The slides from my presentation on Favourite WordPress Plugins to WordPress London on March 1st 2012. All the plugins come with recommendations from at least one member of the WordPress London meetup group.

1. WordPress London
1st March 2012
Favourite WordPress Plugins
Graham Armfield, Lee Rickler,
Rex Wickham, Emily Webber,
Herb Miller

2. WordPress London
1st March 2012
Relevanssi
Suggested by Graham Armfield
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/relevanssi/
Purpose: Better search engine for WordPress sites
Features:
• Search and order results by relevance
• Highlight searched terms in excerpts
• Record search stats
• Highly configurable
• Automatically indexes new/amended posts and pages
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3. WordPress London
1st March 2012
Twitter Feed for WordPress
Suggested by Graham Armfield
http://pleer.co.uk/wordpress/plugins/wp-twitter-feed/
Purpose: Place Twitter feed on your site with shortcode
Features:
• Reliable and easy to style feed
• Highly configurable from within shortcode
• Follow hashtags as well as ids
• Does not update tweets realtime, but needs no javascript
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4. WordPress London
1st March 2012
Keyboard Accessible Dropdown Menus
Suggested by Graham Armfield
http://www.coolfields.co.uk/2011/12/wordpress-keyboard-accessible-
dropdown-menus-plugin-version-0-1/
Purpose: Dropdown menus work when user tabs through your
navigation.
Features:
• Uses enhanced CSS and small javascript file
• Still in early stages of development – only works with themes
based on default WordPress themes
• It’d be useful to get feedback on possible improvements.
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5. WordPress London
1st March 2012
The Bar Steward
Suggested by Lee Rickler
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/the-bar-steward/
Purpose: Stop plugins hijacking your admin bar
Point and Stare CMS Functions
Suggested by Lee Rickler
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/point-and-stare-cms-functions/
Purpose: Convert WordPress more into CMS
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6. WordPress London
1st March 2012
Contact Form 7
Suggested by Rex Wickham
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/contact-form-7/
Purpose: Build your own contact forms
Comments: Easy to use, flexible, well maintained
Google Analyticator
Suggested by Rex Wickham
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-analyticator/
Purpose: Adds google analytics (webstats) code to the site and adds a
quick stats graph to the Dashboard
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7. WordPress London
1st March 2012
WP Maintenance Mode
Suggested by Rex Wickham
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-maintenance-mode/
Purpose: Show a holding page when you are building the site, or doing
updates. Logged in administrators/users can still see the site.
Add Logo To Admin
Suggested by Rex Wickham
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/add-logo-to-admin/
Purpose: Modifies the WP login page with your own logo
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8. WordPress London
1st March 2012
Transposh
Suggested by Rex Wickham
http://transposh.org/
Purpose: Automatic translation of content into any language supported
by Google/Bin Translate API
My Links 2
Suggested by Rex Wickham
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Purpose: Adds page thumbnails to Links page
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9. WordPress London
1st March 2012
WP Better Emails
Suggested by Emily Webber
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-better-emails/
Purpose: Adds a customizable good looking HTML template to all WP
default plain/text emails
oik
Suggested by Herb Miller (of WordUp Pompey http://wp-pompey.org.uk/)
Purpose: Adds a series of useful shortcodes for presenting commonly
used information. Herb is asking for some feedback from this plugin.
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10. WordPress London
1st March 2012
Other Suggestions - 1
Redirection
• Manage 301 redirects and monitor 404 errors
Remove Title Attributes
• Removes redundant title attributes on generated nav links etc
WordPress Database Backup
• Backs up database – variety of options
WP-Table Reloaded
• If a client’s site needs data tables - let them use this plugin. Tables
created visually in admin area – then tables presented with clean
markup
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11. WordPress London
1st March 2012
Other Suggestions - 2
Watermark Reloaded
• Adds configurable watermark to your images as they are uploaded
Visual Form Builder
• Dynamically builds forms with validation. Better accessibility of
output than some.
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12. WordPress London
1st March 2012
Fin
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