WordPress Plugins I use
There are lots of great WordPress plug-ins out there, I recommend the following:
| Plugin Name | Created By | Website | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Add Meta Tags | George Notaras | Link to Site | Add basic meta tags and also Opengraph, Schema.org Microdata, Twitter Cards and Dublin Core metadata to optimize your web site for better SEO. |
| Better WP Security | iThemes | Link To Site | Helps protect your WordPress installation from attackers. Hardens standard WordPress security by hiding vital areas of your site, protecting access to important files via htaccess, preventing brute-force login attempts, detecting attack attempts, and more. |
| Google XML Sitemaps | Arne Brachhold | link to Site | This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask.com to better index your blog. |
| UpdraftPlus – Backup/Restore | UpdraftPlus.Com, DavidAnderson | Link to Site | Backup and restore: take backups locally, or backup to Amazon S3, Dropbox, Google Drive, Rackspace, (S)FTP, WebDAV & email, on automatic schedules. |
| bbPress Code Snippets | Jason Bobich | Automatically display HTML/PHP code posted in bbPress topics and replies. | |
| Collapse-O-Matic | twinpictures, baden03 | Link To Site | Collapse-O-Matic adds an shortcode that wraps content into a lovely, jQuery collapsible div. |
| CSS3 Transitions | Nick Halsey | Link To Site | Automatically adds CSS3 transitions to your website/blog and the WordPress admin. Links, etc. get animated transitions between their normal and hover states. |
| Transposh Translation Filter | Team Transposh | Link To Site | Translation filter for WordPress, After enabling please set languages at the the options page Want to help? visit our development site at trac.transposh.org. |
| Ultimate Coming Soon Page | SeedProd | Link To Site | Creates a Coming Soon or Launch page for your website. |
| Better WP Security | iThemes | Link To Site | Helps protect your WordPress installation from attackers. Hardens standard WordPress security by hiding vital areas of your site, protecting access to important files via htaccess, preventing brute-force login attempts, detecting attack attempts, and more. |
| Ajax Event Calendar | Eran Miller | Link To Site | A fully localized community calendar that allows authorized users to manage events in custom categories. |
| Media From FTP | Katsushi Kawamori | Updates media from folder | |