the plugin spectactular - tony cosentino - wordcamp sydney 2012

Plugins spectacularBy Tony Cosentino - wphow.org - @wphow - facebook.com/wphow

Be careful what you wish for....By Tony Cosentino - wphow.org - @wphow - facebook.com/wphow

What the hell are plugins?

✤ accessories to add to your vehicle

✤ php/javascript injection for dummies

✤ written by people smarter than me

✤ I have ADPHPD (Attention deficit php disorder)

✤ I also like wheels other people make, why re-invent them

Plugins versus widgets“which came first, the plugin or the widget”

How to spot a good plugin

Free plugins can be

✤ free to stop being updated

✤ free to brake for extended periods of time

✤ free from developer contact information (sometimes anyway - I’m being dramatic ok)

✤ free to go offline when the developer gets over of at all the whining from internet marketers wanting it fixed yesterday for nada

OK free plugins can be awesome too, if...

✤ the have a large benevolent company behind them

✤ are a loss leader for a paid version

✤ connect you to a commercial 3rd party product (eg sales force form)

✤ are supported by a Buddhist monk who is hoping to attain enlightenment through perfect code and self sacrifice(Nothing against that Buddhists either, they rock)

If you pay for a plugin (or theme)

✤ you are supporting WordPress developer/s who will then maintain the very plugin that is making you look great

✤ inspiring more plugins to be built

✤ subsidising the support system

✤ putting people through college/uni

Time to get off my high horselets get into some free and paid plugins

✤ vaultpress (premium - vaultpress.com - $15/month)

✤ backupbuddy (premium - pluginbuddy.com - $75/year for 2 site licence, $100/year for 10 sites, $150/year unlimited sites)

✤ BackUpWordPress (free - wordpress.org)

Backups

✤ WordPress SEO by Yoast

✤ SEO Ultimate

✤ SEO Rank Tracker

✤ Link Juice Keeper

✤ SEOPressor (premium - http://seopressor.com - $97)

✤ Analytics360 - Google and mailchimps lovechild

SEO

✤ WooCommerce (the new up and comer)

✤ WP Shopp (premium - http://shoppplugin.net )

✤ WP eCommerce (the original)

✤ Ecwid Shopping Cart (use with facebook too)

eCommerce

My sites too small to be a target...small unsecured sites make great fake South African Banks

✤ Limit login attempts

✤ Firewall 2

✤ Block Spam By Math Reloaded

✤ Wordpress file monitor

✤ wp-ban

✤ Timthumb Vulnerability Scanner

Security

Images

✤ Lightbox Plus (popups instead of a blank page)

✤ NextGEN Gallery

✤ Video User Manuals ($24/month on unlimited client sites)

✤ WP Help

Training and support

✤ WP Touch

✤ WP Touch Pro (Premium - http://www.bravenewcode.com/product/wptouch-pro/ - $49 or $199 for developers licence)

Mobile friendly

✤ Organize Series

✤ Shortcodes Ultimate

✤ TinyMCE Advanced

✤ WP-chgFontSize

✤ YARP Yet another related post

✤ Duplicate Post

✤ Easy Content TemplatesReplace Featured Image with Video

Content helpers

✤ Gravity forms (premium - http://gravityforms.com -

Forms

Cachetotally, super

✤ WP Super Cache

✤ W3 Total Cache

Caching

✤ Search Everything

✤ Relevanssi - A Better Search

✤ Google Custom Search

Search

✤ Zopim Live Chat

✤ ClickDesk Live-Chat, Help Desk & Live-Call

Live chat

✤ Event espresso (premium)

✤ All-in-One Event Calendar

✤ CalPress Event Calendar

Events

✤ The social links

✤ facebook (not perfect, still needs to work)

✤ Simple Facebook Share Button

✤ jetpack

Social media

Hey, no sleepingplease make up the person snoring next to you, its a tad distracting

✤ Whitelabel CMS

✤ Adminize

✤ TM Replace Howdy

Dashboard customisation

✤ S2Member

✤ S2Member Pro (premium)

Membership

User management

✤ Import Users from CSV (import a lot of users from one spreadsheet)

✤ User Switching

✤ QuickLogin (popups for login pages so you need to leave the page you are on)

✤ My Content Management (collection of custom post types pre built, eg faqs, people, testimonials, locations, quotes, glossary, etc)

✤ CustomPress (premium - http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/custompress )

Custom post types

✤ Widget logic

✤ Spectacu.la Page Widget

✤ WP-Cumulus

✤ Widgets on pages (add javascript to a page via shortcode that won’t dissapear)

✤ Executable PHP widget

✤ Custom sidebars

✤ Widget Entries (use with Custom sidebars)

✤ Duplicate Widget (Ditto)

✤ PHP Code Widget

Widget domination

✤ Friends Only

✤ Revision control

✤ Velvet Blues Update URLs

✤ Page and Post Lister

✤ Redirection

Developer backend tools

✤ CalculatorPro Calculators - (204 different calculators)

✤ WP Survey And Quiz Tool

The rest

Credits

✤ 1.flickr - King of the road by ejharaldseid - photo link

✤ 2. flickr - Horse - by Moyan_Brenn - photo link

✤ 3. flickr - Hand Gun - by roberthuffstutter - photo link

✤ 4. flickr - Lamborghini - by _groundcoffee - photo link

✤ 5. flickr -8 weeks african grey - by Papooga - image link

Tony Cosentino - wphow.org@wphow facebook.com/wphow