WordPress Plugins For Affiliate Marketing and vending machines. In this episode I talk about what my mom has to say about vending machines and then I welcome WordPress Guru Dustin Hartzler from YourWebsiteEngineer.com the house. Dustin talks all about his favorite must-have WordPress plugins.
This is part 1 of a 2-part interview interview with Dustin.
In this episode of the Late Night Internet Marketing Podcast I talk about plugins.
- Techniques for picking the right plugin.
- Google what you are looking for ( function + WordPress plugin )
- Most links will open up in the WordPress repository
- Then here's what I check
- Does the plugin have a large banner graphic. This is a relatively new feature within the plugin directory. It helps me know whether the plugin developers took the time to design something creative
- Next I look at the LAST UPDATED field. I has to have had a revision in the last 6 months for me to consider it
- Then I look at the number of downloads. If it has a lot, 10,000 or more, it's probably legit
- Lastly, I always look to see if it contains screenshots. Lots of plugins don't so it's hard to know which ones are good by seeing what the plugin looks like installed.
- Then I will highlight the plugin name and go back into WordPress and search within WordPress. This makes it much easier to install (you don't have to download, etc.)
- Backup
- Backup Buddy ( http://ithemes.com )
- BackWP Up ( http://wordpress.org/extend/
plugins/backwpup/ ) - WordPress Backup to Dropbox ( http://wordpress.org/extend/
plugins/wordpress-backup-to- dropbox/)
- Security
- Better WP Security ( http://wordpress.org/extend/
plugins/better-wp-security/ ) - WordFence ( http://wordpress.org/extend/
plugins/wordfence/ )
- Better WP Security ( http://wordpress.org/extend/
- Spam
- Akismet ( http://wordpress.org/extend/
plugins/akismet/ ) - Antispam Bee ( http://wordpress.org/extend/
plugins/antispam-bee/ )
- Akismet ( http://wordpress.org/extend/
- SEO
- WordPress SEO by Yoast ( http://wordpress.org/extend/
plugins/wordpress-seo/ )
- WordPress SEO by Yoast ( http://wordpress.org/extend/
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Episode 047 Transcript
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I hope you guys are having a great day and I hope you had a great Valentine’s Day in the United States. Big fun on February 14th. Paula and I were able to get out and have a little fun. We got a babysitter and we went to dinner and a movie, which was low key for us but it was a lot of fun. We got a chance to be adults out on a date, which was totally cool, really enjoyed that.
I have some good stuff planned for you this week. One is I wanted to tell you a little story. The second thing is I have an interview for you here that you’re really going to like from Dustin Hartzler about WordPress plugins. I had several people ask me over the course of the last couple months, “Can we talk about WordPress plugins?”
I have WordPress plugins that I use and I’ve talked about some of those before. What I decided to was go find a real live website designer, a guy who works on WordPress blogs for a living, and get him to talk about the WordPress plugins that he uses and that he installs for clients, particularly people that are making the kind of websites that we talk about on this show.
I’ve done that and that’s a pretty big interview, so that’s probably going to stretch out over two episodes here. We’ll get to the first half of it today. First, I want to tell you a little story from when my mom was here last week.