This presentation is meant to help you implement some common WordPress functionality in a manual way instead of using plugins. This keeps your valuable plugin juice free for the plugins that are more complicated.

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2. Kelly Phillips
WPPluginCoach.com
BoostInteractiveMedia.com
@KellyPhillipsNC
I help small businesses owners take
control of their website, turning it
into a powerful tool to grow their
business.

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6. Too many
Plugins
=
A slow
website
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7. How Many Plugins Can I have?
• Level of hosting
• Bulkiness of current
plugins
• Quality of code of
current plugins

8. Connect Google Analytics
Install Mailing List Forms
Implement Google Fonts
Add PayPal Buttons
Display Social Media Icons
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9. How dare you
use a plugin for that!
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10. 1
Connect
Google
Analytics
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11. http://google.com/analytics
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15. My theme doesn’t have a place for scripts. what
now?
Get a better theme
Or
Create a child theme
and add the code to
header.php
(WPBeginner.com has a great tutorial)
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16. 2
Install
Mailing
List
Forms
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22. 3
Implement
Google
Fonts
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23. http://Google.com/fonts

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27. My theme doesn’t have a place for scripts. what
now?
Get a better theme
Or
Create a child theme
and add the code to
header.php
(WPBeginner.com has a great tutorial)
@KellyPhillipsNC

28. 4
Add
PayPal
Buttons
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36. 5
Display
Social
Media
Profile
Icons
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38. <div style="text-align: center;">
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/yourfbpage" target="_blank">
<img title="Facebook" src=“[image_URL]" alt="Facebook" width="32" height="32"
/></a>
<a href="http://www.pinterest.com/yourpinterestpage" target="_blank">
<img title="Pinterest" src=“[image_URL]" alt="Pinterest" width="32" height="32"
/></a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/yourtwitterpage" target="_blank">
<img title="Twitter" src=“[image_URL]" alt="Twitter" width="32" height="32"
/></a>
</div>

39. Copy this URL
Upload the images to your media library at exact display size.
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40. <div style="text-align: center;">
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/yourfbpage" target="_blank">
<img title="Facebook" src=“[image_URL]" alt="Facebook" width="32" height="32"
/></a>
<a href="http://www.pinterest.com/your pinterest page" target="_blank">
<img title="Pinterest" src=“[image_URL]" alt="Pinterest" width="32" height="32"
/></a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/your Twitter page" target="_blank">
<img title="Twitter" src=“[image_URL]" alt="Twitter" width="32" height="32"
/></a>
</div>

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42. Now you can load more
plugins!
(If you’re not too exhausted!)
Zzz…need…. more… plugins…. Zzz…
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