Author Website: Customizing With Plugins
One of the great things about WordPress is the vast array of plugins that are available to help add functionality and customization to your author website. There are almost 30,000 plugins available in the WordPress Plugin Directory. Here are the ones that the vast majority of authors use and recommend:
- Jetpack by WordPress.com – This is a plugin built by the same people who created WordPress. It offers a lot of great functionality including easily embeddable media (YouTube, Vimeo, etc.), social media integration and much more.
- Optin Monster – The best popup and slide over tool for email subscriptions. Offers themes, split testing and lots of other options.
- Google Analytics for WordPress – Makes it easy to integrate Google Analytics into your website.
- All in One SEO Pack – A great tool to automatically make your site more friendly to search engines such as Google and Bing.
- BackUpWordPress – Keeps your website backed up for when disaster strikes.
- Limit Login Attempts – A great little tool that keeps your WordPress site safe from hackers.
- Sumo – Makes it easy to add email signups and social share to your website.
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