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Plugins

Installing WordPress Plug-Ins With FTP Clients

MatthewNeer.com In this short tutorial Matthew Neer will show you how you can easily set up and install a plug-in to your wordpress blog in a matter of minutes. If you are using the Plug-In Manager and are having some trouble finding exactly what you want, then this is the tutorial for you. You will learn how to use GoDaddy or another FTP Client to transfer those plug-ins seamlessly to your WordPress blog and have them functioning. If this tutorial helped you, please subscribe to my YouTube Channel videos to stay posted on all the best WordPress tips. Thank you for watching, Matthew Neer

Plugins

WordPress Plugins

How to choose and add WordPress Plugins. How to use the WordPress Plugin Directory. Plugins I suggest: Akismet for comment spam, Google Analytics for WordPress, easily hooks WordPress to Google Analytics. All In One SEO Pack – the changes WordPress should make. Google XML Sitemaps — creates a google sitemap, important for SEO. Fast Secure Contact Form — allows visitors to send you email. ShareThis — social sharing buttons in many different iterations. W3 Total Cache — creates flat (not dynamic) files. Disqus Comment System — Replaces wordPress comment system with more socially-aware system. Yet Another Related Posts Plugin — shows related posts from your blog. WP-DB-Backup — backs up your WordPress database. Smart YouTube — easily insert YouTube videos. Exclude Pages from Navigation — allows you to remove pages from your nav bar. AskApache Password Protect — adds level of protection for passwords. Dynamic Content Gallery — Creates a dynamic image gallery. FD Feedburner Plugin — redirects all feeds to a Feedburner feed. Featured Content Gallery — creates a rotating image gallery. Twitter Tools — integrates your blog with Twitter. WordPress Firewall — blocks suspicious-looking requests to WordPress. WP Facebook Like — Puts a Like button on posts. WP Security Scan — performs a security scan of your WordPress installation. WP iPhone Theme — formats your site with a mobile theme. These plugins cover traffic builder, traffic monitoring, traffic generator …

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Can't-Live-Without WordPress Plugins

The debate rages among bloggers surrounding what are must-have plugins for WordPress. Naturally, everyone has their personal preferences that depend on what they are trying to accomplish by blogging. But I was rather horrified to read a forum post discussing WordPress plugins stating that all you need in the way of plugins, “if you have good content”, were All in One SEO Pack Google XML Sitemaps and StatPress. Now, these are great plugins and I use them all on everyone of my sites. But to say that these three are all you need, regardless of not whether your content is good, bad or mediocre, is, well, just wrong. If you want to increase your on page SEO; decrease your page load time (a key factor for ranking in Google with their latest algorithm change); hide your affiliate links and find and remove lines of code or text quickly and easily and more you need a few more plugins in your arsenal. Here is my top-ten list of great WordPress Plugins. These are all free plugins. 1) All-in-One SEO Pack–This plugin helps your SEO right out of the box, without any configuration. To increase your on-page SEO, it allows you to add title, description and keywords to make your posts more search engine friendly, but it’s not a requirement. 2) WP-Super Cache–A caching plugin is a must with Google’s new emphasis on page load speed. WP-Super Cache allows logged in users to disable caching, which is important if you are trying to do some editing on your site without the pages constantly …