This document provides biographies of Collin Condray and Eric Huber, the founders of BlueZooCreative.com, and discusses various WordPress plugins. It introduces Condray as a web developer and programmer with 15 years of experience in retail data analysis. It introduces Huber as a graphic designer with 20 years of experience for both small and large companies. The document then discusses WordPress plugins for various functions including security, users, social media, SEO, monetization, caching, backup, and identifying resource intensive plugins.

1. BlueZooCreative.com
Twitter.com/ccondray
7/28/2012

2. Who we are – Collin Condray
 15 years experience in web
development
 Web developer
 Programmer
 Retail data analysis for multi-
billion dollar companies (3M
and Tyson)
 Social media marketing
 Agency experience with
Collective Bias and Saatchi X
 Local speaker at University of
Arkansas, JBU, & Webster
University

3. Who we are – Eric Huber
 20 years as a graphic
designer for both small
businesses and Fortune
500 companies
 Marketing, advertising, a
nd graphic design for
small businesses
 Award winning designer
 Instructor for the New
Design School

4. Our Team
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5. Plugins for Everything
 WordPress (at the time this slide was made) has
20,413 Plugins!
 What's great about OpenSource is how all these
plugins are rated by users.
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6. What Makes a Plugin Great?
 Functionality
 Support
 Customization
 Cost
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7. How to Search for the Best?
 Is it compatible with current WP Version?
 What is the rating?
 How many people have rated?
 How many downloads?
 What version?
 When was it last updated?
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8. Site Development
 Basic Authentication - Keep people out while the site
is under development.
 ThemeFuse Maintenance Mode - A countdown
version to keep people out while the site is under
development
 Broken Link Checker - Find broken links after
switching to live environment
lorem ipsum
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9. Security
 WP Security Scan - Make sure your environment is
safe
 WP-Hashcash - For people to cheap to pay for
Akismet
 WP-ReCaptcha
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10. Users
 TinyMCE Advanced - Make the editor look even more
like MS Word
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11. Social
 AddToAny
 JetPack
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12. SEO
 All In One SEO Pack
 Google XML Sitemaps - Notify search engines that
you've updated your site
 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin - Creates internal
site links which search engines like to see
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13. Monitization
 AdRotate
 Skimlinks
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14. Caching
 W3 Total Cache
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15. Backup
 BackWPup
 Local Files
 FTP
 Dropbox
 Amazon S3
 Also keeps your database tables in good shape
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16. What to do to find resource
intensive plugins?
 Memory Viewer
1. Write down the results
2. Turn off a couple of plugins, or disable other features
3. Run the test again
4. Repeat…
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18. BlueZooCreative.com
@eric_huber, @ccondray
7/28/2012