January 2017 Meetup - 10 Must Have WordPress Plugins

The presentation was lead by Pratik Gandhi @ Ahmedabad WordPress Meetup on 8th January 2017.

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1. 10 Must have Plugins 
 for your WordPress Website PRESENTATION BY: Pratik Gandhi VENUE: KrishaWeb Technologies Pvt. Ltd. DATE: 8th January 2017
2. Contact form 7
3. • Simple, fast, free, effective • Unlimited number of forms • 16 different pre-defined fields • Free add-on available • Easy to setup email template • Google Re-captcha Inbuilt • Hook and filter are avialable for customize • Loads one css and two js file Contact form 7
4. Yoast SEO
5. • One of the best SEO Plugins available • Provides Meta snippet and preview • Page Analysis • Meta & Link Elements • XML Sitemaps • Edit your .htaccess and robots.txt file • Import & Export functionality Yoast SEO
6. • Multilingual support • Includes custom post types and taxonomies • Google authorship verification • You can add your social profiles • Google Analytics and Webmaster setup Yoast SEO
7. W3Total Cache
8. • Reduces page load time • Browser caching • Caching of (minified and compressed) CSS and JavaScript in memory, on disk or on CDN • Caching of database objects • Transparent content delivery network management • WP-CLI support for cache purging • Up to 80% bandwidth savings W3Total Cache
9. Disqus
10. • Larger sites with lots of user comments you are better off with Disqus commenting system. • Third party commenting system, which means comments will not affect your server. • It does not affect your site’s page speed and comes equipped with anti-spam filters. • Comment will publish using many social network • Loads two js file on blog detail page, one js file on other pages. Disqus
11. Easy Image Gallery
12. • Add gallery to any post, page or custom post type • Drag and drop re-ordering • CSS and JS are only loaded on pages where needed • Images link to larger versions • Multilingual support • Uses the thumbnail size specified in Settings -> Media Easy Image Gallery
13. • Modify the gallery HTML using filters • Easily add your preferred lightbox script via hooks and filters • Easily unhook CSS and add your own styling • It stores image gallery in post_meta table having ‘_easy_image_gallery’ as meta key • Loads two css and one js file Easy Image Gallery
14. Custom Permalink
15. • Easy URL rewriting and re-direction for SEO • Set the URL of any post, page, tag or category to anything you want. • Old permalinks will redirect properly to the new address. Custom Permalink
16. Wordfence
17. • Firewall • Blocks Googlebots, malicious scans from hackers and botnets. • Two Factor Authentication • Enforce strong passwords • Scans core files, themes and plugins • WordPress Multi-Site compatible Wordfence
18. Toolset Types
19. • Custom Fields for posts and users • Approx 20 different types of fields support • Easily setup custom post types and taxonomies • Easily setup one-to-many and many-to-many relationships • Multilingual support • Support Toolset Types
20. Regenerate Thumbnails
21. • Regenerate the thumbnails for your image attachments • Regenerate the thumbnails for all image uploads • Regenerate individual image uploads. Regenerate Thumbnails
22. Newsletter
23. Newsletter • Unlimited Subscribers with statistics • Opt-in options are available • Unlimited Emails with tracking • Customizable subscription widget , page or custom form • SMTP-Ready • Html and Text versions of Emails • Imports already registered users