Presentation done at the Niche Parent 13 Bloggers Conference by Blanca Stella Mejia, Jackie Jimenez and Karla Campos. In this presentation we talk about Wordpress plugins for security, site optimization, SEO, and blog appearance.

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Plugins to Enhance Your WordPress Blog
Blanca, Karla and Jackie #nicheparent13

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Karla Campos
@SocialMediaSass
● Founder/Chief Conspirator Social Media Sass: Social Media
& Digital Marketing Training, Strategy & Management
● Board Member Social Media Club South Florida
● Founder The Real Women of Social Media - Internet reality
show about Social Media
● Founder Giglogo.com - Guest blogging platform
● Soon to be published author - The Chronicles of a Social
Media Addict
● Small Business Influencer 2013 Nominee

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Jackie Jimenez
● Marketing Director at Alcantara Media: Strategy for
Integrated Marketing Campaigns
● WordPress.com avid blogger since 2008 - jackiej04
● Blogging about business & life with a musical lyric twist –
http://theinnovativeconsultant.com
● Marketing Consultant and Social Media Planning
● All-around happy to organize #WPMIA
● Twitter: @jackiej04 and @wpmia

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Blanca Stella Mejia
● Founder of MiCaminar.com Inspirational blog
● Latism South Florida Co-Director
● Board Social Media Club South Florida
● Founder of VizRED.com - A digital & web
development agency
● Community Mgr for Microsoft FUSE Labs - SO.CL
● BlancaStella.com social media & other musings.
● Twitter: @micaminar and @miamishines

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Plugin Criteria for Setting
Your Site up Right
● Security Plugins & Backup Options
● Site Speed & Maintenance
● SEO - Search Engine Optimization
● Sliders/Photo Galleries & Social Network
Displays
● Misc Cool Plugins
● Social Media Sharing & Blog Commenting

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Security Plugins

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Security Plugin: Akismet
● Free for personal use, a bargain for your
business
● Integrate WordPress.com key or create new
account
● Protect from spam blog comments

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Security Plugin: Better WP Security
● Easy to install, start protecting in seconds(free)
● Change the URLs for WordPress dashboard
including login, admin and more
● Rename “admin” account – protect your site’s
login

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Premium Security Plugin:
Sucuri
● Ultimate plugin for website monitoring,
alerting and malware removal
● Integrated within ManageWP!
● Paid Plugin, suggested for websites with
heavy customization and high traffic

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Backup Plugins

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Backup Plugin: ManageWP
● Create daily, weekly & monthly backups to
Server, Dropbox or Google Drive
● Monitor website performance
● Also has Sucuri!
● Update plugins on multiple websites in one
click!
● Mobile App (makes you & I happy)

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Premium Backup Plugin:
Backup Buddy
● Send your backups wherever you want!
● Set it on re-occurring backups
● Restore your site if anything happens
● Use for server or domain migrations
● Easy to set up

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Backup Plugin: WordPress
Backup to Dropbox
● Easy to use, integrate with Dropbox
● Choose how often to backup your site
● Set which files upload
● Secure integration

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SEO Ultimate Plugin: Yoast
All encompassing, fairly easy to use.

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WordPress SEO by Yoast
● It makes on-page optimization easier
● Customize per page: title tags and meta
description
● Create XML Sitemap
● Google authorship
● Overall, Best SEO Plugin!

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Premium Sliders
● Len Slider
● Slider Pro
● Layer Slider WP

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Photo/Content Sliders
● Alpine PhotoTile for Instagram
● Flickr Set Slideshows
● Dynamic Content Slider

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Alpine PhotoTile for Instagram

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Flickr Set Slideshows

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Dynamic Content Slider

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Misc Cool Plugins
● Fancier Author Box by ThematoSoup
● Pricing Table & Pricing Table Ready!
● All-in-One Event Calendar
● Advanced YouTube Embed by Embed Plus
● MailChimp Form by ContactUs.com

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Fancier Author Box
by ThematoSoup

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Pricing Table &
Pricing Table Ready!

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All In One Event Calendar

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Advanced YouTube
Embed
by Embed Plus

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MailChimp Form
by Contactus.com

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Site Maintenance and Speed
Plugin: W3 Total Cache
On Website Conversion, Performance is Key.

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Brief Overview:
W3 Total Cache
● Speed up your website’s load time
● Multiple plugins, high quality images & video
can slow down a website
● Solution: cleans up the framework within your
site
● Improves user experience overall = less bounce
rate!

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Optimizers
● EWWW Image Optimizer or WP Smush.it - They
optimize image files when they are uploaded. It
makes them less chunky so quicker to load.
● Simple Optimizer - Optimizes the sites database
to keep it compact. Removes spam comments,
removes pingbacks/trackbacks & post revisions.

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Social Media Sharing Plugins
Good for SEO, even better for
community engagement.

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Shareaholic Plugin
● Clean integration into themes
● Social media stats on social bookmarks
● You May Also Like: cross promote posts
● Top Bar – Has Call to Action

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Social Sharing Tool Kit
● Shares to many social networks including G+ &
Pinterest.
● Has follow settings to display your social
profiles on a widget
● Can configure Tweet sharing with hashtags or
your twitter handle.
● Connects to Bitly API

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Social Media Sharing:
AddThis Plugin
● Access to over 300 Social
Channels!
● Sign up for an account to see
most shared content & analytics

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Blog Commenting Plugins

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Comments are Queen!
● In SEO content may be king, but social media
and comments are queen!
● Options depend on goals within the site
● Disqus: is best for SEO
● LiveFyre: has easy integration into sites
● CommentLuv: good for other bloggers to
comment & linkbacks

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Misc. Content Creation
● Visual Form Builder - Drag/ drop form creation
● Ultimate Tiny MCE - content layout features
● WPBakery Visual Composer: Provides vastly
improved page layout/design creation -premium
● Update Message Places notice messages above
individual posts/pages
● Dynamic Widget - Can specify which pages use
different widgets

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Questions / Comments
● Tip: Try not to bloat your site with too many plugins,
be wise and choosy!
● Twitter - @socialmediasass
@micaminar
@jackiej04