When we build a website in WordPress we like use a specific set of premium plugins that add security, performance, and usability to your website overall. Some of these plugins are FREE but offer a premium version, while some we purchase and use to there full extent. This set of WordPress plugins are based on our own research an testing to give our clients the best possible website experience available.
Premium WordPress Plugins We Use:
Clickbump SEO
Each Post and Page is Analyzed for Critical On-Page SEO factors (some little known but highly effective secrets that are totally white hat) and given an SEO! Score from 0 to 100! You are then told exactly what to do to improve your score!
Genesis Framework by Studiopress
You put a lot into your site – you want to make sure that you’re ranking well in the search engines so readers, customers, and clients can find you. And clean, optimized code is important for achieving the best rankings possible.
State of the art code and smart design architecture make it easy for search engines to see what you’ve got. With automatic updates to the Genesis Framework, you never have to think about it again. Your code will always be up to date and fully optimized.
Our themes have been fully search optimized by Greg Boser, partner and SVP of of search marketing powerhouse BlueGlass Interactive. Genesis will help your blog rank higher in the search engines, and by following our tutorials and recommendations you can achieve even better search engine placement results.
Securi Scanner
WP Security Scan checks your WordPress website/blog for security vulnerabilities and suggests corrective actions such as:
- Passwords
- File permissions
- Database security
- Version hiding
- WordPress admin protection/security
- Removes WP Generator META tag from core code
Backupbuddy
Backup your entire WordPress install. Widgets, themes, plugins, and SQL database – the entire package! You should not leave the backup process up to your web host. Just like your laptop or desktop computer, you should be doing regular backups of your blog or website. With BackupBuddy you can schedule backups and have them sent off-site to Amazon S3, Rackspace Cloud, an FTP/FTPS account, or to your email.
Gravity Forms
Quickly build and design your WordPress forms using the form editor. Select your fields, configure your options, and easily embed forms on your WordPress powered site using the built in tools.
Foobar
The Foobar is a plugin for WordPress that allows you to add a highly customizable bar to the top of your blog or website. You can display different notifications on different pages and define a default bar that will display on all your pages. Tweets, RSS feeds, social profiles, custom HTML, you name it – Foobar can handle it!
Share This
Used on over 1,000,000 sites, the ShareThis plugin allows users to share your content through email and 50+ social networks including Facebook, Twitter, Digg, StumbleUpon and Reddit.
Akismet
Who can? You have better things to do with your life than deal with the underbelly of the internet. Automattic Kismet (Akismet for short) is a collaborative effort to make comment and trackback spam a non-issue and restore innocence to blogging, so you never have to worry about spam again.
Premise
Build custom landing pages with the Premise point-and-click interface, no matter which WordPress theme you use. Or, build entire WordPress sites with Premise alone.