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WordPress plugins

All of my own obviously, plus my favourites

Of my own plugins…

I could not be without the oik base plugin, upon which nearly all of my other plugins are built.

My current favourites are:

  • oik-fields and oik-types – for defining and displaying post meta data. Note: I was involved in, but haven’t put much effort into, the post meta project. I prefer to register custom post types and fields in plugins but I have found the ability to override registered behaviour using oik-types to be a godsend.
  • oik-css and oik-rwd – for defining custom CSS.
  • oik-plugins and oik-themes – for delivery of my plugins and themes from oik-plugins.com ( FREE and Premium ) and bobbingwide.com ( bespoke )
  • oik-shortcodes – for documentation of my shortcodes and APIs
  • oik-bwtrace – for problem determination.
  • oik-nivo-slider – especially now that it can display advanced HTML captions.
  • oik-bob-bing-wide – a whole load of other shortcodes.
  • diy-oik – Do It Yourself shortcodes

Recent additions to my favourites list

  • allow-reinstalls
  • genesistant

Favourites

Are these really my favourite plugins? They’re the ones that I install most often, but I can’t really admit to loving them.

  • akismet
  • wordpress-seo
  • jetpack
  • easy-digital-downloads
  • woocommerce

Other notes

I stopped using Gravity Forms, disliked ACF and felt much the same about many of the plugins from WPMU dev!

Of the top 12 WordPress plugins ( see Twelve plugins of WordPress ) not already listed above

  • I don’t have a need for contact-form-7
  • I prefer Yoast SEO to all-in-one-seo-pack
  • and Yoast SEO also negates the need for google-sitemap-generator
  • I steer clear of nextgen-gallery, even though I’ve written logic in my oik-nivo-slider to display a NextGen gallery. NextGen considerably increases server execution time for just about every front-end request.
  • wordpress-importer has its uses
  • And so does wordfence, but I’m not a fan
  • And I’m probably going to go off Google Analytics now its been rebranded.
  • The jury is still pondering over caching plugins wp-super-cache over w3-total-cache

For other people’s top 5 see 40 WordPress community members share their 5 favourite plugins which links to wpkube: Best WordPress plugins

Published: December 21, 2012 | Last updated: November 17, 2016

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