These are the plugins I recommend
- Simple Social Icons – Simple Social Icons is an easy to use, customizable way to display icons that link visitors to your various social profiles.
- Genesis eNews Extended – Creates a new widget to easily add mailing lists
- Akismet Anti-Spam – quite possibly the best way in the world to protect your blog from spam. Your site is fully configured and being protected, even while you sleep.
- Anti-Malware Security and Brute-Force Firewall – This Anti-Virus/Anti-Malware plugin searches for Malware and other Virus like threats and vulnerabilities on your server and helps you remove them. It’s always growing and changing to adapt to new threats so let me know if it’s not working for you.
- iThemes Security – Take the guesswork out of WordPress security. iThemes Security offers 30+ ways to lock down WordPress in an easy-to-use WordPress security plugin.
- Jetpack by WordPress.com – Bring the power of the WordPress.com cloud to your self-hosted WordPress. Jetpack enables you to connect your blog to a WordPress.com account to use the powerful features normally only available to WordPress.com users.
- jQuery Pin It Button for Images – Highlights images on hover and adds a “Pin It” button over them for easy pinning. You can add a custom “Pin It” button as well.
- Regenerate Thumbnails – Allows you to regenerate all thumbnails after changing the thumbnail sizes or your theme.
- Sucuri Security – Auditing, Malware Scanner and Hardening – The Sucuri plugin provides the website owner the best Audit logging, SiteCheck Remote Malware Scanning, Effective Security Hardening and Post-Hack features. SiteCheck will check for malware, spam, blacklisting and other security issues like .htaccess redirects, hidden eval code, etc. The best thing about it is it’s completely free.
- Wordfence Security – Wordfence Security – Anti-virus, Firewall and Malware Scan.
- WP Instagram Widget – A WordPress widget for showing your latest Instagram photos.
- Yoast SEO – The first true all-in-one SEO solution for WordPress, including on-page content analysis, XML sitemaps and much more.
I will be updating this every few months so keep checking back.
On to lesson 9