{"id":171,"date":"2012-10-06T15:55:58","date_gmt":"2012-10-06T15:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dbnwebdesign.co.uk\/blog\/?p=171"},"modified":"2012-10-06T15:56:30","modified_gmt":"2012-10-06T15:56:30","slug":"essential-wordpress-plugins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbnwebdesign.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/10\/06\/essential-wordpress-plugins\/","title":{"rendered":"Essential WordPress Plugins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t a big list of all sorts of <strong>WordPress plugins<\/strong> you could use on your site, but more of a list of my favourate plugins. The plugins I regard as essential for the basic functionality I want.<!--more--><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Google Analytics<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/googleanalytics\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/googleanalytics\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nice and easy plugin to allow you to add the Google Analytics code to your site. I regard this as an essential for any site.<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Spam Free WordPress<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/spam-free-wordpress\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/spam-free-wordpress\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A great plugin to stop all those unwanted spam comments to your posts. Requires a license key to get full functionality, but the key is free.<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>WordPress SEO<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/wordpress-seo\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/wordpress-seo\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another essential wordPress plugin in my opinion. Gives you some great functionality to improve the SEO of your posts.<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Custom Meta<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/custom-meta\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/custom-meta\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A simple little widget that lets you choose which links to include.<br \/>\nNot been updated recently, but then it does what you want so why should it be updated.<\/p>\n<h2>NextGen Gallery<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/nextgen-gallery\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/nextgen-gallery\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gives you some great photo gallery functionality. lets you choose between thumbnails which open up in a lighbox (I use FancyBox) or scroll through the pictures in a slideshow.<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Easy FancyBox<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/easy-fancybox\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/easy-fancybox\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I like the look of the FancyBox Lightbox. I use it mainly with the NextGen Gallery but it can do a lot more.<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Smart Youtube PRO<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/smart-youtube\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/smart-youtube\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Great for letting you embed YouTube or other video content into your pages\/posts. I want to play with this more when I get some time. I also want to look at using FancyBox to display a YouTube video.<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>WP Mobile Detector<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/wp-mobile-detector\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/wp-mobile-detector\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This plugin will spot if the visitor is using a mobile device and whether its a smartphone or not and will swith the theme accordingly.<\/p>\n<h2>Like-Button-Plugin-For-Wordpress<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/like-button-plugin-for-wordpress\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/like-button-plugin-for-wordpress\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Add a &#8216;Like&#8217; button to your posts. I&#8217;ve used it to add a Facebook &#8216;Like&#8217; button and a Google +1 button to my posts (not in this DBN Blog yet, I really should add it).<\/p>\n<p><strong>No e-commerce plugins?<\/strong><br \/>\nI haven&#8217;t included any e-commerce plugins in this list because I prefer to use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs-cart.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">cs-cart<\/a> for e-commerce sites.<\/p>\n<p>This will probably be a post I keep coming back to as I find more great WordPress plugins. So please keep watching out for updates and why not leave a comment if there are any other plugins you think should be on this list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t a big list of all sorts of WordPress plugins you could use on your site, but more of a list of my favourate plugins. 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