15 Best WordPress Plugins for 2019
- December 23, 2023
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Video Title: 15 Best WordPress Plugins for 2019
What’s going on everyone ray Delvecchio here and we’re gonna talk about WordPress plugins because they are the easiest way to add functions to your website and quickly create the exact features that you need to succeed online and they’re the first place that you should look after you reach the limits
Of your theme options since I transitioned to WordPress after learning code the number one mistake that I made at the beginning and continue to make to this day it’s wasting time trying to develop these solutions manually you know perfect example is social media icons and share
Buttons I tried to do this with like 20 hours of work hard coding it with HTML and CSS testing out a few layouts and of course I realized that there was a plugin that was one button click away from giving me pretty much the exact same solution with even more
Customization options here’s my advice don’t be like me think like a beginner and find the easiest way to build an effective website so with that in mind let’s go through the 15 best plugins to improve your WordPress website in 2019 the first two on my list are ones that I install almost
Immediately on every website and number one is really simple SSL this is going to forward all your non secure HTTP requests over to HTTPS and to do this you must have an SSL certificate almost all major web hosts today offer that for free and if you want to upgrade to get
Your business name shown with the green padlock in the browser bar you can get a better SSL certificate and this is useful especially if you’re selling online you have a major e-commerce store that’s something you might want just for user trust let’s jump over to the
Plugins page I’m going to show you the link below so right now I’m on wordpress.org slash plugins and this is where we can search for over 50,000 plugins I’m going to search for a really simple SSL and it’s the first one that’s going to pop up you’ll see that it’s got
A five-star rating and 794 reviews so when I’m looking at plug-in I’m generally looking for a few things I want to see that it’s been updated relatively recently so this was updated a month ago I want to see the number of Acts active installations so this is over two million which is pretty
Massive if if I see anything over you know fifty thousand or a hundred thousand I’m generally willing to test it out and then obviously the ratings I want to see how many five-star ratings there are and how many 1 star ratings there are and this one it’s pretty
Heavily favored towards five stars of course you’re gonna get some negative people in there that I leave in the one star reviews but if I see this one star review bar like halfway or a quarter of the way that’s gonna give me pause so those are a couple things you might want
To look for on this plugins page so we’ll move on to the next one and this plug-in is called child theme configurator once I choose my theme that I’m gonna use to design a website the first step before I do anything is create a child theme because all of my
Customizations are gonna go within that active child theme and this is the right way to design your website because this is going to completely separate the parent theme from the child theme which means that you can update the parent theme without worrying about overwriting any of your work or any customizations
That you’ve done let’s check out the plugins page for child theme configurator and on here we have 200,000 plus active installs and on the ratings we have 187 five stars with only 12 1 stars so this is gonna pass the test and this one’s really easy to use I just
Released a full tutorial building a website using Divi and within that I use this plug-in child theme configurator so I’m gonna link that up here within the top right I’ll do that also for some of these other plugins because I have a couple of tutorials that might match up
With these so let’s move on to the third plug-in number 3 is a plug-in that almost every site can use it’s called Yoast SEO and SEO stands for search engine optimization so this is gonna let you customize your post titles and descriptions put a bunch of keywords in
There that people might be using obviously you want to write it up naturally you don’t want to write it like a robot but this is what’s gonna get you more traffic from Google and they have a lot of other features one other useful one is that they automatically generate a sitemap for you
So let’s check out their page and you can see the popularity from here they have five million plus active installations it was updated a day ago and they have a ton of reviews under five stars but they have 23,000 five-star reviews so that outweighs every other one and I can tell you I’ve
Been using this plug-in for a long long time I mean I think they’ve been around since almost the inception of WordPress so I highly recommend them next up is w3 total cache and a cache plug-in put really simply it’s gonna optimize your website and increase the speed it does
This in a number of ways through caching which is basically saving copies of elements from your website so you don’t have to load them from the database it’ll compress files to make them smaller and minify which is pretty similar it’s gonna remove all the whitespace and any comments and make all
Your files as small as possible from that regard as well the other cool thing that they do is integrate with a CDN so a CDN is just a content delivery network basically a CDN is almost like a web host but it’s specifically designed for your static files so that’s going to include your
Images maybe CSS files and really what it does is it creates duplicates of those files across maybe 10 or 15 different locations depending on where the user is loading the website it’s gonna load from the closest location and it’s gonna be the fastest so see the ends are a really
Easy way to improve performance outside of the standard settings within w3 total cache and you can do this for free using Amazon CDN takes a little bit to set up definitely look into that if you want to speed up your website let’s review their plugin page they were updated nine
Months ago so it’s been a while since they’ve updated this but it has over a million active installations and in terms of reviews this one does border on a lot of one-star views but this is such a complicated plugin it takes a lot to set it up and
Do it the right way a lots gonna depend on your host so there’s a lot of ways to do this wrong and not get some of the optimizations that you might expect that probably factors into why the ratings are not you know mostly 5 stars and 4
Stars I would just Google a few guides for how to set up w3 total cache for whatever hosting environment you’re using number 5 on our list is definitely the most timely for 2019 and this is the classic editor plugin wordpress released their 5.0 update just a few weeks ago
From when i’m releasing this video and that comes pre-installed with the guttenberg editor which is a completely new post and page editing experience so if you aren’t comfortable with that or you just want to take some time to adjust to it you’re gonna want to install this classic editor plugin and
They’re gonna keep this supported up until 2022 or they said they may extend that if they need to support it for longer this classic editor plug-in has a lot of active installations so you can see there is a huge demand for reverting from the Guttenberg editor to the
Classic editor it’s a 2 plus million right now and as I said that’s likely because a lot of people probably upgraded a wordpress 5.0 and they didn’t even realize who had their entire editing experience was gonna be different so I recorded my first time updating to Guttenberg and going through
That I’m gonna link up that video here so definitely check that out if you haven’t been through that situation yet and just looking at the reviews people are really happy with this plug-in so it’s four hundred five star reviews and they barely have any one-star reviews
We’ll move on to the next plugin number six is Elementor which is a drag-and-drop page building plugin that makes it a lot easier to visually design your website versus using the standard editor they have styles for a wide variety of content types it’s a lot like Divi the theme that I
Just made a tutorial with I guess the main difference is that it you can use it with any theme I think Divi just extends a little bit further and it’s more of just a complete page builder from top to bottom whereas Elementor is only gonna work more on your content elements and
Modules I use this to do a tutorial last year so I’ll link that video up here looking through the plug-in directory there seems to be like 20 other child plugins available for Elementor I don’t even know what they do but obviously there’s a lot of support for this
Plug-in and you’ll see why in a second when we go over to the active installations and like a lot of these page builders they have a pro upgrade if you like the way that you can design a site with it they give you a bunch of features that you might use if you’re
Creating multiple websites or advanced features for one website here’s the plug-in page for Elementor and they have over a million active installations so they might be I would say they’re at least the top three popular page building plug-in and there’s probably like 20 others that you can choose from
I’ll go into another one with the next plug-in on our list but you can see here they have a lot of five-star reviews and not so many one-star reviews so they’re very popular and I really liked using Elementor having learned Divi this year I prefer Divi a little bit to Elementor
I feel like the stylings a little bit better they have more ability to customize either one of these is a great way to build your WordPress site if you don’t know that much about code and you’re not that good with design because they have a lot of pre-built styles
Next up is beaver builder so this is another page building option if you want to try something other than Elementor this isn’t one of the most popular builder plugins they got a lot of active installations but it doesn’t really compare to Elementor but the thing is I
Got a lot of positive feedback on this from several of my subscribers so just the fact that I heard from many subscribers saying that they liked using this to build their websites I wanted to include it on this list because it obviously is doing something right unfortunately I can’t really compare it
To Elementor but you can kind of test out either if you’re just getting started to figure out which one you like better so let’s browse the plugin page for this I got to make a correction I mentioned that they didn’t have a comparable number of installations to Elementor but
They they really do they have five hundred thousand plus I had them confused with another one that was at like a hundred thousand so I thought Elementor was about ten times the amount but it’s just about double and judging from this little screenshot up here the
Way that you build a page it looks a lot like Divi on this page they have a video so you can go through to give you a quick overview and the other cool thing is they have a Facebook group and a slack channel with people that use
Beaver builder for their websites so if you have any issues they might have a better community than Elementor I didn’t really look up or search for the elementary community I’m not sure if they have a Facebook page that might be something to consider when you’re making your decision number eight is contact
Form seven I probably should have made it number seven but this is one of the oldest contact form plugins available on WordPress they’ve been around since the beginning and they’re really reliable because they’ve been around so long there’s a lot of support online either through their website or other forums
Where people ask questions the only limitation in my mind is the design they don’t really have a lot of options to design the form so you kind of need to do that manually with CSS since I know code that’s no problem for me and that’s why I’ve stuck with them
For many years this has got to be one of the most installed plugins it’s got over five million active installations updated three weeks ago it supports Google CAPTCHA to reduce spam and you can see a lot of people don’t like this form I feel like contact forms are kind of
Controversial people are either gonna love them or hate them and because of the spam element you know not every form does spam filtering the same way the bottom line is if you have a website out there with a contact form you’re gonna get some spam it’s likely not gonna be
Perfect but that’s something you just got to deal with when you’re living the online life number nine this is a really simple plugin it’s just for embedding your Instagram feed and the developer of this plugin also has a Facebook feed plug-in so if you like the way this one operates you might
Want to grab that one as well number 10 is sumo and this is one of my favorite plugins it’s more of a marketing plug-in because it’s got a bunch of services that will help you optimize your lead generation methods and a few ways they do that is just by collecting email
Addresses through pop-up forms they have social share buttons and like five or six other really cool marketing tools I think they do full email marketing integrated within sumo but I use MailChimp for that so if email lead generation is a big part of your business I would absolutely check out
Sumo if you are developing an e-commerce website WooCommerce is by far the number one ecommerce plugin for WordPress they mentioned on their home page that they power 30% of online stores but because they’re the biggest they have so many options for extending it you can buy these extensions on their website to
Add more features specific to whatever your situation is number 12 is duplicator which is a really easy to use plug-in to backup and migrate your website you can do this if you’re switching hosts and I created a full tutorial showing you exactly how to do this step by step
They get you set up with a wizard that takes you through each step of the process and it’s pretty hard to screw up so I’ll link up my video if that’s a situation that you find yourself in number 13 is a theme security and this was previously known as better WP
Security this is pretty much an all-in-one security plugin that does a suite of services some of the most notable are two-factor authentication they’re gonna prevent hackers from logging in multiple times if it’s you know if it sees the same user or IP address logging in and failing it’s
Gonna block that the other thing it does is forces SSL so if for some reason you have this installed you probably don’t need to install really simple SSL and the last two are community plugins that you might want to add to your website if you want to have community interaction
So number 14 is BB press and this is form software and it was originally built by the founder of WordPress they note that it’s it’s a lightweight plugin doesn’t have a lot of code or overhead so it shouldn’t really slow down your site all that much a newer plug-in to
Add social networking features is buddypress so this is described as a social network in a box you can have users connect with each other send messages start groups they have a home screen where they see an activity stream I only have experience with BB press right now that’s installed on my
Website on a private member forum for my web design business plan members a link to that will be in the description below if you want to check it out so that’s all I got for this video like I mentioned at the beginning there’s 50,000 plus plugins so if I didn’t
Mention one that you like leave it in the comments below and if you’re ready to get started with WordPress and building your website I’m partnering with Hostgator to give you the best deal when you register for a one-year term if you need to set up web site hosting go
To hostgator.com slash WPC one that’s gonna give you the deal automatically applied or if you get to the hostgator check out page another way you can just use the coupon code WP also mentioned earlier in this video that i put out a full tutorial on how to build a
Landscaping website with Divi so if you still haven’t decided on what WordPress theme to use I highly recommend you check them out go to website profit course com sloshy Divi and that’s gonna take you to the gallery where you can view a bunch of websites that have been
Built with Divi and some of the features that they offer I’ll also link on my tutorial in the description below lastly if you build websites for clients or you’re freelancing with your web design skills I have a cheat sheet on my home page the 15 tools to start your web
Design business you can download that from website profit course com don’t forget to give this video a thumbs up if you found it helpful and make sure that you subscribe to my channel to get more wordpress web design and freelancing videos I really think everybody at some point in their life
Should create a website it doesn’t have to be a technical thing it could be about a completely non-technical hobby like gardening but this is where the future’s headed this is where business is headed so these are skills that you got to learn and building your website
Is in my opinion one of the best introductions to business because you can touch every aspect of business through a website I really want to thank you for taking the time to watch this and I hope to see you on the next video
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Great tips! I love Yoast Seo. There is wordpress plugin for everything it seems. Thank you for the info.
Have you used mailpoet for email marketing?
great video sir!!!!
Hello there, what is your preferred page builder ? I work with quite a few but my builder of choice is without a doubt Oxygen.
Thanks for your time and effort in this video footage – terrific stuff!!
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Thanks for the video. Do you know an app that will hide my email on a web page? I'm getting tons of spam!