- Yoast - plugin to improve SEO. Click here for more details
- WooCommerce - plug to easily build E-commerce sites. Includes Inventory Mgmt as well. Past example: http://shop.gpa-centex.com/ (Links to an external site.)
- WP Business Intelligence Lite: This is a really awesome plugin for those having to make charts or graphs for a WordPress site. It’s really great for those using the WordPress database, so if you are entering and storing all of the data for your project inside the WordPress database, this is definitely one of the easier and intuitive plug-ins to use without sacrificing functionality. All you do is query the WordPress database the same way you would normally and it practically does the rest for you. There is also a great FAQs section on the creator’s web page in case you need more help: http://www.wpbusinessintelligence.com/support/wp-business-intelligence-faq/ (Links to an external site.)
- SiteOrigin - page-builder widgets bundle
Plug-In Tip: If you are looking to edit the PHP in your Wordpress site, DO NOT edit directly on the Customize >> Editor option. You’ll get warnings when you try. Sometimes these changes are necessary, but instead of putting them in functions.php (where they will be deleted when your site is updated), you should create your own plugin. It’s easy (<10 mins). Info on why not to use functions.php and how to create your own plugin are here: https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/why-you-shouldnt-use-functions-php/ (Links to an external site.)
S2Member Framework: A plugin for professional WordPress membership management, integrating seamlessly with WordPress User Roles & Capabilities. If your project involves creating any kind of membership site, this is a great plugin. This plugin allows content restriction based on member roles; you can protect pages/posts and even specific content on pages/posts. Note: If your client requires more than four membership levels, import/export tools, and the ability to have one-step registration checkout, consider purchasing s2Member Pro which integrates with PayPal Pro, Stripe, Authorize.Net, and ClickBank. The pro version also offers unlimited membership levels. For a lifetime license for $89.00, the pro version includes everything a client will need to create a robust and beefy membership site.
- Appointments: A powerful, flexible appointment booking plugin that allows you to accept, set, and manage bookings on your website. This plugin is ideal for businesses and individuals who schedule times with clients; this can include consultants, web designers, spa, hair salons, photographers, etc.
- The Events Calendar by Modern Tribe: This plugin makes managing events from your website extremely easy and efficient. If you need to display an event calendar anywhere on your site, this is the go-to plugin.
- The Events Calendar PRO: Free for US-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations. Includes more features such as recurring events, week/photo/map views, location searches, venue & organizer view, advanced widgets, etc. If you apply for this, keep in mind it may take several weeks for the application to be reviewed. For the nonprofit application click here: https://theeventscalendar.com/apply-for-npp/ (Links to an external site.)
Updraft Plus – WordPress plugin to backup and restore site; https://updraftplus.com (Links to an external site.)
- Backs up to multiple cloud storage options (DropBox, Google Drive, Amazon S3, Rackspace, FTP, email, OpenStack Swift, and more.)
- Restores as well as backs up
- Allows you to set up automatic back-up schedules
- Pricing: Free. Premium available ($70-245) for upgraded features, support, and storage
- Compatible with all versions of WordPress from 3.2 onwards
- For WordPress websites, this plugin can use any XML or CSV file, import images, and can easily import data to plugin and theme fields or anywhere else you need it. WP All Import is efficient for large imports – it works by splitting large import files into smaller chunks – making it possible to import files with hundreds of megabytes of data and hundreds of thousands of records, even on shared hosting.
- WP Broken Link Status Checker Plugin: Wordpress plugin that scans all the links and images on your website and checks for links that are broken and return their HTTP status.
- Drupal 7 - Click here for details on the technology stack, how to install Drupal, and how to add a field
- TC Team Members - helps display staff pictures and biographies on the website. It allows for the display to have a picture with the person's name. To view the description, you click on the picture and a pop-out box appears. It was helpful to reduce clutter on the website.
Elementor -
really easy drag & drop builder for all pages
no coding required
has multiple customizable widgets to create any content you need: buttons, headlines, etc.
easy to customize typography and design
the paid version has even more functionality
Add From Server Adding images to your WordPress media library can be time-consuming and tedious work. Using this plugin, you can add images directly from your site’s directory. All you need to do is upload a zip folder using FTP, then add them to the media library through the plugin.
- Google Search This plugin allows you to create a custom google search function for your site. You can also customize what results you want to display to your users.
- Custom Image Sizes This plugin allows you to customize the sizes of the images you upload to the media library. Some theme builders don’t allow you to customize image sizes, so this plugin is pretty helpful for displaying images on your WordPress site.
- WP Staging – DB & File Duplicator & Migration This duplicator plugin allows you to create an exact copy of your entire website for staging or development purposes in seconds. For more information: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-staging/
- Upstream: Upstream is a great plugin to achieve file management and progress indication. While the free version already provides many functions such as create transactions, tasks, milestones and make the transaction and file only visible to specific clients. The paid version allows you to copy a project and show all the tasks and milestones in a progress bar and in the calendar. Also, you can customize the name of the fields. By the way, their customer support is super helpful that help us fix many bugs.
- Loco Translate: Loco Translate is a plugin that can both translate and edit the preset field’s titles. By using this plugin, WordPress users can translate the source text in other languages or other words.
- Google Drive Embedder: Google Drive embedded is a plugin that connects WordPress with your Google Drive account. It allows the users to upload the files in the Google Drive into WordPress directly by embedding view or download link into the text box section.
- Google Apps Login: Google Apps Login is a plugin that enables Wordpress users to log in to the website with Google Account. It is also the prerequisite of other Google App plugin. Therefore, if the developers want to embed other Google appslike Google Drive, they need to first install this plugin.
- Members: Member is a WordPress plugin that helps with the role of permission management. It connects with WordPress and can grant or deny the permissions of different user roles in both the website and installed plugins.
- Advanced Ads: an easy-to-use plugin for ads function. The free version supports Image Ads, Ad Groups, Rich Content Ad, and AdSense Ads. If the admins want to display more ads categories, more ad categories are supported by purchasing add-ons.
- Everest Form: drag-and-drop form builder to easily create simple to complex forms for any purpose. We used it for the Contact Us form to gather user feedback and questions. It will send notification emails to admins when it receives forms.
- WpDiscuz: Wordpress post comments and discussion plugin, which allows your visitors to discuss, vote for comments and share. The advantage of it is that it allows all the reviews and ratings to be in the form of the Wordpress comments, so it is very easy to view and manage.
- WP All Import: a powerful tool for importing XML and CSV files to Wordpress. It can create Posts and Pages with content from any XML or CSV file. It is also able to import pictures by purchasing WP All Import Pro.