Discover the essential WordPress plugins to make your website vibrant and search-engine ready. Perfect for beginners!
This course is all about making WordPress easier for you! We’ll go through the top plugins you need to make your site awesome and safe. Join me for a fun ride in the world of WordPress plugins!
What are the essential and/or best WordPress plugins and how do you set them up?
Wordpress is a great site building tool but doesn't come with all of the features you need to create a vibrant, safe and search engine ready website. Fortunately, Wordpress was created in a special way, allowing third party programmers to create and integrate their own features in the form of Wordpress plugins.
The course covers my top 10 plugin recommendations, as well as some of the best innovative plugins I use on special projects.
The top 10 plugins will cover the important aspects of your site:
Elementor page builder.
Search engine optimization - get your site visible in the search engines.
Site security - stop hackers breaking into your website.
Comments Spam - how to stop spammers so you don't even see their rubbish.
Contact forms - giving your visitors a way to contact you.
Page load speed - making your site faster so pages load more quickly. Visitors love fast loading pages, and so do the search engines.
Image optimization.
Backups - How to backup your website so that you can restore it if anything goes wrong.
Free traffic by lettering visitors share your content to their social media accounts.
Related posts - to keep visitors on your site longer, and spread the link juice around your site with valuable internal links.
Besides these 10 essential plugins, I'll be including a dozen or so innovative plugins that I use on some websites. These plugins will help with a wide range of tasks from automated internal page linking, adding a Google map, a CSS visual editor for modifying your site design, visitor analytics, eCommerce, and even being able to hide or show Gutenberg blocks based on a wide range of specific, user-defined rules.
I have been building Wordpress websites for twenty years. During that time, I've refined my list of recommended plugins for features that all of my sites really need.
This course will help you install, activate and configure these must-have plugins on your own website, as well as make you aware of other exciting plugins that are available.
Install and configure a range of "essential" Wordpress plugins that add features not found in the core Wordpress installation.
Confidently search, install, activate and configure a range of Wordpress plugins for just about any feature you want to add to your site.
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I have written and published a number of books that are available on Amazon, including books on WordPress ("WordPress for Beginners 2024"), Self-Publishing ("Self-Publishing on Amazon 2023"), and search engine optimization ("SEO 2021"). I also run a website called ezSEONews, where I provide tutorials on a number of skills required for running a successful website.As an ex-schoolteacher, I hope I...
Sorry Andy, but I can't keep up with you.
yes, using Elementor, but, needed a review.... went a little too quickly for me to comprehend all. And there was no place to answer the Pre-Course ?.... what happened to that ?? I would like to ask about a Gallery template plug-in for an Art Gallery.... thanks
Andy is always great. Good pace and insightful. I've followed for a decade. (Is it really that long?!?)
Very clear and thorough explanations.
average knowledge about plugins
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Hello, I'm building my first website now. Your courses are truly helpful and the way you teach is a confidence builder! Thank You!!
Very good course. I hope that Andrew will update this course with newer plugin recommendations.
i learned to much from you, its is third courses that l follow on udemy from you.
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Lisa W.
I have been creating WordPress websites for quite some time, and I learned quite a bit from this course. Thank you!