This is a work in progress, I plan to update it soon with more plugins and more info.
1. My Book Table
A really handy plugin to add in “Buy Now” links to various online bookstores, you really need this.
2. Totally Booked
3. Buy This Book
4. Highlight and Share
Makes it easy for readers to share your best writing; great for highlighting excerpts and writing samples.
5. Mailchimp
That’s what I use for my mailing list, free to start until you have a whole bunch of followers.
6. The Really Simple Series plugin
Really handy for linking long sections together, like serialized content.
7. Goodreads
Get a plugin or social-icon plugin that shows off your Goodreads activity.
8. The Imperfect Quotes plugin
9. Copyright Proof
This is about protecting your work from people trying to scrape your site or take your content and put it up on their own website.
10. Search and replace
If you’re writing a story online and you change someone’s eye or hair color, being able to search and replace all instances of a word can save a lot of time.
11. Amazon Link or WordPress Amazon Associate
12. Image Widget plugin
13. After the Deadline
(Should come free with Jetpack). Adds in some extra editing functions… you’re a writer, you don’t want typos on your site.
14. Fancier Author Box
Makes is easy to add an “Author box” after your posts with links to your social profiles or books…
Helps with SEO. Sometimes you want to squeeze in some keywords in the title but it doesn’t look right; you can set a special title that doesn’t actually get displayed.
16. Visual Composer for WordPress
This gives you more control over how your posts look.
17. Fontific or Google fonts
Don’t go crazy, but adding a stylish font can help brand your page. Try to match the style of your book cover.
18. AddThis smart layers
This is for those slick social boxes on the left of this site, and the “recommended for you” popup at the bottom. It does other stuff too.
19. CommentLuv
If anybody writes a comment on your blog, this will automatically send a personal thankyou email.
More coming soon!
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Just checked the first of the plugins which was After The Deadline but it has not been updated for 5 years & is therefore not compatible with the recent version of WordPress – it may also be a security threat. Derek, you may need to check & update this list 🙂
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