My deck for #wcto2013 Wordcamp Toronto. A talk about Wordpress Plugins for Beginners

1. Extending Wordpress with Plugins
Wordcamp Buffalo 2013

3. • GraphicSource.ca – web since 1998
• WP since 2006
• Hamilton Ontario #Hamont

7. WP Plugin Repository – A less than perfect place to find a plugin

8. WENT TO THE PLUGIN REPOSITORY
FOUND 87 PLUGINS I HAD TO CHOOSE FROM

9. Stuff shows up in different
places.
Things may appear in Different Places – you have to dig around a bit

11. What’s better ?
a 4.2 star rated plugin with 7 votes
or a 3.9 star rated plugin with 26 votes

12. It’s time for a revolutionary
Change to the Wordpress Plugin Repository
Or at least a few
Minor modifications
That would bring it
Up to 2013 Standards.

13.  A better rating system – 5 stars not cutting it.
 Show the number of votes
 Pricing indication Free, Freemium or Premium
 Last Updated
 Sortable columns
 Advanced Search
 Better Feedback System – Built right in to plugins
 Plugin Users – Donate once in a while

14.  Plugin Central – All your plugins
 Yoast – SEO
 Better WP Security – Security Duh
 WP3 Total Cache
 Contact Form 7
 One Click Plugin Updater
 Google Analytics

15.  All kinds of widgets, photos, calendars,
 Booking systems, ecommerce, donations
 Sliders, galleries, contests, social media
 Wordpress functionality tweaks
 Site backups / moves - Duplicator
 Podcasting – Blubrry Power Press
 Blogging Tools – Inbound Writer (Premium)
 Translation / Multi Language

16. Maintenance – close site to outsiders while working on
it
No Longer in Directory – are your current plugins?
CSV to SortTable – Sortable HTML table
Invoice King Pro
Customer Area – protected area for client files and
invoices.
Image Widget
Insert Javascript and CSS
Performance Monitoring – GTMetrix for Wordpress,
WP system health.

17. Better WP Security
WP Login Delay Plugin
Brute Protect
Wordfence
Clef – www.getclef.com

18.  Careful with overloading too many plugins
 Watch site performance
 If not in use, disable
 Troubleshooting? Start shutting
them down one by one and test
 Take some time to evaluate have a plan
 Check your site after installing one
 Avoid mass installs/upgrades of
unknown plugins

19.  Podcast review of Plugins with Marcus Couch and
John Overall

20. A small line of code that looks like
[shortcode_name]
And allows you to quickly add functionality
Utilized by plugins

21.  HTML / CSS
 www.w3schools.com
 Why?
 Style your text
 Move things around
 Add some space around text
 Jazz it up
 <p style=“color:red; font-weight:bold;”> Hello
</p>

23. geoff@graphicsource.ca
@geoffcampbell1
@graphicsrouce
www.geoffcampbell.net
www.graphicsource.ca
For this presentation:
Geoffcampbell.net/wctoronto2013