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

Publishing

• WP to Twitter
• Facebook Page Publish 2

Security

• Better WP Security (deploy) - 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 (deploy) - 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.

Navigation

• Infinite Scroll

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

Others

• Add strong tag to the blog description. - change your header file accordingly.
• How to create shortcodes and nested shortcuts.

Strato Installation

define('DB_HOST', 'rdbms.strato.de'); // 99% Chance, dass du hier nichts ändern musst.

If not working:

• Open phpMyAdmin by clicking on Datenbank-Verwaltung
• On right is "Database server" with ```User: <user-name>@<db-host>```. Try with exaclty this ```<db-host>```
• Then try again with ```rdbms.strato.de```

Deploy

• Copy files with [scp](SSH)
• Import the database

* Change "localhost" to "official_url" (HELP! How to automate this?)

• If using Permalinks, recreate the .htaccess

Deployed Wordpress Plugins

• [Chap Secure Login](http://wordpress.org/plugins/chap-secure-login/) - Do not show password, during login, on an insecure channel (without SSL). Use a SHA-256 hash algorithm.
• [Better WP Security](http://wordpress.org/plugins/better-wp-security/) - various security options, makes backups too.
  • Activate backups!!!