Wordpress Plugin Recommendations

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

For The Art Institute of Houston
Date: September 20, 2011

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What You Are In Store For

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

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Forward Marketing – Reboot Your Marketing

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:
Market Research Brand Management
Website Design SEO & SEM
Content Management Website Analytics
Social Media Marketing Mobile Marketing & Development

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WordPress Overview

“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

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Choosing Your Wordpress Plugins

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

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IT Wordpress Plugins

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

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IT Wordpress Plugins

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

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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Website Analytics Wordpress Plugins

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

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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

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Post/Page Editing Wordpress Plugins

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.


Email Marketing 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



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


RSS Wordpress Plugins

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


Image & Video Display 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

Ultimate Carousel FREE Video Gallery

– Nice 3D carousel for flash video galleries and YouTube videos
– YouTube ads minimized.
– Plugin size autoeditable.
– Video size customizable


SEO Wordpress Plugins

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


SEM/Bookmarking Wordpress Plugins

Sexy Bookmarks

– Adds an attractive social bookmarking menu to your posts, pages, index, or any
combination of the three



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




dashboard


YouTube Wordpress Plugins

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


Facebook 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


Twitter 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


Flickr 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.


Mobile 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


Some Really Cool Stuff

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: info@forwardm.com


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