Recommended plugins and other tools for creating and maintaining a site with WordPress.
Most of these tools were used to create & manage fusedc.org, a volunteer-run resource website for nonprofit social justice professionals with a focus on the DC community.
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Akismet
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add to my toolboxAkismet is a spam management tool for your blog. When a new comment, trackback, or pingback comes to your site it is submitted to the Akismet web service which runs hundreds of tests on the comment and returns a thumbs up or thumbs down on whether or not it is spam.
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Coming Soon Pages
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add to my toolboxThis plugin shows a 'Custom Coming Soon' page to all users who are not logged in however, the Site Administrators see the fully functional website with the applied theme and active plugins as well as a fully functional Dashboard.
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Creative Commons
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add to my toolbox"Some rights reserved" standard licenses and tools to apply them to your work, including interactive tools for generating appropriate licenses for your content.
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Disqus
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add to my toolboxDisqus is a comment system that replaces your WordPress comment system with your comments hosted and powered by Disqus.
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Fast and Secure Contact Form
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add to my toolboxFast and Secure Contact Form for WordPress. The contact form lets your visitors send you a quick E-mail message. Blocks all common spammer tactics. Spam is no longer a problem. Includes a CAPTCHA and Akismet support. Does not require JavaScript.
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feedblitz
in 5 toolboxes
add to my toolboxBlog and RSS to Email Service. Make sure visitors to your site can subscribe to new posts by email or add your site to their RSS reader.
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FileZilla
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add to my toolboxFree FTP client software. Don't worry about knowing what this is until you need to do something that requires an FTP client. If/when you do need it, the instructions are straightforward.
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Fixed Social Buttons
in 3 toolboxes
add to my toolboxAdds social media buttons to your site
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Flickr
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add to my toolboxWeb based photo sharing service. Great place to get free photos for blog posts. Remember to only use photos with Creative Commons licensing and credit the owner/artist.
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Google Analytics
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add to my toolboxGoogle Analytics tells you everything you want to know about how your visitors found you and how they interact with your site. website
tagged: analytics, audience, globalmelt, google, hosted, lasatech_monitor, management, marketing, pageview, referrals, tracking, traffic, website -
Google Calendar
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add to my toolboxA free web-based calendar. Instructions on how to embed a google calendar in your wordpress site can be found in google calendar's help section. For an example of how an embedded calendar can look, check out http://fusedc.org/resource-hub/opportunity-calendar/
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Link Library WordPress Plugin
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add to my toolboxThis plugin is used to be able to create a page on any Wordpress web site containing a list of all of link categories defined inside of the Links section of the Wordpress administration, along with all links defined in these categories. Provides a range of display, feed and other options.
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Mailchimp Wordpress Plugin
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add to my toolboxThe MailChimp plugin allows you to easily setup a Subscribe box for your MailChimp list
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Members
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add to my toolboxA user, role, and content management plugin for controlling permissions and access. A plugin for making WordPress a more powerful CMS.
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phpMyAdmin
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add to my toolboxweb-based interface for managing MySQL
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Picasa
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add to my toolboxPicasa is software that helps you instantly find, edit and share all the pictures on your PC. Picasa also makes advanced editing simple, and makes it easy to share your pictures; you can email, print photos home, make gift CDs, and even post pictures.
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Related Posts (YARRP) WordPress Plugin
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add to my toolboxProvides a list of posts and/or pages related to the current entry, introducing the reader to other relevant content on your site
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Simple Facebook Connect
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add to my toolboxSimple Facebook Connect is a series of plugins that let you add any sort of Facebook Connect functionality you like to a WordPress blog. This lets you have an integrated site without a lot of coding, and still letting you customize it exactly the way you'd like.
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Sociable: WordPress Plugin
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add to my toolboxAutomatically add links on your posts, pages and RSS feed to your favorite social bookmarking sites. Also available for Blogger and other platforms.
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Theme My Login
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add to my toolboxThis plugin themes the WordPress login, registration and forgot password pages according to your current theme. It replaces the wp-login.php file by using a page template from your theme. Also includes a widget for sidebar login.
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Twitter for Wordpress
in 3 toolboxes
add to my toolboxTwitter for WordPress displays yours latest tweets in your WordPress blog.
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Twitter Tools
in 7 toolboxes
add to my toolboxThis plugin creates an integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account. Pull your tweets into your blog and create new tweets on blog posts and from within WordPress.
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Widget Logic
in 2 toolboxes
add to my toolboxThis WordPress plugin gives every widget an extra control field called "Widget logic" that lets you control the pages that the widget will appear on.
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WordPress
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add to my toolboxFlexible open-source content management and blogging software with an active user and developer community and a wide variety of plug-ins or extensions available.
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WordPress Mobile Edition
in 2 toolboxes
add to my toolboxA PDA friendly interface for your blog.
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WP-Stats
in 2 toolboxes
add to my toolboxDisplay your WordPress blog statistics. Ranging from general total statistics, some of my plugins statistics and top 10 statistics.
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WP-Stats-Dashboard
in 3 toolboxes
add to my toolboxDisplays the WordPress.com stats graph, your traffic, social engagement and social influence directly in your Dashboard.
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WPMU DEV
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add to my toolboxPremium wordpress and buddypress themes and plugins with great support. Relatively affordable, quality product for the nonprofit, student association, school, business or other organization looking to manage its own site and/or online community.
WPMU DEV is used by Etsy, Stanford U, Cornell U, CNET, edublogs, and others.
