The 4 Essential Plugins For Every WordPress Website

[@borosorsi]

Dear Adam! I would like to say a big THANK YOU and give you a feedback, because your videos are so professional! Everything is nicely explained so the beginners are able to understand the basic and useful stuff if they have one or even more WordPress websites. I appreciate it a lot! On the other side, I think we all know that if you run into an issue, for each of them there are several solutions on the internet which may work or may not (at my case mostly not..), but when I found your KZbin channel, literally every issue I had, I could solve in less than 5 minutes without having small heart attacks about messing up my site even more than before... Lastly, which makes you even more different from other channels that offers tips and advices about WordPress websites, is that you usually offer free plugins which is indeed very cool. Thank you again and keep up the good job! 😊

[@martinkaspar5095]

I love how you talk through every step and explain all! The global Wordpress-Community is LITERALLY a learing community. So it would be great if you can come up with a new vid - one that covers the version 6.1 So plz help in educating the world.🙏🙏😊👍🏻😳♥

[@king-ci4ob]

U r the most honest and kind person.... Thnk u for sharing all of this..... U r my teacher....

[@quantinabeck-jones7151]

This is the breath of fresh air I needed this evening in trying to optimize and secure a site I'm working on. So you know, your videos are highly recommended in a consulting network group I belong to. Many Thank you's!

[@Osdol]

Yes, great content. Thank you specifically for the insight you provide along with your recommendations. You offer solid context for the plugins’ functions as well as helpful things to consider with each.

[@WPCrafter]

Thank you Joshua Osburn & thanks for watching.

[@graham1848]

One of the few honest wordpress youtube's

[@terrytowells5500]

Thank you - I enjoy your videos. Clear, and paced right. Really well done.

[@WPCrafter]

Thank you Terry.

[@madhvi0227]

I am your student from India.. You are a really good teacher...

[@harbourdogNL]

As part of Jetpack Pro there is VaultPress...how does that compare with iThemes Security? Also, if I have jetpack installed do you think I really need another SEO plugin like Yoast? If so, why? Thanks in advance!! (Your videos are always so informative, they are my first go-to for WP questions.)

[@venturejay]

Adam is the absolute best! Thanks for the golden info!

[@MrKaipgyveni]

Giving a Like to your videos before I watch them thats how valuable they are

[@cindyway5556]

this is my 1st comment but i always get great result on your contents, thanks a lot, really needed this!

[@WPCrafter]

Thank you so much Cindy! And thank you for stepping out to leave your first comment.

[@M5g_]

Thank you, Adam, always learning something from you in less than 10 min. My time well invested. Great content.. Very helpful.

[@WPCrafter]

Glad to have you on the channel.

[@mandrael]

Hi Adam, thanks for the overview! I independently chose iThemes, Updraft and Autoptimize, totally agree 1+ Plugins. For caching I like Fastest Cache best. No problems, easy to use, very fast. If iThemes is used with WP Compress, better turn off the "Banned User" option.

[@aspscatsystems5136]

Thanks for all you give and do!

[@MarioGZito]

Another useful video. Thank you Mr Adam!

[@WPCrafter]

Your welcome, thanks for watching!

[@routedstyling6153]

Never let me down, I think you for your Time a wisdom, you truly look out for the non-techies

[@WPCrafter]

Thank you Main Source & thanks for watching.

[@thomaswozniak8797]

I am excited for the Autoptmize and iThemes Videos! I already downloaded them and waiting for your setting options :)

[@WPCrafter]

Hey Thomas, I'm getting ready to make those this week.

[@Altusfonz]

great content man, you are a legend

[@WPCrafter]

Thank you!

[@englishlifestyle1077]

Thank you so much. You make our lives so much simpler.

[@WPCrafter]

You're welcome English Lifestyle! Thanks for watching.

[@michaelgovers8036]

Thanks for this update Adam, I often wondered about backing up and security, thanks again ;)

[@WPCrafter]

You're welcome Michael! The two plug-ins I talked about in this video are rocksolid choices and they also happen to be free. But even though they are free, they are better than paid options.

[@PityMe]

Thanks for the great video. I'll be sure to try these out.

[@WPCrafter]

You're welcome!

[@Luxxen101]

Fabulous, as always.

[@MandarinMania]

Really like your videos! Thanks!

[@3rdtwirl494]

Thank you. I used your tutorials to build my site examples and two proposals. Ive not heard back and it’s been a week. Should I follow up? Or assume failure

[@musetechwebclasses5248]

Hey Adam. I know this is an old video and you probably already know this, but, just in case you or your readers don't, the Wordfence Live Traffic can now be disabled and there is a setting to use Low Resources. Just an FYI. PS: Love your tutorials and I share them with my students often.

[@robitupinternational]

Thank you for this tutorial! This has been extremely informative.

[@WPCrafter]

Thank you Robin!

[@karihollingsworth3431]

Hi, great content! Thanks for the info for us 'non tec' humans, awesome :) One quick question; you have a video on Jetpack as well (how I found you) do I need these top 4 PLUS the use of Jetpack or is that overkill? Looking forward to the video on Cache. Thanks again and keep up the good work.

[@christianlecuyer6380]

Always great advise Adam, That was something I was wondering... Great video :)

[@WPCrafter]

Thanks Christian!

[@viraldnainc6177]

Love your stuff Bro. Great content. Clarity!

[@ggaass1]

Right on! This is exactly the video I prompted you to do when you showed us the plugins you use in your website :) Well, some of my MUSTS as a non-techy are: Child Theme Configurator (you know this one huh), Duplicator (if I need to make a one-time backup for whatever reason in one specific moment), Envato Wordpress Toolkit (my god, I found this yesterday and it is going to save me lots of time and it will help future clients not to screw up the website when updating their Themeforest themes. Bye bye tinkering Filezilla), Really Simple SSL. Besides all the hate towards sliders I like Revolution Slider. And The Grid is cool too.

[@ggaass1]

By the way, I wanted to ask you for a while how important it is for SEO to have a plugin like Google XML Sitemaps (or if Yoast SEO does that already). Thank you for your time.

[@WPCrafter]

Since I use Yoast on all of my websites, I use the site map feature that it has, and I try to put a link in my footer to that site map to make it easy for search engines that are trying to index my website.

[@itako9]

I love your videos! great content :)

[@freelancesahil6264]

But in my experience I like this plugins Caching: w3 total cache Security: Ithemes Analytics: Beehive Backup: Updraftplus SEO: Rankmath

[@glorias.2930]

Your videos are gold!

[@WPCrafter]

Thank you Gloria Soto & thanks for watching.

[@MeowMeowMe63]

Love and use the majority of the mentioned plugins. I don't use Updraft (use ManageWP for that) but might have to take a look at that option. As well as Autoptimize thanks for the info!

[@WPCrafter]

Yes if ManageWP makes reliable backups for you, that's awesome! I have used other WordPress control panels and have tried their backup option, but I've always found them to be problematic when restoring a website. So even though I also use a control panel to manage all of my websites, I still use updrafts because it's been the most reliable when it comes to restoring from a backup.

[@ulfpeterbohme6550]

Great info, Adam. I very much appreciate your videos. Tks

[@WPCrafter]

Thank you Ulf Peter Böhme & thanks for watching.

[@tinman6182]

Thanks I'm new and I'm setting up my WordPress app with plugins and different things I'll need to make my experience more fun and to get an understanding of how it all works so that I can start drop shipping comfortably. Don't know if this is the right way but it's the way I'm headed at the moment so thanks again my friend.

[@LifetheWildRide]

Great info thanks for the help.

[@kaloyantsilev]

Great video! Many thanks!

[@WPCrafter]

You're welcome!

[@KodyKimani]

Thanks that is very useful - I must look after the security and backup. Did you ever try SEOPressor? I love that one...

[@simoverse]

Great sharing thx

[@WPCrafter]

You're welcome.

[@tonsfocus]

Re: Updraft Plus and Google Drive - yes! A major pain in the backside. I opened a new Dropbox account just for Updraft and it worked beautifully.

[@tejariyah]

Thanks , i would like to see any suggestion for best RTL plugins content.

[@DanstheEngineer]

Thanks for another video Adam. I think I love you! 🤣🤣 Really appreciate these videos.

[@4ivar]

love it! ill add Yoast SEO to my client process!

[@4ivar]

QUESTION: what do you think about having Advanced Automatic Updates + WP Time Capsule. so everything updates automatically but, in case of emergency, is easily reverted woth WPTC ?

[@WPCrafter]

I am a big fan of automation. And so having the updates be done automatically I think is a good move, however some plug-ins can have problems on updates, it's more problem with the developer than anything. So you do have to be a little cautious.

[@stylexjewelry]

Hello, what countdown plugin do you recommend for woocommerce?

Autoptimize (oht-optimize) is not a caching plugins, it simply showed up in your search. It's for minification. Other than this great work!

[@MrTylerNinja]

If nothing else the tip to move away from w3 total cache was the best

[@jay-leandrouchiha3369]

are they still bad?

[@mosunmolaejike2730]

What plugin do you recommend for shipping, such as printing shipping label, auto calculating shipping and such?

[@carlahouze6087]

Thanks for the great tutorial! I guess with the caching plug in they are trying to go for "Auto Optimize" but dropping the one "o" . Difficult to pronounce "Autoptimize"

[@joannaolsen8645]

A little late to the party, however, I would say ... Au-top-ti-mize ... yeah ... great video :D

[@solarhome_ru]

Thumb Up! I would suggest you another useful plugin to review - Head and Footer Scripts Inserter. Made by Armenian, so I found it doesn't work for Turkey. But for the rest of the world it is good, fast and simple.

[@Dynamofoe]

Hey Adam, Thanks for this video - Great help!! Did you do the iThemes setup video? Couldn’t see it on your channel (?)

[@fitnessinfinity]

your videos are really helpful , i am running travelling and fitness blog on my wordpress website with .com domain but really struggling between themes, first used NISARG then used SYDNEY but thats too much visual i want to keep minimilistic with blogs and social media to engage people, i am looking for free theme , can you suggest a good blog theme ? thanks in advance !

[@najatallili2901]

Thank you for your excellent work 👍

[@WPCrafter]

Your welcome

[@mrsmc2005]

thanks again Adam a great video :)

[@WPCrafter]

Thank you Denise!

[@TheRstate]

Love the content! A BIG like!

[@WPCrafter]

Thank you!

[@barbarapryga9504]

Very Informative!

[@WPCrafter]

Thank you Barbara & thanks for watching.

[@DaveMalan]

Thanks for the great video. An in-depth video on SEO and Cache will be great as there is a lot to figure out and get to grips with so the more help the better. :)

[@styleandthecity-kamallahmadi]

aut-optimize !!!! lol so obvious keep up the amazing work you rock

[@WPCrafter]

You call that obvious? I think it's the exact opposite of obvious.

[@matt.163]

Hi Adam, did you end up doing the video on Autoptimize? I couldn't see one with that in the title. I used to pronounce it auto optimise but now you have messed with my head and I can't say it right lol. Addicted to your channel man, awesome stuff! I make sure to buy anything through your link now.

[@WPCrafter]

I'm going to have a video tutorial on that soon. Thanks for all your support on the channel.

[@matt.163]

I tried them and autoptimize is definitely a great option for free if doing a single site, but WPRocket can't be beat and is worth the price if designing sites for a living. Both great plugins, thanks Adam! Your channel is pretty much my bible ha.

[@marving.5436]

Autoptimize is sometimes a pain especially with other plugins, however it is a really good for conatenation, but the plugin is not sufficient enough, you need a matching cache plugin to work with it, thus most often WPRocket has all of what we need

[@UlrichKoepf]

Great help, Thank you Adam! I did send you a message on another video; I am having a hard time with two issues, my Customize panel is blank, and the Hamburger menu does not work, but only on my mobile home/front page? My theme is Pinnacle by Kadence. Any input would be greatly appreciated. Ulrich in Switzerland

[@OusmanFaal]

This video was helpful. Thanks a lot.

[@marketingwithyoshi]

Glad u told us about W3 Total Cache.. i am using that but will uninstall and use Autoptimize

[@WPCrafter]

Yes that plug-in has had a lot of problems in the past, and is pretty much been abandoned.

[@daniellee.3597]

I'm curious, now that it's been a year, do you still like Autoptimize over W3?

[@rickcontreras59]

Thank you Sir.

[@bookingpromservices6969]

thank you but when is the time from those plugins after we have built all our pages ?or we must add in the very start?

[@rxzepet5997]

thanks Adam.

[@WPCrafter]

You're welcome, thanks for

[@souleymanediallo1307]

Adam, you are doing great.. Thanks for the services. Which plugin can I use for SEO and Frontend posting for ecommerce?

[@WPCrafter]

RankMath is the best SEO plugin. There is full tutorial on my channel. Oh and its free.

[@souleymanediallo1307]

Thanks for your timely response always. What about the frontend posting?

[@fernandatv]

Hi Adam, 2 themes that I purchased this week came with Jetpack.. Should I delete or activate it? Do you have a video talking about Jetpack plugin? Thank you.

[@CodeCancerLab]

I have a single site install and use WPtotal cache (didnt know it was a headache) do I delete it and use autoptimize ? or use both ? What do you suggest

[@sazyredrose]

Hi, do you have a tutorial on how to set up Autopmize pls?

[@jadadocs8844]

Hi Adam, Do you have any recommendation on a free refer a friend plugin for wordpress?

[@ImarSalloum]

Thank you for this video

[@countermeasuresecurityengineai]

you are clutch Adam!

[@WPCrafter]

Thank you!

[@annaglasgow9168]

Hi Adam, did you do a vid on configuring the settings for ithemes security?

[@WPCrafter]

Nope, I still owe everyone that video. Sorry.

[@Nelmedia]

Thought I had commented that one, but didn't find my comment, so let's go: - Security: I use iThemes Security Pro (because I once had a deal for a lifetime access to it)... As opposed to you, I do use many of the pro features, but only because they were available... Wouldn't pay a yearly fee for those... On some sites I have WordFence as well, but not installing anymore... Like you said, too heavy... - Backup: If I would use a free one, I'd probably go with Updraft as well (tested many as well)... But my tool of choice is BackupBuddy (again, I had the chance to have an unlimited lifetime account). The main reason is that it allows me to backup just parts of my site (like just plugins, just medias, etc) AND it allows me to restore just certain files or folders...! Ex: I install a new plugin that crashes my site: I don't have to restore my entire site: I just delete the plugin's folder and restore the older version of the folder, which reinstalls my plugin... Done in probably less than a minute or two! - SEO: I have use All-in-one for a while, but since most people were recommending Yoast, I switched to it... Now, I know that some features were moved to the paid version (which is not cheap) and it has been some issues lately (not the first time) so even yourself is thinking of moving away from it... I'm testing SEOPress Pro right now... A lot more features for $39/yearly unlimited sites... Seems great and has features not found anywhere else... Just not sure it plays nice with WPML... - Caching: I have used many in the first days... then sticked more to W3 Total Cache and Autoptimize together (that one used for the minification part)... I switched some sites back to Super Cache... But the one that I use the most is a paid one: Viper Cache. - When I used a statistics plugin, I was using Monster Insights (strange that it was taken over by another company, as they took it from Yoast few years ago...). I use a lot of other plugins as well... Like WP Blazer for sites management (and still have much clients sites on MainWP). I ofter start my sites with WP Freshstart (now on v.5 that had many improvements in v.4 carried over... but I don't use many of their new options, as I use other plugins and it seems to create many conflicts as well...). WPML for translation, Toolset for filtering and custom types...

[@lv986]

Hi Adam, I follow all of your video's. They are great. What is the problem with W3 total cache and is autoptimize a real caching plugin or just an optimizing plugin?

[@WPCrafter]

The problem with W3 total cache is that it's primarily been abandoned. There was a huge controversy last year having to do with that because there were security vulnerabilities and the developer wasn't patching them. The problem is it's a very popular plug-in with no business model so there's no reason for the developer to stay engaged with the coding and development of it. On a side note you are 100% right that I made a goof in this video and that autoptimize is not a true caching plug-in, it's more of an optimization plug-in. I'm going to make a companion video specifically about using these tools to make your website faster.

[@worshipsong8050]

Do I have to install all of them ? Thanks

[@AprilMReign-ov6le]

Hi Adam. Did you ever do the video for Autoptimize Caching?

[@chadtarheel]

Hi, Adam: Would you use Autoptimize (ought-optimize) with a WooCommerce web store? Settings? Alternatives?

[@robminicucci]

I'm taking over our WP account for our website from the marketing firm that was previously doing it. Anyone know how to tell which plugins are actually in use?

[@RobertoMisas]

Very nice!!! I like a lot your tutorials. Thanks :)

[@WPCrafter]

Thank you Roberto.

[@saraassistsyou6809]

Thanks for the recommendations. I didn't know Wordfence live slowed the site down. They still have it and I don't use it but they still have it by default.

[@WPCrafter]

Thanks for confirming that it is still there and enabled by default. I wish they would rethink that.

[@TipKilby]

Adam, if the LiveVideo is turned off in Wordfence, which would you then prefer and recommend: Wordfence or Autoptimize? Thanks for the video and these recommendations. Very helpful.

[@lebeardotnet4372]

Wordfence & Autoptimize are worlds apart - Wordfence is great if you configure it and have the right server resources. Autoptimize is a great plugin for optimizing your website.

[@michaelaxiotis2527]

Can these four plugins be installed to dashboard main wp and act on all my sites. Or must they be installed on every site?

[@yogeshkumar-rw6zz]

Thank you sir.Please make a video how to set up home page of different products with categorise slider.

[@UstaghOnline]

Hello. A quick question: I am currently using the W3 Total Cach plugin. As per your advice, I want to replace it with the Autoptimize plugin. Should I expect any issues in doing so? Thanks

[@GiampieroMagalli]

Ustadh Abdelwahed search on google "how to completely remove w3 total cache" there are few steps to follow. Just deleting the plugin leaves some files and folders behind, so you should manually deleting them.

[@getpaidlikeaaron]

Great training as usual! I looked for the video that shows how to install and setup the Autoptimize plugin, but could not find it. Could you direct me to it? Thanks in advance.

[@mydirectopinion7013]

Do you need to back up every website or if you are using a cpanel linux hosting site with multiple websites will one back up all the sites

[@juli1287]

Thank you Adam that was good. I have read a lot about hosting and from you also you are a A1 and I am moving on to get inmotion hosting and will send my receipt to you.

[@WPCrafter]

That's great Ocean Pearl! Thank you and thanks for watching.

[@deduice]

Hello, Adam! Great job all around. Is there a particular plugin or a way to add a top level menu or links like phone number, email address or social media links on one's site as you have it on your site and mostly on an ecommerce site? So eager and curious to know how that's done. Thanks in advance

[@WPCrafter]

Typically your theme would have a top bar option that gives you the options to put all that information in. I would check with your theme documentation.

[@deduice]

WPCrafter.com WordPress For Non-Techies Same way I thought too. But I couldn't find that option. I'm using Themify page builder. Maybe you have one or two tricks about that

[@WPCrafter]

It would not be in your page builder it would be in your theme. But of course not everything is going to offer that as an option.

[@MeinSchatzEra]

For Analytics I'd suggest Matomo.

[@bakary1449]

Hey hi I need help, what Wordpress plugin payment system can I use that support everywhere in the world or that support direct bank transfer. I want to open an online store site. I live in Zambia, in Africa.

[@WPCrafter]

Unfortunately there is no one payment processor that works everywhere in the world.

[@SimonAZ]

Autoptimize is not a caching plugin and you can use it next to WP Super Cache without any problem. Autoptimize improves the code of your page and make it more efficient so it loads faster. WP Super Cache creates the html for the website visitor from the php files so yours site loads faster.

[@anoopigeorge8919]

is there any plugin to show destination as well as hotels near the destination with filters

[@WPCrafter]

You would probably want a directory plug-in.

[@FuntOOza]

I think It May work easily >> Aut....Optimize! : ) -Nice Video about Plugins Thanks

[@apahutan]

Hi sir, what is the best plugin to edit my comments field form. I want to remove the email box and website box. Thanks

[@vBailey]

Prob'ly a silly question... you mentioned that you don't use a plugin for analytics because your theme handles that... might that be Astra? If so, does the free version accept GA code somewhere?

[@tamarabuziashvili1930]

Great video! Thank you! I use Analytify for google analytics, do you have any info on whether it makes my wp database larger?

[@WPCrafter]

I have never heard of that plug-in. Typically analytics plug-ins that work with Google analytics don't actually store anything in your WordPress database because Google analytics stores everything.

[@tamarabuziashvili1930]

Yes, I guess it pulls everything to WP from google analytics. Thank you!

[@candiskull1]

Can you please recommend a cache option for a china hosted website without relying on google

[@mctxonline]

Hi Adam, WPCRAFTER is a great resource. Can you do a video on how many plugins is too many or what are the key considerations ? thanks

[@WPCrafter]

Sorry for the late reply, I have been sick. Yes I should do something on that. I'll add it to the list.

[@wpatters1229]

One that I install just as a backup and for future moves is duplicator.