Lately I’ve been finding more and more resources that help me efficiently build sites that meet the needs of clients, and make it easier for them to manage the contents. I plan on blogging about my favorites individually, as finding and picking plugins makes ALL the difference, but for now I’m just gonna mention and link to a few of the new ones I’m discovering so I don’t lose track of them.

Here’s some stuff I’ve  come across in recent months that is rockin’ my world.

• WooThemes makes awesome pro themes that I’m finding remarkably powerful and easy to customize.
• WPQuestions lets me ask urgent questions and get prompt responses from experts, for a fee that I’m more than willing to pay.

• Powerful Plugins
• Improved Include Page lets you add a simple snippet of code to your templates and have it pull in contents of other pages. Awesome for home pages.
• Widget Context that lets me put different widgets on individual pages, every page of a section, whatever.
• Enable Media Replace that lets me replace images in the media library without changing their URL. Best use is letting clients change images taht are hard-coded in the templates/themes I build them, like headers and backgrounds.
• DM-Albums is an awesome image gallery tool that I like better than the ones most people recommend, Zen and NextGen
• This article 10 Steps to a Client-Friendly WordPress CMS provides links to a bunch of plugins that do things I’ve long wanted to do. It’s dated as many of the links go down dead-end roads, but here are some gems I definitely need to keep track of. The most promising ones that do things I haven’t beenable to do thusfar are:
  • Navigation List plugin that makes your nav bar completely customizable yet client-editable
  • Flutter that lets you add custom fields to templates without programming
  • Side Content that lets you put page-specific sidebar content.

More to come…hold me to that. : )