top 10 wordpress plugins
hi guys it's martie here from martiedread.com,and in this video we're going to be covering 10 free wordpress plugins that i think everyoneshould know about. okay. so i've been using wordpress myselffor over 5 years now, and in this time i've noticed that there are 10 plugins that i seemto install on every site i build. these are some of the best wordpress pluginsi've come across, and i highly recommend that you consider installing them on your site. they are all free, and all available to downloadright from within our wordpress dashboard. so without making you wait any longer. here are 10 free wordpress plugins i thinkeveryone should know about, along with why
i recommend them, and how to set them up. in the 10th spot we have the �insert headers& footers� plugin. this plugin, once installed allows us to quicklyand easily add different tracking codes to our wordpress site without ever having toedit our theme files. these tracking codes are used for linkingthings like google analytics and google adsense to our site. with this plugin, all we need to do is hoverover where it says �settings� on the left-hand side of our dashboard and click �insertheaders & footers�. now we can just copy and paste any of thetracking codes we want to add, and then save
our changes. next in the list at number 9 is a plugin called�lazy load�. so normally when we visit a page on a website,all of the images on that page are loaded up at the same time. this can sometimes have a very negative effecton the pages loading times, especially if it's a page with a lot of images on it. but when we install the �lazy load� plugin.it changes it so that only the images that will be visible load up at first, then aswe scroll down the page the other images will load up as they're needed.
another great thing about this plugin is thatit needs absolutely no set up at all, we literally just install and activate the plugin, andall of our images will be �lazy� from now on. so there's no reason for you not to have thisplugin installed. it's free, it has no set up, and can dramaticallydecrease your sites loading times. now moving onto the 8th plugin on this list,which is a plugin called �wp smush�. the �wp smush� plugin gives us the abilityto compress the file size of any images we have on our site. without affecting the qualityof the images themselves. compressing the images on our site can reallyhelp with our sites overall loading times,
and even more so when used along with the�lazy load� plugin that we just covered. once the plugin is installed. we just needto hover our mouse over where it says �media� on the left-hand side of our dashboard andclick �wp smush�. then when we click �bulk smush now� theplugin will start going through all of our different images and compressing them forus. we don't need to do anything else. then one it's finished it will show us howmuch space we managed to save using the plugin. this is definitely a must have plugin forall wordpress users and i would recommend installing it on your site as soon as youget the chance. the next plugin on this list, coming in atnumber 7 is called �link checker�.
using the �link checker� plugin we cancheck all of the links on our site to make sure they're working properly, and if anyof them are broken the plugin will let us know. this is especially handy when we publish anew piece of content, or before launching a brand new site for the first time. not only is it good practice to check thatthe links are working for user experience, but also too many broken links can negativelyaffect how our site performs in the search results. so it's always best to double check.
after we install the plugin. we just needto click where it says �link checker� in the left-hand dashboard menu, and then�check your website� up at the top. the plugin will then start crawling all ofthe different links on our site and return any that are showing errors. it will also show us where the broken linksare so we can go and fix them. now moving onto plugin number 6 on this list,which is a plugin called �black studio tinymce widget�. this plugin might have a super hard name totry and remember, but never the less, this plugin is a great one to have installed onyour site.
it allows us to have all the functionalityof the wordpress page editor in our sidebars, and other widget areas. this means we can easily add images, links,and whole lot more to our widget areas, without having to mess around with any html coding. all we need to do after installing the plugin,is drag the �visual editor� widget into any of our sites widget areas, and we'll seethat we now have the same options and tools as we would have, if we were adding a pageor a post. we're now halfway through this list whichmeans we are moving onto plugin number 5. this plugin is called �q2w3 fixed widget�and it's a super simple, but very useful plugin
that allows us to make certain widgets onour site �sticky� (or �fixed). a sticky, or fixed widget is one that willremain on screen and in view even when the user scrolls past it. if used on a widget in our sites sidebar,the widget will basically stick to the top of screen and scroll with the page. the plugin works great for adding optin formsto the bottom of our sidebar. this way when we publish a post or a page that's longerthan our sidebar, our visitor will always be able to see our optin form. once the plugin has been installed, we canhead on over to our �widget areas� to
set it up. all we need to do is decide which widgetswe want to make �sticky�, and underneath we will now see there's a check-box labelled�fixed widget�. now we just need to �check� the box andsave our changes. then when we visit our site we'll see thatthe widget is now �sticky�) so just before we move onto the next plugin. i wanted to take a quick second to ask youto consider subscribing to my channel here on youtube if you've enjoyed this video sofar. this way you will be notified when i releasemore videos.
i release wordpress tutorials here every weekalong with other videos to help you with your online business. so if this sounds like something you wouldlike, just click the subscribe button below the video. now back to the plugins. the next plugin on this list, coming in atnumber 4 is called �contact form 7�. we can use the �contact form 7� pluginto add custom contact forms to our different pages, posts, and widget areas on our wordpresssite. once we install the plugin we just need toclick where it now says �contact� in the
left-hand dashboard menu. then from here we can either edit the defaultform that is already here, or click �add new� up at the top to add another form. the default form that's already here whenwe install the plugin is normally suitable for most things. it includes fields for the visitors name,email address, the subject of their message, and then their message. there's already a lot of tutorials here onyoutube on creating and editing custom forms with �contact form 7�, so i'm not goingto be covering that in this video.
although if you do get stuck, feel free toleave a comment underneath and i'll try my best to help you. then once we are happy with our form, we canjust copy what's known as the forms �shortcode� and then paste it into any of our pages orposts, or we can add it to our widget areas using the �plain text widget�. the �contact form 7� plugin isn't onlyone of my favourite plugins of all time, but it's also currently active on more than 1million wordpress sites at the time of making this video. so you know they must be doing something rightif that many people are using it.
the next plugin we're going to be lookingat, which is number 3 on this list. is a plugin called �backwpup�. as the name suggests, this plugin allows usto back up our wordpress sites, making sure that we don't ever lose any of our hard work. all we need to do after installing the plugin,is click �backwpup� in the left-hand dashboard menu, and then click underneath where it says�add new job�. here we can give the backup a name, choosewhat files we want to be backed up, the file type for our backup, and where we'd like thebackups to be saved or sent to. there's a whole heap of different optionsfor where to save our backups to, including
having them sent to us by email, or savedto dropbox. then we can just click where it says �savechanges� at the bottom when we're happy. when we save our changes, we just need toclick at the top where it says �run now� this will then backup our files and save,or send them to wherever we specified. the �backwpup� plugin is always a goodone to have just in case, and can definitely save you from losing all your hard work tosome freak accident or a hacker. we're nearing the end of this list now, andcoming in at number 2 is an awesome plugin called �coming soon cc�. this plugin allows us to add a really nicelooking �coming soon� or �under construction�
page to our site within a couple of minutes. the best part about this plugin is it allowsus to collect emails from people while we are working on our site, and we get sent anemail every time someone subscribes. we don't need to link this up to our emailservice provider or anything like that, everything's done by the plugin itself. once we install and activate the plugin, wejust need to hover our mouse over where it says �settings� in the left-hand dashboardmenu and click �coming soon cc�. here we just need to click �customize�on the first template to edit our coming soon page.
now we do need to upgrade the plugin if wewant to use any of the other templates, but in my opinion the free one looks the best. once we click �customize� we can add ourlogo, along with any text and images we want on our coming soon page. once we are happy with everything we justneed to click �save & close� at the top and the page will be live on our site. now when anyone tries to visit any page onour site, they will instead be redirected to this coming soon page. we won't be able to see the coming soon pageourselves when we're logged in, and this is
so we can continue to work on our site. but if we log out, and then try to visit anyof the pages on our site, we'll be brought to the coming soon page instead. this is an awesome plugin to have set up whenwe are first building our site, and also when we need to make any major changes. that's why i gave the �coming soon cc�plugin the number 2 spot. then finally the last plugin on this list,in first place, is a plugin called �yoast seo�. the �yoast seo� plugin comes with a tonof different tools that will help us get our
site ranking better in the search engines. these tools include things an xml sitemapgenerator, a google snippet preview, on-page seo analysis, and a lot, lot, more. now there are far too many different partsto this plugin for me to cover here in this top 10 video, but once again a quick searchon youtube will bring back plenty of in depth tutorials on setting it up. i would definitely say that if you were toonly install one plugin from this list, you should make it this one. having our website or blog optimized properlyfor the search engines can make a huge difference
in how much traffic our site's getting. that's why the �yoast seo� plugin gotthe number 1 place on this list. so that's us now at the end, and that was10 free wordpress plugins which i think everyone should know about. where there any plugins you think i left out,or plugins you don't think should have been on this list? just let me know underneath in the comments. also please be sure to give the video a thumbsup if you liked it, and feel free to subscribe to my channel for more videos like this one,and wordpress tutorials published every week.
then finally. if you want to download this list of pluginsfor free, so you can keep a note of them. just go to martiedread.com/top10plugins andyou can get access to it there. i've also added 5 more notable mentions tothe downloadable list, so there are some that weren't covered in this video. so that's martiedread.com/top10plugins todownload it now. once again my name is martie from martiedread,comand thank-you very much for my watching my video.
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