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WordPress Plug-ins For 2013

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Presenting tonight at the SLC WordPress user group tonight. Topic is “I’m Using WordPress, Now What? Plug-in Edition”.

You can download the presentation here, and view it on Speaker Deck.

Please add your list of must have Plug-ins for 2013.

  • Prestonj11

    Not sure what plugin to try first. Will probably start with JetPack.

    • http://thomallen.com Thom Allen

      Love JetPack, let me know what you think.

  • Tim

    very informative.  thanks for the information and taking the time to set up this presentation

    • http://thomallen.com Thom Allen

      Thanks Tim, glad you showed up and hope things go well for you.

  • Josh

    We use WordPress SEO by Yoast on our blog and we love how easy it is to use and work with.

    • http://thomallen.com Thom Allen

      Thanks Josh, glad you liked it. And I like Yoast.

  • Gina Allen

    Great presentation! 

    • http://thomallen.com Thom Allen

      Thanks sweetie.

  • http://twitter.com/Ktdata Ktdata

    I love using the Repost.Us and Curate.Us plugins to make my posts embeddable on any site.

    Thanks Thom I learned a bunch from the presentation!

    • http://thomallen.com Thom Allen

      Thanks, I haven’t heard of those. On my list to check out. Good to see you tonight. And I want to do a KickStart podcast with you. Let’s do it.

  • http://sosimbo.com/ Vissal P.

    Thanks for the very informative information on plugins. I’m a new inexperienced wordpress user but I currently just started using wordpress seo by yoast. Seems pretty easy so far. Will try all of the other recommended ones tonight.

    • http://thomallen.com Thom Allen

      Thanks, glad you liked it. I love pretty much anything that is put out by Yoast.

  • http://bscarter.com/ Brandon Carter

     I’m a big fan of SEO by Yoast. For social sharing I prefer Socialize (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/socialize/) I like that it’s flexible – I can have a ton of buttons and an obnoxious bar that scrolls up and down along with the user, or I can have a simple box at the beginning/end of each post.

    Thanks for the preso, and good to meet you.

    • http://thomallen.com Thom Allen

      Thanks for replying and sharing your plugin ideas. Great to meet you tonight. Hope to see more of you.

  • http://twitter.com/jazzs3quence Chris Reynolds

    I dig DIgg Digg for sharing (get it?)
    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/digg-digg/

    Also, I’ve written some, so, you know, there’s that. http://profiles.wordpress.org/jazzs3quence and https://github.com/jazzsequence

    Landing Sites is cool, though it hasn’t been updated in forever: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/landing-sites/

    I also really like TPC Memory Usage (which also hasn’t been updated): http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tpc-memory-usage/

    And PressTrends when I want to feel bad about not posting more content: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/presstrends 

    I’ve been using Cart66 + my Products plugin for e-commerce stuff:
    http://cart66.com
    https://github.com/jazzsequence/Products

  • http://thomallen.com Thom Allen

    Sorry about the link in the slides, I messed up the URL. Trying to solve it with a 301 redirect. No luck so far.

    • http://thomallen.com Thom Allen

      w00t! Fixed the URL problem with a 301 using this plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/redirection/

  • http://webpressutah.com/ Kathy Griffiths

    Hey Thom.
    Sheila and I would love to be notified when this group get’s together.  Sure miss the old bunch and would
    love to reconnect again. 
    Kathy Griffiths

    • http://thomallen.com Thom Allen

      Connect up here http://wpslc.com/. Love to see you guys again.