Developer Tammy Coron dishes out some expert WordPress advice plus 11 essential plugins.
WordPress Plugins
Plugin choices will be driven by what you plan to do with your site. With that in mind, I think every site – regardless of its function – may benefit from these:
Jetpack adds powerful features previously only available to WordPress.com users including customization, traffic, mobile, content, and performance tools.
Simple Lightbox is a very simple and customizable lightbox that is easy to add to your WordPress website.
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Users Ultra is the ideal plugin for creating advanced user communities and networks in a few minutes. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Yahoo, Google.
Conclusion
These recommendations are just that – recommendations. They're not meant to be the definitive guide to creating a website. They're simply a list of resources I wish I had when I was working on justwritecode.net and roundaboutfm.com. With any luck, this post will save you a little time – and money.
As a bonus for reading this post until the end - you did do that, right? - here's a tip on where to find some awesome images for your site: Pixabay.
Words: Tammy Coron
Tammy Coron is an iOS developer, backend developer, web developer, writer, and illustrator. She blogs at Just Write Code.Why not download her game, Crow's Quest – it's free!
