Top 10 Best Plugins for Any WordPress Website (plus bonus item)

Every Wordpress developer has their favorite plugins. Over the years developing on Wordpress, there are some that we really love and find ourselves using over and over again. We have given our Top 10 list below (with a bonus), and divided the list up between “Mandatory” and “Optional”. Mandatory plugins are, of course, not mandatory, but we find that we use them on almost every site we build, so we install them by default.

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WordPress Insert into Post is not Working! – How to Fix!

Problem:

You are working away on your Wordpress site. You go to your theme options or some other options where you can add a logo or special image, like a post category image, or a portfolio category image, or a theme option such as a logo.

You click the button to upload image or browse your Media Library. You find your image. You click Insert into Post and nothing happens! The place where the path to the image should appear stays blank! Here might be the solution……

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WordPress, WooCommerce, SSL on a Load Balancer…

Today we started the process of moving Buy Area Rug Pads and Only Mohawk Rug pads sites which are WordPress Woocommerce websites (which of course require and SSL certificate) to a new hosting service with Rackspace.  We set up our new hosting, Cloud Server, to use load balancers in front of the server to do…

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Hosting Plans – Do They Matter in Terms of Speed?

One of my clients, Web Corner Stores,  has many ecommerce websites using WordPress and Woocommerce selling rug pads like all Wool Rug Pads.  We noticed that when we launched the original websites, they sites were slow.  Moving from page to page was slow and loading the home page sometimes took 10 or 15 seconds!  This…

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