Wordpress

Wordpress Plugins

• All-in-One Event Calendar - powerful plugin for events.
• No Self Pings - remove self pings
• Contact Form 7 - easy to maintain contact form
• Efficient Related Posts - shows related posts by tags
• Enhanced Recent Posts - shows recent posts, can exclude posts from categories
• Like - Facebook like button for posts
• MailChimp Widget - easy and free newsletter by Mailchimp
• Social Media Widget - Adds links to all of your social media and sharing site as a widget
• Solid Code Theme Editor - edit ALL theme files
• W3 Total Cache - for caching (performance)
• XCloner - Backup and Restore - schedule backups with cron jobs

Security

• Better WP Security - various options, makes backups too.
  • Warning: don't change the wp-content dir because it may brake the theme and other plugins.
• Chap Secure Login - Do not show password, during login, on an insecure channel (without SSL). Use a SHA-256 hash algorithm. (works on v3.5)
• Really Simple CAPTCHA - needed for Contact Form 7
• Semisecure Login Reimagined - for more secure login into your Wordpress

Translate

qTranslate

• Change Blog Title: [:en]YourBlogTitle[:de]DeinBlogTitel
• Fix Blog Title Link:
  • open the file qtranslate/qtranslate_hooks.php.
  • Scroll down. At the end of the file, you'll see a bunch of add_filter(...); calls.
  • Add there the following: add_filter('home_url', 'qtrans_convertURL');
• Make bigger icons
• Add Language Cookie to save the previous chosen language.

Bootstrap CSS

• Bootstrap - Sleek, intuitive, and powerful front-end framework for faster and easier web development.
• WordPress Twitter Bootstrap CSS
• Extended Walker class for use with the Twitter Bootstrap toolkit Dropdown menus in Wordpress

Ohers

• Add strong tag to the blog description. - change your header file accordingly.