called Roles and their Capabilities.
Following plugins are not obligatory but recommended:
- Fancy Excerpt - replaces the default automatic excerpt generator with a sentence aware excerpt generator.
- WP-PageNavi - adds a more advanced paging navigation.
We are always trying out new plugins on our pages and our clients pages to ensure that we have the most up-to-date list. If you have any plugins you use that are helpful or any plugins you think we should try, please email us at newplugins@theclickguide.com.