WordPress Essentials – Plugins the WordPress Wizard Must Have

This isn’t an exhaustive listing however I MUST have these plugins:

Vipers Video QuickTags

Uninterested in copying and pasting the embed HTML from websites like YouTube? Then this plugin is for you.

Simply  click on one of many buttons that this plugin provides to the WordPress editor after which paste the URL wherethe video is situated at into the immediate field — straightforward as that. You’ll be able to configure how the movies are displayed (width, peak, colours, alignment on the web page) and rather more. Your website will stay  (X)HTML legitimate in contrast to with the code offered by most video websites.

Share This

The ShareThis WordPress plugin offers a fast, easy to make use of, and unobtrusive approach for customers so as to add your submit to many social bookmarking websites, or to ship your publish hyperlink by way of e-mail, AIM, Fb, MySpace and extra.

Dean’s FCKEditor For Wordpress

This plugin Replaces the default Wordpress editor.

FCKeditor is an open supply WYSIWYG textual content editor ,brings to the online a lot of the facility of desktop editors like MS Phrase.it is light-weight and is suitable with most web browsers which embrace: IE 5.5+ (Home windows), Firefox 1.zero+, Mozilla 1.three+ and Netscape 7+.

Options:

• media buttons
• Construct-in File supervisor and add supervisor.
• Construct-in Wordpress “learn extra” Button
• Built-in with WordPress media buttons
• Handle and insert smileys into your submit
• And MUCH extra

WP-DB-Backup

You have to be liable for your knowledge.  This plugin backs up your database.  Set it to a schedule of your selection and choose from a number of places to retailer the backup.

HeadSpace

HeadSpace2 is an all-in-one meta-data supervisor that lets you fine-tune the search engine optimization potential of your website.

Here’s what the plugin writer has to say about HeadSpace2:

“You possibly can configure meta-data for:

• Posts
• Pages
• Classes
• House web page
• Writer pages
• Search pages
• 404 web page

You possibly can outline:

• Tags/key phrases, with instructed key phrases
• Descriptions
• Web page titles
• Customized ‘extra textual content’
• Website identify and website description
• Customized themes – change your theme on every web page!
• Customized plugins – load a plugin solely on particular pages
• Further CSS and JavaScript information
• Noindex and nofollow

It additionally permits you to add:

• Google Analytics
• Google Webmaster
• Google part concentrating on
• Mint statistic
• 103bees
• Statcounter
• CrazyEgg warmth map
• Feedburner Stats Professional
• Apture
• Yahoo! Website Explorer
• Microsoft Reside Verification
• HitTail
• Piwik monitoring
• AWStats monitoring”

It positive does this and is handy and straightforward to make use of.

TwitterTools

For everybody on Twitter, and in the event you aren’t, why aren’t you, this plugin is so versatile.  It lets you create tweets out of your posts and create a sidebar widget containing your current tweets.

Cathy Perkins, The WordPress Wizard