![]() If you’re using anything other than WordPress’ new inbuilt Gutenberg page builder, installed these two plugins! Disable CommentsĪ simple site-wide switch to turn off comments for pages and/or posts. This set of plugins can help you manage your uploads and post types, or perform more advanced tasks. If watermarking is for you, this plugin does a pretty good job.Įxtending the default WordPress functionality starts in the admin area. Have a lot of useful metadata “trapped” inside the EXIF information of your files? This plugin allows you to move that over to the caption field which might be displayed on the site depending on your theme and site settings. What this plugin does is clear from its title :-)) Exif Caption Auto Image Attributes From Filename With Bulk Updater (Add Alt Text, Image Title For Image SEO) The paid version has more useful features, well worth the cost if you often need to reference the media library and find it messy now. Real Media LibraryĪmong other features, this allows you to organize your media library uploads into folders. You can also manually change an image filename, when needed. It automatically changes filenames for your uploads based on the title field. Media File RenamerĪ great way to rename all images uploaded to your site (for an extra SEO boost). This plugin allows you to automatically generate images/graphics for high-DPI (“retina”) displays. Perfect Images (previously called WP Retina 2x) Usually you can’t control those sizes, but this plugin exposes them (including the cropping preference). Or the size at which other plugins generate their thumbnails. It’s not rare to want to change the default image thumbnail size offered by your WordPress theme. Sometimes you do need to re-generate these: after replacing images, after optimizing them, or in some site migration scenarios.Īn alternative would be AJAX Thumbnail Rebuild, but I think this one is better. ![]() Whenever you upload an image to WordPress, a bunch of smaller versions (some cropped and some not) get created (depending on the values under Settings > Media or dictated by your WP theme). Instead of uploading a separate file to the media library, you can use this plugin to simply replace the image (and automatically update all uses throughout the site). When adding content to your website, you sometimes need to completely replace an image. Media library optimization and control Enable Media Replace These allow you to create buttons, lists, icons, columns, etc. If you already use a page builder, but still need to extend the design and layout of your pages, you probably need to use a shortcode plugin. Divi Page Builder (really good as well).WPBakery Page Builder (formerly called Visual Composer) + “Ultimate Addons” pack.Other paid/premium page-builders I’ve used in the past (all of them arguably worse than Elementor): Elementor is powerful and flexible enough to control everything: headers, footers, page/post layouts, global site colors & fonts, popups, etc. What’s even more important, with Elementor, you no longer need to a theme either. ![]() By doing so, I’d say that 10-20 of the plugins listed below become superfluous and I no longer need to use them. Unless a new website requires special needs, my go-to solution these days for building a new photography website is using hosting from SiteGround and then the Elementor page builder (with or without its Pro version or other addon packs, depending on the site). This decision can remove the need for a lot of the plugins mentioned below. Save time & money by protecting your website and having me do ongoing testing, maintenance, prevention & iterative improvements.Īlmost all plugins below have excellent reviews & a rating of at least 4 out of 5 stars, and have been thoroughly revised and tested.Īlways start by choosing a hosting service and a page-builder Not sure what WordPress plugins are? Read this first. Simply read their descriptions, click to view their screenshots, and then decide which of them are worth installing on your WordPress photography site (and potentially replacing your existing plugins). In fact, installing plugins with overlapping features is a recipe for errors. I obviously don’t install all the plugins in this list on every site. Please keep in mind that the number of plugins you need also depends on the quality of the page builder and/or WordPress theme you’re using! This list contains my recommendations (based on reviews, popularity and my years of personal experience with them). But it can get really hard to pick and choose the most powerful and reliable plugins. With over 60.000 free WordPress plugins, not to mention many great premium plugins out there, you can easily extend WordPress’ functionality to build the site you want. WordPress is incredibly powerful, but also very complex.
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