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okay so welcome to today's video today we're just
gonna go over ten plugins 10 WordPress plugins that i highly recommend because no matter which
type of wordpress site you have you're gonna need some plug-ins you know it's just eventually you're
gonna need them no way around it unless you wanna like code everything yourself and you
know that just ain't it happening okay so i'm not the type to use a lot of plugins i think less is
more so every plugin that i'm recommending to you is hand picked for a very good and specific
reason so and i highly recommend them so let me share them with you okay so the first
one is code snippets okay code snippets is a way it's a way to integrate code into
your site easily in more organized fashion because a lot of times you have to integrate
code in your site you have to go to your source files for example you may have to edit your
index.php files you know your function files header and footer files and things like that
a lot of times people don't know what they're doing on that people don't want to dig into the
code like that they may not know what they're doing they may not want to do it it becomes
messy a lot of times you can put code in there and it becomes like no man's land to
even if you're not using that code you forget to go back in and remove the code and
it's just a mess it can become a mess so with code snippets this is a more easy and organized way
to manage your code and activate code for example you have your snippets i can put some snippets
right here and you see right now i have two snippets activated like i have a clarity snippet
which is an analytics tracking tool a visual analytics tracking tool by microsoft
and i'll go over that in a separate video and have a custom login snippet that i created
to change the login of my wordpress site reason i did that because a lot of bots and hackers
can try to hit the default login of wordpress so i felt to change it you know because of that
reason just a lesser risk so you get the idea and if you want to turn your code on and off you
can do so you have a good visual listing of which codes you have activated you can delete
it you can export it you can clone it you get the gist it's just a better management of
code with wordpress next is the contact form 7 contact form 7 no matter what type of site you
have you're going to have to have some way or you should have some way for people to contact you
that should be one of your basic administrative pages and contact form 7 i've been using this
contact form for years and i highly recommend it it's very reliable it's very easy to set up very
intuitive and it's a good choice for a contact form that a lot of wordpress users use okay now next i
have the ewww image optimizer images we all love images they can be a beautiful thing but the thing
is images are the main culprits for killing one of the main culprits next to video that kills the
life out of your page speed so if you are aware of the importance of page speed
especially with the google core web vital update then you know that you need to optimize your
images in some way okay and this really helps you do so it helps me to do so now i will say
i always believe in optimizing your images as much as possible before you ever even upload the images
to your site okay so i believe in optimizing it and resizing it and doing all you can upfront
on the front end before you upload the images but this really helps you optimize it even more
if need be and also i really use this because it helps to convert my existing images and
images that i upload into webp format which is a new lighter weight a more modern image format over
jpeg or png so this automatically converts those jpeg png files to webp format okay also next i
have this maintenance plugin maintenance plugin that's just good to have you may have a
temporary time where maybe your site's down or you just need to work on your site for a bit
and you don't want to work on your site it's unprofessional to have your site live and
you're working on it and making changes and just put it in maintenance mode for a minute or
whatever work on your site it'll give on the front-end it'll give that visitor a page
hey the site is in maintenance come back in 30 minutes whatever the site will be back up
soon it's just good to have that maintenance page and this maintenance plugin really helps you do
so and i'm going to have all of these linked in the description because it's a lot of copycat
plugins with similar names so i'm going to have the specific plugins that you can check out
yourself linked in the description so don't worry about that okay also next i have presto player
reason i have presto player i recently tested this and hey we talked about images loading slowing
down your site images are nothing compared to video video slowing down your site especially
youtube videos as much as we all love youtube videos that's the main culprit that i've found
to really kill kill and suck the life out of your page speed and performance so this is
why i started using presto player because after using presto player i've noticed a jump of at
least 10 to 20 or 30 points on my page speed by optimizing my videos with presto
player you can optimize youtube videos vimeo videos or what have you and it really
makes a noticeable difference now we're going to talk about rank math seo now wordpress seo
is real okay now wordpress in itself it's a great cms content management system that automatically
because it has such a great reputation and history and long-standing it automatically
wordpress sites usually get a lot of favor in the search engines that's just
the truth about it from what i've seen but you can optimize it even more so by using a good seo plugin and rank math makes it easy to do so i've been using this plugin for like close to a
year and they have great support have great little optimization tips while you're creating
your content you know so it really helps you to really dot your I's and cross your T's
on the seo factors when creating your content okay now next i have sassy social share social
media hey we're in the time of social media so you want to have some aspect no matter how deep
you are in the social media you want to have some aspect of social to your site whether it's
just having an easy way for your visitors to share your content okay so this enables you to do that
let me show you on the front end you can put like facebook buttons twitter buttons linkedin
buttons like if you scroll down to the bottom of my site you see share this facebook twitter
linkedin now they have other options like pinterest and other social networks we all know a
new social network's popping up like every single day so they have a lot of options and stuff but
i feel just adding three keeps the page load to a minimum because no matter even though this
is a fast-loading social sharing plug-in make no mistake every plugin that you add to your
site will impact the page speed and performance in some way now it may not always be noticeable but
for instance you may have a if you drive a truck you drive a car and you throw a towel wet towel in
the back of your trunk maybe you won't feel it but still that tower added a little bit
of weight to your car maybe not a noticeable maybe nothing so big to impact it but it added
a little weight and if you keep throwing more and more and more towels in the back of your car
eventually you'll start to feel some impact it's the same with plugins so you know but this
keeps everything down to a minimum and this is one of the best ones that i've come across and
i've tested a lot of ones now also you have the super page cache for cloudflare
now there's a lot of cache plugins for cloudflare there's super cache you know all type of cache
plugins we can go on for days you know but the reason i chose super page cache for cloudflare
because i use cloudflare on all my sites currently cloudflare if you don't know about it it's a content
delivery network and that helps to speed up the delivery of your site in different geographical
areas just say especially if your site is a global type of visitors you may have someone else
someone in the u.s or someone in the uk or some other part of the world and you want the server to
be the closest to their geographical location so it'll load your site and deliver your site quicker to
them that's what a content delivery network would do we'll talk about that in another video but i
use this simply because it plays well with cloudflare you know optimizes well with cloudflare so
that's why i chose super page cache for cloudflare now we have wordpress wordfence
security wordpress security is real now wordpress is great but because it's so
great and because it's so popular you know wordpress in case you don't know wordpress like
powers like 40% of the web right now which is huge that's huge and because it's so popular
because it's such a giant cms platform there are a lot of people targeting it a lot of
hackers trying to do malicious things trying to hack your site you know it's trying to look for a
weakness especially for new sites going up so you have to have your security some iron clad
security in place don't sleep on that because you will get got now you heard it from me Rich B.
you will get got if you sleep on your wordpress security make no mistake okay so wordfence is
a good security plugin where you can set it forget it and it cut down a lot of worries and
headache right there off the bat and i'll have a another video where i show you how to tweak
certain settings but a lot of the settings out the box are pretty good but i tweak them you
know to make them even better so this is a great plugin to have to really put a lock on your
wordpress security and last but not least we have the wordpress content copy protection wp content
copy protection reason i have that it's a lot of copycats on the web you know they don't want to
do the work they just want to come to your site steal your content that you worked hard to create
or you paid to outsource and have created you spent your money or you worked hard to create it
bottom line they want to steal your content and they want to take the credit and the sad thing
about it is a lot of times they end up outranking you so it's a headache and even
if you can fight it and get it taken down you got to go through that process dmca takedown notices and all that type of stuff and maybe they'll respond maybe they won't but to cut
out a lot of that bull you can just activate this wordpress content copy protection and it will
it's acts like a guard dog you know like see some of those houses where or you may
know a house where it has a beware of the dog sign but it's not you know that it's not really a
dog there but other people may not know you know somebody may have malicious intent or
whatever or some crook they come by and say beware of the dog sign and they don't want to take a
chance on a house like that so they just bounce on to the next one that's what wordpress content copy
protection basically is you know and let me show but it goes better than that because it's not just
a bluff it's real it really protects your content let me show you i'm logged in now i
have it for it not to work while i'm logged in but check this out if i try to copy this i can
copy the content we go here and let's just say and then i copied you see but let's just say i go
and let's go to a private browser let me show you and a visitor comes some crook let's take that
off that's from the cache but some crook comes to the site trying to hey where what content i'm
gonna steal oh okay this looks good let me just copy this oh ah man can't copy it they even
right click oh can't copy it ah f this i'm going to the next site you see what i'm saying
so it just makes them work you know it throws them off deters the crooks and criminals and it
really cuts down on a lot of headaches and if you found value out this video do me a favor reach
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