1. A Brief History of Plugins
WordCamp Phoenix 2012
Andrew Ryno

2. What is a plugin?

3. What can plugins do?

4. “Hello, Dolly”

5. SEO

6. NO MORE SPAM

7. BACKUPS

8. Plugins are cool.
How do you get them?

9. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/

11. 18,480 plugins
and counting

18. define( ‘WP_DEBUG’, true );
define( ‘SCRIPT_DEBUG’, true );
define( ‘SAVEQUERIES’, true );

19. 1. Rename a plugin folder.
2. Does the site work now?
3. If not, rename another one. If it does,
that plugin is bad.
4. Go from there.

20. Use the support forums.
http://wordpress.org/support/

21. Some Recommended Plugins:
- Akismet
- Jetpack by WordPress.com
- Backup Buddy/WP-DB-Backup
- W3 Total Cache
- WordPress SEO by Yoast
- Google Analytics for WordPress
- Gravity Forms
- User Role Manager
- WP Facebook Open Graph protocol
- WP Touch
- Theme My *
- and many more...

22. Andrew Ryno
@andrewryno
http://andrewryno.com/