WordPress plugins

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Updated – November 2, 2023

Plugins expand the functionality of WordPress. You can choose from over 55,000 plugins.

Each plugin may have its merits, but you should use them sparingly. Unused plugins should be deleted or at least deactivated in order to maintain the performance of the website.

The plugins described here, listed in alphabetical order, are used by ourselves.

Appointment Booking Calendar

Appointment Booking Calendar The basic version offers a free booking system with free PayPal connection (even without it) for unlimited use on all of your own websites after a one-time license purchase for the paid versions.

The professional version for €49.99 already provides several calendars and an email reminder function.

The developer version for €99.99 contains functions that are more helpful for developers and are generally unnecessary for users who do not want to delve into the depths of programming.

Only the Platinum version at €149.99 offers the ultimate range of functions, in particular the connection to the following additional payment service providers:

• Stripe
• RedSys
• Skrill
• Mollie/iDEAL
• TargetPay/iDEAL
• WorldPay
• Square
• PayTM
• Authorize.net

Data Tables Generator

The Data Tables Generator from Supsystic goes a significant step further than the plugin below TablePressby implementing editable fields and calculation functions, as well as importing existing Excel tables.

It is understandable that this functionality is not offered free of charge. After all, there is only a two-digit one-time payment (lifetime license), which you are happy to make given the variety of functions and the added value it provides for your own website.

Examples in this blog are here to see.

Easy Table of Contents

Easy Table of Contents is a plugin that can be configured very easily and comprehensively - even in the free version - and automatically creates tables of contents across all levels from the headings of a page or post.

In contrast to other plugins, you need almost no training time: all configurations are self-explanatory and take effect immediately after saving. This makes it easy to quickly find the desired appearance.

Rank Math SEO

Rank Math SEO provides effective assistance, especially for beginners in this field, in designing Google-friendly website content. So it indicates the entry of the focus keyword, pays attention to the use of the same, especially in the first paragraph but also in the entire post, as well as in the URL and META description, in headings, weights the density of use, counts the words of the post and makes recommendations for improvements, such as the use of internal links, images, videos.

Superb social media buttons

Superb social media buttons provide a variety of floating social media buttons in different designs and for arbitrary positioning:

• Twitter
• Facebook
• Pinterest
• LinkedIn
• Tumblr
• Reddit
• Whatsapp
• Telegram
• mastodon
• e-mail

TablePress

TablePress is interesting for all those who often use tables and want to easily design them individually.

Columns and rows can be added as desired, the alignment, font size, layout color, table design, table name and a search field can be defined.

After creation, the table can be edited, copied or deleted at any time.

The table is accessed via a shortcut inserted at a suitable location.

Ultimate Category Excluder

The Ultimate Category Excluder As an open source plugin, it is free and allows you to hide posts defined by category.

In a post or page, you can link to content that should not appear in the page or post overview because, for example, it is only directly related to the original content.

WP Last Modified Info

The free plugin WP Last Modified Info The creation date displayed at the top of a post by default supplements the date of the last update.

A variety of configuration options allow individualization, both in terms of date format, localization of the displayed text, display of the author, and the time period from which an update should be recognized and displayed as such.

This plugin can also be used immediately without any additional training effort.

Yellow Pencil

Yellow Pencil is a comfortable and versatile visual CSS editor that is already quite powerful in the free version. However, 26 $ are not the world for the full version. However, anyone who creates websites and wants to sell them, including the plugin, pays 125 $.

Conclusion

Every plugin requires training so that it cannot be used out of the box. You should give yourself enough time to be able to use the plugins in all their functionality.

Otherwise, you run the risk of installing this or that plugin that is the first to focus on the desired focus, while already installed plugins may already contain exactly this function.