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Jackie Jimenez

• Marketing Director at Alcantara Media: Strategy for Integrated

Marketing Campaigns

• WordPress.com avid blogger since 2008 - jackiej04

• Blogging about business & life with a musical lyric twist –

http://theinnovativeconsultant.com

• Marketing Consultant and Social Media Planning

• All-around happy to organize #WPMIA

• Twitter: @jackiej04 and @wpmia

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Karla Campos @SocialMediaSass

• Founder/Chief Conspirator Social Media Sass: Social Media &

Digital Marketing Training, Strategy & Management

• Board Member Social Media Club South Florida

• Founder The Real Women of Social Media - Internet reality

show about Social Media

• Founder Giglogo.com - Guest blogging platform

• Soon to be published author - The Chronicles of a Social

Media Addict

• Small Business Influencer 2013 Nominee

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Blanca Stella Mejia

• Founder of MiCaminar.com Inspirational blog

• Latism South Florida Co-Director

• Board Social Media Club South Florida

• Founder of VizRED.com - A digital & web

development agency

• Community Mgr for Microsoft FUSE Labs - SO.CL

• BlancaStella.com social media & other musings.

• Twitter: @micaminar and @miamishines

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Plugin Criteria for Setting

Your Site up Right• Security Plugins & Backup Options

• Site Speed & Maintenance

• SEO - Search Engine Optimization

• Sliders/Photo Galleries & Social Network

Displays

• Social Media Sharing & Blog Commenting

• Misc Cool Plugins

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Security Plugins

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Security Plugin: Akismet

• Free for personal use, a bargain for your

business

• Integrate WordPress.com key or create new

account

• Protect from spam blog comments

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Security Plugin: Better WP Security

• Easy to install, start protecting in seconds(free)

• Change the URLs for WordPress dashboard

including login, admin and more

• Rename “admin” account – protect your site’s

login

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Premium Security Plugin:

Sucuri• Ultimate plugin for website monitoring,

alerting and malware removal

• Suggested for websites with heavy

customization and high traffic

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Backup Plugins

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Backup Plugin: ManageWP

• Create backups to Server, Dropbox or Google

Drive

• Monitor website performance

• Also has Sucuri!

• Update plugins on multiple websites in one click!

• Mobile App (makes you & I happy)

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Premium Backup Plugin:

Backup Buddy• Send your backups wherever you want!

• Set it on re-occurring backups

• Restore your site if anything happens

• Use for server or domain migrations

• Easy to set up

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Backup Plugin: WordPress

Backup to Dropbox

• Easy to use, protected

• Choose how often to backup your site

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SEO Ultimate Plugin: Yoast

All encompassing, fairly easy to use.

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WordPress SEO by Yoast

• It makes on-page optimization easier

• Customize per page: title tags and meta

description

• Create XML Sitemap

• Google authorship

• Overall, Best SEO Plugin!

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Premium Sliders

• Len Slider

• Slider Pro

• Layer Slider WP

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Photo/Content Sliders

• Alpine PhotoTile for Instagram

• Flickr Set Slideshows

• Dynamic Content Slider

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Alpine PhotoTile for Instagram

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Flickr Set Slideshows

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Dynamic Content Slider

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Misc Cool Plugins

• Fancier Author Box by ThematoSoup

• Pricing Table & Pricing Table Ready!

• All-in-One Event Calendar

• Advanced YouTube Embed by Embed Plus

• MailChimp Form by ContactUs.com

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Fancier Author Box by ThematoSoup

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Pricing Table &

Pricing Table Ready!

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All In One Event Calendar

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Advanced YouTube Embed by Embed Plus

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MailChimp Form

by Contactus.com

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Site Maintenance and Speed

Plugin: W3 Total Cache

On Website Conversion, Performance is Key.

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Brief Overview:

W3 Total Cache

• Speed up your website’s load time

• Multiple plugins, high quality images & video

can slow down a website

• Solution: cleans up the framework within your

site

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Optimizers

• EWWW Image Optimizer or WP Smush.it - They

optimize image files when they are uploaded. It

makes them less chunky so quicker to load.

• Simple Optimizer - Optimizes the sites database

to keep it compact. Removes spam comments,

removes pingbacks/trackbacks & post revisions.

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Social Media Sharing Plugins

Good for SEO, even better for

community engagement.

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Shareaholic Plugin

• Clean integration into themes

• Social media stats on social bookmarks

• You May Also Like: cross promote posts

• Top Bar – Has Call to Action

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Social Sharing Tool Kit

• Shares to many social networks including G+ &

Pinterest.

• Has follow settings to display your social

profiles on a widget

• Can configure Tweet sharing with hashtags or

your twitter handle.

• Connects to Bitly API

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Social Media Sharing:

AddThis Plugin

● Access to over 300 Social

Channels!

● Sign up for an account to see

most shared content & analytics

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Blog Commenting Plugins

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Comments are Queen!

• In SEO content may be king, but social media

and comments are queen!

• Options depend on goals within the site

• Disqus: is best for SEO

• LiveFyre: has easy integration into sites

• CommentLuv: good for other bloggers to

comment & linkbacks

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Misc. Content Creation

• Visual Form Builder - Drag/ drop form creation

• Ultimate Tiny MCE - content layout features

• WPBakery Visual Composer: Provides vastly

improved page layout/design creation

• Update Message Places notice messages above

individual posts/pages

• Dynamic Widget - Can specify which pages use

different widgets

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Questions / Comments

• Tip: Try not to bloat your site with too many plugins,

be wise and choosy!

• Twitter - @socialmediasass

@micaminar

@jackiej04