What Resources Do I Recommend?
WordPress Themes
- Free WordPress Themes
- Themeforest Premium Themes
- Woo Premium Themes
- Headway Premium Themes
- Templatic Premium Themes
- Kadom Premium Themes
- Elegant Premium Themes
- Solostream Premium Themes
- Ithemes Premium Themes
Free WordPress plugins if you are looking for something specific. Otherwise, the following list is what I recommend for all new installs.
Basic Package - WordPress Plugins
- Akismet comment spam protector Akismet needs an API key to activate it. I will set this up for you if you don't already have one.
- WP PageNavi Advanced page navigation system
- Twitterlink Comments Lets commenters add Twitter link
- Ozh Better Feed Lets you add copyright, link back to your site, and anything else to RSS feed. (Great for benefitting from content scrapers).
- Light SEO
- Login Lockdown Helps stop brute force hackers
- WordPress Firewall Helps stop hackers, but requires a little bit of education for use, so I will provide those instructions to you.
- Contact Form 7 Simple flexible contact form
- WP Database Backup
Pro Package - WordPress Plugins
- WordTwit Automatically tweets posts to Twitter
- Table of Contents Creator
- DB Cache Reloaded Helps speed up your site
- Microkids Related Posts Not automatic - Allows you to manually decide based on search, which posts you want to include as related posts.
- Easy Privacy Policy Keeps you in compliance with Adsense
- Datafeedr Random Rotation Ads v2 Lets you easily add any type of ad code, with ability to rotate several ads in one ad spot.
Hosting
The only host I can recommend based on my own experiences with many different hosts is Hostgator. They rock. If, however, you'd prefer to choose your own host, the only requirement I have for using my services, is that the host should have Cpanel installed.
