WordPress Security PLUGINS

• AntiVirus - Security solution as a smart, effectively plugin to protect your blog against exploits and spam injections.
• Secure WordPress – Careful using this plugin, don’t enable features without knowing the consequences. Basic security checks for securing your WordPress installation.

WordPress Post Editor PLUGINS

• Duplicate Post – Creates a copy of a post.
• Tiny Table – Add table controls in the TinyMCE Rich Visual Editor
• WP-Table Reloaded – This plugin allows you to create and easily manage tables in the admin-area of WordPress.

Social Media Plugins

• Follow Me – The Follow Me plugin is designed to allow users the ability to add links to their social media profiles in their blog.
• FollowMe – WP FollowMe is a wordpress plugin that allow you to add a twitter Follow me badge on your wordpress blog.
• Like-Button-Plugin-For-Wordpress – This Plugin provides the most settings for the Like-Button of Facebook.
• Social Media Page – Generates a list of social media profiles on a given page or as a widget.
• Social Slider – This plugin adds links to your social networking sites’ profiles in a box floating at the left side of the screen.
• TweetMeme Follow Button – Adds a button which lets you follow Twitter users.

Font Customization Plugins

• Font Burner – The Font Burner Plugin allows you to easily add Font Burner Fonts to your site through WordPress.

Slideshow Plugins

• Google AJAX Feed Slide Show Widget – Image Slideshow from Media RSS.

WordPress Admin PluginS

• Search & Replace – -One of the most helpful plugins when you move a WP website. A simple search for find strings in your database and replace the string.
• Sticky Note Plugin – Write your own notes at the Admin-dashboard, and help yourself remebering.
• Vice Versa – Convert Pages to Posts and Vice Versa
• WP Custom Menu Filter Plugin – This filters the WP Custom Menu based on whether user is logged in or not.

Mobile WordPress Plugins

• WordPress Mobile Pack

The steps involved to migrate a WordPress website may look like this:

1. Backup your test WP website MySQL database.
2. Export the WordPress database of your test website using MySQL. Do not use the WordPress built in Export XML feature as it does NOT include plugin settings and will only export posts, pages, comments, custom fields, categories, and tags.
3. Download all the WordPress files to your hard drive from your test website using FTP and edit the wp-config.php to reflect the new server’s database settings.
4. Go to your new host and either manually or automagically install WordPress.
5. Upload/replace the wp-content, .htaccess and wp-config.php files to the new host overwriting the new files with the old (test website files).
6. On the new [live] website host, use phpMyAdmin to select the new WordPress database and import the old/text MySQL file from step #2.
7. On the new live site, use the Search and Replace plugin to look for all occurances of the old website’s URL and replace that with the new website’s URL.
8. Change the DNS of your domain name to your new/live website’s DNS numbers.

Testimonials template

Here are some basic points to request that the client hit which should include in a testimonial.

• Who is the customer?
• How did the project help the client?
• Ask the client to describe you and the service you provide (in their own words).
• What made an impact for the customer?
• Ask the client to back up their testimonial by including the contact information include:
  • First and last name
  • City, State
  • Company & Title

Other important client testimonial

• Be credible
• Create a desire for the reader to want you as a vendor
• Include real details
• Explain the benefits
• What were the results of using your company

Lock down your self-hosted WordPress website

Use this list of best-of essential security plugins. These are all free of coarse and most of them are well supported, most.

• Akismet

  Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not.

• Secure WordPress

  Little basics for secure your WordPress-installation.

• SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam

  Adds CAPTCHA anti-spam methods to WordPress on the comment form, registration form, login, or all. This prevents spam from automated bots.

• WordPress Database Backup

  On-demand backup of your WordPress database. Search for WP-DB-Backup in the WordPress free plugin directory. This plugin can also perform scheduled email backups in ZIP format emailed to you.

This may be a short list but these powerful WordPress plugins will provide the best security for your self-hosted WP install. Search for more plugins at the WordPress free plugin directory.

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