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Related Posts By Taxonomy
Quickly increase your readers’ engagement by adding related posts in the sidebar or after post content with a widget or shortcode. Posts with the most terms in common will display at the top! This plugin is capable of finding related posts in multiple taxonomies and post types. Include or exclude terms from the search for related posts.
Thoughts – I have tested most related posts plugins and this is the best one hands down. Extremely accurate related posts results.
Really Simple SSL
Really Simple SSL automatically detects your settings and configures your website to run over https. To keep it lightweight, the options are kept to a minimum. The entire site will move to SSL.
Auto Image Attributes From Filename With Bulk Updater & Auto Image Attributes Pro
Auto Image Attributes From Filename With Bulk Updater
Automatically add Image attributes such as Image Title, Image Caption, Description And Alt Text from Image Filename. The plugin can update image attributes for both new images and existing images in the media library.
Auto Image Attributes Pro
Image Attributes Pro will generate image title, alt text, caption and description right when you upload the image. Feel like using image filename for image title and post title for alt text? You got it.
You can find the Pro add-on to Auto Image Attributes here.
Thoughts – This plugin was a God-send. Previous I had to train my writers on properly labeling an image in the Title and Alt Text boxes after uploading it. This plugin eliminated that need. It also restored options that WordPress got rid of (what the hell?) years ago i.e.
Set the image filename as the image Alt Text. This was a default feature in WordPress before 4.7. The plugin restores this essential feature which is great for SEO.
Insert Image Title into post HTML. WordPress stopped adding Image Titles to images since WordPress 3.5. The plugin restores it.
The best part – after one purchase, you can use this plugin on all of your other websites with no additional charge.
WP-Optimize
WP-Optimize is an all-in-one plugin that cleans your database, compresses your images and caches your site.
Protip – I set this to clean my site caches every day. Small sites with low volume publishing can set it to every week.
Autoset Featured Image
Busy with setting every post’s first image to the Featured Image? Use this plugin instead! This plugin will auto set the first image of your post (for new posts only) to Featured Image. If you do not want set the first image, you can still set your own Featured Image.
TinyMCE Advanced
This plugin will let you add, remove and arrange the buttons that are shown on the Visual Editor toolbar.
Easy Table of Contents
A user friendly, featured focused plugin which allows you to insert a table of contents into your posts, pages and custom post types.
Thoughts – This plugin is being used in this article. Easy Table of Contents created the table of contents at the top of this article.
Blubrry PowerPress
Podcasting plugin for WordPress, with simple & advanced modes, players, subscribe tools, and more! Developed by podcasters for podcasters; features include Simple and Advanced modes, multiple audio/video player options, subscribe to podcast page embeds and sidebar widgets, podcasting SEO features, and more! Fully supports Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, TuneIn and Blubrry Podcasting directories, as well as all podcast applications and clients.
EWWW Image Optimizer
The EWWW Image Optimizer will increase your page speeds by way of image optimization. Increased page speeds can result in better search engine rankings, and will also improve conversion rates (increased sales and signups). It will also save you storage space and bandwidth. While EWWW I.O. will automatically optimize new images that you upload, it can also optimize all the images that you have already uploaded, and optionally convert your images to the best file format. You can choose pixel perfect compression or high compression options that are visually lossless. EWWW I.O. will optimize images uploaded and created by any plugin, and features special integrations with many popular plugins, detailed below.
Lazy Load – Optimize Images
Lazy Load by WP Rocket displays images and/or iframes on a page only when they are visible to the user. This reduces the number of HTTP requests mechanism and improves the loading time. This plugin works on thumbnails, all images in a post content or in a widget text, avatars, smilies and iframes. No JavaScript library such as jQuery is used and the script weight is less than 10KB. You can also replace Youtube iframes by a preview thumbnail to further speed up the loading time of your website.
Thoughts – this plugin instantly sped up the loading of our website (site loading to search engines and SEO).
Wordfence Security
Wordfence includes an endpoint firewall and malware scanner that were built from the ground up to protect WordPress. Our Threat Defense Feed arms Wordfence with the newest firewall rules, malware signatures and malicious IP addresses it needs to keep your website safe. Rounded out by 2FA and a suite of additional features, Wordfence is the most comprehensive WordPress security solution available.
