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5 Must Have WordPress Plugins We Use On Every Site

February 22, 2013 Brian Bourn

At Bourn Creative we have a stable of various paid and free WordPress plugins that we regularly use on our clients’ sites, depending on needed website functionality. Out of our collection of trusted WordPress plugins, there are five must have plugins that we use on pretty much every custom WordPress site we build — and this past week I shared these five plugins in a lighting talk I gave at the Sacramento WordPress Meetup.

WordPress Plugin #1: Akismet

Why We Recommend the Akismet WordPress Plugin:

  • Created, managed, and owned by Automattic
  • Save time with simple comment spam protection
  • Low monthly fee (still free for personal bloggers)
  • Download Akismet

WordPress Plugin #2: Limit Login Attempts

Why We Recommend the Limit Login Attempts WordPress Plugin:

  • Simple and easy security for your WordPress login
  • Automatically locks out an IP address after a specific number of failed login attempts
  • Download Limit Login Attempts

WordPress Plugin #3: Google Analytics for WordPress

Why We Recommend the Google Analytics for WordPress Plugin:

  • Easy integration with Google Analytics
  • Includes download tracking and outbound tracking by default
  • Advanced settings are available
  • Download Google Analytics For WordPress

WordPress Plugin #4: Simple Page Ordering

Why We Recommend the Simple Page Ordering WordPress Plugin:

  • Helps you manage your WordPress pages dashboard
  • Drag and drop functionality makes it easy to keep your pages organized
  • There is no effect on the front end of the site
  • Download Simple Page Ordering

WordPress Plugin #5: WordPress SEO

Why We Recommend the WordPress SEO Plugin:

  • The most comprehensive WordPress SEO plugin available
  • Easily manage your SEO titles and meta descriptions
  • XML sitemap support to alert search engines of site changes, new pages, and new posts
  • OpenGraph data support for Facebook
  • Google authorship support (so your photo shows up next to your links in the search results)
  • Even more awesome settings and advanced configurations available!
  • Download WordPress SEO

And That’s It!

With about 20,000 different WordPress plugins available, these are the five plugins we install on nearly every custom WordPress site we build.

A Note About the Sacramento WordPress Meetup

Whether you’re a WordPress developer, web designer, or WordPress user, at the beginning, intermediate, or advanced level, the Sacramento WordPress meetup group is something you should check out! We love WordPress and we’d love to not only see the Sacramento WordPress community grow and thrive, but to meet more WordPress lovers and users in our area! The Sacramento WordPress meetup group meets the third Tuesday of every month at Hacker Lab — 1715 I Street, Sacramento.

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Category: WordPress Tips & Resources Tags: Google Analytics, Sacramento WordPress Meetup, WordPress, WordPress Plugins, WordPress SEO

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About Brian Bourn

Chief Executive · Lead Developer

Strong with the Force, is he... an excellent CEO he makes. As Bourn Creative's fearless leader, Brian manages the business, team, and day-to-day operations. He is also lead organizer of the Sacramento WordPress Meetup group and co-organizer for WordCamp Sacramento.

Brian is a designer at heart who leads the UX design and development on all company projects, building the interactions between websites and visitors, and site managers and the WordPress admin. With hundreds of thousands of lines of code under his belt, Brian specializes advanced WordPress development and custom themeing with the Genesis Framework.

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