My Favorite WordPress Plugins

I use self-hosted WordPress for all my websites, and I love the added functionality that comes from Plugins! Since today is “Thank a Plugin Developer Day” I thought I would highlight a few of my favorite Plugins:

I use Ninja Forms from The WP Ninjas for all my forms across all my sites. It’s easy to use, does everything I need, and has a nice clean look. I use the free version, but if I needed the additional functions I would pay for it in a heartbeat.

I love the Gutenberg Editor in WordPress 5, and Ultimate Addons for Gutenberg is a free plugin from Brainstorm Force (who also makes my favorite theme, Astra) adds some really cool and useful options. I use them for the advanced headers in this post, for columns with more functions than the native WP ones, and for Info Blocks

When I really want to amp things up, I use Elementor. It has it’s own set of advanced blocks, but where Elementor really shines is in their templates that are easy to customize and look great! So far I am using the free version, but I have budgeted to upgrade to Pro later this year.

If you do a lot of tweaking and customizing to your theme, you might have suffered the pull-your-hair-out frustration of losing all those customization in a theme update. Child themes are the solution you need! Child Theme Generator is a free plugin from Serafino Corriero is a quick and simple way to create and save a Child theme so that never happens to you.

To all the hard working developers who have made my life easier and my web site better, THANK YOU!

Starts February 1, 2019

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