My Essential WordPress Plugins & Tech Stack for 2024
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Published 2024-02-29
I discuss each tool's features, benefits, and how they integrate into my workflow, providing insights into why I chose these specific solutions.
π οΈ Featured Tools:
1. Insta WP: Rapid WordPress site creation for testing and client projects.
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2. Bricks Builder: My go-to builder for dynamic data and advanced design features. jo.my/bricks
Exclusive interview with Thomas from Bricks Builder: youtube.com/live/M9pxsYzWZnA?si=bJw7BmUv-gWiY65Z
3. Advanced Themer: Enhances Bricks Builder with additional customization options. jo.my/rfuhbc
4. Core Framework: My CSS framework of choice for speed and design efficiency with Bricks Builder. jo.my/ee0qd2
5. HappyFiles Pro: Media and content organization for WordPress, created by the developer of Bricks Builder. jo.my/bn4va6
6. SEO Press: My SEO tool for optimizing website performance and managing redirects. jo.my/seopress
7. WP Vivid Backup Pro: A reliable backup and migration plugin with rollback features for safe updates. jo.my/vividpro
8. ACF Pro: Advanced Custom Fields Pro for flexible content management on WordPress sites. jo.my/acfpro
9. Perf Matters: Performance optimization tool to improve website speed. jo.my/kxeyt1
10. Independent Analytics: GDPR-compliant analytics tool for straightforward website data. independentwp.com/
11. Solid Security for WordPress: Security plugin for hardening WordPress and two-factor authentication. solidwp.com/
12. Patchstack: Security monitoring for plugin vulnerabilities and updates. patchstack.com/
π Tools Under Review:
- Flowmatic: Automation plugin for connecting WordPress with various services. jo.my/flowmattic
- Fluent Forms & Fluent Forms Pro: Drag-and-drop form builder with advanced features. jo.my/fluentfrms
- Fluent CRM: Email marketing tool for managing campaigns and subscriber lists. jo.my/fluencrm
Timestamps:
00:00 - 01 - My Current Tool Selection Intro
00:22 - 02 - Blueprint Hosting Preference
01:29 - 03 - My Main Builder of Choice
02:36 - 04 - Customising My Builder Workflow
03:30 - 05 - Building WordPress Websites Even Faster
04:32 - 06 - Media & Content Management Made Easy
05:30 - 07 - My SEO Tool Of Choice
06:35 - 08 - Backup Up, Migration, Staging Sites & More
08:33 - 09 - Customising WordPress Websites
10:01 - 10 - Eeking Out Every Last Ounce Of Performance
10:48 - 11 - Analysing Your Data
12:10 - 12 - Securing Your WordPress Websites
12:57 - 13 - Forewarned About WordPress Vulnerabilities
14:02 - 14 - Potential Additions To My Stack
15:03 - 16 - Powerful WordPress Forms Plugin
16:08 - 17 - Building Customer Relationships
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All Comments (21)
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You are a good teacher, i am glad i found you, i have been out of building websites for a while and iam going back and WordPress was always the best in terms customer/marketing users and great for developers
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Thank you for this π
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Thanks for the video Paul π just added some new plugins to my "need to look into it" list
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Thank you for the update Paul!
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Hey Paul, I know that you have one video explaining the Advanced Themer options, but I would love to see a video of your settings & features that you use from Advanced Themer. Thanks a lot and keep working on what you're doing, you are really a great help to us.
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Thank you!π keep up the great work!
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Great to see
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Total good video!
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Great video Paul, more or less we have the same stack. I am still on the edge of getting on the AT train. I do believe it will increase my development speed but I am trying to keep the number of plugins as small as possible. Thanks for sharing patchstack, will look into it.
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Hey thanks this great video and providing some insight on some tools am thinking of adding into my tech stack like Solid WP & ACF. Here is my tech stack on my website - Admin Site Enhancements - Fluent Booking - FluentCRM Pro - Fluent Forms Pro - SureCart (e-Commerce platfrom) - Presto Player Pro - Spectra Pro - ZipWP
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Hi Paul, ACF is also standard integrated in Advanced Themer. ;)
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Great stack - WP Grid builder is the only one I'd add in my stack as essential (for most sites). I'm curious, what do you use for filter/facet/search?
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Good job @paul, please can you make an exclusive video on bricks builder, please. An A to Z usage of the builder. I have puchased the builder since last year, bbut can't use it. However, i am not good at coding. Please can you do this for us π??
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Great video as usual. Quick question. What tech stack would you build to get the same functions as Gohighlevel. I like their platform but I want to stay in the wordpress ecosystem. This way i dont have to worry about Gohighlevel getting bought out and my price going up.
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Thanks Paul very helpful. I literally purchased fluent forms pro yesterday. Email always trips me up. What email provider do you recommend to clients?
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Hi Paul, do you use a good cookie GPDR plugin in your blueprint set-up?
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thoughts on codestitch?
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I've been circling back on this video and writing down possible additions. I've been a perfmatters fan for years so that's part of the stack. I see CSS Framework just released 'Violet' sections for Bricks. Are you exploring this an option as well?
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Wpvivid - rollback plugin copies do not always delete from server (and can add a lot of data to store). Otherwise great plugin
