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The 10 best WordPress plugins for small businesses

We have been using WordPress for quite a few years for our small business websites. In this post I’ll run through our 10 best WordPress plugins for small businesses (well it’s slightly more than 10 but there are 10 main plugins or plugin groups – some of them with a few options).

These are the plugins we always install.

Contact form 7 – This is what we use for our contact forms, it’s easy to use and you can easily just add the default form to a page and set up a contact page instantly. I haven’t spent a lot of time testing other form extensions but this one seems to do the job nicely. It also speaks to Akismet (see below) to reduce spam.

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8 features of great small business websites

Hi guys I am very excited about this post, I have been working on a new free ebook for the last few weeks called ’8 features of great small business websites’.

The ebook is supported by our ‘website review checklist’ which allows small businesses to benchmark their own site against the features mentioned in the ebook.

You can download both of these below and please reply to this post with any comments that you have.

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Free ebook The Website Starter Guide launched

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The Website Starter Guide(for small business) is now available.Click on the left to download (no registration required) or check out the video chapter summaries below.

Please feel free to share this ebook if you find it useful and comment on this post if you have any feedback.

I hope you get some value out of it.

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Choosing a web provider

This is video 6 of 6 in the series ‘The Website Starter Guide’ where I talk about each chapter of the website starter guide ebook. This video covers the final chapter on choosing a web provider and talks about about what us crazy folk are like.

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WordPress Outline – What to know before logging in

WordPress is a content management system (CMS) that gives website owners the control to self-manage the content on their websites via an administrative back-end.

WordPress is a hugely popular CMS particularly for small business owners.

The WordPress team have written comprehensive documentation that will help you explore the specifics of each part of the system but there is a lot to know and before you delve into it we’ve written this outline to give you the basics.

View the WordPress Outline.

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