The Top 10 WordPress Plugins Every Site Needs and Why
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This document discusses the top 10 plugins that every website needs according to Christina Hills. It begins by noting there are over 54,000 plugins to choose from. The top plugins discussed are: Yoast SEO for search engine optimization, Duplicate Post for duplicating pages/posts, Quick Page/Post Redirect for redirects, Widget Options for hiding widgets, Search Exclude for excluding pages from site search, Gravity Forms for forms, Really Simple SSL for security, WordFence for security, backup plugins, and caching plugins like W3 Total Cache for speed. The document concludes with best practices for evaluating plugins and keeping them updated.
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- 1. “The Top 10 Plugins Every Website Needs and Why” with Christina Hills
- 3. #WCLB@christinahills Christina Hills WordPress Coach & Teacher Since 2008
- 4. #wcoc@christinahills Christina Hills Visual Effects Artist Star Wars E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Jurassic Park
- 5. #WCLB@christinahills When There are over 54 Thousand Plugins, How Do You Choose? 54,888 Plugins!
- 6. #WCLB@christinahills Let’s Step Through My Top List of Plugins!10
- 8. #WCLB@christinahills Yoast SEO - Search Engine Optimization https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/ ● Improves your SEO ● Makes you a better writer ● Can be used for Breadcrumbs ● Creates an XML Map ● Even if you don’t want to SEO your site, it will make you a better writer! 1
- 9. #WCLB@christinahills Yoast SEO Helps You Show Up in Search https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo
- 10. #WCLB@christinahills Helps with Readability & SEO https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo
- 13. #WCLB@christinahills Yoast Generates an XML Sitemap for Google https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo
- 15. #WCLB@christinahills Duplicate Post (Does Pages Too) https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicate-post/ ● Duplicates your pages or posts into a new draft for you ● Saves you the time of copying over your content when you want to create a new page/post ● Example: a portfolio page that you duplicate when you have a new client example 2
- 16. #WCLB@christinahills Link to Duplicate Your Page/Post https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicate-post/
- 17. #WCLB@christinahills Link to Duplicate Your Page/Post https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicate-post/
- 19. #WCLB@christinahills Quick Page/Post Redirect https://wordpress.org/plugins/quick-pagepost-redirect-plugin/ ● Let’s you redirect a page or a post to another location. ● Great for Affiliate links ● Great for redirecting people to a “product sold out” or anything like that where you don’t want to delete or remove your original content 3
- 20. A Person Types in one URL https://websitecreationworkshop.com/blog/next-workshop/ and it Goes to Another URL https://websitecreationworkshop.com/registration/
- 21. #WCLB@christinahills It Hops Them Over to Another Page!
- 22. #WCLB@christinahills A Person Types in one URL https://christinasresources.com/gravityforms and it Goes to Another URL https://rocketgenius.pxf.io/c/1230126/445235/7938 Great for Affiliate Links Too!
- 23. #WCLB@christinahills https://wordpress.org/plugins/quick-pagepost-redirect-plugin/ Example: Quick Page/Post Redirect
- 24. #WCLB@christinahills Example: Quick Page/Post Redirect https://wordpress.org/plugins/quick-pagepost-redirect-plugin/
- 25. Let’s Hide Some Widgets 4
- 26. #WCLB@christinahills Hide Widgets with “Widget Options” https://wordpress.org/plugins/widget-options/ ● Mange the visibility of your widgets for more control of your website. ● Display some widgets on some pages but not others 4
- 27. #WCLB@christinahills With the “Widget Options” Plugin You Decide Which Widgets to Hide or Show on Different Pages/Posts
- 28. #WCLB@christinahills In the Widgets Area: Click on the Visibility Button for Each Widget to Control it’s Visibility https://wordpress.org/plugins/widget-options/
- 29. #WCLB@christinahills Example: Different Banner Widgets On Each Page
- 30. #WCLB@christinahills Example: Different Banner Widgets On Each Page
- 31. #wcoc@christinahills Exclude Some Pages From Your Site’s Search 5
- 32. #WCLB@christinahills Search Exclude https://wordpress.org/plugins/search-exclude/ ● Let’s you easily tell WordPress which pages/posts to exclude from your website’s Search Results 5
- 33. #WCLB@christinahills Most Websites Have Search Boxes
- 34. #WCLB@christinahills Example Search Results You Want to Exclude
- 35. #WCLB@christinahills Easy Box to Check to Exclude
- 36. #wcoc@christinahills To Exclude a Page/Post from a Google Search, Use Yoast SEO
- 37. #wcoc@christinahills Forms on Your Website 6
- 38. #WCLB@christinahills Gravity Forms https://www.gravityforms.com/ ● Form plugin on steroids! Has conditional logic too ● Is a PAID premium plugin, but worth the price! 6
- 39. #WCLB@christinahills Although a lot of Themes include a contact form Gravity Forms goes way beyond what any of those can do!
- 40. #WCLB@christinahills Gravity Forms – Conditional Logic
- 41. #WCLB@christinahills These Form Plugins are Good Too! https://wordpress.org/plugins/caldera-forms/https://wordpress.org/plugins/ninja-forms/
- 42. #wcoc@christinahills Automatically Fix SSL Issues 7
- 43. #WCLB@christinahills Really Simple SSL https://wordpress.org/plugins/really-simple-ssl/ ● Makes sure all your site’s assets are SSL 7
- 44. #wcoc@christinahills vs. ‘https://’ is Secure ‘http://’ is Not Secure
- 45. #WCLB@christinahills The lock is not green because the image does not have “https” in the source code
- 46. #WCLB@christinahills Really Simple SSL Solves that Problem! https://wordpress.org/plugins/really-simple-ssl/
- 48. #WCLB@christinahills Wordfence Security Plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/ 8 ● Keep your site secure and look for outdated plugins
- 49. #WCLB@christinahills Wordfence Informs You When a Plugin Gets Abandoned!
- 50. #WCLB@christinahills Scan Your Site with WordFence
- 51. #WCLB@christinahills Other WordPress Security Plugins Both at WordPress.org Malcare.com (PAID)
- 52. “Oh No, I didn’t make a Backup!!”9
- 53. #wcoc@christinahills Backups = Insurance You rarely need them, but when you do, it’s IMPORTANT
- 54. #WCLB@christinahills Backup Plugins https://wordpress.org/plugins/search/backups/ 9 ● You Can’t just rely on your hosting’s backups. You should have your own as well! ● There are a few good ones to choose from.
- 57. ManageWP (Free & Paid Plans) https://managewp.com/
- 58. #wcoc@christinahills Let’s Speed Things Up! 10
- 59. #WCLB@christinahills Caching Plugin – Autopimize https://wordpress.org/plugins/autoptimize/ 10 ● Helps your site go FASTER when people visit it
- 60. #WCLB@christinahills Caching Plugin – W3 Total Cache10 ● Helps your site go FASTER when people visit it https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/
- 61. #WCLB@christinahills Caching Plugin – WP-Rocket (PAID) https://wp-rocket.me/ 10 ● Helps your site go FASTER when people visit it ● WP Rocket (premium) caching plugin
- 62. #WCLB@christinahills Quick Steps to Evaluate a Plugin
- 63. #WCLB@christinahills Quick Steps to Evaluate a Plugin
- 64. #WCLB@christinahills Quick Steps to Evaluate a Plugin
- 65. #WCLB@christinahills Quick Steps to Evaluate a Plugin
- 66. @christinahills #WCLB WP Admin or WordPress.org =
- 67. #WCLB@christinahills Best Way is to Evaluate on WordPress.org (use the Search)
- 69. #WCLB@christinahills Look at: - Last Updated - Active Installations - Tested Up to - Star Ratings - Support Forum
- 70. #WCLB@christinahills Look at: - Last Updated - Active Installations - Tested Up to - Star Ratings - Support Forum
- 71. #WCLB@christinahills Look at: - Last Updated - Active Installations - Tested Up to - Star Ratings - Support Forum
- 72. #WCLB@christinahills How Active is the Support Forum? Are Questions being answered?
- 73. #WCLB@christinahills Do They Have Videos & Demos of the Plugin?
- 74. #WCLB@christinahills Glance at Their Demos and Documentation
- 75. #WCLB@christinahills Do They Have a Pro Version?
- 76. #WCLB@christinahills Graphic courtesy of SixRevisions.com Before Installing any Plugin Ask Yourself These Questions
- 77. Two Extra Bonus Plugins…
- 78. #WCLB@christinahills BONUS #1: Strong Testimonials https://wordpress.org/plugins/strong-testimonials/ ● Use a Plugin for Testimonials that is easy to use and won’t change when you change themes
- 80. #WCLB@christinahills BONUS #2: Plugin Detective https://wordpress.org/plugins/plugin-detective/ ● Plugin Detective helps you troubleshoot issues on your site quickly and easily to find the cause of a problem. Once the culprit is found, the problem plugin can be quickly deactivated. You can even fix your site when it has the white screen of death (fatal error).
- 81. #WCLB@christinahills Let Plugin Detective Troubleshoot Your Site!
- 83. @christinahills #WCLB Recap of My Top 10 Plugins 1) Yoast SEO Search Engine Optimization 2) Duplicate Post 3) Quick Page/Post Redirect 4) Widget Options 5) Search Exclude 6) Gravity Forms 7) Really Simple SSL 8) WordFence - Security 9) Backup Plugins 10) Caching Plugins
- 84. #WCLB@christinahills Plugin Best Practices: Evaluate on Wordpress.org Always keep plugins up to date. Delete plugins you are not using. Keep the number of plugins at a minimum. Be nice in plugin support forums! Donate to plugin developers!
- 85. Connect with Christina Hills Twitter: @christinahills - Email: christina@websitecreationworkshop.com This presentation will be available at: www.WebsiteCreationWorkshop.com/wclb2019