Yesterday I shared a lot of tips, plugins, services, themes, and reading assignments with the audience at BlogCon 2011 in Denver. Here are some additional materials I wanted to include in my presentation and initial blog post, but just couldn’t quite squeeze in.
More WordPress Plugins
- If you can’t install NGINX, APC, and Memcached on your server, try W3 Total Cache to speed up your site.
- If you can install APC, make sure to drop this APC Object Cache Backend PHP file into your wp-content folder.
- The best social sharing tools come from AddThis, which can be installed as a plugin or as a service.
- If you take a lot of photos, you can’t miss out on NextGen Gallery, the best image handling plugin for WordPress.
Additional Free and Low-Cost Services
- Expand your font choices with Adobe Typekit and Google Web Fonts.
- Turn your RSS feed into a beautiful HTML newsletter with MailChimp. Send up to 12,000 emails a month for free, for life. I mentioned this before, but it’s too good of a deal not to mention again.
- Use HootSuite to turn your RSS feed into tweets.
- You’re probably already using Google Analytics to measure your traffic, but if you want to learn more about your audience, install Quantcast. You’ll get demographic data like age, sex, income, educational attainment, numer of children, etc.
If you have any questions about these plugins or services, please email me at cord@readymadeweb.com to get free advice. ReadyMadeWeb only charges when we touch code or push pixels—never for consultation.
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