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Making your website stand out online is hard work. However,\u00a0a poorly designed or functioning website can be\u00a0the\u00a0difference between making a sale or losing a client.<\/p>\n
Fortunately, WordPress is our savior. We have\u00a0thousands of themes to choose from and even more plugins to provide additional functionality.<\/p>\n
If you’re a photographer, you\u00a0need plugins\u00a0that\u00a0can\u00a0highlight your work, boost\u00a0your audience and monetize your passion.<\/strong> Thankfully, there are tons of great options\u00a0out there to help you organize your pictures, optimize your social channels and sell more of your work. Below you’ll find a list we’ve compiled of the best WordPress plugins to make your photography site stand out. Enjoy!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n SumoMe<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Increasing\u00a0website traffic is a crucial part of any online strategy, and SumoMe can help you to do\u00a0exactly that. It’s built by the great team at AppSumo<\/a>, who specialize in providing the best tools on the internet at high discounts.\u00a0SumoMe gives you a suite of ten tools that will help you with everything from content analytics to growing your email list.<\/p>\n Ninja Forms <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n If you need to provide\u00a0forms for people to fill out on your site, Ninja Forms is arguably the ideal solution. Dragging-and-dropping to create the forms\u00a0represents the limits of its complexity. The forms can be placed anywhere on your site, and you’ll receive\u00a0automatic notifications of every submission. It’s a great tool for user feedback, surveys, or even filling out billing information after a purchase.<\/p>\n WordPress SEO by Yoast<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Search Engine Optimization (SEO)\u00a0can be confusing,\u00a0overwhelming and sometimes impossible to master. Thankfully, WordPress SEO by Yoast\u00a0makes it simple to master SEO with analysis tools, meta tags customization, an SEO headline creator, and much more.<\/p>\n AddThis<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n AddThis provides you with a full suite of sharing and website conversion tools to help people find your best content and share it across the web. One highlight is its recommended\u00a0content tool, which shows your visitors content that is trending on your site, giving a unique (and valuable) experience every time they visit.<\/p>\n Public Post Preview<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n When dealing with guest contributors, collaboration can be somewhat complicated. With that said, Public Post Preview could be the solution: it allows you to share a private link of a\u00a0post while it’s still in draft mode,\u00a0so guest writers can see their piece and give feedback\u00a0before you hit Publish<\/em>.<\/p>\n TinyMCE\u00a0Spellcheck\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Being a great photographer doesn’t mean that you’re a great speller. TinyMCE Spellcheck can be\u00a0useful\u00a0if you need extra help with your words and you’re crunched for time. It has a familiar underlining feature to help you\u00a0check misspelled words and ensure\u00a0that\u00a0your writing is error-free.<\/p>\n Co-Authors Plus<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Depending on the type of content you are trying to produce, you may end up having more than one author attributed\u00a0to a specific post. Co-Authors Plus lets you\u00a0easily attribute multiple people who contributed to a post and give them equal credit.<\/p>\n Just Writing<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Even though WordPress has a distraction-free mode, sometimes you want to add specific elements\u00a0to\u00a0aid in the structure and design of a post. Just Writing\u00a0gives you some added functionality while still helping you stay focused at the same time.<\/p>\n Thumbnail Editor<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n You work too hard on your content for it\u00a0not to be formatted correctly. While text doesn’t tend to be too much of a problem, thumbnail images can be troublesome at times. With that in mind,\u00a0Thumbnail Editor gives you the ability to manually fix misaligned thumbnails, so you can have consistency across all your\u00a0media. Great for perfectionists!<\/p>\n WP Smush.it<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Size matters when it comes to pictures. WP Smush.it reduces image file sizes ‘losslessly,’ which means that the quality of the image isn’t compromised by the file size reduction. It works in the background, so you don’t need to worry about it. This plugin is arguably\u00a0a must-have photographers, who are likely to have large image file sizes that could do with paring down.<\/p>\n Regenerate Thumbnails<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n If you ever find yourself changing image thumbnails, this handy tool lets you regenerate them for any attachments. It works for all image uploads, or for any specific ones you might have done.<\/p>\n OmniGallery<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Social media isn’t going away any time soon, and for photographers it can be a goldmine for building an audience and attracting\u00a0prospective\u00a0clients. OmniGallery lets you add your photos from Instagram, Pinterest, Flickr and Facebook into customized galleries that automatically update when you post to your favorite social network.<\/p>\n Meta Slider<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Everyone loves slideshows, right? Meta Slider is a very popular plugin for inserting slideshow galleries into posts and pages. One of the\u00a0best things about this plugin is that you aren’t limited to one slideshow design: You can choose from four different slideshow types including Flex Slider, Nivo Slider, Responsive Slides & Coin Slider. All slideshows are responsive and include a plethora of\u00a0slideshow configuration options – transition effect, speed etc (per slideshow).<\/p>\n SEO Friendly Images<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Images on your site can have just as much impact as words, especially in the world of photography!\u00a0SEO Friendly Images automatically updates images with the right alt<\/em> and title<\/em> attributes for better SEO. These terms\u00a0ensure that your\u00a0images appear for the\u00a0relevant keywords.<\/p>\n Sell Media<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n More sales means more time building and creating the things you love. For photographers, Sell Media is a perfect way to start doing that. Put simply, if you can upload it into WordPress, you can sell it. License your work, create price groups and even check sales reports. It’s a one stop shop for all your selling needs.<\/p>\n All in One WP Security<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Some people never worry about how secure their site is until it’s too late. This plugin lets you monitor and keep watch over your site in a bunch of cool ways. You can manage user accounts, file systems and add firewalls.<\/p>\n Google Authenticator<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n You can’t be too safe when you’re protecting your work.\u00a0Google Authenticator\u00a0allows you to use two-factor authentication when logging into your site, giving you a much-needed extra layer of protection. After all, ensuring\u00a0a secure login process\u00a0isn’t just a good idea; it’s something really should have.<\/p>\n Google XML Sitemaps<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n This plugin\u00a0creates a sitemap that helps\u00a0search engines like Google and Yahoo better index your blog, making it easier for your site to show up in\u00a0search results.<\/p>\nMarketing<\/h2>\n
Writing<\/b><\/h2>\n
Photography<\/b><\/h2>\n
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