Best Wordpress Plugins for Marketing

26 Jun 12 5:55 pm

It is easy to go wild with plugins - there are so many useful ones. However, there are a few I always use in every WordPress installation - for my own sites and those of my web development clients.
*WP-DBManager - to backup your critical WordPress database(s) and send you email backups (but read the WordPress docs on doing full backups - you need much more than a plugin)
*Advanced Code Editor - Makes editing theme CSS and such so much easier and faster
*Akismet - to fight spam comments
*Clicky for WordPress - I love http://www.getclicky.com for easy real-time metrics
*Jetpack by WordPress - like their widgets
*Redirection - Comes a time you'll need an easy way to handle 301 redirects - this does it
*Use Google Libraries - Usually causes a big improvement in page load speed

Hope this helps...
_jim coe

26 Jun 12 10:24 pm

Both really:
It logs 404 ("page not found") errors and helps you easily re-direct those to pages in your blog.

For one example this error could be from an old static website (which you've replaced with a WordPress blog), where the user has an old link to an *.html page, but WordPress has the same content in a WordPress static page (but no .html file name).

Or could be any other reason.

Or maybe you edited a "slug" or deleted a post and need to redirect that to the current post or page - good for those too. Pretty darn useful - and you don't have to understand .HTACCESS files or Apache Server Directives or any of the other arcane 301 redirect stuff.

This is all on a "page-by-page" basis. Usually to redirect a whole site, you'd do a 301 ("moved permanently") from the control panel of the hosting service of the old website - that would handle the whole site in one 301.

_jim coe