All Things WordPress: The Essential Plugins You Need to Be Using
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With nearly 50,000 plugins available at wordpress.org (and thousands of other premium plugins out there), it can be hard to sift through the junk to find the gems. We'll talk through some of our favorite plugins in various categories and show you how to properly vet and test a new plugin to know if it's any good.
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