Chapter 15
Ten Popular WordPress Plugins
IN THIS CHAPTER
Finding popular WordPress plugins
Using plugins to enhance your website
In this chapter, I list ten of the most popular plugins available for your WordPress site. This list isn’t exhaustive by any means; hundreds of excellent WordPress plugins can, and do, provide multiple ways to extend the functionality of your blog. If these ten plugins aren’t enough for you, you can find many more at the official WordPress Plugins page (https://wordpress.org/plugins).
The greatest plugin of all is Akismet, which I describe in Chapter 7. Akismet is the answer to comment and trackback spam; it kills spam dead. It’s installed with WordPress. Chapter 7 contains information on how to locate, download, unpack, install, activate, and manage plugins on your WordPress site.
Custom Post Type UI
Developer: WebDevStudios
https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-post-type-ui
In Chapter 12 of this book, I introduced you to the Custom Post Types feature in WordPress. Custom post types enable you to create new content types separate from posts and pages, such as movie reviews or recipes. Custom taxonomies allow you to create new types of content groups separate ...
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