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# Recommended Plugins

| **Plugin Name** | **Plugin Description**
|:----------------|:----------------------
| [**Soil**](https://github.com/retlehs/soil) | Frequently used plugins for your WordPress installation and a site specific plugin for your custom post types, taxonomies, meta boxes, and shortcodes.
| [**Gravity Forms**](http://www.rootstheme.com/gravity-forms/) | With Gravity Forms you can build complex, interactive contact forms in minutes.
| [**WPML**](http://www.rootstheme.com/wpml/) | WPML makes it easy to build multilingual sites and run them. Roots already includes translations for:<br> English, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, Macedonian, Finnish, Danish, Turkish, Swedish, Bulgarian, Norwegian, Catalan, Polish, Hungarian, Russian.
| [**WordPress SEO**](http://yoast.com/wordpress/seo/) | Yoast's all in one SEO solution: titles, meta descriptions, XML sitemaps, breadcrumbs & more.
| [**W3 Total Cache**](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/) | Improve site performance and user experience via caching.
| [Analytics 360](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/analytics360/) | Pull Google Analytics and MailChimp data directly into your dashboard.
| [Custom Metaboxes & Fields](https://github.com/jaredatch/Custom-Metaboxes-and-Fields-for-WordPress) | Easily create metaboxes with custom fields.
| [Front-end Editor](http://scribu.net/wordpress/front-end-editor) | A WordPress plugin that enables "edit in place" functionality on your site.
| [Options Framework](https://github.com/devinsays/options-framework-plugin) | An Options Panel Framework to help speed theme development.
| [Page Links To](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/page-links-to/) | Make a WordPress post link to an external URL of your choosing instead of its WordPress URL.
| [Post Types Order](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/post-types-order/) | Order  posts, pages, and custom post types using a drag and drop interface.
| [Posts 2 Posts](http://scribu.net/wordpress/posts-to-posts) | Create many-to-many connections between posts of all kinds.
| [Query Multiple Taxonomies](http://scribu.net/wordpress/query-multiple-taxonomies) | Filter posts through multiple custom taxonomies.
| [Simple Footnotes](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-footnotes/) | Create simple, elegant footnotes on your site. Use the [ref] shortcode and the plugin takes care of the rest.
| [WordPress Domain Changer](https://github.com/veloper/WordPress-Domain-Changer) | A self-contained script that helps ease the migration of WordPress sites from one domain to another.
| [WPAlchemy MetaBox Class](http://www.farinspace.com/wpalchemy-metabox/) | Create custom WordPress meta boxes quickly.
| [WP-DB-Backup](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-db-backup/) | WP-DB-Backup allows you easily to backup your WordPress database tables.
| [WP-PageNavi](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-pagenavi/) | Adds a more advanced paging navigation interface.
| [WP Database Optimizer](http://www.matthewaprice.com/wp-database-optimizer/) | Automated scheduled database optimization.
| [WP Mail SMTP](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/) | Reconfigures the wp_mail() function to use SMTP instead of mail().
| [Taxonomy Images](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/taxonomy-images/) | Associate images from your media library to categories, tags and custom taxonomies.