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Jan 12, 2015
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Jackie Jimenez
• Marketing Director at Alcantara Media: Strategy for Integrated
Marketing Campaigns
• WordPress.com avid blogger since 2008 - jackiej04
• Blogging about business & life with a musical lyric twist –
http://theinnovativeconsultant.com
• Marketing Consultant and Social Media Planning
• All-around happy to organize #WPMIA
• Twitter: @jackiej04 and @wpmia
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Karla Campos @SocialMediaSass
• Founder/Chief Conspirator Social Media Sass: Social Media &
Digital Marketing Training, Strategy & Management
• Board Member Social Media Club South Florida
• Founder The Real Women of Social Media - Internet reality
show about Social Media
• Founder Giglogo.com - Guest blogging platform
• Soon to be published author - The Chronicles of a Social
Media Addict
• Small Business Influencer 2013 Nominee
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Blanca Stella Mejia
• Founder of MiCaminar.com Inspirational blog
• Latism South Florida Co-Director
• Board Social Media Club South Florida
• Founder of VizRED.com - A digital & web
development agency
• Community Mgr for Microsoft FUSE Labs - SO.CL
• BlancaStella.com social media & other musings.
• Twitter: @micaminar and @miamishines
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Plugin Criteria for Setting
Your Site up Right• Security Plugins & Backup Options
• Site Speed & Maintenance
• SEO - Search Engine Optimization
• Sliders/Photo Galleries & Social Network
Displays
• Social Media Sharing & Blog Commenting
• Misc Cool Plugins
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Security Plugin: Akismet
• Free for personal use, a bargain for your
business
• Integrate WordPress.com key or create new
account
• Protect from spam blog comments
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Security Plugin: Better WP Security
• Easy to install, start protecting in seconds(free)
• Change the URLs for WordPress dashboard
including login, admin and more
• Rename “admin” account – protect your site’s
login
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Premium Security Plugin:
Sucuri• Ultimate plugin for website monitoring,
alerting and malware removal
• Suggested for websites with heavy
customization and high traffic
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Backup Plugin: ManageWP
• Create backups to Server, Dropbox or Google
Drive
• Monitor website performance
• Also has Sucuri!
• Update plugins on multiple websites in one click!
• Mobile App (makes you & I happy)
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Premium Backup Plugin:
Backup Buddy• Send your backups wherever you want!
• Set it on re-occurring backups
• Restore your site if anything happens
• Use for server or domain migrations
• Easy to set up
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Backup Plugin: WordPress
Backup to Dropbox
• Easy to use, protected
• Choose how often to backup your site
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SEO Ultimate Plugin: Yoast
All encompassing, fairly easy to use.
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WordPress SEO by Yoast
• It makes on-page optimization easier
• Customize per page: title tags and meta
description
• Create XML Sitemap
• Google authorship
• Overall, Best SEO Plugin!
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Premium Sliders
• Len Slider
• Slider Pro
• Layer Slider WP
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Photo/Content Sliders
• Alpine PhotoTile for Instagram
• Flickr Set Slideshows
• Dynamic Content Slider
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Misc Cool Plugins
• Fancier Author Box by ThematoSoup
• Pricing Table & Pricing Table Ready!
• All-in-One Event Calendar
• Advanced YouTube Embed by Embed Plus
• MailChimp Form by ContactUs.com
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Site Maintenance and Speed
Plugin: W3 Total Cache
On Website Conversion, Performance is Key.
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Brief Overview:
W3 Total Cache
• Speed up your website’s load time
• Multiple plugins, high quality images & video
can slow down a website
• Solution: cleans up the framework within your
site
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Optimizers
• EWWW Image Optimizer or WP Smush.it - They
optimize image files when they are uploaded. It
makes them less chunky so quicker to load.
• Simple Optimizer - Optimizes the sites database
to keep it compact. Removes spam comments,
removes pingbacks/trackbacks & post revisions.
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Social Media Sharing Plugins
Good for SEO, even better for
community engagement.
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Shareaholic Plugin
• Clean integration into themes
• Social media stats on social bookmarks
• You May Also Like: cross promote posts
• Top Bar – Has Call to Action
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Social Sharing Tool Kit
• Shares to many social networks including G+ &
Pinterest.
• Has follow settings to display your social
profiles on a widget
• Can configure Tweet sharing with hashtags or
your twitter handle.
• Connects to Bitly API
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Social Media Sharing:
AddThis Plugin
● Access to over 300 Social
Channels!
● Sign up for an account to see
most shared content & analytics
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Comments are Queen!
• In SEO content may be king, but social media
and comments are queen!
• Options depend on goals within the site
• Disqus: is best for SEO
• LiveFyre: has easy integration into sites
• CommentLuv: good for other bloggers to
comment & linkbacks
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Misc. Content Creation
• Visual Form Builder - Drag/ drop form creation
• Ultimate Tiny MCE - content layout features
• WPBakery Visual Composer: Provides vastly
improved page layout/design creation
• Update Message Places notice messages above
individual posts/pages
• Dynamic Widget - Can specify which pages use
different widgets
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Questions / Comments
• Tip: Try not to bloat your site with too many plugins,
be wise and choosy!
• Twitter - @socialmediasass
@micaminar
@jackiej04