After hacking together a new site I wanted to drop a note of all the things that ended up working to get it going. I think I’ve already forgotten the things that didn’t work or were quircky. Start with these and you’re most of the way there. Here we go…

Auto Terms of Service and Privacy Policy – because it makes your site look legit.

WP Example Content – so you can have some content to test with

WP Custom Header Footer – add google analytics to it

Simple Header Footer HTML – to add favicons, google analytics, etc

Social Media Feather – to add sharing links to posts and pages

Contact Form 7 – so people can reach you

Really Simple CAPTCHA – so spambots hopefully won’t reach you

Random Featured Image – because most posts look better with a featured image

Quick Adsense – because googles plugin is kind of demanding. This one is nice.

Easy WP SMTP – because sometimes you just can’t count on WP mail working

Breadcrumb NavXT – some themes seem to like it

I think that’s everything. Of course setting up Akismet and Jetpack is a good idea as well.

You can see the results here: TooManyRainbows