 Yeah, so I tried to do five plugins, and then I thought yeah, it's really not enough So I'm not going into a lot of detail on each of them. Just kind of going through Going through a little bit. Let me just bring up my stuff here There's my notes. All right, cool notes are up. All right So as John said I run an agency here called Chili Bin. Some of you may have seen me speak before But yeah part of the organizing team here as well. So We don't have a lot of time so I'll run through this essentially where we're going to talk about some plugins There's over 55,000 plugins in the repository at the moment as well as a whole bunch of other ones that you can get on GitHub Theme forest and there's a whole bunch other ones you can get from premium like retailers as well So just kind of going to run through Some of the ones that I use here so I use a development agency So it's probably skewed a little bit more towards that or I tried to make it a little bit user focused So I had a friend call me last week essentially and she was just kind of asking what plugins They should install on a on an install. And so I just kind of ran through A list that I kind of install on most sites They're a mixture of sort of helpful tools I guess Yeah, so I've been building sites commercially for 10 years. So it's skewed kind of that way If you are looking for other guides, there's always like 10 best plugins for events 10 best plugins for For forums or something like that. So but WP beginner comm and there's a few others where you can get those resources So the first one I'm going to go through here is called pretty links This is used to kind of beautify links. Sometimes it can be used to minify Some links as well. It can also be used for affiliates and downloads and things like that So it can be used to shorten links on using your own domain name. So you don't need to have the Google One or bit. Lee or whatever that may be so you can import using CSV files And there's a paid upgrade as well, which does more advanced tracking. So that's what it looks like on the repository It's constantly updated over 200,000 installs Works with the latest WordPress as well. So it's been tested. So this is an example of a few that I have upon my site I mainly use it for affiliate links So if you're coming to me and you know, I use active campaign. So there's a little pretty URL at the end there Which essentially says like chili bean.com.sg forward slash out active campaign. So if I'm just writing a link I don't want to necessarily use my affiliate URL So I can just go through and send that out I'm also using it for Calendly, which if anyone wants to book a call with me, they can just use that link directly Not that many people by the looks of it And then there's a discovery questionnaire and download questionnaire down the bottom as well, which I use as part of my onboarding We send emails out to people Once they become a client which just goes through a whole onboarding process So there's PDF downloads that you can get which tell you how to build how we build your home page and things like that So that's what we use it for There's a little I think there's a gif here Yeah, so it shows pretty easy to add a link at a link you can do 301s, 302s and 307s You enter in the URL without making mistakes So I just doing a link to Google, right and then you can put in there whatever you want the pretty link to be I use out and then you can track these as well in your Google Analytics reports You can see how many people actually Clicking through on that so pretty simple in terms of setting up those and we use them a lot Sometimes clients or Can't fast forward that but sometimes clients We'll have like a very long PDF download that's just like WP content for slash WP uploads 2018 11 and then a long file name instead of sending that out to someone in just pop it in here and just have you know Download or something like that and you can manage it that way and it's all tracked and things as well, so That's pretty easy one to use broken link checker. This is good kind of SEO one as well So if you want it Take that URL photo of it. I can prop these slides up at the end as well So what broken link checker does? Essentially runs in the back end of your website and goes through and checks all the links comments, you know People's URLs that have left comments. It checks through all your posts and things as well So it's not constantly updated because it's not something that necessarily needs to be updated last update Was about a year ago Over 600,000 installs, so it's a it's a widely used plug-in and it's built with the latest Wordpresses as well. So as you can see there, I just installed this just for a quick demo So it found four broken links on my site still going through the 500 URLs And it will check each link every 72 hours if you want that you probably don't want to check that often But that's the default anyway. If you have a multi-author blog as well And people are putting in their own content You can send those even now notifications out to the authors as well as the admin as well You can also do down the bottom there apply custom formatting to broken links So if you want your broken link to show with a strike through or a different type of underline They can do that as well. It will also which is quite good. It will also do suggestions For alternative to broken links now when I found when I was going through this before it mainly found links from The internet archive so it found archive versions of the existing links, but you may want to use or you may not But it gives you that option anyway So I think there's a Giffer as well so out of the 600 that we found you can either just unlink that and say okay Well, that's not found anymore This was from a Facebook plug-in that I had for Facebook comment URLs It's not used anymore. So all those will broken links and the more broken links Obviously, you have the worst result you're gonna get for SEO. So bringing all those down It was pretty simple. You can also check Did I do the check there? You can see the details there on the response as well to see why that's why that's failed And make that change You can go through that. So that's a good one to have and kind of check in once a week once every two weeks Just to make sure that you're not returning Too much bad content for your SEO Another one and this is mainly for my OCD because I like to have everything like really neatly organized in the admin I hate going to a home page and to a back end of a website and you see pages all over the place So instead of using the WordPress default, which is using the page attributes 10 20 30 40 50 As you go down a page. This allows you just to drag and drop each page it allows you to Drag and drop in hierarchy as well as sort of up and down as well. So It's been constantly updated 200,000 installs as well. So It's not really too much to say about it But here's a very basic demo of some SEO work that we've been doing So we just move that down to the bottom of the page because I like the home page and the site You are all structured to be correct So you can just drag and drop those into Into order Pretty simple that one Now the one is is for design as well. So design and development. So if you're using any type of Or you know retina screens on a MacBook or iMac or you know any high resolution screens as well this plug-in uses An attribute could sur-set SRC set Which is supported by WordPress anyway, but what it does is it just allows you to go through and You know show two different versions of the same image You might not want to necessarily show a 6,000 pixel image across the site because it's going to slow your site down But this will create high DPI Images as well. So It's been updated. It's not used on a lot of sites And mainly because it's a little bit of extra work making sure you've got all those assets Sort it out And this is how it looks in the back end So these are the original images that you have and then you can replace those retina sizes and other sizes As you go through it as well. So it gives you a guide there on what the full-size image should be So if it's you know 1800 by 1200 just make sure you're saving your Photoshop files or your jpegs it double that resolution So you can Drag and drop those into place there A spam plug-in that we like to use already the the ask him that one's okay, but it's a little bit Oops, that's duplicate post That should be zero spam, which looks like this This one it hasn't really been updated lately two years ago, but it still runs fine And I prefer it to the ask him at plug-in just because the whole sign-up process can be a little bit frustrating It's set and forget. You know, you don't really need to do too much with it at all does comments Just kind of set and forget no capture. It does moderation cues Essentially, it just disappears and you don't have to worry about it It's not kind of your users don't have to deal with it And then you don't have to deal with it as an admin as well And then there's logging tools and things like that The link here before now something I think should be in core because I use it all the time It's annoying having to install a plug-in, but any kind of site work that you're doing you can go through and just duplicate the post So if you're building up pages and pages, it's just easy to duplicate that change that And then edit that rather than starting new page and copying and all your content Especially if you're doing like a templated page Or a post or you have a source certain format to your posts then you can just bring that through as well One I use on pretty much all my sites. I don't do a lot of blogging work So we use disabled comments just because it's a part of the WordPress admin We don't need to use and by turning it off you also turn off all the spam That you may get as well. So this one one one million installs. So it's pretty active But it disables it globally. So by WordPress you can go into the admin and turn off turn off turn off on each post This will actually do it across the whole site So it's not a selective tool And you can sort of install this and then get rid of it and you don't have to worry about it again Turning them back on you'll have to install the plug-in and then enable them again Developer tool that I use a lot is better search replace Now we use this when we move sites from domain to another domain or if you're replacing your URL say, you know like the Like the the link checker that we had if we had a bulk list of URLs Google would change the URL for example We could go through and change from google.com.sg to google.com.au or something like that So we can just easily run through here. It's my team delicious brains. They do some really good work. They have a managed DB Migrate DB tool as well, which is great for local development But you know 600,000 installs pretty popular plug-in Essentially in the back end you'll go through and you'll search for the URL that you want to replace So if it's like a dev environment to be domain name dev or dot test And then you replace it with domain name com You would run through and you can select any of the tables So if you just want to replace it in comments where you can Control click and select them all There's a couple of options on the bottom Probably just make sure you have a backup first and then run as a dry run if you run as a dry run It will essentially go through and say okay. I've found 25 replacements need to be made. We've made 10 replacements If you're looking to add an SSL certificate this plug-in won't do the SSL plug-in Certificate for you. What it will do is make sure that all your resources are served over HTTPS So that's what it looks like as over a million installs really simple to set up essentially one or two clicks And then you're done you do have to make sure that you have this SSL certificate first Otherwise you'll end up breaking stuff But it will check to see if you have your SSL certificate You'll fix your some of your mixed content as well. So if you're serving any HTTP links It will remove HTTP and just serve the Just serve it from there and you can also make it in a HTTP HT access redirect as well just so that Apache is dealing with it rather than Your server PHP code needs to run it So that one is pretty simple one for that I like to install on my client sites because they like to install Upload five or six megabyte images and then wonder why their sites are slow this one And there's a couple other popular tools around it. This one is quite simple And essentially what you do is you go through and select a couple of settings It's actually a maximum image size it essentially crops down to that maximum image image size So a few hundred thousand installs there But I mean these are pretty old settings. You wouldn't really want to have these anymore But let's say you look at probably a two thousand by two thousand pixel size Images into your meter library can be different and then you might have images into your theme could be different So you might want to have a 3200 pixel retina image that goes across a wide banner In your actual theme in the customizer But your posts you may want to limit to seven or eight hundred pixels because they're going to be in a short In a short thing. So you make sure you check those settings. It does BMP to JPEG But I don't know who uses BMPs anymore Select all the options that will run through it runs through 250 images at a time and then runs through again So you might have to run it a few times But it's there so while you use this it doesn't really do any additional compression all it does is resize the image so there's there's plug-ins like short pixel short pixel and Immigify Which do that as well so they do the compression they send your image across to another server? Compress it and then send it back They also do this Compression as well, but I like this and just let the other tool handle the compression That's it. Well, I run through that pretty quickly There's ten plug-ins Questions so I made the time John Yeah disabled comments Yeah, so you can do it post by post Yeah, but it still leaves it in the dashboard So this actually removes the whole functionality from the dashboard Yeah And then it's done It's just a default I don't build many blog sites and if I do I'll probably use something like discuss Which is a better commenting platform which allows for to Open those are open open ID allows for that. So It also works on the different post types as well So attachment plug it attachment comments and things like that are a bit harder to turn off But yeah, easy to set up The way that I do it is I create them in admin install Which is one and then I'll create everyone else an editor install essentially so day to day They'll get an editor and then they'll have an admin You know if if something goes wrong, but realistically we give them an editor with a few upgraded permissions There's a few things appearance widgets and there's a couple other things menus. They can't Access as an editor. So a couple of those things that we change and give them access to But it's their website because they've paid for it. So they need full access to it Otherwise, you know, you sort of holding everything if I get run over by Boston, you know, they don't have a website, right which Which won't happen. But you know, you always like to give full access back To the client. There's there's a few plugins could Admin adminizer in a few things like that where you can remove certain elements But I find it just gets a bit frustrating to manage that and certain plugins do things in different ways. It can be come tricky Yeah, there's a sort of another plug-in called were webs website administrator pro I think Webmaster webmaster admin pro or something and it creates Like that upgraded admin editor Creates it for you. And there's a pro version of that as well. But yeah, that's one way of doing it by using the webmaster tool So if you install multi-site Yeah, but if you want to know what I mean You're only allowed to install plugins and have what I mean for users So you could just limit all of the client users to Specific sites the site and then you have to control them. That's if you're using multi-site You can but there's some plugins that don't run well and if you then want to migrate away from multi-site to a single-site install That's a whole nother Or migrate into So if you've built it in a single-site install like I did last week and then the client said no We have a multi-site install Then we have to migrate a single into a multi which we did. I just made them buy a plug-in That's it anything else really it's a good one. I Think that's it really so I'll wrap up and you catch me out After if you want to sort of go through anything in more detail But yeah, my name's Sean and I run Chile been here. So cool. I'll see you guys around