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February 7, 2015 at 11:58 am #140038quickquestionMember
Hi all,
I've just installed Altitude and am playing around with setting it up. I thought I'd run the latest tweets from my two Twitter accounts on the homepage, but it looks like the Genesis Latest Tweets plugin isn't being maintained any longer.
This made me curious:
Which plugins are still being developed by the Genesis team?
Which would you recommend I install that would play nicely with Altitude?I don't need anything fancy - I'm just bloggin'
* Simple Social Icons
* eNews Extended AND/OR MailPoet Newsletters?
* W3 Total Cache OR WP Super Cache?
* Contact Form 7 OR Gravity Forms?
* All in One SEO Pack OR WordPress SEO by Yoast?
* Akismet
* Wordfence SecurityAnd to pull in my two Twitter feeds? Twitter Tools?
Thanks!
http://cjrogers.comFebruary 7, 2015 at 5:59 pm #140059timothywMembergreat question!
February 8, 2015 at 11:08 am #140094SummerMemberThese days, I believe your best bet for displaying Tweets on your website is to avoid any plugin, and just use Twitter's widget, which you can embed on any page or in any Text Widget and put wherever you want.
When you say "pull in" your Twitter feeds, do you want to make blog posts out of everything you Tweet, or do you want to be able to make your blog posts appear as Tweets? For the latter, I've used WP to Twitter, and Nextscripts Social Network Auto Poster. WP to Twitter worked for me for ages, but the dev decided to make the ability to post featured images a Pro only features, whereas Nextscripts has that built in, and can be set up to autopost to Twitter, Facebook, and a bunch of other social networks all at the same time (you would need to get that Pro version to autopost to Google+ and a few other things).
As for the other plugins you listed, I don't use Akismet anymore, I don't use either of those SEO plugins, I use both Simple Social Icons and Lightweight Social Icons, and Gravity Forms 🙂
I would recommend eNews Extended, simply because they link to the various services where your mailing list might be hosted, while MailPoet uses a locally managed setup that recently had a major security issue last summer. It's fixed now, but if you're going to pay for a larger number of subscribers, might as well pay someone like MailChimp or Feedblitz, is my thinking. I also never quite understood how they got around the bulk email send concerns, since most webhosts these days frown upon doing that from your accounts (having had one former client a few years back try managing a mailing list from her account, and she was surprised when they shut down her site/account for spamming, even after I'd cautioned her against).
I could be wrong about how they do that now, but I haven't had the need to check into it recently (as in, not in 2-3 years).
Hope that helps some 🙂
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Slice of SciFi | Writers, After DarkFebruary 8, 2015 at 10:47 pm #140145coralseaitMemberOn some of these:
- No longer using a specific plugin for Social Icons, instead we use Better Font Awesome and FA's social icons, much easier to use anywhere we like on a site, and since we tend to use FA for other icons it makes sense.
- Caching, we use W3TC; however, we are starting to review redis + pagespeed with nginx (in combo with HHVM in place of fast-cgi)
- Gravity all the way, much better solution and works for so many other cases than simple contact forms.
- WPSEO By Yoast, no question
- iThemes security as it supports nginx better than any other security plugins by leaps and bounds
- Only have a few clients using Akismet for personal style blogs, so no comment
- On social feeds we are VERY careful with these, esp on the homepage because you are at the mercy of the social networks and their feeds can drastically impact site performance. We try to only do them on inner pages and as Summer mentioned usually via their native widgets / embeds rather than plugins.
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