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WordPress Top Plugins

By : Brandon Corbin
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WordPress Top Plugins

By: Brandon Corbin

Overview of this book

Bloggers, authors, coders, photographers, moms, dads, big companies, small companies, and even kids use WordPress to manifest their personas online. WordPress is used in every market, in every country, and continues to grow everyday. This explosive growth and international open source love affair was ignited the day WordPress announced the simple idea of a 'plugin'A WordPress plugin is a collection of files (PHP, javascript, css) that creates a small feature or modification to your WordPress blog. WordPress Top Plugins will teach you to add these plugins to an already built base WordPress site, and customize them where applicable.This book will walk you through finding and installing the best plugins for generating and sharing content, for building communities and reader base, and for generating real advertising revenue.There is literally a plugin for almost anything you want to achieve in WordPress.This book will show you how plugins work, and more importantly, how to install and activate them on your blog without you having to touch a single line of code, unless of course, you want to.Content is king, and it’s pretty hard to generate. This book will cover some of the best plugins available on WordPress to generate unique and dynamic content.Once you have your blog loaded chock full of juicy content, you will learn how to turn your blog in to an overnight sensation by helping your readers to share it, using tools to retweet, post on Facebook, and so on.This book will teach you how to build a community with one single killer plugin, namely, BuddyPress—the best community building plugin available for WordPress.Once you are through with plugin basics, content, and building a community, this book will show you how to generate revenue! It will cover the top plugins for turning your blog into a money making machine!This book will also cover plugins focused on tweaking and perfecting your blog’s overall look and feel, and functionality.Nothing helps build a powerful online blog brand than a horde of talented writers to contribute their ideas and content – as well as their social network. This book will cover a bunch of plugins that will make working with multiple authors easy, efficient, and effective.Last but not the least, it will cover the best plugins for ensuring that your blog is secure, the database is running optimally, and in the case of an emergency, you have a full backup copy of your blog.While most plugins in this book are focused on a blog’s frontend, this book will also cover some great 'non-public' facing plugins that make our lives so much easier and make your WordPress site a productive powerhouse.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
WordPress Top Plugins
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface

WP e-Commerce, FREE Version


By Instinct.co.nz (http://www.instinct.co.nz/)

  • Why it's awesome: Integrated e-commerce on your blog

  • Why it was picked: Powerful settings, multiple credit processing options, lots of features

  • License: GNU General Public License

  • Manual Install URL: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-e-commerce/

  • Automatic Install search term: wp-ecommerce

  • Geek level: Webmaster

  • Configuration location: Top Navigation | Products

  • Used in: Products, pages, posts, widgets

An entire book could be written on WP e-Commerce and all of its functionality. For the sake of brevity, this section will only cover a few of WP e-Commerce's features.

WP e-Commerce is a free plugin. However, the free version lacks some of the more advanced features that you might require if you plan on running a large e-commerce site from your blog.

The Gold Cart version costs $195.00 for companies and $40 for individuals and can be purchased at http://getshopped.org. This add-on includes:

  • Grid view

  • Multiple...