Teaching WordPress

I’ve tried to come up with some function categories of plugins in order to focus the search for what you would want for your website.  If you are looking for a plugin to provide a specific function for your site, chances are a search of the WordPress Plugin Repository will turn up dozens if not hundreds of  potential candidates.  I’ve tried to create a handful of useful umbrella function categories and give a short list of plugins i have found useful and or have gotten rave reviews. For the most part I’ve limited my selections to the free plugins but there are a few exceptions where a premium plugin is clearly superior, so I will list those as well.

Appearance

• WP Google Fonts

• Google Typography

• All in one Favicon

• Lazyest Stylesheet

Special Formatting

• Easy Table

• Column Shortcodes

Forms and User Interface

• Contact Form 7

• Ninja Forms

• Gravity Forms

• Registration Form Widget

• Sidebar Login

• Wp MailTo Links

eCommerce

• WP Simple Paypal Shopping Cart

• Woo Commerce

Navigation

• Page-List

• Breadcrumb NavXT

• WP Gallery Custom Links

Anti Spam /Security

• Better wp Security

• Sabre

• Really simple CAPTCHA

 Backup & House Cleaning

• WP DB Manager

• Press Backup

• WordPress Backup to Dropbox

• KT-CleanPress

• Duplicator

• WP Clone by WP Academy

Site Speed

• W3 Total Cache

Image Display Methods

• NextGen Gallery

• Easing Slider

• Simple Lightbox

• Simple Image Slider

• Slideshow Gallery

SEO

• Google XML Site Maps

• Greg’s High Performance SEO

• SEO by Yoast

• Google Analytics

Social Media and Events

• Sociable

• Google Calendar Events

Productivity

• Reveal Ids

• Better Media Library Fields

• TinyMCE Advanced

• Broken Link Checker

• WP Maintenance Mode

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