Friday Link Wrapup: Best Plugins, BuddyPress, robots.txt

This week’s WordPress and web marketing links.

A roundup of the ‘best WordPress plugins’ ever. I agree with a few of them.

Here’s another take on that theme: the ‘must-have WordPress plugins for 2015.’

Does your site use BuddyPress? Here’s a new plugin that forces your users to upload a photo or some kind of avatar graphic. That’s pretty harsh and it may not sit well with all of your users, but it can be done.

For the technically-inclined, this is a good illustrated guide to the cropping methods you can use with WordPress.

More technical stuff: how to understand and use the robots.txt file with WordPress.