WordPress is the most widely used CMS system in the world. Despite this, WordPress has quite a few shortcomings for an editor that you have to solve with plugins. Knowing what plugins are good to use is perishable and needs to be revised periodically as WordPress evolves and plugins stop working. Here are 15 plugins that we think significantly improve an editor’s experience and have become must-haves in the installations we do for our clients.
Duplicate Post
Duplicate Post makes it easy to clone a post or a page. Super good if you have a post that you want to start from to write a new post.
Enable Media replace
With Enable Media replace you can finally replace uploaded files. A common problem is that you have, for example, a directory in .PDF that you have linked to in 50 places. Instead of changing the link in all 50 places, you just replace the file. Super easy!
CMS Tree page view
If you have many pages, it can easily get quite messy with all the pages and hierarchies. With this extension you can see them neatly lined up in a tree structure.
Admin menu tree page view
This add-on works like the CMS Tree page view, but here you can see the pages directly in the menu.
Dynamic widgets
An extension to be able to control widgets extremely accurately. In this way, you can put contextual information to a particular page or news post in a very simple way. Can also control much narrower things like date, user, browser etc. Extremely versatile!
Simple History
Logging in WordPress is quite embarrassing, and it’s easy to get confused about who did what. With this add-on, you can see who did what and when in a simple way.
Subpages Extended
Very often there is a need to display subpages in different context menus. Together with Dynamic Widgets, this is a great add-on that makes it super easy to create and manage a website.
Contact Form 7
Collecting leads in different ways is important. This extension is a smooth and stable way to work with forms in a flexible way.
Codestyling localisation / WPML
Many times if you download extensions, the extension is only in English. It is clearly not uniform for either the visitor or the editor. With the help of these tools, you can translate the extension so that you get it in the language you want. WPML is basically a multilingual tool for all content in WordPress.
Admin menu editor
WordPress is simple, but sometimes you want to hide some things, rename others and add a shortcut for a third. With the Admin menu editor, you can do this in a simple way, making it quick and easy for editors to find their way around the admin interface.
Google Analytics for WordPress
You need to follow up on your web efforts, and then Google Analytics is a good choice. We often use this plugin to handle that integration.
Simple Notices
Sometimes it may be necessary to print a message to all customers. For example, if you are on holiday or have a small business where you are sick. Or if you have some kind of downtime and want to be able to show this easily to everyone. With this extension you get such functionality in a simple way.
User switching
If you need to help a user, it is extremely good to be able to see from their eyes. With User switching, we can temporarily “jump” and become that user so that we see exactly what that user sees.
WordPress SEO
Of course, we want to be able to change our titles and get some tips when we as editors work with search engine optimisation. With this plugin, we can quickly and easily change titles and other relevant data.
Add custom post types archive to nav menus
For some reason, it’s not possible to add CPT archives to the menu in WordPress by default. This plugin solves the problem.