This document summarizes and recommends several WordPress plugins. It describes image and gallery plugins like Envira Gallery and NextGEN Gallery that allow creating responsive image galleries. It also mentions slider plugins like Revolution Slider and Soliloquy Slider. Other plugin categories covered include media library organization, image optimization, dashboard customization, content migration, Bootstrap integration, events calendars, email marketing, and social sharing. Contact information is provided for the plugin expert Angela Bowman.

1. N E W A N D A M A Z I N G
W O R D P R E S S P L U G I N S
R O C K Y O U R B L O G / W E B S I T E W I T H
Angela Bowman aka Ask WordPress Girl - AskWPGirl.com
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2. A P I C T U R E I S W O R T H A
T H O U S A N D S W O R D S

3. E N V I R A G A L L E RY
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/envira-gallery-lite/
• Envira Gallery is the absolute easiest, fastest and most efficient
gallery plugin for WordPress. Creating galleries is intuitive using
all native WordPress features, and your galleries are responsive
right out of the box.

4. E N V I R A G A L L E RY M O S A I C D I S P L AY
Responsive! Images
re-arrange and resize
for screen size!

5. N E X T G E N G A L L E RY
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/nextgen-gallery/
• The most robust image management plugin.
• Great for photographers and people who have to manage hundreds of images
and have lots of control and features.
• New version has user-friendly interface for inserting galleries on pages and
posts. Recommend Plus upgrade.

6. N E X T G E N G A L L E RY P L U S D I S P L AY S

7. R E V O L U T I O N S L I D E R
• http://codecanyon.net/item/slider-revolution-
responsive-wordpress-plugin/2751380
• Responsive full-width slider with drag-and-
drop interface for layering elements on the
slide such as text, buttons, other images, etc.

8. S O L I L I Q U O Y S L I D E R
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/soliloquy-lite/
• “The best responsive WordPress slider plugin. Made lite and free.” Made by a
lead developer at WordPress.
• Interface almost identical to Envira Gallery, but this is a slideshow not a gallery.

9. E N H A N C E D
M E D I A L I B R A RY
• https://wordpress.org/
plugins/enhanced-media-
library/
• Create and assign
categories and/or
taxonomies to your
WordPress Media Library
images. Finally! You can
organize your images!

10. E W W W I M A G E
O P T I M I Z E R
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/
ewww-image-optimizer/
• Reduce file sizes for images in
WordPress including
NextGEN, GRAND FlAGallery
and more using lossless/lossy
methods and image format
conversion.
• $1/month for lossy methods
• Alt: https://wordpress.org/
plugins/wp-smushit/

11. I M S A N I T Y
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/
imsanity/
• Imsanity automatically resizes
huge image uploads down to
a size that is more reasonable
for display in browser, yet still
more than large enough for
typical website use. The plugin
is configurable with a max
width, height and quality. Not
working with iPhone - bug. Might need to
be sure that Jetpack plugin is connecting to
servers correctly and JSON API is working.
• Only works on upload and with
images inserted into posts, not
images in galleries.

12. C O N T R O L Y O U R
D A S H B O A R D

13. C M S T R E E PA G E V I E W
• https://
wordpress.org/
plugins/cms-tree-
page-view/
• Adds a tree view of
all pages & custom
posts.
• Get a great overview
+ options to drag &
drop to reorder &
option to add
multiple pages.

14. D I S A B L E
V I S U A L E D I T O R
• https://wordpress.org/
plugins/disable-visual-
editor-wysiwyg/
• Disable the visual editor
for selected page(s)/
post(s)/custom post types
to keep HTML in tact.

15. R I C H T E X T TA G S
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/rich-text-tags/
• Allows you to edit tag, category, and taxonomy descriptions using
WordPress' built in WYSIWYG editor making your archive pages much
more interesting!
• You will need to add this code snippet to your archive.php, category.php,
or taxonomy.php file to show the content of the description:
<?php echo category_description( ); ?>

16. M I G R AT E C O N T E N T
W I T H E A S E

17. D U P L I C AT O R
• Use the Duplicator plugin to
quickly and easily migrate a
WordPress site from one
host to another or from
localhost to web host
• Easy interface
• Only need to set up new,
blank database at host and
upload two files
• https://wordpress.org/
plugins/duplicator/

18. W P A L L I M P O R T
• https://wordpress.org/
plugins/wp-all-import/
• WP All Import can be used
for everything from
migrating content from a
legacy CMS to WordPress
to building a store with an
affiliate data feed to
displaying live stock
quotes or sports scores to
building a real estate
portal.

19. I M A G E
T E L E P O R T E R
• https://wordpress.org/
plugins/image-teleporter/
• Turns images that are
hosted elsewhere into
images that are now in
your Media Library, and
the code on your page is
automatically updated!

20. A U T O P O S T T H U M B N A I L
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/auto-post-thumbnail/
• Generates a post thumbnail from first image in post or any custom
post type. If the first image doesn't work it will automatically search
for the next one and so on until the post thumbnail is inserted.

21. V E LV E T B L U E S
U P D AT E U R L S
• https://wordpress.org/
plugins/velvet-blues-
update-urls/
• If you don’t use the
Duplicator plugin, this
plugin can be used to
update all urls and content
links in your website if you
change URLs for the site
(such as from staging to
live)

22. G E T B O O T S T R A P P E D !

23. W H AT I S T W I T T E R B O O T S T R A P ?
• The most popular HTML, CSS, and JS framework for
developing responsive, mobile first projects on the
web. Details: http://getbootstrap.com
• Created at Twitter in mid-2010 by @mdo and @fat.
• It has buttons, accordions/
toggles, tabbed content,
lightbox, icon lists, columns,
grids, button groups, alerts,
popups, modal windows,
table formatting, and more!

24. W O R D P R E S S B O O T S T R A P C S S
• https://wordpress.org/
plugins/wordpress-
bootstrap-css/
• Include the latest Twitter
Bootstrap CSS and
Javascript libraries in your
WordPress site.
• Required for the following
plugin to work if you don’t
already have a theme
using Bootstrap.

25. B O O T S T R A P 3
S H O R T C O D E S
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/bootstrap-3-
shortcodes/
• Implements Bootstrap 3 styles and
components in WordPress through
shortcodes.

26. B E T T E R F O N T A W E S O M E
• https://wordpress.org/
plugins/better-font-
awesome/
• A suite of cool vector icons.
• Automatically integrates
the latest available version
of Font Awesome into your
WordPress site.
• Required for the following
plugin to work. Not
required if your theme
already includes Font
Awesome. http://fontawesome.io/icons/

27. F O N TA W E S O M E
S H O R T C O D E S
• http://www.wordpress.org/
plugins/font-awesome-
shortcodes/
• Great interface for listing and
inserting Font Awesome icons
on your site.

28. L E T ’ S PA R T Y !

29. T H E E V E N T S
C A L E N D A R
• https://wordpress.org/
plugins/the-events-
calendar/
• The best calendar plugin
EVER! Grid, list, and
calendar views.
• Customizable templates
and CSS.
• Integrates with Easy Digital
Downloads for ticket sales.

30. E V E N T E S P R E S S O V E R S I O N 4
• https://wordpress.org/
plugins/event-espresso-
decaf/
• http://eventespresso.com
• Full featured event
management plugin.
Challenging to set up but
tons of options!
• Free version (decaf) has
recently been updated,
thankfully, so it’s not as
clunky.

31. !
E V E N T S M A N A G E R
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/events-manager/
• Robust plugin that I found surprisingly competitive with Event
Espresso for out-of-the-box features with excellent documentation
and sensible templates.

32. G O I N G A P E S !

33. W P M A N D R I L L
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/
wpmandrill/
• Routes all of those WordPress
emails through Mandrill, giving you
deliverability, tracking, reporting,
and peace of mind.
• Avoids server confusion with MX
records hosted elsewhere.
• Get free API Key at https://
mandrill.com/.
• Create new API for each website.

34. E A S Y M A I L C H I M P
F O R M S
• https://wordpress.org/
plugins/yikes-inc-easy-
mailchimp-extender/
• Easy MailChimp Forms
allows you to painlessly
add MailChimp sign up
forms to your WordPress
site and track user activity
with interactive reports.

35. E N G A G E Y O U R
A U D I E N C E !

36. S O C I A L N E T W O R K S A U T O - P O S T E R - “ S N A P ”
• https://wordpress.org/
plugins/social-networks-
auto-poster-facebook-
twitter-g/
• Automatically publishes
posts from your blog to
your Social Network
accounts, including:
Facebook, Twitter, Google
+, Pinterest, and many
more!
• Technical to implement as
you need to set up API
from some networks but
tons of options for how/
what posts.

37. J E T PA C K
• http://jetpack.me/
• Loads of features for
engagement. Easier to set up
auto publishing than SNAP but
no options for what displays.
• Includes: social sharing, social
publishing, blog email
subscriptions, likes, enhanced
distribution, contact form, and
more!
• You need to sign up for free
WordPress.com account to
activate.

38. S C R O L L B A C K
T O T O P
• https://wordpress.org/
plugins/scroll-back-to-top/
• This plugin will add a
button that allows users to
scroll smoothly to the top
of the page.

39. U LT I M AT E
P O S T S W I D G E T S
• https://wordpress.org/
plugins/ultimate-posts-
widget/
• The ultimate widget for
displaying posts, custom
post types or sticky posts
with an array of options.

40. U B E R M E N U
• http://wpmegamenu.com/
• The most exciting thing since sliced bread!
• Put anything in a big drop down menu: latest posts, images,
category list, custom taxonomy list, and more!
• Relatively easy to set up and mobile friendly!

41. I C E G R A M
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/
icegram/
• http://www.icegram.com/demos/
• Popups, Action Bars, Sidebar popouts,
Notifications, Messenger, Inline
Messages, Badges, sooo freakin’ cool!
• Integrates with Mail Chimp

42. C O N TA C T A N G E L A
Angela Bowman • AskWPGirl.com
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