- In this video I'm gonna be taking you through
my essential WordPress plugins for 2016.
I've got some free ones and I've got some premium ones.
So well let's check them out.
(calm music)
Hello it's Alex here from WPEagle.
So in this video I'm gonna take you through
some of my essential plugins for 2016.
Plugins that I use all the time on pretty much
all the websites that I create,
and I've used and tested and think are really good
so well let's get straight into them.
I've got five of them for you,
are premium plugins which means there
is a small fee in order to get hold of them.
But it also means that they're of a much higher
quality than the free plugins that you see.
And you get support, and you get free updates,
and yeah basically they're just really good
and worth the money, and they're all plugins
that I've used myself and have paid for, etc.
So let's get started with number one.
Okay so the first one is a reentry from last years video.
And of course it's Gravity Forms,
which is plugin I use on pretty much every website
that I create that needs a contact form.
So if you're not familiar with Gravity Forms,
it's obviously a form plugin as the name suggests,
and it allows you to create all sorts of forms
using a really easy to use drag
and drop builder within WordPress.
So why would you need a form plugin?
Well obviously for Contact Us page it's really useful
to have a form so that people can get in touch with you.
But you can also use this plugin for more complex things
like multi-page forms, say for an application
form on a financial type website.
And you can also include conditional logic
on those forms which basically means that
the fields in the form can change depending
on what people input as their answer.
It also comes with a host of add-ons which allow
you to plug it in to different systems
like Woocommerce, Mail Chimp, and all sorts of things.
And they all come free if you take on the developer license
which is the one that I've got and I renew every year
because as I say I just use it
on every single website that I create.
So yeah if you haven't checked out Gravity Forms,
and you're not using it on your websites
do go check it out, I highly recommend it.
So Gravity Forms is available from GravityForms.com,
I will put a link up on the video now,
and the price starts from just $39 for a single licence.
The next plugin I want to talk about is called
Maintenance PRO, and it's a maintenance mode plugin.
So, a maintenance mode plugin is useful for
when you're building a website
and you want to get a page up on the domain
that kind of says you know coming soon.
Maybe with a counter, some forms,
links to social media that sort of thing.
And that's what Maintenance PRO does for you.
You simply install the plugin, turn it on,
and it creates a lovely maintenance page for you
with a section of different templates you can choose from
and you can work in the background while you're logged in
and all your visitors to the site see a lovely page
and you let them know when your website will be ready.
Now of course there are a number of
free maintenance mode plugins out there
which will do a similar job, but I've not found one
of this kind of quality which has some really
easy to use templates and it just basically looks great,
and again I use it all the time when I'm building websites
and I need to hide the site until it's ready to be launched.
Maintenance PRO is available from Code Canyon,
I will put link up on the screen,
and it's just $15, a bargain.
Third plugin in this list is a new entry this year
and it's Woozone which I'm sure
a lot of my viewers are familiar with.
Now Woozone is a plugin that turns your Woo Commerce site
which we're gonna get onto in a second,
into an Amazon affiliate website.
It's enabled you to quickly search for Amazon
find a price you want, and download them onto your website,
all the images, pricing, all that sort of thing.
And basically allows you to create a mini kind of store
using WordPress full of affiliate products from Amazon.
Now this plugin has had it's ups and downs
I will say that, we've been working with
it through some like other tutorial videos
which I suggest you check out.
I've got some on how to use the plugin to create a site
from start, all the way through to launching it.
And yeah some of my viewers have had their ups and downs
with plugin with regards to support.
But what I will say is that the plugin is updated regularly,
the support do get back to you if you're patient.
And I'm here for you if you use this plugin.
I've got lots of tips and of tricks and advice on it.
So I can still recommend it whole heartedly
because it's a great plugin, and there isn't many others
out there that do what this plugin actually does
in terms of allowing you to create an Amazon affiliate
website really easily, so yeah worth checking out.
Woozone is available on Code Canyon,
I'll put a link up right now, and it's just $34.
Fourth plugin I want to talk about
is Easy Social Share which again was featured
in my last video, the one I did last year on the plugins.
But it's been updated and it's
even better than it was back then.
So this plugin allows you to add social sharing buttons
to your content, to your posts and your pages.
It covers all the major in social networks,
and some of the less known ones as well.
One of the things I love about this plugin
are the button templates that come included with it.
So these are the buttons for Facebook and Twitter
and Linkin, and Pinterest, and all those sort of things.
There's loads to choose from which means
you can find something that fits your site really well.
Oh you can have counters on them.
You can have them floating on the side.
You can have them at the top of the content,
at the bottom of the content, or both if you like.
It's got some really good mobile settings
so you can adjust your buttons so they look
really good on a mobile and a tablet.
And yeah basically it's just got everything you need.
It's got loads and loads of options
if you want to adjust them, or you can just go through
the wizard and get it set up in a couple of minutes.
So I haven't found any plugin like this
whether it be premium or free in terms of
adding social sharing buttons.
And social sharing buttons are an essential part
of a blog stroke website now a days
because you really want to encourage some social sharing
because it just helps you get traffic,
and your SEO, and all that sort of stuff.
So this plugin is highly recommended.
If you haven't got social sharing buttons
on your website you need to get it now.
Easy Social Sharing is available from Code Canyon
it's just $19, I will put a link up on the screen now.
My fifth and final premium plugin for this video
is called Twitter Feed, and yeah you guessed it.
It allows you to add your Twitter feed
to your WordPress website in a really easy and stylish way.
Adding your Twitter feed is a great way
to make your site more dynamic as of see
it pulls in your live Tweet as of when you Tweet
onto your website so everyone can read them
and they can click through, follow you,
share, retweet, all that sort of stuff.
The reason I love this plugin is
because it's really easy to set up and install,
and it's got some fancy options when
it comes to displaying your Tweet.
So you can have static Tweets you know,
just Tweets you know there on your page.
You can have Tweets that scroll in and out,
fade in and out, all sorts of things.
So that's why I love it because it awful looks really good
once you've added it to your website so go check it out.
Twitter Feed is available on Code Canyon,
it's just $15 and I'll put a link up on the screen now.
Go check it out.
Let's get on to the free plugins.
There are some great plugins out there for WordPress
that are free to use, and these are the ones
that I use on a regular basis so let's have a look.
All the free plugins are available from WordPress.org,
or you can just simply install them by going to Plugins
and Add New from within your WordPress Dashboard.
Now the first one is everyone's favorite free plugin
and that is Akismet, Akismet helps you get rid
of that annoying comment spam that you
tend to get on WordPress website.
You know the stuff for Viagra and all that kind of rubbish
that you get in your comments when you
start adding content to your website.
What Akismet does is it goes through all your comments
that come onto the website and using some server based data
it will flag them as spam if it's seen them before
as you know a spamming type content.
Allowing you to just moderate them as and when you need it
and you know clearly see the real comments that you want
to add to your site and reply to and allows and stuff.
So yeah an essential one for your WordPress website.
The second free plugin that I want to talk about
is called WordPress Fastest Cache,
I think that's it Faster Cache, WPFC for short.
And this is a new caching plugin that I've been trying
out this year, and I've had some great success with it.
So caching plugins are an essential thing
to install on your WordPress website because
they make it load faster which is obviously a good thing.
Because Google likes fast sites.
Your visitors will appreciate a fast site.
Everyone loves a fast site so why wouldn't you install it?
Now there is a load of caching plugins available
for WordPress, there's some big ones like Wfree, etc.
Which I've tried that before but the reason
why I love WPFC is because it's
really easy to set up and configure.
There isn't huge amounts of options
that you need to wade through.
There's just a few that you can tick a few boxes
and then kind of measure the performance
increase that you get from that.
There's not much more to say about WPFC apart from
go get it, install it, and if you are using
other caching plugins I suggest you take a look at it.
Because as I say it's really easy to use
and you get a great performance boost from it
just from the most basic of settings.
There is a premium version available if you want it.
But I found the free version works just fine
and there's probably not much reason for you
to upgrade to premium unless you just want to squeeze
a few more seconds off that load time on your website.
The third plugin I want to talk about
was featured in my last video and it's
back again and it's Woocommerce.
Now Woocommerce is an ecommerce plugin
so it transforms your WordPress website
into an online shop, allowing you to sell products
whether they be physical or digital, or whatever you like.
It supports a host of different payment gateways
so you can take your money from your customers
using Paypal, or Sage, or Stripe,
or there's a ton of different payment
gateways that kind of plugin to Woocommerce.
So it should have one that suits your needs.
Speaking of extensions Woocommerce has loads
which makes it one of my favorite plugins.
So say you wanna sell some bookings
for an event, there's a plugin for that.
So you wanna sell training, there's a plugin for that.
If you want to sell subscriptions you can do that too.
There's an extension that fits into Woocommerce to do that.
Basically the list goes on, Woocommerce as it comes
is powerful but and with all the extensions
it really becomes something else.
So if you're looking to sell anything via your website
your first stop needs to be Woocommerce.
The fourth plugin I want to talk about
is Yoast SEO one of my favorite plugins.
I use this on all my websites and you'll find it
in a many of my videos, it's a great way
to make sure that your website is SEO friendly.
SEO means Search Engine Optimization.
So I'm talking about getting your website
ready for Google so that when Google comes in
it finds all the words in the right place
and can read your pages really well
which of course will help you rank better.
It's also got some other features
like XML site map, so you can submit a
basically a map of your website to Google.
So Google knows exactly which pages and posts
you want it to index and where it can find them.
You can go through each and post on your website
optimizing it for certain keywords.
And Yoast is there for you, helping you optimize,
giving you suggestions, and all sorts of things.
I've got loads of videos on SEO on
my channel so be sure to check them out.
But if you're looking to improve your search engine
rankings then Yoast SEO is definitely an essential plugin
that you need for your WordPress website.
Okay the final plugin that I want to talk about
in this video is Google Analyticator.
Again this was in my last video
because again I use it all the time.
It's been updated, it's got even better since then.
But it's basically an easy way
to add Google Analytics to your website.
For those of you that don't know what Google Analytics is,
it's a package that you get from Google for free.
And using this plugin you can add it
to your WordPress website and then you can
track your visitors as they kind of
come to your website and browse around.
It's full of all sorts of reports
but basically you can see how many people have come
to your website, how long they spent on the site,
what pages they looked at, whether they filled out any forms
and tons and tons of other information.
So yeah it's really essential just if
you want to find out how well your website's doing.
But it's also good if you want to optimize
your marketing efforts because you can clearly see
what's working, what's bringing traffic
to your website and what's not.
Now Google Analytics uses a kind of tracking code
that needs to be added to your pages
and this plugin kind of makes it really easy to do that.
So you don't have to worry about you know coding
or editing theme files or anything like that.
Just install this plugin connect it
to your Google account, and off you go.
So that's the end of this video on my
essential plugins for WordPress in 2016.
I'd love to hear which plugins you use
on your WordPress websites, which ones you love,
and even which ones that you don't love so much.
Be really interesting to hear that.
Also if you've got any questions or comments
I'd love to hear from you as well.
Please post them below.
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