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WPwatercooler - Weekly WordPress Talk Show

492 EpisodesProduced by Jason Tucker, Sé Reed, Jason CosperWebsite

WordPress from Install to Publish. WPwatercooler is a live video and audio roundtable discussion from WordPress professionals from around the industry who offer tips, best practices, and lively debate on how to put the content management system to use. WPwatercooler is part of the WPwatercooler Netw… read more

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EP96 – What are the best free WordPress plugins?

On this episode of WPwatercooler we will be sharing with you the best free WordPress plugins for your website. There are plenty of paid plugins that are staples in our plugin collections but there are plenty of free plugins out there that do just as much and sometimes better. Show airs July 21 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC Simple Custom CSS Code Snippets Google Analyticator Broken Link Checker (don't leave it activated, but run frequently) Rainbowify (Suzette and Se love it!) Photon (part of Jetpack) Types Plugin (custom post types) Codepress Admin Column (great for managing all the columns that get added by Yoast SEO) The Events Calendar (Modern Tribe) – Se's favorite Buddy Press Debug Bar Shortcodes What template file am I viewing What The File Event Organizer (Chris Lema) Updraft Plus (for backups) Convert Post Types (Steve Z) (for converting Posts to Products, for instance) Edit Flow Post Forking Conditionals (for showing different menus to different kinds of users  If Menu Google Analyticator (don't authenticate through Google) Woo Commerce Exchange Shopp (Se says its free!) Regenerate Thumbnails Query Monitor Special thanks to Celeste Epstein for the show notes! [LISTATTENDEES event_identifier=”ep96-what-are-the-best-and-free-wordpress-plugins-5-53cc7cb2d3220″ show_gravatar=”true”]

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