Do your posts' fancy HTML code (or embeds or movies or JavaScript) get mangled when you--or worse--someone else, opens your WordPress post in the Visual editor?
Finally, with the help of the Category Icons plugin, I can designate certain posts in a list to have an icon.
I've been looking for years for a good backup solution for WordPress. I finally found it: BackupBuddy.
I was having trouble with a them conflict and JetPack and finally found a forum post about deactivating JetPack modules that helped me solve the problem. I didn't even know you *could* deactivate modules in JetPack!
The WordPress Editorial Calendar plugin shows your posts in a visual calendar-view format that lets you see what's scheduled to go live and when.
The features of WordPress.com are now available to WordPress.org (self-hosted) sites
Genesis Simple Hooks basically let you put content, code, or whatever you want into places that only developers have dared gone before.
Shortcodes independent of the WordPress theme? With a little button to put the code into your post area? Whoa.
So you want that widget on the home page, but not on any other pages? Done. The Widget Logic plugin lets you choose where you want what when.
I had used the Genesis Featured Page in a widget, but then I realized it really needed to be a Featured Post. "Aha, what do we have here in the widget area? Genesis Featured Posts!" Lucky me.
I've been through Contact Form 7, I've been a longtime fan of cforms, but there was one feature none of those had that I've been holding out for: conditional form fields. Enter Gravity Forms.
This plugin lets you edit the three areas in any Genesis theme: the post-info (byline), the post-meta, and the footer area. Normally, you'd have to get into the PHP files, find the right spot to edit what you're looking to do, save, upload, check, oops, edit, save, upload, check. Now it's all in the WordPress admin: click, save, done.
Here are some basic tips for getting your WordPress installation set up. This video goes over site name, tagline, time zone, writing post height, permalinks, media file settings, etc.
To make sure your WordPress site is being tracked by Google Account, you'll need to first set up a Google Account, then Google Account and I like the Google Analyticator plugin.
To set up the Akismet (for comment spam) and WordPress.com Stats plugins, you'll need an API key from wordpress.com.