My presentation @WordCamp Sofia 2012

1. The plugins
you need

2. Who am I?

3. Create amazing websites
with WordPress

A huge amount of themes and
plugins

Amazing community

Free and easy to use

7. What do we need?

Interesting Home page

Portfolio/gallery

Translations

Contact and other forms

Some other types of info (products,
projects, etc)

8. And also...

Fast loading

SEO

Correct URL's

Social media

Compatibility

9. The most useful plugins ever
Let's create an web site that will have
all of this

10. Portfolio/Gallery- NextGen
Gallery

Easy management

Multiple upload

Useful shortcodes for different views

Watermarks

Related plugins

11. NextGen Options

12. NextGen Nivo Slider

13. NextGen Scroll Gallery

14. Translations

Free option – qTranslate
-easy to use
-free

Paid one –
- translate strings, taxonomies,
compatible – ex. NextGen Gallery

16. Forms
The amazing plugin – Gravity
Forms
-easy creation of different forms
-a lot of field types
-database with all received forms
-option to insert the forms

17. Social media

Facebook plugin
-comments related to Facebook
comments
-recommendations
-like, send to fb profile, etc.

Twitter – count tweets and
automatic share

Add This – all in

18. AddThis Options

19. Custom post types-
Types & Views
- Create and manage custom post
types
-Compatible with a lot of themes
and plugins
-Easy management of post types,
testimonials and custom fields

20. Recently added

Recently added posts with
featured image, text or slider

Best features here – posibility to
pick category, taxonomy and/or
custom post type:
EasyRotator
Recent post slider

21. An Amazing Home Page
Demo

22. URL's and Cyrillic

Cyr-To-Lat

Problems with URL's in Cyrillic

Automatic solution even for old
posts

Better for SEO and user
management

You don't believe you need it?

23. You do!
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24. Caching
-a lot of big images
-template loading takes time
-offers a lot of features and
compability with shared hosting,
VPS, etc.

25. Why does speed matter?

26. WordPress SEO by
Yoast

Offers:

Page analisys

Meta and Link elements

RSS optimization
and much more

27. Demo

28. Advanced plugins
WooCommerce

Products

Bundles

Discounts

Coupons

Digital sells

Different payment gateways

Invoices and reports

29. Easy Digital Downloads

Easy way to sell
downloadable
products

Reports and e-
mail settings

Licensing system

Full payment
gateways support

30. MailChimp
A nice way to create campaign:
Listings
Mail templates
Statistics and results

31. BuddyPress
The Social Network:

Custom profile options

Activity streaming

Connections and discussions

Groups

Private messaging and much more

32. Bettercodes Social Network

34. Contacts:
-twitter: iv_wp
-iv.dimova@gmail.com
-http://www.linkedin.com/in/ivdimova