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Our Favorite WordPress and Genesis Plugins

by Anne

image - Our Favorite WordPress and Genesis PluginsPlugins are small pieces of code that smart people have written to help ordinary people like us do great things with our websites. 🙂

Plugins for WordPress are usually free, and they will give you the ability to make your website rock, without having to understand all the coding and computer language behind websites.

Here are some of the plugins we use most often on our own websites:

WordPress Plugins

  • Akismet
  • BackupBuddy
  • Contextual Related Posts
  • Duplicate Post
  • Google Analytics
  • Google Analytics Dashboard
  • Print Friendly and PDF
  • Recent Posts Widget Plus
  • Redirection
  • RefTagger
  • Shareaholic
  • SEO Friendly Images
  • What Would Seth Godin Do?
  • WordPress Importer
  • WP125

Genesis Plugins

  • Genesis Favicon Uploader
  • Genesis Responsive Slider
  • More Genesis plugins…

How to Install a New Plugin:

  1. Login to your WordPress dashboard.
  2. Click on “Plugins.”
  3. Click on “Add New.”
  4. Either search for a plugin by name (easiest), or upload a plugin from your computer (useful if you have multiple websites and want to use this plugin repeatedly).
  5. Follow the on-screen instructions to install and activate the plugin.
  6. Check that all the plugin settings are just how you want them.
  7. Check that your website responded in the way you expected.

Important Warnings about Plugins:

We have only two caveats about plugins. You are installing code into an existing website. Sometimes funky things happen, usually because two different plugins or themes are sending conflicting information to your website.

  1. Don’t forget to backup your site often, both before you install new plugins and at regular intervals. If your new plugin messes up your site, you’ll always have a backup to help restore things.
  2. Don’t forget to update your plugins. Hackers can use plugins to do things to your site, but updates can protect you. Even if you haven’t activated a plugin, it’s important that you keep it updated. On our sites, we check for new updates at least once a week.

What plugins do you love? Please leave us a comment!

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About Anne

Anne is the marketing director and chief developer at e9designs, but her true love is teaching -- whether it's teaching her seven children at home or writing curriculum and blogging from her home outside Lansing, Michigan. You can find Anne on Pinterest, YouTube, or our official Facebook Page.

Comments

  1. Bila Abid says

    May 19, 2015 at 2:21 am

    Awesome list of plugins! i will be able to positively got to update my plugin list when this… Thanks for sharing this!

    Reply

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