The document discusses various WordPress plugins that can help with customization, security, maintenance, branding, editorial workflow, social media integration, multimedia, mobile optimization, SEO, and analytics. It provides descriptions and recommendations for plugins related to layouts, login security, maintenance modes, styling, subbing processes, comment systems, photo sharing, video embedding, mobile themes, SEO optimization, and analyzing site statistics.

1. MA Magazines Online Further Wordpress customisations, process and plugins which can help

2. Experiment Your layout should be taking shape - at least on Sandbox site You will be playing with plugins and seeing what they’re capable of Your hosting will have been sorted and main site will be ready

3. Security Secure WordPress – Little more piece of mind. Limit Login Attemps – 2 tries and your out VaultPress – Works in the background backing us up ’round the clock. No complaints. WP Security Scan - Perform security scan of WordPress installation.

4. Maintenance / Construction Maintenance Mode - Adds a splash page to your blog that lets visitors know your blog is down for maintenance. Logged in administrators get full access to the blog including the front-end. Navigate to Settings ? Maintenance Mode to get started. Under Construction - allows you to add a more designed HTML landing page.

5. Branding Style sheet: font, logo, colour scheme Images at 72 dpi, resized for page Creating a tiny 16px square for Favicon ( WP Favicon ) Custom Login Logo Lite – Nice way of customising your backend gateway

6. Editorial process Subbing process, section editors, assigning and checking copy Edit Flow: Really useful for organising the editorial workflow process Assignment Desk : News pitch and story tools for local news blogs. User Role Editor - Assign roles for different users - particularly useful to get more of an editorial process shape and also good for allowing writers ability to upload pictures etc. After The Deadline - subbing check

7. Page order - sections My Category Order, My Page Order, Custom Taxonomy Sort. Post Mash - Drag and drop Ajax post re-ordering widget - needs some fiddling with the template. Ultimate Category Excluder - Really simple tool for taking certain posts out of main editorial flow. Blog in Blog - perfect solution if you want to have several blog post lists - say a page with just entertainment stories. Good HTML and CSS options.

8. Social integration: Comment and Interaction Disqus Comment System – Very pleased with Disqus. Looked great right out of the box. Socialize – Nice call to action at the end of each post. I’ve tried most of them. Do check it works with the theme as it has knocked some my sites over TF Social Share - Simple buttons quite flexible can add to different areas- not flash Sharaholic/ sexy bookmarks - flash with pop up buttons also have extra like and + buttons

9. Social: Facebook Easy Facebook Like Button - The simplest way to add Facebook Like Buttons to your WordPress blog. One click setup and start getting Facebook likes for posts on your blog. Facebook Fan Box - via FB site widgets themselves FB Foundations - FB functionality Simple Facebook Connect –Posts new articles to our Facebook fan page and and useful for Facebook integration Tips - get FB id: (http://blog.swixhq.com/how-to-find-your-facebook-fanpage-id/)

10. Social: Twitter WP to Twitter TwitCategory - Announces new posts (from a selected category) on twitter. Twitter display widget: One from Jetpack and others flashy scrolly or just from feed

11. Channels Elsewhere Twitpic (you can geolocate here too) Instagram Flickr + Group YouTube + Channel Vimeo + Channel AudioBoo – follow people again customise dig and update page Cover it Live / Live Blogging

12. Multimedia: Audio Audio Player – Configurable MP3 player AudioBoo WP - AudioBoo plugin. See also: AudioBoo website. Soundcloud: easily embeddable from shortcode not flash Podcasting: Blueberry Podcasting by TSG Podpress: That one I'm currently using in Funtch - good at prepping the podcasts with all the metadata it needs for iTunes.

13. Multimedia: Video SmartYouTube - simple to use resize mechanism "Smart Youtube is a Wordpress Youtube Plugin that allows you to easily insert Youtube videos/playlists in your post, comments and in RSS feed. Viper's Video Quicktags - Visual editor customisation from every video sharing site - particularly good at standardising the video pages WP YouTube Lite - defaults to HTML 5 not Flash so quicker download time (can be used with Smart YouTube but with different short codes) Easy Tube - Plugin to easily place YouTube objects in Wordpress Content - again more visual editor friendly

14. Mobile WPTouch Pro –None is perfect, but WPTouch is the best. Our site looks great on an iPad without switching themes, and thankfully WPTouch leaves it “unTouched” for ‘Pads. ** simple conversion but easy solution - BCU WordPress Mobile Edition - Show your mobile visitors a site presentation designed just for them. Rich experience for iPhone, Android, etc. and clean simple formatting for less capable mobile browsers.

15. SEO All in One SEO Pack - Out-of-the-box SEO for your Wordpress blog. SEO Friendly Images – Adds metas where we would have never taken the time to. SEO Ultimate – Very happy with this SEO solution. The plugin gets updated very frequently, which can be a hassle. But it’s solid and works well. Best part is you can disable the modules you don’t want to use and not look at them again.

16. Analytics WordPress.com Stats - Tracks views, post/page views, referrers, and clicks. Requires a WordPress.com API key or Jetpack Google Analyticator - Adds the necessary JavaScript code to enable Google's Analytics. After enabling this plugin visit the settings page and enter your Google Analytics' UID and enable logging. WP Google Analytics - Lets you use Google Analytics to track your WordPress site statistics