1. Better Usage Statistics for Elementor (by pr24ch)
It shows the overall total elements usage and elements usage per page. This is useful when using additional element packs to get a better understanding of where these elements are used. And it’s very helpful when you need to resolve conflicts or when you want to remove an additional element pack.
This plugin has not been updated for a very long time. Consider the Widget Detector for Elementor (by ElementInvader) instead.
2. Enable Media Replace (by ShortPixel)
A free, lightweight and easy to use plugin that allows you to seamlessly replace an image or file in your Media Library by uploading a new file in its place. No more deleting, renaming and re-uploading files!
3. WP File Manager (by mndpsingh287)
File Manager allows you to edit, delete, upload, download, zip, copy and paste files and folders directly from the WordPress backend. Don’t bother with FTP to manage and move your files from location to location. The most powerful, flexible, and easiest WordPress file management solution ever built!
4. Insert PHP Code Snippet (by xyzscripts.com)
Insert and run PHP code in your pages and posts easily using shortcodes. This plugin lets you create a shortcode corresponding to any random PHP code and use the same in your posts, pages or widgets. This plugin is being used in the Lucky Punts project.
However, this plugin may have a bug that when inserting comments using “//” in some unknow situations, it can cause server error on that page!
5. WP Maintenance Mode & Coming Soon (by Themeisle)
Used successfully for the RE Collective site rollout on 1-Mar-2022.
Add a maintenance page to your blog that lets visitors know your blog is down for maintenance, or add a coming soon page for a new website. User with admin rights gets full access to the blog including the front end.
Activate the plugin and your blog is in maintenance-mode, works and only registered users with enough rights can see the front end. You can use a date with a countdown timer for visitor information or set a value and unit for information.
6. Sassy Social Share (by Team Heateor)
Sassy Social Share enables your website users to share the content over Facebook, Twitter, Google, Linkedin, Whatsapp, Tumblr, Pinterest, Reddit, Parler, Gab, Gettr and over 100 more social sharing and bookmarking services.
7. Social Feed Gallery (by QuadLayers)
Formerly called the ‘Instagram Feed Gallery’. This plugins can automatically renew the API expiry period. Currently used in Fai-Room and Alicia Pilates.
This plugin helps to integrate Instagram feed from @ids or #tags inside your WordPress site. Giving the possibility to customize the layout of the display , choosing from gallery or carousel for free version. Adding masonry or highlight alternatives for premium version.
While allowing to set the appearance of display’s boxes, images & backgrounds, masks and buttons.
8. WP Mail SMTP (by WPForms)
Used in the RE Collective site.
Popular email clients like Gmail, Yahoo, are in a constant battle with email spammers. One of the things they look at is if an email is originating from the location it claims to be originating from.
If the proper authentication isn’t there, then emails either go in the SPAM folder or worst, don’t get delivered at all. This is a problem for a lot of WordPress sites because by default, WordPress uses the PHP mail function to send emails generated by WordPress or any contact form plugin like WPForms. The issue is that most WordPress hosting companies don’t have their servers properly configured for sending PHP emails. The combination of two causes your WordPress emails to not get delivered.
WP Mail SMTP plugin easily resolves email delivery problems by improving and changing how your WordPress site sends email. We reconfigure the wp_mail() function to either use proper SMTP host credentials or leverage a built-in SMTP mail provider.
When using one of our built-in SMTP mail provider integrations (recommended), emails are sent using the provider’s direct API. This means even if your web host is blocking SMTP ports, your emails still send successfully.
Re Collective project uses the SendGrid mail provider as they provide a free plan that allows 100 emails per day.
9. Custom Fonts(by Brainstorm Force)
First used in the Clare Wood site.
Elementor Custom Font does not support the OTF format. By using this plugin, various formats can be uploaded to WP and are available to Elementor editor.
10. ScreamingFrog(by Screeming Frog)
Source: https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/
This is not a wordpress plugin but a website crawler. It supports:
- Find Broken Links
- Generate XML Sitemaps
- Analyse Page Titles & Meta Data
- Find in-links and out-links
- Discover Duplicate Content
- Visualise Site Architecture
- … and more…
11. TranslatePress (by Cozmoslabs, etc.)
A better way of translating your WordPress site directly from the front-end, with full support for WooCommerce, complex themes and site builders. https://translatepress.com/