Introduction
Recently I’ve been learning wordpress theme development, and I built my first wordpress site for my client. I want to share some of the wordpress plugins that I use.
Plugins
Custom Post Type UI
Provides easy interface to register and manage custom post type. I use this to create a custom post type when I need more than the original post type. The UI interface make it really easy to create and custom your post type.
Advanced Custom field(ACF) link
Add custom field, such as image, text, tabs to your post or page. You can add ACF to page or post. This is a great plugin and can do many CMS features with Custom Post Type UI. Wordpress has its custom field with get_post_meta API. However, it will become very messy and unscalable in the long run.
Contact form 7 link
I use contact form 7 to build custom contact form. With it’s custom field API we can design our contact form. We can also customize our form with CSS.
Yeost SEO link
Optimze your post and pages for google. It also has a preview of how your post will look in google search result. It also has recommendations for how to optimize your post for SEO.
All in One migration link
This is the easy migrate your wordpress site from one place to another. Simply export and the plugin will compress all your wordpress site into a zip file. Then you just need to go to your hosting website and install brand new wordpress. Finally install the plugin and import the compress zip file. Then you should be good togo.
Duplicator link
This is another wordpress migration plugin. I use this plugin sometimes when WP migration doesn’t work. Duplicator is a little harder to use. But it’s still not that bad.
I’ll consistently update more plugins in the future when I encounter them.