Plugins discovered:

• Sumome – tool to grow Email List, social sharing and analytics. Lots of different parts to it. LOVE this plugin! Wow! Easy to install, customize and integrate with WordPress.
• Uji Countdown – HTML5 Customizable Countdown Timer – saving this one for when I hold Webinars or online instruction.
• WordPress Backup to Dropbox– Testing this plugin out to do my daily backups for my website. It’s a pretty light site a the moment so I’m hoping this will hold me over until I can find something different. Meanwhile, it was very easy to setup with Dropbox. Successfully did database backups.
• Wordfence – wordpress security protection from hackers getting in your site.
• Login Security Solution – help protect hackers getting in through the login. Force users to use stronger passwords, including yourself to keep your site safe from hackers.

Plugins discovered:

• Genesis Simple Edits – to quickly update the footer area. Time saver.
• CoSchedule – To manage my blog posts and social media. FIVE stars awesome!! I found this from The WordPress Chick’s free download called “The Top 10 Tools I Profit with WordPress”. Worth the download and read.
• WordPress SEO by Yoast – Social analytics. I’ve set this up but am still in the discovery phase on this one. Before using this, I would typically set up the Google Analytics for WP plugin. (free version for now)
• Starbox – To manage my post signature (free version for now). This is a fantastic tool and I love it. (see below…isn’t it nice??)