We believe in less is more and aim to reduce the number of plugins we use. This list is the best of the best.
View our recommend free plugins on our profile on the WordPress repository
Theme used on most of our sites
- Divi (paid)
- With our custom child theme – removes projects, comments and adds our custom dashboard
Plugins used on most of our sites
- BackupBuddy (paid) – moving to UpdraftPlus
- Duplicate Page
- Divi Accessibility
- Gravity Forms (paid)
- jQuery Updater – increases security
- ManageWP Worker – Allows us to upgrade and mange lots of sites using ManageWP
- W3 Total Cache
- Yoast SEO
- WPS Hide Login
- WP-PageNavi – improves archive navigation
Useful Plugins
- Coming Soon Page
- Popup Maker
- Email Address Encoder
- Monarch – Social Media Sharing Plugin – integrates with Divi (paid)
- Post Types Order
- Redirection
- ShortPixel – Image Optimizer – reduce large images (free/paid)
- Export All URLs
- G-Forms hCaptcha
Development plugins
- Admin Menu Editor
- Advanced Custom Fields (free) or ACF Pro (paid)
- A-Z Listing – Show your posts, pages, and terms alphabetically
- Better Search Replace
- Custom Post Type UI
- FacetWp (paid)
- search-filter
- Head, Footer and Post Injections
- Insert PHP Code Snippet
- List Custom Taxonomy Widget
- MapPress Maps for WordPress (free) or MapPress Pro (paid)
- Post SMTP Mailer/Email Log
- Post Types Order
- Widget Logic
- Post Type Switcher
- Taxonomy Switcher
- Term Taxonomy Converter
To be tested
