Yakezie.com - Topic: 1st Day in the Wordpress World! https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/1st-day-in-the-wordpress-world/ Simple:Press Version 4.5.1 Eric - PersonalProfitability.com on 1st Day in the Wordpress World! https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/1st-day-in-the-wordpress-world/#p94273 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/1st-day-in-the-wordpress-world/#p94273 I have found that Wordpress Firewall 2 has expanded abilities to block attacks over Wordfence. Not sure about WP DB Manager. Might do the same thing. I get my database backup emailed to me every week (I auto archive it in Gmail) for each WP site.

]]> Thu, 20 Jun 2013 10:03:02 +0000 My Personal Finance Journey on 1st Day in the Wordpress World! https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/1st-day-in-the-wordpress-world/#p94231 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/1st-day-in-the-wordpress-world/#p94231 Eric - NarrowBridge.net said:

Welcome to the big leagues! I also use Genesis. A lot of the suggested plugins above give features already built in. Don't add too many plugins or your site will slow down and can get buggy. Here's what I use:

  • Akismet + Conditional CAPTCHA for Wordpress - Anti-Spam Comments
  • Aweber Web Forms (signup forms and shadowbox for Aweber users)
  • Fancier Author Box
  • Google XML Sitemaps
  • Jetpack
  • LinkWithin
  • PrettyLink Pro (handles my affiliate links)
  • RSS Footer
  • Skimlinks (other affiliate platform)
  • WP DB Backup
  • Wordfence Security
  • Wordpress Firewall 2
  • WP Smush.it
  • WP Supercache

Great suggestions Eric! I installed Wordfence and am loving it. It has already stopped 3 IPs from trying to log in 5000 plus times to hack my site. 

Couple of questions...

1) Is Wordpress Firewall 2 needed if I have wordfence?

2) I currently am using WP DB Manager to backup my database and then the Wordpress to Dropbox to back up all of my site files. Does WP DB Backup do about the same thing as WP DB Manager?

]]> Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:28:49 +0000 Eric - PersonalProfitability.com on 1st Day in the Wordpress World! https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/1st-day-in-the-wordpress-world/#p94226 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/1st-day-in-the-wordpress-world/#p94226 Welcome to the big leagues! I also use Genesis. A lot of the suggested plugins above give features already built in. Don't add too many plugins or your site will slow down and can get buggy. Here's what I use:

  • Akismet + Conditional CAPTCHA for Wordpress - Anti-Spam Comments
  • Aweber Web Forms (signup forms and shadowbox for Aweber users)
  • Fancier Author Box
  • Google XML Sitemaps
  • Jetpack
  • LinkWithin
  • PrettyLink Pro (handles my affiliate links)
  • RSS Footer
  • Skimlinks (other affiliate platform)
  • WP DB Backup
  • Wordfence Security
  • Wordpress Firewall 2
  • WP Smush.it
  • WP Supercache
]]> Tue, 18 Jun 2013 08:26:52 +0000 Untemplater on 1st Day in the Wordpress World! https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/1st-day-in-the-wordpress-world/#p94181 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/1st-day-in-the-wordpress-world/#p94181 Nice job making the switch! You'll get the hang of Wordpress in no time and will be so glad you switched. I also recommend Wordpress SEO by Yoast and W3 Total Cache. 

]]> Sun, 16 Jun 2013 23:47:51 +0000 My Personal Finance Journey on 1st Day in the Wordpress World! https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/1st-day-in-the-wordpress-world/#p94168 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/1st-day-in-the-wordpress-world/#p94168 The Frugal Toad said:

Welcome to the WP World Jacob, bout time! ;)  A couple more plugins you may want to check out are Whydowork Adsense for managing adsense and Widget Context for controlling what pages sidebar widgets appear on.

Thanks for the suggestions FT! Adsense is next on my list of things to integrate. I'll give that plugin a try!

]]> Sun, 16 Jun 2013 07:31:16 +0000 My Personal Finance Journey on 1st Day in the Wordpress World! https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/1st-day-in-the-wordpress-world/#p94167 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/1st-day-in-the-wordpress-world/#p94167 sooverthis said:

Welcome, Jacob! So glad to see you finally took the plunge. I highly recommend WP Smush.it - it will compress your images upon upload to keep the site from getting bogged down.

Thanks Andrea! I'm really enjoying all of the increased functionality of Wordpress. I think it will make it a lot easier to prevent repelling readers while still making a little money to support the ongoing operations! I'll look at installing the Smush it here in a few minutes! 

]]> Sun, 16 Jun 2013 07:09:53 +0000 The Frugal Toad on 1st Day in the Wordpress World! https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/1st-day-in-the-wordpress-world/#p94158 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/1st-day-in-the-wordpress-world/#p94158 Welcome to the WP World Jacob, bout time! ;)  A couple more plugins you may want to check out are Whydowork Adsense for managing adsense and Widget Context for controlling what pages sidebar widgets appear on.

]]> Fri, 14 Jun 2013 18:56:32 +0000 sooverthis on 1st Day in the Wordpress World! https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/1st-day-in-the-wordpress-world/#p94156 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/1st-day-in-the-wordpress-world/#p94156 Welcome, Jacob! So glad to see you finally took the plunge. I highly recommend WP Smush.it - it will compress your images upon upload to keep the site from getting bogged down.

]]> Fri, 14 Jun 2013 09:15:52 +0000 My Personal Finance Journey on 1st Day in the Wordpress World! https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/1st-day-in-the-wordpress-world/#p94153 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/1st-day-in-the-wordpress-world/#p94153 The College Investor said:

Jacob, I love the news theme!  I love Genesis.  You don't need All In One SEO for Genesis - the built-in SEO functions are great.  

 

Feel free to reach out if you have any questions on plugins, I don't know if there is something you're really wanting to do and can't figure it out.

Another question for ya - is there a way to create a post "template?" In other words, some way to make it so that the same text appears in the new post editor each time I want to draft a new post? 

]]> Fri, 14 Jun 2013 02:45:34 +0000 My Personal Finance Journey on 1st Day in the Wordpress World! https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/1st-day-in-the-wordpress-world/#p94152 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/1st-day-in-the-wordpress-world/#p94152 Squirrelers said:

The College Investor said:

My Personal Finance Journey said:

The College Investor said:

Jacob, I love the news theme!  I love Genesis.  You don't need All In One SEO for Genesis - the built-in SEO functions are great.  

Feel free to reach out if you have any questions on plugins, I don't know if there is something you're really wanting to do and can't figure it out.

Nice, yeah looks like you're running the News theme on your site too! But yeah I was thinking that the SEO for Genesis was probably enough and I didn't need anything else. 

I did have a question - which plugin is it that controls what posts your RSS feed sees vs. are hidden?

I don't have a plugin that does that, but I know people do - just don't know what it's called.

I use Ultimate Category Excluder to filter what the RSS feed sees. 

Great suggestion. I just installed it! 

]]> Fri, 14 Jun 2013 02:43:02 +0000 Squirrelers on 1st Day in the Wordpress World! https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/1st-day-in-the-wordpress-world/#p94145 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/1st-day-in-the-wordpress-world/#p94145 The College Investor said:

My Personal Finance Journey said:

The College Investor said:

Jacob, I love the news theme!  I love Genesis.  You don't need All In One SEO for Genesis - the built-in SEO functions are great.  

Feel free to reach out if you have any questions on plugins, I don't know if there is something you're really wanting to do and can't figure it out.

Nice, yeah looks like you're running the News theme on your site too! But yeah I was thinking that the SEO for Genesis was probably enough and I didn't need anything else. 

I did have a question - which plugin is it that controls what posts your RSS feed sees vs. are hidden?

I don't have a plugin that does that, but I know people do - just don't know what it's called.

I use Ultimate Category Excluder to filter what the RSS feed sees. 

]]> Thu, 13 Jun 2013 19:48:27 +0000 The College Investor on 1st Day in the Wordpress World! https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/1st-day-in-the-wordpress-world/#p94144 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/1st-day-in-the-wordpress-world/#p94144 My Personal Finance Journey said:

The College Investor said:

Jacob, I love the news theme!  I love Genesis.  You don't need All In One SEO for Genesis - the built-in SEO functions are great.  

 

Feel free to reach out if you have any questions on plugins, I don't know if there is something you're really wanting to do and can't figure it out.

Nice, yeah looks like you're running the News theme on your site too! But yeah I was thinking that the SEO for Genesis was probably enough and I didn't need anything else. 

I did have a question - which plugin is it that controls what posts your RSS feed sees vs. are hidden?

I don't have a plugin that does that, but I know people do - just don't know what it's called.

]]> Thu, 13 Jun 2013 19:41:02 +0000 frugaling on 1st Day in the Wordpress World! https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/1st-day-in-the-wordpress-world/#p94141 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/1st-day-in-the-wordpress-world/#p94141 Jacob,

 

I'm actually running both right now. I prefer Analytics for detailed stats. But Jetpack is a good, quick reflection of where people are clicking. Also, it comes with a plugin/widget that can display the most popular posts:

 

]]> Thu, 13 Jun 2013 17:55:16 +0000 My Personal Finance Journey on 1st Day in the Wordpress World! https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/1st-day-in-the-wordpress-world/#p94139 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/1st-day-in-the-wordpress-world/#p94139 frugaling said:

Congrats on the switch over to Wordpress. You're in for a treat! :)

Here are the plugins I use and recommend:

  1. Akismet
  2. Align RSS Images
  3. Feedburner Feedsmith
  4. Google XML Sitemaps
  5. Jetpack
  6. Sharebar
  7. Simple Social Icons
  8. Wordpress Related Posts
  9. Wordpress SEO by Yoast
Hope this helps! Let me know if you have any questions about a particular one.

Thanks Frugaling! Is Jetpack recommended for stats, etc if I am already running Google Analytics?

]]> Thu, 13 Jun 2013 17:21:45 +0000 My Personal Finance Journey on 1st Day in the Wordpress World! https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/1st-day-in-the-wordpress-world/#p94138 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/1st-day-in-the-wordpress-world/#p94138 The College Investor said:

Jacob, I love the news theme!  I love Genesis.  You don't need All In One SEO for Genesis - the built-in SEO functions are great.  

 

Feel free to reach out if you have any questions on plugins, I don't know if there is something you're really wanting to do and can't figure it out.

Nice, yeah looks like you're running the News theme on your site too! But yeah I was thinking that the SEO for Genesis was probably enough and I didn't need anything else. 

I did have a question - which plugin is it that controls what posts your RSS feed sees vs. are hidden?

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