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Install Plugins

At the WordPress Meetup in St. Petersburg, Jim True (moderator) pointed out that he won’t install/use a theme or plugin unless it is available on the WordPress.org repository.

The WordPress team reviews everything that is available through WordPress.org ~ THEY DO NOT CHECK FOR QUALITY OR IF IT IS APPROPRIATE FOR A USER. Instead, they verify that the internal coding meets the WordPress specifications, and that it doesn’t contain any malicious code or “malware.” At least that’s something for a user to begin their due diligence.

When new admins discover how varied plugins are (and how easy they are to install) the admins go shopping and add as many plugins as they can. Not a good idea. Plugins can introduce vulnerabilities and slow your site (sometimes dramatically according to Neil Patel). “Best practices” is to de-active any that you don’t use, and eventually delete them from your website.

Your turn:

Log into your WordPress Dashboard with your admin account. Go directly to Plugins,

Some developers suggest removing the default plugins added when you installed WordPress. I don’t recommend keeping them, but you may choose to remove them for now.

Click on the “Add New” button. On the far right of the page is a “Search Plugins…” box. You will be using that to find and add the following plugins:

  • Child Themify (John Bloch) – Do not install and activate unless needed
  • Classic Editor (WordPress Contributors) – Do not install and activate unless needed
  • Classic Widgets (WordPress Contributors) – Do not install and activate unless needed
  • Cookie Notice & Compliance for GDPR / CCPA (Hu-manity) – Activate
  • Disable Comments (WPDeveloper) – Do not install and activate unless needed
  • Duplicate Page (midnspring207) – Activate
  • Easy WP SMTP (wpecommerc) – Do not activate yet [requires configuration]
  • Health Check and Troubleshooting (WordPress Community) – Activate
  • Hide Dashboard Notifications (BitofWP) – Do not install and activate unless needed
  • Maintenance (Webfactory LTD) – Activate
  • Rank Math SEO (Rank Math) – Do not activate yet [requires configuration]
  • Site Kit by Google (Google) – Do not activate yet [requires configuration]
  • Smush (WPMU Dev) – Activate
  • Updraft Plus (UpdraftPlus.com) – Do not activate yet [requires configuration]
  • WordFence Security (Wordfence) – Do not activate yet [requires configuration]
  • WP Revisions Control (Erick Hitter) – Do not activate yet [requires configuration]
  • WP-Optimize – Clean, Compress, Cache (David Anderson, et al) – Do not install and activate
  • WPForms Lite (WPForms) – Do not activate yet [requires configuration]

Plugin tools are an ongoing learning process. Plugins change; some plugins get abandoned. For example, at one time I had a weather plugin added to my community’s website.

Another example, Easy WP SMTP is a plugin that integrates with your Google/Gmail account!! It lightens the load for your web host’s server. Specifically, I discovered that ABCIn-Domains hosting limits outgoing mail to 50 messages at a time. That’s not good when using a membership plugin that sends 200 renewals at a time…

Some themes have a recommended suite of plugins they recommend you add to your website

You may find more information at my blog Building a WordPress site ~ [6] WordPress Plugins (https://webtools.abcinc.pw/2019/01/install-wordpress-plugins.html). I am slowly cross-posting that information here!

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