These 2 WordPress Plugins Should Be on EVERY Blog (Plus 5 more you'll probably need)



Which plugins do you need on your site? Well, at a minimum we recommend only 2. And beyond that, we usually recommend that you use as few as you need to do what you want your site to do. Most WordPress sites get overloaded with plugins, leading to bloated code, slow page loading speeds, and security vulnerabilities. Don’t make that mistake. Stick to the plugins you actually need.

Timestamps:
0:00 – Race of the Plugins
0:40 – Having the Right Tools
1:05 – Plugins you should always have
1:23 – Image Optimization
2:50 – Website Backup
3:45 – Plugins some sites should have
3:53 – SEO Plugin
4:41 – Security Plugin
5:35 – Contact Form Plugin
7:15 – Anti-Spam Plugin
8:28 – Duplicator Plugin
9:13 – Redirects Plugin
9:51 – Other Special Needs Plugins
10:29 – Plugin to Never Use – Social Sharing
11:26 – Another “sometimes” mention – Affiliate Plugin
12:27 – Optimizations that don’t need plugins

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  1. I already know I missed several "sometimes" plugins. One that comes to mind is a plugin for embedding video. You don't need one, since Gutenberg has a block for it and you could always just embed an iframe even in the classic editor. But Presto Player (https://prestoplayer.com/) has some really cool features that make it my go-to for any of my sites where I embed videos.

    What other plugins do you love that we didn't cover?

  2. I've heard quite a bit of debate about 'table of contents' plugins. What's you guy's thoughts on this? I have some longer posts, rank math suggests using a table of contents, I installed it and it looks OK but I'm wondering if it's really needed or not.

  3. I dont manage my own sites but do keep an eye on them weekly. Can you give me some advice on how I could test if I have too many plugins without going to my website company and asking? Kinda wanna test them and make sure they are legit.

  4. Hilarious, Nathan with the cement blocks and sprawled on the ground cracked me up! I compress my images as much as I can before upload, and then I am on Ezoic, which I think they do more additional image "magic." Do I still need an image optimization tool?

  5. You have talked about images in the video, here a very important question for me arises (maybe it is helpful for others) could you make a video to explain what resolution (width, length) images are best that is best and fit for all kinds of screens? whether I should make a 1920 by 1280 picture or something else? Need your expert opinion?

  6. How are we making YouTube videos responsive in mobile using the Acabado theme without the Lazy Load For Videos plugin? Without that plugin the youtube videos in mobile view are cut off at the edges.

  7. Man, Wordfence and any other security plugins are so heavy! Talk about chewing up server resources and slowing down your site. Definitely would recommend something sucuri instead. Much much better all around

  8. This is a great video and I'm trying to reduce some of my plugins right now…. so very handy! I do try and optimise my small size images in Lightroom and before I upload to wordpress – This helps not to need an image optimising plugin i think 🙂

    I have one question – I have cloudflare and wordfence but every few month a still get about 500 user "Bot" traffic coming to my website and it's really annoying. Do you know what could cause this, or know how I can prevent it ?

  9. I hate security plug-ins.

    Word fence is great and would be the one I look security services that is not on the hosting.

    The plug-in will take all of your hosting resources, and if is bypassed the plug-in could be deleted all together.

  10. Weird, since you set this up as having minimal plugins, I didn't think you were going to recommend an image optimization plugin. What about optimizing your images before uploading them to WP?

  11. Ok pls tell me what do i missout with these image opimization Plugins? I Download an image, resize it with an tool like Gimp, Export it as webp and Upload it to my site. All of my Blogpost pictures are between 25 to 50 kbit.
    Do these Plugins do anything else for me what im missing?

  12. I prefer to manually optimize my images in GIMP (or Photoshop if you already have it.) It's just as easy and it's free. Resize image, overwrite and change the compression level, done. As an older WordPress user who dislikes change, Classic Editor and Classic Widgets are also a must-have for me.

  13. The social sharing plugin is interesting. I think it's a sometimes though. I have one blog that's really social media sharing heavy in terms of some of the posts. So I'm gonna leave it on that one. But most of my others, I just installed it years ago when I set the blog up, and yes, it's really served no function as I get little traffic from social media, and it's clogging the page up with code like you said. I think I'm gonna disable the plugin on the sites where sharing isn't important, and see if site speed improves on them. Great vid as always guys!

  14. If you want a fast site, optimizing images with a plug-in doesn’t make sense unless you absolutely don’t have the abilities that let you optimize before uploading – or is there some other reason to use an image optimization plug-in?

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