Updated Suggested WordPress Plugin List

Here is an updated plugin list for all of our clients taking our WordPress I and WordPress II classes. We'd love to hear from you! If you found a great plugin for business that you've been using, please post in the comments below and we'll be happy to review!

With love,

Sandi Krakowski

Add From Server – Allows you to import media and files into the WordPress uploads manager from the Webservers file. By:Dion Hulse

Akismet – Check comments again spam and other robots you don't want polluting your website. By:Automattic

Broken Link Checker – Checks your blog for broken links and missing images and notifies you on the dashboard if any are found. By: Janis Elsts

Contact Form 7 – Perfect for your Contact Us page and other 'form' options. By: Takayuki Miyoshi

Duplicate Post – Clone posts and pages. By: Enrico Battocchi

Facebook Meta Tags – This plugin adds appropriate meta tags for Facebook share. No Setting required. By: Matt Say

Google Analytics Dashboard – Google Analytics graph integration. By: Carson McDonald

Google Analytics for WordPress – This plugin makes it simple to add Google Analytics to your WordPress blog, adding lots of features, eg. custom variables and automatic clickout and download tracking. By: Joost de Valk

Google XML Sitemaps – This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask.com to better index your blog. By: Arne Brachhold

Pinterest "Pin It" Button – Add the ability to share on the most popular social network in the world to your blog! By: Phil Derksen

SEO Friendly Images – Just what it says! Make your images friendly with search engines and bring greater results to your blog when it comes to SEO! By: Vladimir Prelovac

SEO Smart Links – provides automatic SEO benefits for your site in addition to custom keyword lists, nofollow and much more. By: Vladimir Prelovac

Social Sharing Toolkit – This plugin enables sharing of your content via popular social networks and can also convert Twitter names and hashtags to links. Easy & configurable. By: Marijn Rongen

Subscribe to Comments – Allows readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry. By: Mark Jaquith

Subscription Options – Adds subscription option icons for your RSS Feed; your FeedBurner Email Service; your Twitter Stream and even your Facebook page. Thousands of colour options. Totally user-defined. By: Tom Saunter

The OpenHook Customizations Manager – This plugin allows you to insert arbitrary content into the many hooks that the Thesis Theme Framework provides. Never again edit a file! By: Rick Beckman

Ultimate TinyMCE – Ultimate TinyMCE will add over 30 new buttons to the default visual tinymce editor, giving you the power to visually create your pages and posts. No need for mucking about in HTML and CSS. By: Josh Lobe

WordPress Hashcash Extended – Client-side javascript blocks all spam bots. XHTML 1.1 compliant. (Plain English- keep trashy people from ruining your blog!) By: Aziz B.

WordPress Post Tabs – WordPress Post Tabs will help you to easily display your WordPress Post or Page sections in structured tabs, so that if you are writing some review post, you can add distinct tabs representing each section of the review like overview, specifications, performance, final rating and so on. By: Internet Techies

WordPress SEO – One of the best SEO Plugins I've seen in a long time that can be used on all themes of WordPress, free or paid. By:Joost de Valk

WP-PostRatings – Adds an AJAX rating system for your WordPress blog's post/page. By: Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan

WP-PostViews – Enables you to display how many times a post/page had been viewed. By: Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan

Options for Backup Plugins:

Online Backup for WordPress – Online Backup for WordPress allows you to easily backup your WordPress site with encryption to email, download or free 100 MB secure online storage. By: Jason Woods @ Backup Technology

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WP DBManager – Allows you to optimize database, repair database, backup database, restore database, delete backup database , drop/empty tables and run selected queries. Supports automatic scheduling of backing up, optimizing and repairing of database. (Does not work if hosted with GoDaddy) By: Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan

Options for Cache Plugins:

W3 Total Cache – Improve site performance and user experience via caching: browser, page, object, database, minify and content delivery network support. By: Frederick Townes

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WP Super Cache – is a static caching plugin for WordPress. By using this plugin you will speed up your WordPress blog significantly. By: Donncha O Caoimh