**Unlisted** 7 Best Free WordPress Plugins for Beginners (2019)
- December 23, 2023
- Posted by: MainInstructor
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Video Title: **Unlisted** 7 Best Free WordPress Plugins for Beginners (2019)
Hi guys it’s Marty drat here from let’s build WP comm and in this video we’re going to be covering what I consider to be seven of the best free WordPress plugins for beginners see I’ve been using WordPress myself for about seven years now and throughout this time I’ve
Used a ton of free plugins some of these plugins have been grit and some of them have been terrible but the Seven plugins in this list are some of my favorite free WordPress plugins to D it they’re all plugins that I personally use myself on almost every website or blog I create
With WordPress and I really think they’re going to help you they’re all available to download for free from wordpress.org forward slash plugins or directly from within our WordPress dashboard before we get into the list though I just want to quickly mention that WordPress plugins are only available for wordpress.org and aren’t
Going to work on wordpress.com if you want to learn how to set up a website or blog with wordpress.org if you go to let’s build WP com forward slash WP 101 course you can access my free WordPress 101 course which will show you exactly how to set it up but without making you
Wait any longer here’s what I consider to be seven of the best free WordPress plugins for beginners Number one WP smoosh a website or blog is nothing really without some nice images to bring it to life but the problem with this is that after a while these images start to take a toll on our resources and cause our site to run slower than it could Google have even
Stated in the past that site speed will have a direct impact on how our site is ranked in the search engines so it’s important to make sure that our sites running as quickly as possible that’s where the WP smoosh plug-in comes in handy this plug-in takes all of our
Different images and compresses them to their lowest possible file size without taking away from the images quality using this plug-in on a website or blog with lots of images can make a huge difference to our site’s overall speed and it only takes us a few minutes to
Set up and run once the plug-in has been installed and activated on our site we can hover over where it says media on the left side of our dashboard and then click WP smoosh then to compress our images we just need to click the bulk smoosh button the plugins then going to
Compress all of the different images on our site and once it’s finished its going to show us how much space we managed to sieve this is normally pretty damn impressive and all without taking away from our images quality then there’s even an option to auto compress
Any new images we upload which means we never really need to worry about our image file sizes in future after the initial setup this is an awesome free plugin and I would highly recommend it even if we only have a few images on our site it should still make a noticeable
Difference to our sites loading times number two limit login attempts reloaded this is a simple but super effective security plug-in and basically it lets us set a limit for how many times someone can attempt to log into our site with the wrong details before being locked out you might be under the
Impression that you’re the only person trying to log in but after installing this plug-in you might be shocked at just how many people and BOTS are trying to gain access to your site I’m not trying to make you paranoid or anything most of the time it’s just BOTS or visitors thinking it
Would be funny if they managed to guess the password but one day it could be a real hacker and you’ll be glad that you installed the plugin then to set it up after it’s been installed and activated we just need to hover over where it says settings in our left dashboard menu and
Then click limit login attempts at the top we’ll see how many times the plugins been triggered then under options we can set how many field attempts we allow before lockout and how long the person will be locked out for then we just need to click the Save button at the bottom
Just be sure not to set the plug-in dial I only one field attempt as we all miss type our passwords sometimes and it can be a little bit of a headache to get back into your site if we get locked art but other than that the limit login attempts reloaded plug-in is definitely
A good one to have installed and it’s going to help make our site a lot more secure number 3 insert headers and footers sometimes we’re going to need to add what are known as tracking codes to our WordPress site for setting up things like Google Analytics or Google Adsense
Ads these tracking codes need to be added to our WordPress theme files which can be a little bit risky if we don’t know exactly what we’re doing so instead of risking potential disaster by adding our WordPress theme files directly we can use the insert headers and footers plug-in this plug-in once installed
Allows us to quickly and easily insert these different tracking codes into our WordPress site without ever having to go near our theme files after the plugins been installed we just need to hover over where it says settings on the left hand side of our site and then click insert headers and
Footers now we can just paste in any of the tracking codes we’re wanting the ID our site and then click see if at the bottom this is another simple but effective free plugin and that highly recommended if you’re just getting started with WordPress number four black studio tinymce e widget
So this plug-in might have a really long name that’s kind of hard to remember at times but it’s actually a super handy plugin which I end up using all the time it basically allows us to have all the functionality and options of the wordpress post editor in our widget
Areas this means we can easily add images HTML code videos clickable links and anything else we would normally be able to add ER pages to our side bars and other widget areas after installing and activating the plug-in we’ll see that we have a new widget called visual
Editor and all we need to do is drag this new widget into one of our available widget areas and we’ll see that we now have the CM options that we would have when adding a page or post so just before we move on to the next
Plug-in in the list I wanted to take a quick second to ask you to consider subscribing to my channel here on YouTube I release WordPress tutorials on this channel every week along with other videos like this one to help you improve your WordPress website or blog if this sounds like something you’d be
Interested in please click the subscribe button below this video and if you want to be notified of new videos just click the little bell icon as well thank you very much in advance and sorry for the interruption now back to the free plugins number five Yoast SEO just in
Case you’re not already aware of this SEO or search engine optimization is basically the practice of trying to get our website or blog to rank higher in the search engine results so for example trying to get to page 1 of Google for our choosen search term the Yoast SEO
Plug-in adds a whole heap of different functionality to your site and it’s basically the go-to SEO plugin for WordPress with over 1 million people using it at the time of recording the plug-in has a lot of different parts to it so it would make this video a little
Too long to go through them all right now but I’ll link to another video on my channel underneath which will show you how to set up the Yoast SEO plug-in in detail the video was created by my friend Alex over at WP Eagle number 6 revision control every
Time we update a page or post on WordPress WordPress will go ahead and see of a revision copy of it the revision copy is basically the original page or post before we updated it now this is a real good feature as it means that we will always have the ability to
Go back to a previous version of a page if we realize the new version sucks but there’s no real need to save a revision copy every time we update a page or post this can end up being quite a lot in the long run and each of these revisions are
Going to take up resources that could otherwise be helping make our site run a little smoother and faster the revision control plug-in allows us to set a revision limit which means that only a certain amount of revision copies will be saved once the plugins been activated
We just need to hover over where it says settings on the left side of our dashboard and then click revisions then here we can set how many revisions we want capped for posts and how many we want for pages I usually have mine set to 3 copies for each as you never know
When we might need to go back to a previous version then we just need to click Save Changes at the bottom and now going forward WordPress will only keep that many revisions number 7 BJ Lizzie lewd when we visit a page on a website or blog all of the images on
That page load up as soon as we land on it and this is normally the main cause of slow looting websites what the BJ Lizzie load plug-in allows us to do is make it that only the images that will be visible right away load up at first
Then the other images will start to load as the visitor Scrolls further down the page only loading the images when they start to come into view just like with the WP smoosh plug-in BJ Lizzie loot can dramatically increase our site speed which in turn can help us with our
Search engine rankings and what makes this plug-in especially awesome is the fact that there z setup involved we just simply install and activate the plug-in and all of our images will be lazy from now on to be honest the BJ Lizzie lube plug-in is probably one of my favorite plugins on the list
Just because of how effective it is and how easy it is to set up so that’s us now at the end of this list and that was what I consider to be 7 of the best free WordPress plugins for beginners then finally if you want to download this
List of plugins it’s available to download for free as a PDF by going to let’s build WP comm forward slash plugins PDF the PDF list also contains another 7 free plugins so there are actually 14 plugins altogether and they’re all just as awesome as each other I hope you found this video
Helpful and if you did please give it a like to show your support and consider subscribing to the channel for more wordpress videos published every week once again my name is marty dread from let’s build WP comm and thank you very much for watching my video
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I created my own WP website with your course from UDEMY. I am working on my second site and even though I purchased other courses, I still refer back to your course.
Very helpful! Thanks!
Very good stuff, thanks
Thanks for all your WP videos. You have saved me a lot of hassle.
These was seriously so helpful. Thank you so much for this information. I’m starting my first blog so this is pretty confusing for me. This made it much easier and I was able to add plugins as I watched this. Thank you again
your mention all plugins is helpful for wordpress site , thanks your for share with us.
U r super Awesome sir
Greetings from Costa Rica. Thanks for the video. SO clearly explained. I wished there could be a video of "funny plugins" for WP. Plugins that will give some "action" or "live" or "fun" to the blog. Thanks again
you should mention in title that those plugins works only for wordpress.org ,,, dislike for that
Thanks for the great tutorials! Are you based in NI? You got a sub from me!
I really appreciate your tutorials. You saved my sanity lol. I had a real block over using WP. Thanks to another of your tutorials I rebuilt a site I was giving up on. Thank you so much for this plug in video and I will get the print out. You are a star.
Good explanation. Have now seen 2 presentations and you are doing it very calmly and talk friendly and calmly. I will certainly follow you.
I really like your content rich videos (Marty)LBW. Many thanks mate. Subbed and liked
Thank you so much for this video!!! 😎😎😎
Very helpful video! Got to learn about a few more plugins.
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Martie, nobody should dread you at all – you are inspirational! Thank you so much for this tutorial. I'll be honest, I have looked at numerous such videos but I totally love your approach. Clear, concise, engaging – all washed down with that soft Northern accent. Martie, would it be terrible to ask a quick question about one of your other videos here? Well, I'm going to do it anyway! A twitter feed on a website – you showed it being put in a sidebar. I don't have a side bar, so can it be plonked in a page? I use siteorigin page-builder and widgets. This is not important really, but I can't say widgets if I am drunk, so I call them dingdongs! I have also followed your friend Alex last week and told him if he ever comes to Ireland to let me know, as it would be gas to help him out. He could do a tour – I'm in Cork so we could travel the length of the country. That again Martie. Best wishes, Colin
Super informative and well presented!