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Contact Form 7

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Contributers: Takayuki Miyoshi

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Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering and so on.

Docs and support

You can find docs, FAQ and more detailed information about Contact Form 7 on contactform7.com. When you cannot find the answer to your question on the FAQ or in any of the documentation, check the support forum on WordPress.org. If you cannot locate any topics that pertain to your particular issue, post a new topic for it.

Contact Form 7 needs your support

It is hard to continue development and support for this free plugin without contributions from users like you. If you enjoy using Contact Form 7 and find it useful, please consider making a donation. Your donation will help encourage and support the plugin’s continued development and better user support.

Privacy notices

With the default configuration, this plugin, in itself, does not:

track users by stealth;
write any user personal data to the database;
send any data to external servers;
use cookies.

If you activate certain features in this plugin, the contact form submitter’s personal data, including their IP address, may be sent to the service provider. Thus, confirming the provider’s privacy policy is recommended. These features include:

reCAPTCHA (Google)
Akismet (Automattic)
Constant Contact (Endurance International Group)
Sendinblue
Stripe

Recommended plugins

The following plugins are recommended for Contact Form 7 users:

Flamingo by Takayuki Miyoshi – With Flamingo, you can save submitted messages via contact forms in the database.
Bogo by Takayuki Miyoshi – Bogo is a straight-forward multilingual plugin that does not cause headaches.

Translations

You can translate Contact Form 7 on translate.wordpress.org.

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Yoast SEO

Authors:

Contributers: Anton Timmermans Joost de Valk Omar Reiss Yoast Taco Verdonschot Jip Moors

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Yoast SEO: the #1 WordPress SEO plugin

Since 2008 Yoast SEO has helped millions of websites worldwide to rank higher in search engines.

Yoast’s mission is SEO for Everyone. Our plugin’s users range from the bakery around the corner to some of the most popular sites on the planet.

Yoast SEO Free contains everything that you need to manage your SEO, and the Yoast SEO Premium plugin and its extensions unlock even more tools and functionality.

GET AHEAD OF THE COMPETITION

To rank highly in search engines, you need to beat the competition. You need a better, faster, stronger website than the people who sell or do the same kinds of things as you.

Yoast SEO is the most-used WordPress SEO plugin, and has helped millions of people like you to get ahead, and to stay ahead.

TAKING CARE OF YOUR WORDPRESS SEO

Yoast SEO is packed full of features, designed to help visitors and search engines to get the most out of your website. Some of our favourites are:

Automated technical SEO improvements, like canonical URLs and meta tags.
Advanced XML sitemaps; making it easy for Google to understand your site structure.
Title and meta description templating, for better branding and consistent snippets in the search results.
An in-depth Schema.org integration that will increase your chance of getting rich results, by helping search engines to understand your content.
Full control over site breadcrumbs, so that users and search engines always know where they are.
Faster loading times for your whole website, due to an innovative way of managing data in WordPress.
[Premium] E-mail support for our Yoast SEO Premium users.
[Premium] The possibility to expand Yoast SEO with the News SEO, Video SEO, Local SEO and WooCommerce SEO extensions.
[Premium] New! Yoast SEO Premium comes with an IndexNow integration to ping search engines like Microsoft Bing whenever you publish or update content.
New! Yoast SEO comes with wide-ranging crawl settings that help you improve how search engines crawl your site, lowering its carbon footprint.

WRITE KILLER CONTENT WITH YOAST SEO

We know content is king, that’s why Yoast SEO is famous for its state-of-the-art content and SEO analysis. Yoast SEO gives you:

SEO analysis: an invaluable tool while writing SEO-friendly content with the right (focus) keyphrases in mind.
Readability analysis: ensures that humans and search engines can read and understand your content.
Full language support for: English, German, French, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Indonesian, Polish, Portuguese, Arabic, Swedish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Turkish, Czech, Norwegian, Slovak and Greek.
A Google preview, which shows what your listings will look like in the search results. Even on mobile devices!
Innovative Schema blocks for the WordPress block editor, so that your FAQ and HowTo content can be shown directly in the search results. Plus a breadcrumbs block to guide your users.
[Premium] Internal linking blocks to easily improve the structure of your content. Easily add a table of contents block, a related links block, a subpages block, or siblings block! Plus, we’ll keep adding these easy-to-add blocks to improve your site structure.
[Premium] Social previews to show you how your content will be shown on Twitter and Facebook. Plus: Social Appearance Templates to guarantee a consistent look.
[Premium] The Insights tool that shows you what your text focuses on. This way you can keep your article in line with your keyphrases.
[Premium] Optimize your content for synonyms and related keyphrases.
[Premium] Optimize your article for different word forms of your keyphrases, as the singular and plural. But also different verb forms, synonyms, and related keyphrases. This makes for more natural content!
[Premium] Automatic internal linking suggestions: write your article and get automatic suggested posts to link to!
[Premium] An orphaned content filter to detect posts that have no links pointing towards them!
[Premium] SEO workouts to make working on your site as easy as ABC. These SEO workflows will get your site into shape in no time!
[Premium] New! Yoast SEO Premium comes with a new word complexity feature that gives you actionable feedback on using difficult words. This feature is in beta and English only for now.
New! Yoast SEO Free and Premium come with a new inclusive language analysis that helps you write inclusive content. This feature is opt-in and English-only for now.

KEEP YOUR SITE IN PERFECT SHAPE

Whether you are an online entrepreneur, blogger or content creator, a developer, a (WordPress) SEO expert or a business owner, Yoast SEO helps you keep your website in perfect shape by:

Tuning the engine of your website, so you can work on creating great content!
Giving you cornerstone content and internal linking features to help you optimize your site structure in a breeze.
Translating your content to structured data where possible, to help search engines understand your website.
Helping you manage your team: with our SEO roles you can give colleagues access to specific sections of the Yoast SEO plugin.
[Premium] Automatically creating redirects when URLs change or when pages are deleted, and providing tools to manage or create redirects.
[Premium] Showing you social previews to manage the way your page is shared on social networks like Facebook and Twitter.

TRUST THE EXPERTS

Yoast is powered by a team of expert developers, testers, software architects, and SEO consultants. They work constantly to stay at the cutting edge of WordPress SEO, and to improve the plugin with every release.

Yoast SEO is the only WordPress SEO plugin made by world-renowned SEO experts.

GET PREMIUM SUPPORT

The Yoast team offers regular support on the WordPress.org forums. But we hope you understand that we prioritize our Premium customers. This one-on-one email support is available to people who have purchased Yoast SEO Premium.

Did you know that Yoast SEO Premium contains a lot of extra features:

A redirect manager that prevents “404: page not found” errors
Optimize without worrying about over-optimization with intelligent word form recognition available in multiple languages.
Internal linking blocks to structure your site easily.
Internal linking suggestions while you’re writing.
Preview your content to see what it will look like in the search results and when shared on social media using the Google preview and social preview.
Cornerstone content checks that point search engines to your most important pages.
Connect Yoast SEO to Zapier to easily create zaps that instantly share your published posts with 2000+ destinations like Twitter, Facebook, and much more.

If you are serious about your WordPress SEO, install the Yoast SEO Premium plugin! Costs a little, saves a lot of time!

OUR EXTENSIONS TO FURTHER IMPROVE YOUR WORDPRESS SEO

Check out these SEO add-ons by Yoast:

Yoast Local SEO optimizes your website for a local audience.
Yoast Video SEO ensures that Google understands what your video is about, increasing the chances of ranking in the video results.
Yoast News SEO for news websites that want to improve their visibility and performance in Google News.
WooCommerce SEO for all online shops that want to perform better in the search results and social media.

These extensions work fine with the free version of Yoast SEO. Of course, the premium extensions also include 24/7 support.

Oh, don’t forget: our Yoast Academy is for all entrepreneurs, bloggers, and anyone who wants to learn more about optimizing websites, improving your WordPress SEO, and if you want to take your content to the next level!

INTEGRATIONS

Yoast SEO integrates seamlessly into a range of themes and plugins. We work particularly well with:

The WordPress block editor (or ‘Gutenberg’ editor).
The official AMP plugin, which changes your templates to use the ‘AMP’ HTML format.
Google’s Web Stories plugin, which helps you to create ‘web stories’.
The Advanced Custom Fields plugin, when you also activate the ACF Content Analysis for Yoast SEO plugin.
The Elementor website builder.
Algolia integration to improve the quality of your site search.
WordProof, which helps you prove ownership by adding timestamps.

BUG REPORTS

Do you want to report a bug for Yoast SEO? Best to do so in the WordPress SEO repository on GitHub. Please note that GitHub is not a support forum and issues will be closed if they don’t meet the bug requirements.

Jetpack – WP Security, Backup, Speed, & Growth

Authors:

Contributers: Automattic Derek Smart George Stephanis Elio Rivero Lance Willett Tim Moore Brandon Kraft Erick Hitter Stephane Daury (stephdau) Hugo Baeta Chase Livingston Daryl L. L. Houston (dllh) Eric Binnion Daniel Bachhuber Greg Ichneumon Brown Andrew Duthie Stefan Carstocea Richard Muscat Mohammad Jangda Marin Atanasov Stephen Quirk Joey Kudish Rocco Tripaldi Jen H. Dan Johnson Justin Shreve Mikey Arce Jorge Bernal Matias Ventura Nick Momrik Richard Archambault annezazu Sam Hotchkiss designsimply nancythanki Konstantin Obenland Jeff Bowen Miguel Fonseca martinremy Christopher Finke Cena Stefania Mattana Andy Skelton jacobshere Gregory Cornelius Davor Barry Jeremy Herve Hew James Huff dzver lamdayap Matt (Thomas) Miklic allendav Alex Mills (Viper007Bond) Andrew Ozz Jeff Golenski Ian Dunn daniloercoli Rich Collier Michelle Langston Marcus Kazmierczak hypertextranch Greg Stewart Yoav Farhi Ben Lobaugh (blobaugh) Peter Westwood lschuyler Matt Mullenweg csonnek Igor Zinovyev Beau Lebens rachelsquirrel alternatekev Michael Arestad Jesse Friedman Michael Adams (mdawaffe) Joen Asmussen Gary Pendergast Ryan Cowles Jenia Miguel Lezama adamkheckler Andy Peatling Michael Cain John James Jacoby Eoin Gallagher Enej Bajgoric Matt Wiebe Alex Kirk goldsounds Jennifer M. Dodd

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Safer. Faster. More traffic.

WordPress security, performance, marketing, and design tools — Jetpack is made by WordPress experts to make WP sites safer and faster, and help you grow your traffic.

24/7 AUTO SITE SECURITY

We guard your site so you can run your site or business. Jetpack Security provides easy-to-use, comprehensive WordPress site security including auto real-time backups and easy restores, malware scans, and spam protection. Essential features like brute force protection and downtime / uptime monitoring are free.

Back up your site automatically in real time and restore to any point with one click. Cloud storage starts at 10GB, which is more than enough for most sites, with additional storage options available if needed. Great for eCommerce stores especially Woo.
Manage migration to a new host, migrate theme files and plugins to a new database, easily duplicate websites, create full database backups, clone websites, repair broken websites by restoring older backups or easily set up a test site by creating a duplicate of your existing WP website.
See every site change and who made it with the activity log, great for coordination, debug, maintenance, or troubleshooting.
Examine incoming traffic to your WordPress site with our WAF (Web Application Firewall) and decide to allow or block it based on various rules.
Add an important layer of protection to your site with our WAF (Web Application Firewall), particularly when attackers actively exploit unpatched vulnerabilities.
Automatically perform malware scans and security scans for other code threats. One click fix to restore your site for malware.
Block spam comments and form responses with anti spam features powered by Akismet.
Brute force attack protection to protect your WordPress login page from attacks.
Monitor your site uptime / downtime and get an instant alert of any change by email.
Secure WordPress.com powered login used by millions of sites with optional 2FA (two factor authentication) for extra protection.
Auto update individual plugins for easy site maintenance and management.

You can purchase all of Jetpack’s security features in our Security bundle, or VaultPress Backup, Scan, and Akismet Anti-spam can each be purchased individually.

PEAK SPEED AND PERFORMANCE

Get blazing fast site speed with Jetpack. Jetpack’s free CDN (content delivery network) auto optimizes your images. Watch your page load times decrease — we’ll optimize your images and serve them from our own powerful global network, and speed up your site on mobile devices to reduce bandwidth usage and save money!

Image CDN for images and core static files, like CSS and JavaScript, served from our servers, not yours, which saves you money and bandwidth.
Lazy load images for a super fast experience, even on mobile. Jetpack’s lazy loading automatically delays the loading of media on your posts and pages until your visitors scroll down to where they appear on the page.
Unlimited, high speed, ad free video hosting keeps the focus on your content, not on ads or recommendations that lead people off site.
Custom site search is incredibly powerful and customizable. Helps your visitors instantly find the right content so they read and buy more. Works great with WooCommerce / eCommerce sites to help filter products so customers get what they want on your site faster.
Recommended to use with WP Super Cache for ultimate WordPress site speed.

POWERFUL TOOLS FOR GROWTH

Create and customize your WordPress site, optimize it for visitors and revenue, and enjoy watching your stats tick up. Build it, share it, and watch it grow.

Auto publish blog posts and products to social media by simply using our tools to connect to Facebook, Tumblr, Mastodon, and LinkedIn.
Easily share Instagram posts on your pages and blog posts.
Collect a payment or donation, sell a product, service, or membership with simple integrations with PayPal and Stripe.
Grow traffic with SEO tools for Google, Bing, Facebook, and WordPress.com. XML sitemap created automatically.
Advertise on your site to generate revenue. The ad network automatically does the work for you to find high-quality ads that are placed on your site.
Manage Jetpack features from anywhere with the official WordPress mobile app, available for Apple iOS (iPhone or iPad) and Google Android.
Looking for Customer Relationship Management? Check out the Jetpack CRM plugin which works alongside Jetpack to give you a simple and practical way to build relationships with your customers and leads.

POWERFUL STATS TO GROW YOUR SITE

With Jetpack Stats, you don’t need to be a data scientist to see how your site is performing.

Advanced site stats and analytics to help you understand your audience.
Discover your top performing posts & pages.
See who is creating the most popular content on your team with our author metrics.
Easily keep track of your content creation habits & trends over the years.
View weekly and yearly trends with 7-day Highlights and Year in Review.
See what popular social networks your content is being shared to the most.
Explore real-time data on visitors, likes, and comments.
Get detailed insights on the referrers that bring traffic to your site.
Discover what countries your visitors are coming from.
Measure link clicks, video plays, and file downloads within your site.

WRITE SMARTER, NOT HARDER.

Experience the ease of crafting professional content with intuitive and powerful AI. Jetpack AI Assistant effortlessly integrates with your WordPress editor, offering an intuitive interface to interact with AI.
This powerful block lets you generate diverse content at your command, significantly reducing the time and effort required in content creation.

Simply provide a prompt, and watch as Jetpack AI Assistant crafts compelling blog posts, detailed pages, structured lists, and comprehensive tables – all tailored to your needs.

Harness AI power directly from your editor.
Unlock high-quality, tailored content at your command.
Maintain professional standards with ease.
AI-powered translations across numerous languages at your fingertips, breaking down language barriers.

PROMOTE YOUR CONTENT EASILY WITH JETPACK BLAZE

Find new fans by promoting your posts and pages across millions of sites in the WordPress.com and Tumblr ad network.

Create your ad. Choose your audience. Set your budget. It’s that easy.
Amplify your reach for just a few dollars.

EASY DESIGN TOOLS

Quickly customize your site to make it stand out — no coding needed.

Themes — Simple WordPress themes to get started on your site.
Related posts — Keep visitors on your site by automatically showing them related content they will be interested in.
Gallery and Slideshow tools — Image galleries, carousel slider, and slideshows for WP sites and stores.
Subscriptions — Make it easy for visitors to sign up to receive notifications of your latest posts and comments.
Contact form — Easily build unlimited contact forms for free without any coding. Receive email notifications for each response. Integrate with mail solutions like Creative Mail to reach your customers and leads quickly. Connect to Jetpack Anti spam (powered by Akismet) to filter submissions.
oEmbed Support — easily embed images, posts, and links from Facebook and Instagram.

INTEGRATIONS

Jetpack is updated monthly to ensure seamless integration with top WordPress plugins and other tech products.

Built for WooCommerce: Jetpack and WooCommerce are both made by Automattic. Backup, Scan, Anti-spam, integrate perfectly for Woo / eComm stores.
Jetpack is fully compatible with v2.0 of the official AMP plugin for WordPress.
Better understand your customers and marketing with Google Analytics (GA) integration.
Social media platforms: Instagram, Facebook, Tumblr, LinkedIn.
Simple Blocks to customize your site: Pinterest, Whatsapp, Podcast player, GIFs, maps, tiled gallery, slideshow.
Payment processors: easily collect payments or donations and sell products through Stripe and PayPal.
Site speed and performance plugins: Works great with WP Super Cache by Automattic and Cloudflare.
Contact form: Anti-spam (Powered by Akismet) blocks spam comments for Jetpack forms, Contact Form 7, Ninja Forms, Gravity Forms, Formidable Forms, and more.
Other tech integrations: Instagram, Creative Mail, Mailchimp, Calendly, Whatsapp, Pinterest, Revue, and more.

FLY HIGHER WITH INDIVIDUAL PLUGINS

Ever wish you could have just one feature of Jetpack in its own plugin? Now you can. Check out our individual plugins and install only what you need.

EXPERT SUPPORT

We have a global team of Happiness Engineers ready to provide incredible support. Ask your questions in the support forum or contact us directly.

GET STARTED

Installation is free, quick, and easy. Set up Jetpack in minutes. Take advantage of more robust features like WordPress site security and design and growth tools by upgrading to a paid plan.

Jetpack Security provides easy-to-use, comprehensive WordPress site security including backups, malware scanning, and spam protection.
Save every change with real-time backups and get back online quickly with one-click restores.
Automated malware scanning and one-click fixes keep your site one step ahead of security threats.
Promote your newest posts, pages, and products across your social media channels.
Incredibly powerful and customizable, help your visitors instantly find the right content – right when they need it.
See what’s working with content performance metrics. Simple, yet powerful stats to grow your site.
Stunning‑quality video with none of the hassle. Drag and drop videos through the WordPress editor and keep the focus on your content, not the ads.

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Akismet Anti-Spam: Spam Protection

Authors:

Contributers: Alex Shiels Greg Stewart lessbloat Eoin Gallagher Andy Skelton Joseph Scott Ryan Boren Michael Adams (mdawaffe) Christopher Finke Matt Mullenweg Automattic

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The best anti-spam protection to block spam comments and spam in a contact form. The most trusted antispam solution for WordPress and WooCommerce.

Akismet checks your comments and contact form submissions against our global database of spam to prevent your site from publishing malicious content. You can review the comment spam it catches on your blog’s “Comments” admin screen.

Major features in Akismet include:

Automatically checks all comments and filters out the ones that look like spam.
Each comment has a status history, so you can easily see which comments were caught or cleared by Akismet and which were spammed or unspammed by a moderator.
URLs are shown in the comment body to reveal hidden or misleading links.
Moderators can see the number of approved comments for each user.
A discard feature that outright blocks the worst spam, saving you disk space and speeding up your site.

PS: You’ll be prompted to get an Akismet.com API key to use it, once activated. Keys are free for personal blogs; paid subscriptions are available for businesses and commercial sites.

Tags: antispam anti-spam spam comments contact-form

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WooCommerce

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Contributers: Mike Jolley Claudio Sanches coderkevin Justin Shreve James Koster Claudiu Lodromanean WooThemes Caleb Burks Automattic

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WooCommerce is the world’s most popular open-source eCommerce solution.

Our core platform is free, flexible, and amplified by a global community. The freedom of open-source means you retain full ownership of your store’s content and data forever.

Whether you’re launching a business, taking brick-and-mortar retail online, or developing sites for clients, use WooCommerce for a store that powerfully blends content and commerce.

Create beautiful, enticing storefronts with themes suited to your brand and industry.
Increase revenue with an optimized shopping cart experience that converts.
Customize product pages in minutes using modular product blocks.
Showcase physical and digital goods, product variations, custom configurations, instant downloads, and affiliate items.
Sell subscriptions, bookings, or memberships, with our developer-vetted extensions.
Rise to the top of search results by leveraging WordPress’ SEO advantage.
Build on a platform that scales. Get flexible eCommerce for high-volume stores.

Built-in tools and popular integrations help you efficiently manage your business operations. Many services are free to add with a single click via the optional Setup Wizard.

Choose how you want to get paid. Conveniently manage payments from the comfort of your store with WooCommerce Payments (Available in the U.S., U.K., Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Spain, France, Germany, and Italy). Securely accept credit cards, mobile wallets, bank transfers, and cash thanks to 100+ payment gateways – including Stripe, PayPal, and Square.
Configure your shipping options. Print USPS labels right from your dashboard and even schedule a pickup with WooCommerce Shipping (U.S.-only). Connect with well-known carriers such as UPS and FedEx – plus a wide variety of delivery, inventory, and fulfillment solutions for your locale.
Simplify sales tax. Add WooCommerce Tax or similar integrated services to make automated calculations a reality.

Grow your business, add features, and monitor your store on the go

WooCommerce means business. Keep tabs on the performance metrics most important to you with WooCommerce Admin – a powerful, customizable central dashboard for your store.

Expand your audience across marketing and social channels with Google Ads, HubSpot, Mailchimp, and Facebook integrations. You can always check out the in-dashboard Marketing Hub for fresh ideas and tips to help you succeed.

Enhance store functionality with hundreds of free and paid extensions from the official WooCommerce Marketplace. Our developers vet each new extension and regularly review existing extensions to maintain Marketplace quality standards. We are actively looking for products that help store builders create successful stores.

Manage your store from anywhere with the free WooCommerce mobile app (Android and iOS). Spoiler alert: Keep an ear out for the slightly addictive “cha-ching” notification sound each time you make a new sale!

Own and control your store data – forever

With WooCommerce, your data belongs to you. Always.

If you opt to share usage data with us, you can feel confident knowing that it’s anonymized and kept secure. Choose to opt-out at any time without impacting your store.

Unlike hosted eCommerce solutions, WooCommerce store data is future-proof; you’re free to export all your content and take your site to any platform you choose. No restrictions.

Why developers choose (and love) WooCommerce

Developers can use WooCommerce to create, customize, and scale a store to meet a client’s exact specifications, making enhancements through extensions or custom solutions.

Leverage hooks and filters to modify or create functionality.
Integrate virtually any service using a robust REST API and webhooks.
Design and build custom content blocks with React.
Inspect and modify any aspect of the core plugin code.
Speed up development with a lightning-fast CLI.

The core platform is tested rigorously and often, supported by a dedicated development team working across time zones. Comprehensive documentation is updated with each release, empowering you to build exactly the store required.

Be part of our growing international community

WooCommerce has a large, passionate community dedicated to helping merchants succeed – and it’s growing fast.

There are WooCommerce Meetups in locations around the world that you can attend for free and even get involved in running. These events are a great way to learn from others, share your expertise, and connect with like-minded folks.

WooCommerce also has a regular presence at WordCamps across the globe – we’d love to meet you.

Contribute and translate

WooCommerce is developed and supported by Automattic, the creators of WordPress.com and Jetpack. We also have hundreds of independent contributors, and there’s always room for more. Head to the WooCommerce GitHub Repository to find out how you can pitch in.

WooCommerce is translated into multiple languages, including Danish, Ukrainian, and Persian. Help localize WooCommerce even further by adding your locale – visit translate.wordpress.org.

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All in One SEO – Best WordPress SEO Plugin – Easily Improve SEO Rankings & Increase Traffic

Authors: uberdose

Contributers: Peter Baylies Michael Torbert Steve Mortiboy Arnaud Broes Dougal Campbell

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AIOSEO – The Best WordPress SEO Plugin & Toolkit

All in One SEO for WordPress is the original WordPress SEO plugin started in 2007. Over 3 million smart website owners use AIOSEO to properly setup WordPress SEO, so their websites can rank higher in search engines.

We believe you shouldn’t have to hire an SEO expert or developer to properly setup WordPress SEO. That’s why we built AIOSEO as the most comprehensive WordPress SEO plugin and marketing toolkit, so you can improve your website’s SEO rankings and uncover new SEO growth opportunities in less than 10 minutes.

At All in One SEO (AIOSEO), user experience is our #1 priority. From website SEO setup to ongoing SEO optimization, our team of SEO experts have created easy to follow SEO workflows that will help you outrank your competitors in search results. This is why many industry leaders award AIOSEO as the most beginner friendly WordPress SEO plugin that’s both EASY and POWERFUL!

AIOSEO’s WordPress SEO plugin features are highly optimized for Google and other popular search engine algorithm because we follow the most up to date SEO standards and SEO best practices. We can honestly say that AIOSEO is the best WordPress SEO plugin in the world.

AIOSEO Pro
This plugin is the lite version of the All in One WordPress SEO Pro plugin that comes with all the SEO features you will ever need to rank higher in search engines including smart SEO schema markup, advanced SEO modules, powerful SEO sitemap suite, local SEO module, Google AMP SEO, WooCommerce SEO, and tons more. Click here to purchase the best premium WordPress SEO plugin now!

We took the pain out of optimizing WordPress SEO and made it easy. Here’s why smart business owners, SEO experts, marketers, and developers love AIOSEO, and you will too!

✨ Properly Setup WordPress SEO (without Hiring an Expert)

AIOSEO makes it easy to setup WordPress SEO, the RIGHT WAY. Our smart WordPress SEO setup wizard helps you optimize your website’s SEO settings based on your unique industry needs.

In less than 10 minutes, you will be able to setup all the advanced WordPress SEO features like XML sitemaps, optimized search appearance, SEO meta title, SEO meta description, SEO keywords, Open Graph SEO Knowledge Panel information, social media integration, SEO search console (Google Search Console) / webmaster tool connections, local SEO, schema markup for SEO, and more.

But don’t just take our word. See what another website owner like yourself is saying:

Swift, honest, full control. After all these years and having used almost every WP SEO plugin I’m amazed by AIOSEO’s depth, simplicity and fast workflow ❤️
@aaronbol

✨ Optimize Your Pages for Higher SEO Rankings with TruSEO Analysis

Creating SEO optimized content used to be hard. Why?

Because most business owners aren’t SEO experts.

That’s why we created the TruSEO score. This gives you a more in-depth SEO optimization analysis and an actionable SEO checklist, so you can easily optimize your website pages for any keyword to get higher SEO rankings and maximum traffic.

Our SEO content analysis tool is enabled by default in both the Gutenberg block editor and Classic Editor, so you can quickly optimize your blog posts and pages (SEO meta title, SEO meta description, SEO keywords, etc.) for your SEO keywords to get higher SEO rankings.

Our SEO readability analysis gives you further insights on how to improve your content for maximum SEO benefits.

The best part about TruSEO analysis is that you can use it to optimize your posts / pages for unlimited SEO keywords.

✨ Seamless SEO Integrations with Webmaster Tools & Social Media

All in One SEO for WordPress offers seamless integration with popular social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram, and more.

This ensures that your website preview is optimized for both search engines (SEO), and social media networks (Using the Open Graph protocol to optimize your SEO meta title, SEO meta description and images).

AIOSEO also makes it easy to connect your website with Google Search Console (with XML sitemaps and advanced reports directly inside your WordPress dashboard), Bing webmaster tools, Yandex webmaster tools, Baidu webmaster tools, Google Analytics, Microsoft Clarity, and all other SEO webmaster tools.

This helps you easily measure your SEO results and progress.

I’m a professional SEO and used many tools and extensions. Regarding simplicity, individuality and configurability All in One SEO Pro is by far the best SEO plugin out there for WordPress.
Joel Steinmann

✨ Smart XML Sitemaps and Rich Snippets (SEO Schema Markup)

Proper website SEO markup plays an important role in improving SEO rankings. That’s why smart SEO experts use AIOSEO for on-page SEO optimization.

An XML sitemap is a list of all the content on your website. The sitemap helps search engine bots to easily see all the content on your site in one place, The XML sitemap file is hidden from your human visitors, however search engines like Google can see it.

Without an XML sitemap added inside Google Search Console, some of your web pages may never be included in Google search results, and won’t get any traffic. XML Sitemaps also help you tell Google which pages you DON’T want included in search results.

Aside from the comprehensive WordPress XML sitemap feature (with easy setup inside Google Search Console), we also offer News SEO sitemap and Video SEO sitemap to help you improve your website’s SEO ranking and get more traffic.

AIOSEO comes with built-in smart SEO schema markup feature to help you get more traffic through SEO rich snippets, Google featured snippets, breadcrumb site links in SEO, and image SEO search results.

We also include an easy to use Next-Gen Schema Generator to output tons of custom schema for events, job postings, recipes, how-tos, software applications, products and so much more!

The best SEO plugin. All in One SEO is the best SEO Plugin. I personally find it better than Yoast. This plugin offers so much freedom in configuration.
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✨ Enhance Your Website’s SEO Efforts with AIOSEO’s Cutting-Edge Link Assistant and OpenAI Integration

AIOSEO’s proprietary AI technology, called Link Assistant, is a powerful tool designed to help businesses and website owners improve their website’s internal linking structure. With Link Assistant, website owners can quickly and easily identify and create internal links that will help to improve their website’s search engine rankings.

Link Assistant is powered by advanced machine learning algorithms that are designed to analyze a website’s content and identify the most relevant pages for internal linking. Using this information, the tool then creates a list of recommended internal links that can be added to the website’s content.

In addition to its internal linking capabilities, AIOSEO has also integrated OpenAI’s natural language processing technology (ChatGPT) to help users generate effective SEO titles and meta descriptions. By leveraging OpenAI’s powerful language models, AIOSEO can help website owners create compelling and optimized titles and descriptions that are more likely to attract clicks from search engine users.

Overall, AIOSEO’s combination of Link Assistant and OpenAI integration represents a powerful suite of tools that can help you as a website owner to optimize your website’s content, improve your search engine rankings, and attract more organic traffic to your website.

✨ Local SEO, WooCommerce SEO, Google AMP, and More

All in One SEO is the most comprehensive WordPress SEO plugin / marketing toolkit in the world.

We offer complete support for Google Knowledge Graph and Schema.org markup for local businesses. You can add multiple business locations, opening hours, contact info (business email, business phone, business address, etc) and more with our Local SEO module.

AIOSEO also makes WooCommerce SEO easy. With our SEO plugin, you can optimize your product pages and product categories for better SEO rankings (with just a few clicks). AIOSEO is also fully compatible with the Google Merchant Center by adding the necessary schema without any additional customization on your part.

Since AIOSEO is the original WordPress SEO plugin, we have SEO integrations with all popular WordPress plugins such as membership plugin SEO, landing page plugin SEO, Semrush SEO integration, etc. AIOSEO also offers Google AMP integration and works seamlessly with all popular speed & caching plugins.

Best SEO Plugin for WordPress. We continue to use All in One SEO on all our WordPress sites and Clients sites, and we recommend it too all other clients.
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Since SEO is an essential feature, AIOSEO is a must have plugin for every website!

✨ SEO Redirection Manager and 404 Monitoring

AIOSEO Redirection manager helps you set up proper 301 redirects to improve your SEO rankings.

We also support other advanced SEO redirects including 302 redirects, 307 redirects, 410 redirection, 404 redirects, REGEX redirects for advanced SEO needs, and more.

We have an automatic 404 error monitor that helps you track and redirect 404 errors, so you can prevent losing SEO rankings.

Since redirect speed is important for SEO, we built in both Apache / NGINX server level redirects to help you get maximum SEO benefit.

✨ Full All in One SEO Feature List

WordPress SEO Setup Wizard – Properly setup WordPress SEO in less than 10 minutes.
On-page SEO Optimization – optimize SEO code markup (without hiring a developer).
TruSEO score – detailed content & readability analysis to help you optimize your pages for higher SEO rankings.
Smart Meta Title & Description – Automatic SEO generation, dynamic SEO smart tags, and more.
Unlimited SEO Keywords – our SEO content analyzer helps you optimize your pages for unlimited SEO keywords.
XML Sitemap – Advanced XML sitemaps to boost your SEO rankings (with easy setup inside Google Search Console).
Video SEO Sitemap – Improve your SEO rankings with video sitemap.
News SEO Sitemap – Increase your SEO traffic with Google News sitemap.
RSS SEO Sitemap – Improve SEO crawl frequency with RSS sitemap.
Automatic Image SEO – Our image SEO module helps your images rank higher.
Local Business SEO – Improve your local business SEO presence with our local SEO module.
Multiple location SEO – Great for SEO optimization for businesses with multiple local store locations.
Rich Snippets Schema – Get better click through rate (CTR) and increase SEO rankings with rich snippets schema.
SEO Knowledge Graph Support – Improve your website’s search appearance with SEO Knowledge panel.
Advanced SEO Schema – Easily add advanced SEO schema markups like FAQ schema, product schema, recipe schema (food blogger SEO), software application schema markup (SaaS SEO), online course schema (for course SEO), and more using our Schema Generator.
Sitelinks Search Box – Helps you get a search box in Google SEO rankings.
Google Site Links – Our SEO markup can help you get sitelinks for your brand.
Robots.txt Editor – Control what SEO robots can see with our easy SEO robots.txt editor.
SEO Audit Checklist – Improve your website’s SEO ranking with our SEO audit checklist.
Google Search Console – Connect your WordPress site with Google webmaster tools and Google Search Console to see additional SEO insights (like content rankings, keyword rankings, keyword tracking, page speed insights and more) directly in your WordPress dashboard and submit your XML sitemaps within minutes.
Search Engine Verification Tools – Easily integrate with other popular SEO webmaster tools to improve search visibility.
Google AMP SEO – Improve your mobile SEO rankings with Google AMP SEO.
Advanced SEO Canonical URLs – Prevent duplicate content in SEO with automatic canonical URLs and boost your SEO rankings.
Advanced Robots Meta SEO Settings – granular controls for no index, no follow, no archive, no snippet, max snippet, max video, and more.
AI Title/Description Generator – using OpenAI’s ChatGPT, generate SEO titles and meta descriptions to help improve your rankings.
RSS Content for SEO – Stop content theft from hurting your SEO rankings with our RSS Content tool.
User Access Control – Control who can manage your SEO settings with our advanced SEO access control.
Competitor Site SEO Analysis – Use our competitor SEO analysis to outrank them by improving your website’s SEO optimization.
Smart Breadcrumbs – Add Breadcrumb navigation to improve user experience and boost your SEO rankings. Comes with full SEO JSON+LD support.
Smart SEO Redirects – Setup proper 301 redirects to improve your SEO rankings.
404 Error Monitor for SEO – Monitor website 404 errors and set up proper SEO redirects to prevent losing SEO rankings.
Title and Nofollow for SEO – We make it easy for you to add title and nofollow to external links to improve SEO rankings.
Link Assistant – See a report of all your internal/external links and get high quality suggestions for internal linking opportunities.
Headline Analyzer – Analyze your page/posts headlines to optimize your site for higher SEO rankings.
IndexNow Integration – Instantly notify Bing and Yandex of SEO changes made to your sites content.
Microsoft Clarity Integration – Better understand how users interact with your website through heatmaps and session recordings.
WordPress REST API Integration – Manage your post and term SEO meta via the WordPress REST API for seamless integration with headless WordPress installations.
Crawl Quota Management – Use our Crawl Cleanup feature to manage your search engine crawl quota and index your important content faster.
Slack-style Emoji Picker – Include Emoji ❤️ in your meta titles and descriptions to stand out in search results and increase your rankings. 🎉🚀

✨ WordPress SEO Integrations

WooCommerce SEO – optimize your WooCommerce product pages and improve your WooCommerce store’s SEO rankings.
MemberPress SEO – optimize your MemberPress course pages and improve your membership site’s SEO rankings.
Elementor SEO – add SEO optimization for your Elementor landing pages.
Divi SEO – add SEO optimization for your Divi landing pages.
SeedProd SEO – add SEO optimization for your SeedProd landing pages.
LearnDash SEO – SEO optimization for LearnDash courses.
Facebook SEO – SEO optimize your website preview on Facebook.
Twitter SEO – SEO optimize your website preview on Twitter.
Pinterest SEO – SEO optimize your website preview on Pinterest.
Open Graph Support – improve your SEO with open graph meta data.
Knowledge Panel SEO – improve website SEO apperance by adding social media profile links for Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, Instagram, LinkedIn, Yelp, YouTube, and more.
SEO Webmaster Tool Content – Connect your WordPress site with various webmaster tools to improve SEO rankings.
Semrush SEO integration – See additional SEO keywords and relevant SEO keyphrases with our Semrush SEO integration.
OpenAI Integration – Use the power of ChatGPT to write compelling SEO titles and meta descriptions to improve your SEO rankings.

✨ WordPress SEO Plugin Importer

Yoast SEO Importer – easily switch from Yoast SEO to AIOSEO with our full SEO migration wizard that includes SEO keywords, SEO title, meta description, XML sitemaps and more.
Yoast SEO Premium Importer – easily import Yoast SEO premium settings including SEO redirects to AIOSEO with our full SEO migration wizard.
RankMath SEO Importer – easily switch from RankMath SEO to AIOSEO with our SEO migration wizard that includes SEO keywords, SEO title, meta description, XML sitemaps and more.
SEOPress Importer – easily switch from SEOPress to AIOSEO with our SEO migration wizard that includes SEO keywords, SEO title, meta description, XML sitemaps and more.
SEO Settings Backup – create a backup of your AIOSEO settings.
Advanced SEO Import / Export – easily import / export AIOSEO settings from one site to another.
Redirection Importer – import your SEO redirects from the Redirection plugin with our SEO migration wizard.
Simple 301 Redirects Importer – import your SEO redirects from Simple 301 redirects with our SEO migration wizard.
Safe Redirection Manager – easily import SEO redirects from safe redirect manager with our SEO migration wizard.
301 Redirects – easily import SEO redirects from 301 Redirects with our SEO migration wizard.
CSV Sitemap Import – import additional pages to your xml sitemaps using CSV.

✨ Gutenberg Blocks

Table of Contents – automatically generate table of contents for your article. The powerful features include custom headings, custom anchors and the ability to hide or reorder the headings.
FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) – quickly add frequently asked questions to your article, which are then also automatically output as FAQPage schema to help improve your rankings.
HTML Sitemap – automatically generate an HTML sitemap for your pages and posts.
Local Business Info – output relevant informaiton to your business such as the business name, address, and contact information.
Local Business Locations – display a list of locations for your local business.
Local Business Maps – embed maps directly on your location pages to allow your customers to easily find your location with driving directions and reviews.
Local Business Opening Hours – display the hours that your local business is open or closed.
Breadcrumbs – output a breadcrumb trail for your current page or post.

After reading this feature list, you can probably imagine why AIOSEO is the best WordPress SEO plugin in the market.

Give AIOSEO a try.

Want to unlock more SEO features? Upgrade to AIOSEO Pro.

Credits

This plugin is created by Benjamin Rojas and Syed Balkhi.

Branding Guideline

AIOSEO® is a registered trademark of Semper Plugins LLC. When writing about the WordPress SEO plugin by AIOSEO, please use the following format.

AIOSEO (correct)
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AIO SEO (incorrect)
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AISEO (incorrect)

What’s Next

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SeedProd – Create beautiful landing pages with our powerful drag & drop landing page builder.
WP Mail SMTP – Improve email deliverability for your contact form with the most popular SMTP plugin for WordPress.
RafflePress – Best WordPress giveaway and contest plugin to grow traffic and social followers.
Smash Balloon – #1 social feeds plugin for WordPress – display social media content in WordPress without code.
Push Engage – Connect with visitors after they leave your website with the leading web push notification plugin.
TrustPulse – Add real-time social proof notifications to boost your store conversions by up to 15%.
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Visit WPBeginner to learn from our WordPress Tutorials and find out about other best WordPress plugins.

SEO Content Analyzer (Gutenberg)
SEO Content Analyzer (Classic Editor)
SEO Setup Wizard
SEO Site Analysis
Webmaster Tools Connect
Social Media Integrations
Local SEO
Sitemaps
Search Appearance Settings
Robots.txt Editor
RSS Content Control
Headline Analyzer
Redirect Manager
Link Assistant

Tags: seo schema xml-sitemap meta-description google-search-console

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117,819,793

4.7 (3,357)

#8

Popular

XML Sitemap Generator for Google

Authors:

Contributers: Arne Brachhold

Charts and Tracking Description >>

Generate XML, HTML, RSS sitemaps for your website with ease using the Google XML Sitemap Generator. This plugin enables you to improve your SEO rankings by creating page, news, video, HTML, and RSS sitemaps. It also supports custom post types and taxonomies, allowing you to ensure that all of your content is being indexed by search engines. With a user-friendly interface, you can easily configure the plugin to suit your needs and generate sitemaps in just a few clicks. Keep your website up-to-date and make sure that search engines are aware of all of your content by using the Google XML Sitemap Generator.

The plugin supports all kinds of WordPress generated pages as well as custom URLs. Additionally it notifies all major search engines every time you create a post about the new content.

Supported for more than a decade and rated among the best, it will do exactly what it’s supposed to do – providing a complete XML sitemap for search engines!

If you like the plugin, feel free to rate it! 🙂

License

Good news, this plugin is free for everyone! Since it’s released under the GPL, you can use it free of charge on your personal or commercial site.

Translations

The plugin comes with various translations, please refer to the WordPress Codex for more information about activating the translation. If you want to help to translate the plugin to your language, please have a look at the sitemap.pot file which contains all definitions and may be used with a gettext editor like Poedit (Windows).

Plugin options page
Sample XML sitemap (with a stylesheet for making it readable)
Sample XML sitemap (without stylesheet)

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34,163,625

4.8 (2,143)

69

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Advanced Editor Tools

Authors:

Contributers: Andrew Ozz

Charts and Tracking Description >>

Advanced Editor Tools (previously TinyMCE Advanced) introduces a “Classic Paragraph” block for the block editor (Gutenberg).
If you are not quite ready to switch to the block editor, or have plugins that cannot be used there (yet), using the Classic Paragraph block is your best option. It lets you to continue to use the familiar TinyMCE editor for most tasks, and at the same time gives you full access to all blocks and new features in the block editor.

Version 5.5 continues to improve and enhance the new features introduced in version 5.0 of the plugin. It includes an improved “Clear Formatting” button, several advanced settings for tables, and importing and exporting of the settings to a file.

If you want to continue to use the previous (“classic”) editor in WordPress 5.0 and newer, this plugin has an option to replace the new editor with the previous one. If you prefer to have access to both editors side by side or to allow your users to switch editors, it would be better to install the Classic Editor plugin. Advanced Editor Tools is fully compatible with the classic editor plugin and similar plugins that restore use of the previous WordPress editor.

As always this plugin will let you add, remove and arrange the buttons that are shown on the Visual Editor toolbar in the Classic Paragraph and Classic blocks in the block editor, and in the classic editor (when enabled by a plugin). There you can configure up to four rows of buttons including Font Sizes, Font Family, text and background colors, tables, etc.

It includes 15 plugins for TinyMCE that are automatically enabled or disabled depending on the buttons you have chosen.
In addition this plugin adds options for keeping the paragraph tags in text mode and importing the CSS classes from the theme’s editor-style.css.

Some of the features added by this plugin

“Classic Paragraph” block that can be used instead of or together with the standard Paragraph block.
An option to set the Classic Paragraph or Classic block as the default block in the block editor.
Supports converting of most default blocks to classic paragraphs, and from classic paragraphs back to the default blocks.
Support for creating and editing tables in the Classic blocks and the classic editor.
More options when inserting lists in the Classic blocks and the classic editor.
Search and Replace in the Classic blocks and the classic editor.
Ability to set Font Family and Font Sizes in the Classic blocks and the classic editor.
And many others.

Privacy

Advanced Editor Tools does not collect or store any user related data. It does not set cookies, and it does not connect to any third-party websites. It only uses functionality that is available in WordPress, and in the TinyMCE editor.

In that terms Advanced Editor Tools does not affect your website’s user privacy in any way.

Rich-text toolbar.
Rich-text toolbar and extra formatting buttons in the Inspector (sidebar).
Many of the buttons can be moved to the Formatting section in the Inspector.
Converting the content of the Classic Paragraph block into separate blocks.
Converting several paragraph blocks into a Classic Paragraph block.
Settings for the Rich-text toolbar and the optional Formatting section in the Inspector.
Settings for the toolbars in Classic Paragraph and Classic blocks.
Additional options.
Advanced options for tables.

Tags: classic-editor formatting gutenberg block-editor editor

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31,350,981

4.5 (332)

1

Limit Login Attempts

Authors:

Contributers: johanee

Charts and Tracking Description >>

Limit the number of login attempts possible both through normal login as well as using auth cookies.

By default WordPress allows unlimited login attempts either through the login page or by sending special cookies. This allows passwords (or hashes) to be brute-force cracked with relative ease.

Limit Login Attempts blocks an Internet address from making further attempts after a specified limit on retries is reached, making a brute-force attack difficult or impossible.

Features

Limit the number of retry attempts when logging in (for each IP). Fully customizable
Limit the number of attempts to log in using auth cookies in same way
Informs user about remaining retries or lockout time on login page
Optional logging, optional email notification
Handles server behind reverse proxy
It is possible to whitelist IPs using a filter. But you probably shouldn’t. 🙂

Translations: Bulgarian, Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Norwegian, Persian, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish

Plugin uses standard actions and filters only.

Loginscreen after failed login with retries remaining
Loginscreen during lockout
Administration interface in WordPress 3.0.4

Tags: authentication security login

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1,960,695

4.6 (199)

1

Wordfence Security – Firewall, Malware Scan, and Login Security

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Contributers: Wordfence

Charts and Tracking Description >>

THE MOST POPULAR WORDPRESS FIREWALL & SECURITY SCANNER

WordPress security requires a team of dedicated analysts researching the latest malware variants and WordPress exploits, turning them into firewall rules and malware signatures, and releasing those to customers in real-time. Wordfence is widely acknowledged as the number one WordPress security research team in the World. Our plugin provides a comprehensive suite of security features, and our team’s research is what powers our plugin and provides the level of security that we are known for.

At Wordfence, WordPress security isn’t a division of our business – WordPress security is all we do. We employ a global 24 hour dedicated incident response team that provides our priority customers with a 1 hour response time for any security incident. The sun never sets on our global security team and we run a sophisticated threat intelligence platform to aggregate, analyze and produce ground breaking security research on the newest security threats.

Wordfence Security includes an endpoint firewall, malware scanner, robust login security features, live traffic views, and more. Our Threat Defense Feed arms Wordfence with the newest firewall rules, malware signatures and malicious IP addresses it needs to keep your website safe. Rounded out by 2FA and a suite of additional features, Wordfence is the most comprehensive WordPress security solution available.

WORDPRESS FIREWALL

Web Application Firewall identifies and blocks malicious traffic. Built and maintained by a large team focused 100% on WordPress security.
[Premium] Real-time firewall rule and malware signature updates via the Threat Defense Feed (free version is delayed by 30 days).
[Premium] Real-time IP Blocklist blocks all requests from the most malicious IPs, protecting your site while reducing load.
Protects your site at the endpoint, enabling deep integration with WordPress. Unlike cloud alternatives does not break encryption, cannot be bypassed and cannot leak data.
Integrated malware scanner blocks requests that include malicious code or content.
Protection from brute force attacks by limiting login attempts.

WORDPRESS SECURITY SCANNER

Malware scanner checks core files, themes and plugins for malware, bad URLs, backdoors, SEO spam, malicious redirects and code injections.
[Premium] Real-time malware signature updates via the Threat Defense Feed (free version is delayed by 30 days).
Compares your core files, themes and plugins with what is in the WordPress.org repository, checking their integrity and reporting any changes to you.
Repair files that have changed by overwriting them with a pristine, original version. Delete any files that don’t belong easily within the Wordfence interface.
Checks your site for known security vulnerabilities and alerts you to any issues. Also alerts you to potential security issues when a plugin has been closed or abandoned.
Checks your content safety by scanning file contents, posts and comments for dangerous URLs and suspicious content.
[Premium] Checks to see if your site or IP have been blocklisted for malicious activity, generating spam or other security issue.

LOGIN SECURITY

Two-factor authentication (2FA), one of the most secure forms of remote system authentication available via any TOTP-based authenticator app or service.
Login Page CAPTCHA stops bots from logging in.
Disable or add 2FA to XML-RPC.
Block logins for administrators using known compromised passwords.

WORDFENCE CENTRAL

Wordfence Central is a powerful and efficient way to manage the security for multiple sites in one place.
Efficiently assess the security status of all your websites in one view. View detailed security findings without leaving Wordfence Central.
Powerful templates make configuring Wordfence a breeze.
Highly configurable alerts can be delivered via email, SMS or Slack. Improve the signal to noise ratio by leveraging severity level options and a daily digest option.
Track and alert on important security events including administrator logins, breached password usage and surges in attack activity.
Free to use for unlimited sites.

SECURITY TOOLS

With Live Traffic, monitor visits and hack attempts not shown in other analytics packages in real time; including origin, their IP address, the time of day and time spent on your site.
Block attackers by IP or build advanced rules based on IP Range, Hostname, User Agent and Referrer.
Country blocking available with Wordfence Premium.

The dashboard gives you an overview of your site's security including notifications, attack statistics and Wordfence feature status.
The firewall protects your site from common types of attacks and known security vulnerabilities.
The Wordfence Security Scanner lets you know if your site has been compromised and alerts you to other security issues that need to be addressed.
Wordfence is highly configurable, with a deep set of options available for each feature. High level scan options are shown above.
Brute Force Protection features protect you from password guessing attacks.
Block attackers by IP, Country, IP range, Hostname, Browser or Referrer.
The Wordfence Live Traffic view shows you real-time activity on your site including bot traffic and exploit attempts.
Take login security to the next level with Two-Factor Authentication.
Logging in is easy with Wordfence 2FA.

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286,632,687

4.7 (3,902)

Classic Editor

Authors: Andrew Ozz

Contributers:

Charts and Tracking Description >>

Classic Editor is an official plugin maintained by the WordPress team that restores the previous (“classic”) WordPress editor and the “Edit Post” screen. It makes it possible to use plugins that extend that screen, add old-style meta boxes, or otherwise depend on the previous editor.

Classic Editor is an official WordPress plugin, and will be fully supported and maintained until 2024, or as long as is necessary.

At a glance, this plugin adds the following:

Administrators can select the default editor for all users.
Administrators can allow users to change their default editor.
When allowed, the users can choose which editor to use for each post.
Each post opens in the last editor used regardless of who edited it last. This is important for maintaining a consistent experience when editing content.

In addition, the Classic Editor plugin includes several filters that let other plugins control the settings, and the editor choice per post and per post type.

By default, this plugin hides all functionality available in the new block editor (“Gutenberg”).

Admin settings on the Settings -> Writing screen.
User settings on the Profile screen. Visible when the users are allowed to switch editors.
"Action links" to choose alternative editor. Visible when the users are allowed to switch editors.
Link to switch to the block editor while editing a post in the classic editor. Visible when the users are allowed to switch editors.
Link to switch to the classic editor while editing a post in the block editor. Visible when the users are allowed to switch editors.
Network settings to select the default editor for the network and allow site admins to change it.
The "Switch to classic editor" link.

Tags: classic-editor disable-gutenberg gutenberg disable editor

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50,023,635

4.9 (1,128)

WP Super Cache

Authors:

Contributers: Donncha O Caoimh Brandon Kraft Automattic

Charts and Tracking Description >>

This plugin generates static html files from your dynamic WordPress blog. After a html file is generated your webserver will serve that file instead of processing the comparatively heavier and more expensive WordPress PHP scripts.

The static html files will be served to the vast majority of your users:

Users who are not logged in.
Users who have not left a comment on your blog.
Or users who have not viewed a password protected post.

99% of your visitors will be served static html files. One cached file can be served thousands of times. Other visitors will be served custom cached files tailored to their visit. If they are logged in, or have left comments those details will be displayed and cached for them.

The plugin serves cached files in 3 ways (ranked by speed):

Expert. The fastest method is by using Apache mod_rewrite (or whatever similar module your web server supports) to serve “supercached” static html files. This completely bypasses PHP and is extremely quick. If your server is hit by a deluge of traffic it is more likely to cope as the requests are “lighter”. This does require the Apache mod_rewrite module (which is probably installed if you have custom permalinks) and a modification of your .htaccess file which is risky and may take down your site if modified incorrectly.
Simple. Supercached static files can be served by PHP and this is the recommended way of using the plugin. The plugin will serve a “supercached” file if it exists and it’s almost as fast as the mod_rewrite method. It’s easier to configure as the .htaccess file doesn’t need to be changed. You still need a custom permalink. You can keep portions of your page dynamic in this caching mode.
WP-Cache caching. This is mainly used to cache pages for known users, URLs with parameters and feeds. Known users are logged in users, visitors who leave comments or those who should be shown custom per-user data. It’s the most flexible caching method and slightly slower. WP-Cache caching will also cache visits by unknown users if supercaching is disabled. You can have dynamic parts to your page in this mode too. This mode is always enabled but you can disable caching for known users, URLs with parameters, or feeds separately. Set the constant “DISABLE_SUPERCACHE” to 1 in your wp-config.php if you want to only use WP-Cache caching.

If you’re not comfortable with editing PHP files then use simple mode. It’s easy to set up and very fast.

Recommended Settings

Simple caching.
Compress pages.
Don’t cache pages for known users.
Cache rebuild.
CDN support.
Extra homepage checks.

Garbage collection is the act of cleaning up cache files that are out of date and stale. There’s no correct value for the expiry time but a good starting point is 1800 seconds.

Consider deleting the contents of the “Rejected User Agents” text box and allow search engines to cache files for you.

Preload as many posts as you can and enable “Preload Mode”. Garbage collection of old cached files will be disabled. If you don’t care about sidebar widgets updating often set the preload interval to 2880 minutes (2 days) so all your posts aren’t recached very often. When the preload occurs the cache files for the post being refreshed is deleted and then regenerated. Afterwards a garbage collection of all old files is performed to clean out stale cache files.
Even with preload mode enabled cached files will still be deleted when posts are modified or comments made.

Development

Active development of this plugin is handled on GitHub.
Translation of the plugin into different languages is on the translation page.

Documentation

If you need more information than the following, you can have a look at the wiki or the Developer documentation.

Preloading

You can generate cached files for the posts, categories and tags of your site by preloading. Preloading will visit each page of your site generating a cached page as it goes along, just like any other visitor to the site. Due to the sequential nature of this function, it can take some time to preload a complete site if there are many posts.
To make preloading more effective it can be useful to disable garbage collection so that older cache files are not deleted. This is done by enabling “Preload Mode” in the settings. Be aware however, that pages will go out of date eventually but that updates by submitting comments or editing posts will clear portions of the cache.

Garbage Collection

Your cache directory fills up over time, which takes up space on your server. If space is limited or billed by capacity, or if you worry that the cached pages of your site will go stale then garbage collection has to be done. Garbage collection happens on a regular basis and deletes old files in the cache directory. On the advanced settings page you can specify:
1. Cache timeout. How long cache files are considered fresh for. After this time they are stale and can be deleted.
2. Scheduler. Setup how often garbage collection should be done.
3. Notification emails. You can be informed on garbage collection job progress.
There’s no right or wrong settings for garbage collection. It depends on your own site.
If your site gets regular updates, or comments then set the timeout to 1800 seconds, and set the timer to 600 seconds.
If your site is mostly static you can disable garbage collection by entering 0 as the timeout, or use a really large timeout value.

The cache directory, usually wp-content/cache/ is only for temporary files. Do not ever put important files or symlinks to important files or directories in that directory. They will be deleted if the plugin has write access to them.

CDN

A Content Delivery Network (CDN) is usually a network of computers situated around the world that will serve the content of your website faster by using servers close to you. Static files like images, Javascript and CSS files can be served through these networks to speed up how fast your site loads. You can also create a “poor man’s CDN” by using a sub domain of your domain to serve static files too.

OSSDL CDN off-linker has been integrated into WP Super Cache to provide basic CDN support. It works by rewriting the URLs of files (excluding .php files) in wp-content and wp-includes on your server so they point at a different hostname. Many CDNs support origin pull. This means the CDN will download the file automatically from your server when it’s first requested, and will continue to serve it for a configurable length of time before downloading it again from your server.

Configure this on the “CDN” tab of the plugin settings page. This is an advanced technique and requires a basic understanding of how your webserver or CDNs work. Please be sure to clear the file cache after you configure the CDN.

REST API

There are now REST API endpoints for accessing the settings of this plugin. You’ll need to be authenticated as an admin user with permission to view the settings page to use it. This has not been documented yet but you can find all the code that deals with this in the “rest” directory.

Custom Caching

It is now possible to hook into the caching process using the add_cacheaction() function.

Three hooks are available:

‘wp_cache_get_cookies_values’ – modify the key used by WP Cache.
‘add_cacheaction’ – runs in phase2. Allows a plugin to add WordPress hooks.
‘cache_admin_page’ – runs in the admin page. Use it to modify that page, perhaps by adding new configuration options.

There is one regular WordPress filter too. Use the “do_createsupercache” filter
to customize the checks made before caching. The filter accepts one parameter.
The output of WP-Cache’s wp_cache_get_cookies_values() function.

WP Super Cache has its own plugin system. This code is loaded when WP Super Cache loads and can be used to change how caching is done. This is before most of WordPress loads so some functionality will not be available. Plugins can be located anywhere that PHP can load them. Add your own plugin either:

by putting your plugin in the wp-content/plugins/wp-super-cache-plugins directory, or
by calling wpsc_add_plugin( $name ) where $name is the full filename and path to the plugin. You only need to call that function once to add it. Use wpsc_delete_plugin( $name ) to remove it from the list of loaded plugins.

The cookies WP Super Cache uses to identify “known users” can be modified now by adding the names of those cookies to a list in the plugin configuration. Use wpsc_add_cookie( $name ) to add a new cookie, and wpsc_delete_cookie( $name ) to remove it. The cookie names also modify the mod_rewrite rules used by the plugin but I recommend using Simple mode caching to avoid complications with updating the .htaccess file.
The cookie name and value are used to differenciate users so you can have one cookie, but different values for each type of user on your site for example. They’ll be served different cache files.

See plugins/searchengine.php as an example I use for my No Adverts for Friends plugin.

Troubleshooting

If things don’t work when you installed the plugin here are a few things to check:

Is wp-content writable by the web server?
Is there a wp-content/wp-cache-config.php ? If not, copy the file wp-super-cache/wp-cache-config-sample.php to wp-content/wp-cache-config.php and make sure WPCACHEHOME points at the right place.
Is there a wp-content/advanced-cache.php ? If not, then you must copy wp-super-cache/advanced-cache.php into wp-content/. You must edit the file and change the path so it points at the wp-super-cache folder.
If pages are not cached at all, remove wp-content/advanced-cache.php and recreate it, following the advice above.
Make sure the following line is in wp-config.php and it is ABOVE the “require_once(ABSPATH.’wp-settings.php’);” line:
```
define( 'WP_CACHE', true );
```
Try the Settings->WP Super Cache page again and enable cache.
Look in wp-content/cache/supercache/. Are there directories and files there?
Anything in your php error_log?
If your browser keeps asking you to save the file after the super cache is installed you must disable Super Cache compression. Go to the Settings->WP Super Cache page and disable it there.
The plugin does not work very well when PHP’s safe mode is active. This must be disabled by your administrator.
If pages are randomly super cached and sometimes not, your blog can probably be viewed with and without the “www” prefix on the URL. You should choose one way and install the Enforce www preference plugin if you are using an old WordPress install. The latest versions redirect themselves (you should always be running the latest version of WordPress anyway!)
Private Server users at Dreamhost should edit wp-content/wp-cache-config.php and set the cache dir to “/tmp/” if they are getting errors about increasing CPU usage. See this discussion for more.
File locking errors such as “failed to acquire key 0x152b: Permission denied in…” or “Page not cached by WP Super Cache. Could not get mutex lock.” are a sign that you may have to use file locking. Edit wp-content/wp-cache-config.php and uncomment “$use_flock = true” or set $sem_id to a different value. You can also disable file locking from the Admin screen as a last resort.
Make sure cache/wp_cache_mutex.lock is writable by the web server if using coarse file locking.
The cache folder cannot be put on an NFS or Samba or NAS share. It has to be on a local disk. File locking and deleting expired files will not work properly unless the cache folder is on the local machine.
Garbage collection of old cache files won’t work if WordPress can’t find wp-cron.php. If your hostname resolves to 127.0.0.1 it could be preventing the garbage collection from working. Check your access_logs for wp-cron.php entries. Do they return a 404 (file not found) or 200 code? If it’s 404 or you don’t see wp-cron.php anywhere WordPress may be looking for that script in the wrong place. You should speak to your server administator to correct this or edit /etc/hosts on Unix servers and remove the following line. Your hostname must resolve to the external IP address other servers on the network/Internet use. See http://yoast.com/wp-cron-issues/ for more. A line like “127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain” is ok.
```
127.0.0.1 example.com
```
If old pages are being served to your visitors via the supercache, you may be missing Apache modules (or their equivalents if you don’t use Apache). 3 modules are required: mod_mime, mod_headers and mod_expires. The last two are especially important for making sure browsers load new versions of existing pages on your site.
The error message, “WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed!” appears at the end of every page. Open the file wp-content/advanced-cache.php in your favourite editor. Is the path to wp-cache-phase1.php correct? This file will normally be in wp-content/plugins/wp-super-cache/. If it is not correct the caching engine will not load.
Caching doesn’t work. The timestamp on my blog keeps changing when I reload. Check that the path in your .htaccess rules matches where the supercache directory is. You may have to hardcode it. Try disabling supercache mode.
If supercache cache files are generated but not served, check the permissions on all your wp-content/cache/supercache folders (and each of wp-content cache and supercache folders) and wp-content/cache/.htaccess. If your PHP runs as a different user to Apache and permissions are strict Apache may not be able to read the PHP generated cache files. To fix you must add the following line to your wp-config.php (Add it above the WP_CACHE define.) Then clear your cache.
```
umask( 0022 );
```
If you see garbage in your browser after enabling compression in the plugin, compression may already be enabled in your web server. In Apache you must disable mod_deflate, or in PHP zlib compression may be enabled. You can disable that in three ways. If you have root access, edit your php.ini and find the zlib.output_compression setting and make sure it’s “Off” or add this line to your .htaccess:
```
php_flag zlib.output_compression off
```
If that doesn’t work, add this line to your wp-config.php:
```
ini_set('zlib.output_compression', 0);
```
The “white screen of death” or a blank page when you visit your site is almost always caused by a PHP error but it may also be caused by APC. Disable that PHP extension if you have trouble and replace with eAccelerator or Xcache.
After uninstalling, your permalinks may break if you remove the WordPress mod_rewrite rules too. Regenerate those rules by visiting the Settings->Permalink page and saving that form again.
If your blog refuses to load make sure your wp-config.php is correct. Are you missing an opening or closing PHP tag?
Your front page is ok but posts and pages give a 404? Go to Settings->permalinks and click “Save” once you’ve selected a custom permalink structure. You may need to manually update your .htaccess file.
If certain characters do not appear correctly on your website your server may not be configured correctly. You need to tell visitors what character set is used. Go to Settings->Reading and copy the ‘Encoding for pages and feeds’ value. Edit the .htaccess file with all your Supercache and WordPress rewrite rules and add this at the top, replacing CHARSET with the copied value. (for example, ‘UTF-8’)
```
AddDefaultCharset CHARSET
```
Use Cron View to help diagnose garbage collection and preload problems. Use the plugin to make sure jobs are scheduled and for what time. Look for the wp_cache_gc and wp_cache_full_preload_hook jobs.
The error message, “WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The constant WPCACHEHOME must be set in the file wp-config.php and point at the WP Super Cache plugin directory.” appears at the end of every page. You can delete wp-content/advanced-cache.php and reload the plugin settings page or edit wp-config.php and look for WPCACHEHOME and make sure it points at the wp-super-cache folder. This will normally be wp-content/plugins/wp-super-cache/ but you’ll likely need the full path to that file (so it’s easier to let the settings page fix it). If it is not correct the caching engine will not load.
If your server is running into trouble because of the number of semaphores used by the plugin it’s because your users are using file locking which is not recommended (but is needed by a small number of users). You can globally disable file locking by defining the constant WPSC_DISABLE_LOCKING, or defining the constant WPSC_REMOVE_SEMAPHORE so that sem_remove() is called after every page is cached but that seems to cause problems for other processes requesting the same semaphore. Best to disable it.
Set the variable $htaccess_path in wp-config.php or wp-cache-config.php to the path of your global .htaccess if the plugin is looking for that file in the wrong directory. This might happen if you have WordPress installed in an unusual way.

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MonsterInsights – Google Analytics Dashboard for WordPress (Website Stats Made Easy)

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Contributers: chriscct7 Syed Balkhi

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Google Analytics Plugin for WordPress

With over 3 million active installs, MonsterInsights is the most popular Google Analytics plugin for WordPress.

We believe that it’s easy to double your traffic and sales when you know exactly how people find and use your website. MonsterInsights shows you the analytics and stats that matter, so you can grow your business with confidence.

At MonsterInsights, we make it “effortless” to properly connect your WordPress site with Google Analytics, so you can start making data-driven decisions to grow your business.

Unlike other Google Analytics plugins, MonsterInsights allows you to enable all advanced Google Analytics tracking features with just a few clicks (no need to hire a developer).

The best part is that MonsterInsights comes with an analytics dashboard for WordPress that shows you actionable analytics reports right inside your WordPress dashboard. We have created customized reports that eliminate the fluff and only show you the stats that matter, so you can see exactly what’s working and what’s not!

Simply put, MonsterInsights is the most complete Google Analytics plugin for WordPress that’s both EASY and POWERFUL.

That’s why millions of small businesses and top companies like Microsoft, Bloomberg, FedEx, Yelp, Subway, etc. use MonsterInsights to setup Google Analytics on their WordPress sites.

MonsterInsights Pro
This plugin is the lite version of MonsterInsights Pro plugin that comes with all the tracking features you will ever need including events tracking, ecommerce tracking, custom dimensions tracking, page speed reports, popular post tracking, custom dimensions, affiliate link tracking, video tracking and tons more. Click here to purchase the best premium Google Analytics plugin for WordPress now!

We took the pain out of installing Google Analytics in WordPress and made it easy. Here’s why over 3 million smart business owners, designers, and developers love MonsterInsights, and you will too!

Quick & Easy Google Analytics Setup

Properly setting up Google Analytics is complicated. You have to either hire a developer or learn how to add advanced code snippets to your website in many different areas. This process can take days or weeks…and can even break your website!

With MonsterInsights, we made it “effortless” to properly setup Google Analytics in WordPress. Yes, you can enable all advanced Google Analytics features with just a few clicks.

If you can point-and-click, then you can set up Google Analytics inside WordPress and start seeing insights in under 15 minutes (no code necessary).

We keep up with all Google Analytics updates, including the new Google Analytics 4 (GA4), so you can sleep well at night knowing that your website will always stay up to date with the newest features.

See what one business owner is saying about MonsterInsights:

It just works. Really easy way to insert Google Analytics tracking code and keep it there when switching themes. No need to copy/paste code anywhere. This is the best way to handle Google Analytics in WordPress.
Steven Gliebe

Google Analytics Dashboard + Real Time Stats

Our goal at MonsterInsights is to make Google Analytics easy and accessible for everyone.

We understand that Google Analytics has a steep learning curve which often prevents small business owners from making informed decisions to grow their business.

That’s why MonsterInsights comes with a built-in Google Analytics Dashboard for your WordPress site, so you can see all the useful information about your visitors right inside your WordPress dashboard without needing to login somewhere else.

We have even created customized reports to help you filter through the noise and see the stats that really matter!

Audience Report helps you get to know your visitors in a whole new way. It shows you detailed insights like which country your visitors are coming from, what are they most interested in, which device are they using, their age, gender, and a whole lot more. You can use this demographics report and audience clues to tweak your website design and content accordingly.
Publishers Report helps you understand which pages your visitors are arriving, and which pages they are leaving from. Designed specifically for blogs and other resource sites, this powerful report will show you which outbound links are getting clicked so you can easily optimize for higher conversions.
Behavior Report shows you exactly how people find your website, which keywords did they search for, who referred them, what did they click on your site, and more. You can use these useful stats to identify low-hanging fruits, new partnership opportunities, and promotional areas to focus on.
Content Report shows you stats on exactly which content gets the most visits, so you can stop guessing and start creating content that gets more traffic and conversion.
Ecommerce Report shows you important store stats like total revenue, conversion rate, average order value, top referral sources, and more (all in one place).
Forms Report shows you conversion stats for various contact forms and lead forms on your website, so you can improve the conversions to grow your business.
Search Console Report shows you exactly how well your website is ranking in Google, so you can further optimize your SEO to grow your organic traffic.
Custom Dimensions Report helps you dig deeper by showing you useful stats like who are your most popular authors, what are the best publication times, which are your most popular categories or tags, how well are your Yoast focus keywords and SEO score performing, and more.
Site Speed Report makes it easy to track pagespeed insights and loading times for your website and get the information you need to improve user experience and your SEO rankings.

Our custom Google Analytics Dashboard reports are based on over 12+ years of online business experience. We built MonsterInsights to be the Google Analytics plugin that we wish we had.

We currently use MonsterInsights on all our portfolio companies which include both media sites generating tens of millions of pageviews and eCommerce sites generating millions in sales.

That’s why we can confidently say that MonsterInsights is the ultimate Google Analytics Shortcut for seeing the stats that matter and making data-driven decisions to grow your business.

I love being able to drill down into the analytics via the reporting feature. I have the PRO version and it makes a big difference what you can analyze. I’m glad that I can integrate with Pretty Links too!
Kim Beasley – MonsterInsights user

Google Analytics Enhanced Ecommerce Tracking Made Easy

Google Analytics Enhanced Ecommerce tracking is a powerful feature that lets you track user behavior across your online store starting from product views to checkout page to thank you page and beyond.

With MonsterInsights’ easy WooCommerce integration, you can setup WooCommerce analytics with literally 1-click.

Once you have enabled WooCommerce tracking, MonsterInsights will show you all important WooCommerce metrics in a single dashboard including WooCommerce conversion rate, top products in your WooCommerce store, total transactions, total revenue, average order value, top referral sources, and more.

Our WooCommerce analytics report also includes other detailed WooCommerce event tracking data like total add to carts, total removed from cart, time to purchase, and sessions to purchase.

For those who want to go beyond our WooCommerce stats dashboard, you can easily open up the Google Analytics dashboard to combine WooCommerce data with other secondary dimensions and filters to find exactly what you’re looking for.

Aside from WooCommerce Google Analytics integration, MonsterInsights’ eCommerce addon also offers seamless integration for the Easy Digital Downloads plugin.

Our Easy Digital Downloads Google Analytics integration allows you to set up Enhanced Ecommerce Tracking on your store with just 1-click.

Our eCommerce tracking works with other popular ecommerce plugins such as MemberPress, GiveWP, LifterLMS, Restrict Content Pro, and more.

Each integration works automatically with Google Analytics Universal (GA3) and Google Analytics 4 (GA4), so that your site can be prepared for future changes.

Simply put, MonsterInsights’ Enhanced Ecommerce for WordPress feature is by far the easiest and most powerful in the market.

Google Analytics + GDPR Compliance

MonsterInsights helps make Google Analytics GDPR compliance easier for business owners.

Our EU compliance addon allows you to:

Anonymize IP in Google Analytics
Disable the Demographics and Interest Reports for Remarketing and Advertising
Disable UserID and author name tracking
Enable the ga() compatibility mode
Integrate with Cookie Notice and CookieBot plugins to collect user consent before tracking
Integrate with Google AMP Consent Box before enable tracking
Integrate with Google Analytics’s Chrome browser opt-out extension and built-in cookie opt-out system
Offer Easy Opt Out link for Google Analytics tracking

While no single plugin can guarantee 100% GDPR compliance in WordPress, MonsterInsights goes to great length in helping business owners with GDPR compliance.

For more details, see: GDPR and MonsterInsights – Everything You Need to Know.

Universal Tracking + Google Analytics for AMP and Instant Articles

MonsterInsights uses Google Analytics universal tracking, so you can track your users across devices and platforms.

Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) is a project by Google that helps you speed up your website. However if you don’t set it up properly, Google AMP can cause you to lose your website analytics. Our Google Analytics AMP integration allows you to have accurate tracking on all AMP enabled pages. It works seamlessly with AMP for WordPress plugin.

We also offer 1-click Google Analytics integration with Facebook Instant Articles.

At MonsterInsights, we always stay ahead of the curve in helping you integrate WordPress with the latest Google Analytics tracking features.

Analytics for PROs! This plugin brings it all, great features and helpful info to easily see what you are doing.
Frank van der Sluijs

Google Affiliate Link Tracking

Our affiliate link tracking makes it easy for bloggers and affiliate marketers to track their affiliate links with Google Analytics.

MonsterInsights uses event tracking for all WordPress outbound link tracking which is far more accurate than any built-in WordPress analytics solution.

Unlike other WordPress analytics plugin, our Google Analytics affiliate link tracking does NOT slow down your website because all events are recorded via JavaScript and sent straight to your account.

Most other WordPress stats plugin track data on your WordPress hosting server which slows down your website and does not scale for larger websites.

Since our affiliate link tracking uses Google Analytics’ powerful servers, we can skip WordPress entirely.

MonsterInsights’ affiliate link tracking feature works with all WordPress affiliate link management plugins including Pretty Links, Thirsty Affiliates, and others.

Custom Dimensions Tracking, Custom Google Analytics Event Tracking, and More

Our Google Analytics event tracking feature for WordPress doesn’t just stop at affiliate link tracking.

You can use MonsterInsights custom Google analytics event tracking feature to easily add outbound-link tracking, file downloads tracking, call-to-action button tracking, hashmark tracking, telephone link tracking, and more.

Our powerful Forms Tracking addon uses Google Analytics custom event tracking feature to enable form analytics in WordPress. With just 1-click, you can enable form conversion tracking for your contact forms, lead generation forms, registration forms, surveys, and any other type of form in WordPress.

MonsterInsights’ Custom Dimensions addon allows you to push WordPress analytics even further. You can use Google Analytics custom dimensions to generate helpful WordPress stats for:

Author Tracking – see stats for each author to find which author’s posts generate the most traffic.
Post Type Tracking – see stats for WordPress post types to find out which sections are performing the best.
Category Tracking – see stats for your WordPress categories to find out which sections of your sites are the most popular.
Tags Tracking – see stats for your WordPress tags to find out which tags are the most popular.
SEO Score Tracking – see stats for your Yoast SEO score and see how it impacts your traffic.
Focus Keyword Tracking – see stats for Yoast focus keyword and see how it correlates with your traffic.
Logged-in User Tracking – see WordPress stats for what percentage of your users are logged-in.
User ID Tracking – see stats for each individual logged-in user’s activity through User ID custom dimension – great for Ecommerce and membership sites.
Published Time Tracking – track the performance of your posts based on their published time.

Simply put, MonsterInsights allow you to take full advantage of all the powerful Google Analytics features.

I like how simple it is for client users and how I can turn on the advanced features for myself to get all the details right.
Skip Shean

Track Both Google Analytics 3 and Google Analytics 4

Help future-proof your website’s analytics with MonsterInsights Dual Tracking. With our dual analytics tracking, you can easily use both Google Analytics 3 and Google Analytics 4 without any special coding or configuration.

Google Analytics Dashboard Plugin for WordPress Multisite Networks

MonsterInsights is the most popular analytics plugin for adding Google Analytics to WordPress multisite.

We have built-in all permissions and controls that you would need to successfully run Google Analytics on a WordPress multi-site.

You can control who has access to view the Google Analytics Dashboard report in WordPress. Our permissions setting allows you to hide analytics reports for specific user roles.

Similarly, we understand that some sites may want to exclude logged-in users from tracking. MonsterInsights gives you granular control to exclude admin in Analytics as well as other user roles.

Our performance addon allows you to adjust sample rate and site speed sample rates for Google Analytics.

By now you can probably see why MonsterInsights has become the most popular Google Analytics plugin for WordPress.

We understand Google Analytics better than any other analytics plugin for WordPress.

Full MonsterInsights Feature List

Quick and Easy Setup – Easily setup Google Analytics for WordPress with just a few clicks (no coding needed)
Real Time Stats – See real time stats inside your Google Analytics dashboard.
Universal Tracking – Get better insights with Google Analytics’ universal tracking.
Google Analytics Dashboard – See the stats that matter from right inside your WordPress dashboard with custom Publisher Report, Ecommerce report, and Search Console report.
Google Analytics 4 Support – Easily set up and send proper website tracking data to Google Analytics 4 (GA4)
eCommerce Tracking – Add Google Analytics Ecommerce tracking to WordPress.
WooCommerce Google Analytics – Add Enhanced Ecommerce Tracking to your WooCommerce store.
User Journeys – See exactly which pages a customer visited before before purchasing from your WooCommerce, Easy Digital Downloads, MemberPress, LifterLMS, Restrict Content Pro, or GiveWP website.
Easy Digital Downloads Google Analytics – Add Enhanced Ecommerce Tracking to your EDD store.
Affiliate Link Tracking – Track your affiliate links and get stats that matter.
Google Ads Conversion Tracking – Automatically track Google Ads conversions for WooCommerce, Easy Digital Downloads, MemberPress, LifterLMS, Restrict Content Pro, or GiveWP websites.
Meta Pixel (Facebook, Instagram Ads) PPC Conversion Tracking – Automatically track pageviews and Purchases for WooCommerce, Easy Digital Downloads, MemberPress, LifterLMS, Restrict Content Pro, or GiveWP websites.
Microsoft Ads (Bing Ads) PPC Conversion Tracking – Automatically track Microsoft Ads purchases for WooCommerce, Easy Digital Downloads, MemberPress, LifterLMS, Restrict Content Pro, or GiveWP websites.
File Download Tracking – Enable file download stats with just a click.
Custom Link Tracking – Track your outbound link clicks with Google Analytics.
Events Tracking – Track custom button and banner clicks with Google Analytics.
Custom Dimensions Tracking – Enable Google analytics custom dimensions tracking for WordPress.
Author Tracking – See author stats and discover who’s the most popular author on your site.
Popular Post Tracking – See which blog post and section is the most popular.
YouTube Google Analytics – Easily and automatically track embedded YouTube video starts, stops, and progression of your YouTube videos.
Vimeo Google Analytics – Easily and automatically track embedded Vimeo video starts, stops, and progression of your YouTube videos.
HTML5 Video Google Analytics – Easily and automatically track embedded HTML5 video starts, stops, and progression of your YouTube videos.
Exclude from Tracking – Disable the loading of the Google Analytics tracking on specific pages or posts.
Contextual Insights – Get actionable tips on how to improve engagement and get more visitors based on your site’s traffic.
Headline Analyzer – Get more clicks and improve SEO following suggestions from our Headline Analyzer directly in the WordPress editor
Custom Post Type Tracking – Track the performance of your custom post types.
Referral Tracking – See how visitors are finding your website to better focus your marketing efforts.
Performance Tracking – Control the performance rate and sample rate for your Google Analytics report.
Enhanced Link Attribution – Get better analytics with enhanced link attribution.
Email Summaries – Your site’s Google Analytics traffic report delivered straight to your inbox every week.
Google Analytics for AMP – Add proper tracking for Google AMP.
Google Analytics for Facebook Instant Articles – Add proper tracking for Facebook Analytics.
Google Analytics GDPR Compliance – EU compliance addon helps you improve Google Analytics GDPR compliance by adding anonymize IP, cookie consent for opt-out tracking, and more.
Form Conversion Tracking – Track conversions for your WordPress forms. Works with all popular plugins including WPForms, Contact Form 7, Gravity Forms, Formidable Forms, and more.
Google Optimize Tracking – Enable Google Analytics support for Google Optimize A/B Testing.
Google Analytics Tools – Helpful tools for Google Analytics such as UTM link tracking builder.
Want us to add something else? Suggest a feature and we’ll get it added!

After reading this exhaustive feature list, you can probably imagine why MonsterInsights is the best Google Analytics plugin for WordPress.

Give MonsterInsights a try.

Want to unlock even more features? Upgrade to our Pro version.

Simple, yet powerful. Amazing piece of plugin, does exactly what expected and even more.
Matt Jaworski

Note for Beginners

Like all WordPress plugins, Google Analytics by MonsterInsights is only available for self-hosted WordPress sites. This means you will need to switch from WordPress.com to WordPress.org if you want to use this plugin on your WordPress site.

For more details, see this infographic on self hosted WordPress.org vs free WordPress.com

Credits

This plugin is created by Chris Christoff and Syed Balkhi with sponsorship from WPBeginner.

Branding Guidelines

MonsterInsights® is a registered trademark of MonsterInsights LLC. When writing about the Google Analytics for WordPress plugin by MonsterInsights, please make sure to uppercase the first letters of both word.

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What’s Next

If you like this plugin, then consider checking out our other projects:

OptinMonster – Get More Email Subscribers
WPForms – Best WordPress Contact Form Plugin
AIOSEO – The original WordPress SEO plugin to help you rank higher in search results (trusted by over 2 million sites)
SeedProd – Most popular coming soon & maintenance mode plugin for WordPress
WP Mail SMTP – Improve email deliverability for your contact form with the most popular SMTP plugin for WordPress
RafflePress – Best WordPress giveaway and contest plugin to grow traffic and social followers
Smash Balloon – #1 social feeds plugin for WordPress – display social media content in WordPress without code
PushEngage – Connect with visitors after they leave your website with the leading web push notification plugin
TrustPulse – Add real-time social proof notifications to boost your store conversions by up to 15%

This plugin would not be possible without the help and support of WPBeginner, the largest WordPress resource site. You can learn from our free WordPress Tutorials like how to install WordPress, choose the best WordPress hosting, WordPress glossary, and more.

You can also learn about other best WordPress plugins.

The overview report
Top countries and referrals
Top posts and pages
Authentication with MonsterInsights
Settings page
File download tracking
eCommerce tracking - no configuration required (Pro feature)
eCommerce report (Pro feature)
Search console report (Pro feature)
Custom dimensions tracking (Pro feature)
Custom Dimensions report (Pro feature)

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Regenerate Thumbnails

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Contributers: Alex Mills (Viper007Bond)

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Regenerate Thumbnails allows you to regenerate all thumbnail sizes for one or more images that have been uploaded to your Media Library.

This is useful for situations such as:

A new thumbnail size has been added and you want past uploads to have a thumbnail in that size.
You’ve changed the dimensions of an existing thumbnail size, for example via Settings â Media.
You’ve switched to a new WordPress theme that uses featured images of a different size.

It also offers the ability to delete old, unused thumbnails in order to free up server space.

In Memory of Alex Mills

In February 2019 Alex Mills, the author of this plugin, passed away. He leaves behind a number of plugins which will be maintained by Automattic and members of the WordPress community. If this plugin is useful to you please consider donating to the Oregon Health and Science University. You can find more information here.

Alternatives

WP-CLI

If you have command line access to your server, I highly recommend using WP-CLI instead of this plugin as it’s faster (no HTTP requests overhead) and can be run inside of a screen for those with many thumbnails. For details, see the documentation of its media regenerate command.

Jetpack’s Photon Module

Jetpack is a plugin by Automattic, makers of WordPress.com. It gives your self-hosted WordPress site some of the functionality that is available to WordPress.com-hosted sites.

The Photon module makes the images on your site be served from WordPress.com’s global content delivery network (CDN) which should speed up the loading of images. Importantly though it can create thumbnails on the fly which means you’ll never need to use this plugin.

I personally use Photon on my own website.

Disclaimer: I work for Automattic but I would recommend Photon even if I didn’t.

Need Help? Found A Bug? Want To Contribute Code?

Support for this plugin is provided via the WordPress.org forums.

The source code for this plugin is available on GitHub.

The main plugin interface.
Regenerating in progress.
Interface for regenerating a single attachment.
Individual images can be regenerated from the media library in list view.
They can also be regenerated from the edit attachment screen.

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UpdraftPlus WordPress Backup Plugin

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Contributers: Backup with UpdraftPlus David Anderson DNutbourne snightingale aporter

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UpdraftPlus simplifies backups and restoration. It is the world’s highest ranking and most popular scheduled backup plugin, with over three million currently-active installs. Backup your files and database backups into the cloud and restore with a single click!

Backup into the cloud directly to Dropbox, Google Drive, Amazon S3 (or compatible), UpdraftVault, Rackspace Cloud, FTP, DreamObjects, Openstack Swift, and email. The paid version also allows you to back up to Microsoft OneDrive, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Storage, Backblaze B2, SFTP, SCP, pCloud and WebDAV.

Don’t risk your backups on anything less

Your WordPress backups are worth all of the investment you’ve made into your website. The day may come when you get hacked, when something goes wrong with an update, your server crashes or your hosting company goes bust – without good backups, you lose everything. Would you entrust all your hard work to a backup plugin with only a few thousand downloads, mixed reviews or no professional support?

Believe us: writing a reliable backup plugin that works consistently across the huge range of WordPress deployments is hard.

UpdraftPlus works. We’ll keep your backups safe.

Why you should backup your website.

WordPress, like any CMS, can be vulnerable to everything from server crashes, hacks, security flaws, bad plugin or theme updates and insecure web hosts. If anything happened to your website, it would cost you dearly in time, money and reputation.

Whilst other security measures are essential, backups are the ultimate insurance: they mean that, if the worst were to happen, your website (plus all related files and databases) would stay safe, and could be restored in no time.

You could of course create your own manual backups- but using a backup plugin is infinitely quicker, simpler and safer. Life’s busy enough! With UpdraftPlus, you can simply “set and forget”, scheduling in automatic backups to save you time, work and hassle.

How UpdraftPlus compares with other backup plugins:

UpdraftPlus is the most highly-rated and popular backup plugin out there – and for good reason. Not only is it comprehensive in terms of its features, but it’s also easy and intuitive to use. And its vast user base means that, it’s been tried and tested in a whole range of different scenarios.

Unlike many other plugins, UpdraftPlus:

Restores, as well as backing up
Backs up to more cloud options than any others
Allows you to set up automatic backup schedules, for the ultimate in convenience
Is faster, using up fewer server resources
Has been tested on over 3 million sites

Our website, has a full-page table laying out how our Premium version plugin compares with the competition here

UpdraftPlus Premium

The free version of UpdraftPlus will back up your website perfectly well. However if you need more features and options you can purchase our Premium version. Back up with UpdraftPlus Premium, and you can enjoy:

Incremental backups
Easily duplicates or migrates websites (with Migrator)
Multisite/multi-network compatibility
Back ups of non WP files and databases to multiple remote destinations
More storage destinations (e.g. OneDrive, BackBlaze, Azure, SFTP) and multiple destinations
Database encryption
Advanced reporting
Support for WP-CLI
Free dedicated expert support

Find out more on our comparison page. UpdraftPlus Premium is available for purchase here.

Managing multiple website backups

We’ve also developed a brilliant new plugin that allows you to back up, update and manage all of your websites remotely from one central location. It’s called UpdraftCentral, and it comes in 2 different forms:

UpdraftCentral (free, self-hosted)
UpdraftCentral Premium (fully-hosted and “ready-to-go”, cloud version also available)

Instantly create a temporary clone of your site (UpdraftClone)

A temporary clone is an instant copy of a website, which runs on our servers. Rather than needing to test or develop this on your live site, you can instead create a UpdraftClone, which you can simply throw away when you’re done. Learn more about UpdraftClone here.

Easy: Press the buttons and UpdraftClone does the work.
Reliable: UpdraftClone runs on capacity from a leading cloud computing provider.
Secure: We designate one VPS (Virtual Private Server) per clone, shared with nobody.
Fast: Clones take just the time needed to create a backup and send it.
Flexible: Test upgrading to a different PHP or WP version if you want.

To create a temporary clone you will need: 1) credit in your account and 2) to connect to your account. You can buy UpdraftClone tokens from our shop, here.

Are you multi-lingual? Can you translate?

Are you able to translate UpdraftPlus into another language? Are you ready to help speakers of your language to back up their website? UpdraftPlus Backup/Restore itself is ready and waiting – the only work needed is the translating. The translation process is easy, and web-based – go here for instructions: https://updraftplus.com/translate/. (Or if you’re an expert WordPress translator already, then just pick out the .pot file from the wp-content/plugins/updraftplus/languages/ directory – if you scan for translatable strings manually, then you need to get these functions: _x(), __(), _e(), _ex(), log_e()).

Many thanks to the existing translators – listed at: https://updraftplus.com/translate/

More premium plugins

If you are in the market for other WordPress premium plugins (especially WooCommerce addons), then try our friends’ shop, here.

For other useful free plugins see our lead developer’s profile, here.

License

Copyright 2011-23 David Anderson

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA

Reliance upon any non-English translation is at your own risk; UpdraftPlus can give no guarantees that translations from the original English are accurate.

We recognise and thank those mentioned at https://updraftplus.com/acknowledgements/ for code and/or libraries used and/or modified under the terms of their open source licences.

Main dashboard - screenshots are from UpdraftPlus Premium, so may reference some features that are not part of the free version
Configuring your backups
Take a backup
Restoring from a backup

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Page Builder by SiteOrigin

Authors:

Contributers: Braam Genis Greg Priday

Charts and Tracking Description >>

SiteOrigin Page Builder is a powerful content creation interface, instantly recognizable, astonishingly different. SiteOrigin Page Builder makes it easy to create responsive column-based content using the widgets you know and love. Your content will accurately adapt to all mobile devices, ensuring your site is mobile-ready. Read more on SiteOrigin.

We’ve created an intuitive interface that looks just like WordPress itself. It’s easy to learn, so you’ll be building beautiful, responsive content in no time.

Page Builder works with standard WordPress widgets, so you’ll always find the widget you need. We’ve created the SiteOrigin Widgets Bundle to give you all the most common widgets, and with a world of plugins out there, you’ll always find the widget you need.

Ready to Be Used Anywhere

Choose your editor; Page Builder is ready to be used anywhere. Build in the traditional Page Builder interface or insert a Page Builder Layout into the Block Editor. Insert the SiteOrigin Layout Widget into sidebar and footer widget areas or use the SiteOrigin Layout Block in block-based widget areas.

It Works With Your Theme

Page Builder gives you complete freedom to choose any WordPress theme you like. It’s not a commitment to a single theme or theme developer. The advantage is that you’re free to change themes as often as you like. Your content will always come along with you.

We’ve also made some fantastic free themes that work well with Page Builder.

No Coding Required

Page Builder’s simple drag and drop interface means you’ll never need to write a single line of code. Page Builder generates all the highly efficient code for you.

Live Editing

Page Builder supports live editing. This tool lets you see your content and edit widgets in real time. It’s the fastest way to adjust your content quickly and easily.

History Browser

This tool lets you roll forward and back through your changes. It gives you the freedom to experiment with different layouts and content without the fear of breaking your content.

Row, Cell, and Widget Styles

Row, cell, and widget styles give you all the control you need to make your content uniquely your own. Change attributes like paddings, background colors, and column spacing. You can also enter custom CSS and CSS classes if you need even finer-grained control.

Focussed on Performance

We’ve built a lightweight framework, focusing on small page sizes and fast load time. Page Builder is compatible with Autoptimize and all other major performance plugins.

SEO Optimized

Page Builder uses modern SEO best practices and seamlessly integrates with all major SEO plugins, including Yoast SEO and Rank Math.

It’s Free, and Always Will Be

Page Builder is our commitment to the democratization of content creation. Like WordPress, Page Builder is, and always will be, free. We’ll continue supporting and developing it for many years to come. It’ll only get better from here.

Accessibility Ready

Page Builder is accessibility-ready. Tab through all form fields and settings, and make changes without a mouse.

Actively Developed

SiteOrigin has been creating magical tools for your WordPress website since 2011. Page Builder is actively developed with new features and exciting enhancements every month. Keep track on the Page Builder GitHub repository.

Read the Page Builder developer docs if you’d like to develop for Page Builder.

Documentation

Documentation is available on SiteOrigin.

Support

Free support is available on the SiteOrigin support forums.

SiteOrigin Premium

SiteOrigin Premium enhances Page Builder by SiteOrigin, the SiteOrigin Widgets Bundle, and all SiteOrigin themes with a vast array of additional features and settings. Take your layouts to the next level with SiteOrigin Premium Addons.

SiteOrigin Premium includes access to our professional email support service, perfect for those times when you need fast and effective technical support. We’re standing by to assist you in any way we can.

The Page Builder editing interface.
Editing a Page Builder Layout Block in the Block Editor.
Powerful widget insert interface with groups and search.
Live Editor that lets you change your content in real-time.
Row Builder that gives unlimited flexibility.
Undo changes with the History Browser.

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Advanced Custom Fields (ACF)

Authors:

Contributers: elliotcondon

Charts and Tracking Description >>

Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) turns WordPress sites into a fully-fledged content management system by giving you all the tools to do more with your data.

Use the ACF plugin to take full control of your WordPress edit screens, custom field data, and more.

Add fields on demand.
The ACF field builder allows you to quickly and easily add fields to WP edit screens with only the click of a few buttons! Whether it’s something simple like adding an “author” field to a book review post, or something more complex like the structured data needs of an ecommerce site or marketplace, ACF makes adding fields to your content model easy.

Add them anywhere.
Fields can be added all over WordPress including posts, pages, users, taxonomy terms, media, comments and even custom options pages! It couldn’t be simpler to bring structure to the WordPress content creation experience.

Show them everywhere.
Load and display your custom field values in any theme template file with our hassle-free, developer friendly functions! Whether you need to display a single value or generate content based on a more complex query, the out-of-the-box functions of ACF make templating a dream for developers of all levels of experience.

Any Content, Fast.
Turning WordPress into a true content management system is not just about custom fields. Creating new custom post types and taxonomies is an essential part of building custom WordPress sites. Registering post types and taxonomies is now possible right in the ACF UI, speeding up the content modeling workflow without the need to touch code or use another plugin.

Simply beautiful and intentionally accessible.
For content creators and those tasked with data entry, the field user experience is as intuitive as they could desire while fitting neatly into the native WordPress experience. Accessibility standards are regularly reviewed and applied, ensuring ACF is able to empower as close to anyone as possible.

Documentation and developer guides.
Over 10 plus years of vibrant community contribution alongside an ongoing commitment to clear documentation means that you’ll be able to find the guidance you need to build what you want.

Features

Simple & Intuitive
Powerful Functions
Over 30 Field Types
Extensive Documentation
Millions of Users

Links

PRO

The Advanced Custom Fields plugin is also available in a professional version which includes more fields, more functionality, and more flexibility. The ACF PRO plugin features:

The Repeater Field allows you to create a set of sub fields which can be repeated again, and again, and again.
ACF Blocks, a powerful PHP-based framework for developing custom block types for the WordPress Block Editor (aka Gutenberg).
Define, create, and manage content with the Flexible Content Field, which provides for multiple layout and sub field options.
Use the Options Page feature to add custom admin pages to edit ACF fields.
Build fully customisable image galleries with the Gallery Field.
Unlock a more efficient workflow for managing field settings by reusing existing fields and field groups on demand with the Clone Field.

Upgrade to ACF PRO

Simple & Intuitive
Made for Developers
All About Fields
Registering Custom Post Types
Registering Taxonomies

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125

Hello Dolly

Authors:

Contributers: Matt Mullenweg

Charts and Tracking Description >>

This is not just a plugin, it symbolizes the hope and enthusiasm of an entire generation summed up in two words sung most famously by Louis Armstrong: Hello, Dolly. When activated you will randomly see a lyric from Hello, Dolly in the upper right of your admin screen on every page.

Thanks to Sanjib Ahmad for the artwork.

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3

ExactMetrics – Google Analytics Dashboard for WordPress (Website Stats Plugin)

Authors:

Contributers: Alin Marcu

Charts and Tracking Description >>

The ExactMetrics Google Analytics for WordPress plugin helps you properly setup all the powerful Google Analytics tracking features without writing any code or hiring a developer.

More importantly, over 1 million users love ExactMetrics because of our signature Google Analytics Dashboard that helps you view key Google Analytics stats right inside your WordPress dashboard.

Our goal at ExactMetrics is to help you grow your business faster with data-driven decisions.

This is why we built the most comprehensive Google Analytics plugin for WordPress, so you can setup all the powerful tracking features that website owners otherwise miss out on when simply pasting the analytics code in WordPress.

We go beyond the simple google analytics script and add the advanced event tracking, so you can see all important user behavior in WordPress with just a few clicks (without hiring a developer).

With our dual tracking feature, ExactMetrics automatically tracks both Universal Google Analytics (GA3) as well as Google Analytics 4 (GA4), so that you can your website can be prepared for the future of Google Analytics.

Basically, we made the same advanced Google analytics setup that big enterprise companies used to pay thousands of dollars for, available to every small business owner without the high costs.

This is why even the large companies like Microsoft, Quickbooks, Pizza Hut, Delta, Pepsi, Coldwell Bankers, and many others are using ExactMetrics to properly setup Google Analytics and see the custom analytics reports in WordPress.

ExactMetrics Pro
This plugin is the lite version of ExactMetrics Pro plugin that comes with all the Google analytics tracking features you will ever need including events tracking, ecommerce tracking, custom dimensions tracking, form conversion tracking, affiliate link tracking, and tons more. Click here to purchase the best premium Google Analytics plugin for WordPress now!

We are on a mission to level the playing field for small businesses, so they can grow their business faster with data-driven decisions.

See what one business owner is saying about ExactMetrics:

This is absolutely, positively, one of the TOP plugins to install on your WP site. There is no better way to quickly gauge traffic for spikes, surges, and consistency. I installed this on over a dozen WordPress installations and counting, thank you for an outstanding app!
Daniel Monaghan

Full ExactMetrics Feature List

Accurate Tracking – Properly setup all powerful Google Analytics features with just a few clicks (without hiring a developer)
Easy Google Analytics Dashboard – See your Google analytics reports right inside your WordPress dashboard with actionable insights.
Google Analytics 4 Support – Easily set up and send proper website tracking data to Google Analytics 4
Dual Tracking (Universal Analytics 3 and Google Analytics 4) – Seamlessly track website data in both Universal Analytics (GA 3) and Google Analytics 4 with dual tracking.
Real-time Stats – See who is viewing your website, what they’re doing, where they’re coming from, how they found your site, and more.
Ecommerce Tracking – Setup Google Analytics Enhanced eCommerce tracking for WooCommerce, Easy Digital Downloads, & MemberPress (with 1-click).
GDPR / CCPA Compliant – Automatically make Google Analytics compliant with GDPR, CCPA, and other privacy regulations.
Affiliate Link Tracking – Automatically track clicks on your affiliate links with our enhanced link attribution.
Google Ads Conversions – Track Google Ads automatically with no coding needed. Works with WooCommerce, Easy Digital Downloads, MemberPress, LifterMLS, Restrict Content Pro, or GiveWP.
Meta Pixel Conversions (Facebook and Instagram Ads Pixel) – Automatically fire pageview events and purchases for or WooCommerce, Easy Digital Downloads, MemberPress, LifterLMS, Restrict Content Pro, or GiveWP websites.
Microsoft Ads (Bing Ads) Conversion Tracking – automatically with no coding needed. Works with WooCommerce, Easy Digital Downloads, MemberPress, LifterMLS, Restrict Content Pro, or GiveWP.
File Download Tracking – Track every file download with just one-click.
Outbound link tracking – Track your outbound link clicks inside Google Analytics.
Custom Dimensions Tracking – Enable Google analytics custom dimensions tracking for WordPress events.
Email Summaries – Get a weekly report of your website’s traffic directly in your inbox without having to login to your site.
Author Tracking – See author stats and discover who’s the most popular author on your site.
Google Analytics for AMP – Add proper Google Analytics tracking for Google AMP.
Form Conversion Tracking – Track conversions for your WordPress forms. Works with all popular plugins including WPForms, Contact Form 7, Gravity Forms, Formidable Forms, default WordPress comment form, and more.
Performance Addon – Adjust Google Analytics speed & sample rate, along with other advanced performance features.
Google Optimize Addon – Enable A/B Testing with Google Optimize and connect it with Google Analytics.
Custom Events Tracking – Track custom button, menu links, and banner clicks with Google Analytics.
Contextual Insights – Get tips on how to improve your site’s traffic and engagement based on real traffic data.
Referral Tracking – See your top traffic referrals so you can unlock new opportunities.
Page level insights – Get detailed insights for each post, page, and products, so you can see the most popular areas and sections of your site.
Headline Analyzer – Get instant feedback on your post titles directly from the WordPress editor to improve SEO and get more clicks.
Popular post tracking – See which pages, posts, and products are the most popular with Google Analytics.
Scroll Depth tracking – See how far users scroll on your website with automatic scroll tracking in Google Analytics.

Custom Analytics Reports

Overview Report – See the most important Google Analytics data in an easy to understand report, right inside your WordPress dashboard (Save 5 minutes each day).
Publisher Report – See exactly which content gets the most visit, which affiliate links are performing the best, what new partnership opportunities you should pursue, and more.
Ecommerce Report – See all your important online store metrics in one place such as total revenue, conversion rate, average order value, top products, top conversion sources, and more.
Search Console Report – See how well your website is ranking in Google, so you can optimize your SEO to grow your traffic.
Forms Report – See your conversion stats for various contact forms and lead forms on your website to improve conversions.
Custom Dimensions Report – See useful stats like most popular authors, best publication times, popular categories, tags, Yoast focus keywords, SEO score, etc.
Real Time Report – see who is online on your website in real-time, right inside your WordPress dashboard.
Customizable Google Analytics Dashboard Widget – Our dashboard widget allows you to have quick access to your most important stats at the moment you login to your WordPress dashboard.
Page Insights in Admin Bar – Easily view analytics for each individual page and post from the ExactMetrics menu in WordPress admin bar while browsing your website.
Email Summaries – Get the most important metrics delivered to you and/or your client’s email inboxes weekly with our brandable Email Summaries, allowing you to keep up to date on your website’s Google Analytics results even without needing to login to the Google Analytics dashboard.
PDF Exports – Easily take your ExactMetrics reports with you or send them to clients or colleagues by exporting all ExactMetrics reports as a brandable PDF.
Site Speed Report – helps you improve your website’s performance by displaying key metrics and actionable tips to improve those based on WordPress-specific solutions.
Popular Posts – Display popular posts in your post content automatically or using Gutenberg blocks and shortcodes. Show off your top posts to your visitors using sidebar widgets, Gutenberg blocks or shortcodes

Integrations

WooCommerce Google Analytics – Automatically setup Google analytics enhanced eCommerce tracking for WooCommerce.
Easy Digital Downloads Google Analytics – Automatically setup Google analytics enhanced eCommerce tracking for EDD.
MemberPress Google Analytics – Automatically setup Google analytics enhanced eCommerce tracking for MemberPress.
WPForms Google Analytics – Automatically setup form conversion tracking for WPForms.
Formidable Forms Google Analytics – Automatically setup form conversion tracking for Formidable Forms.
Gravity Forms Google Analytics – Automatically setup form conversion tracking for Gravity Forms.
YouTube Google Analytics – Automatically track video starts, stops, and watch progression of video plays of your YouTube videos.
Vimeo Google Analytics – Automatically track video starts, stops, and watch progression of video plays of your Vimeo videos.
HTML5 Video Google Analytics – Automatically track video starts, stops, and watch progression of video plays of your Vimeo videos.
Exclude from Tracking Google Analytics – Disable loading of Google Analytics tracking on specific pages or posts.
Contact Form 7 Google Analytics – Automatically setup form conversion tracking for Contact Form 7.
Yoast Google Analytics – Automatically setup SEO score tracking for Yoast SEO with custom dimensions.
Pretty Links Google Analytics – Automatically setup affiliate link tracking for Pretty Links.
Thirsty Affiliates Google Analytics – Automatically setup affiliate link tracking for Thirsty Affiliates.
AffiliateWP Google Analytics – Automatically setup affiliate link tracking for AffiliateWP.
User Journey Orders – See which pages visit before becoming customers with WooCommerce, Easy Digital Downloads, MemberPress, LifterLMS, Restrict Content Pro, or GiveWP.
Google AdSense + Google Analytics – Automatically setup banner ads tracking for Google AdSense.
Google Optimize + Google Analytics – Easily enable A/B testing in WordPress with Google Optimize and Google Analytics.

After reading this comprehensive feature list, you can probably imagine why over 1 million websites use ExactMetrics as their preferred Google Analytics plugin for WordPress.

Give ExactMetrics a try.

Want to unlock more features? Upgrade to our Pro version.

Love this plugin! It’s got powerful customization options, it’s easy to use, there’s good documentation, and if all that’s not enough, ExactMetrics is quick to provide support. Thanks for this wonderful plugin!
Julie Dupuis

Note for Beginners

Like all WordPress plugins, Google Analytics Dashboard for WordPress by ExactMetrics is only available for self-hosted WordPress sites. This means you will need to switch from WordPress.com to WordPress.org if you want to use this plugin on your WordPress site.

For more details, see this infographic on self hosted WordPress.org vs free WordPress.com

Credits

This plugin is created by Chris Christoff and Syed Balkhi with sponsorship from WPBeginner.

What’s Next

If you like this plugin, then consider checking out our other projects:

OptinMonster – Get More Email Subscribers
WPForms – Best WordPress Contact Form Plugin
AIOSEO – The original WordPress SEO plugin to help you rank higher in search results (trusted by over 2 million sites)
SeedProd – Most popular coming soon & maintenance mode plugin for WordPress
WP Mail SMTP – Improve email deliverability for your contact form with the most popular SMTP plugin for WordPress
RafflePress – Best WordPress giveaway and contest plugin to grow traffic and social followers
Smash Balloon – #1 social feeds plugin for WordPress – display social media content in WordPress without code
PushEngage – Connect with visitors after they leave your website with the leading web push notification plugin
TrustPulse – Add real-time social proof notifications to boost your store conversions by up to 15%

This plugin would not be possible without the help and support of WPBeginner, the largest free WordPress resource site for beginners. You can learn from our free WordPress Tutorials like how to install WordPress, choose the best WordPress hosting, WordPress glossary, and more.

You can also learn about other best WordPress plugins.

Localization

You can translate Google Analytics Dashboard for WP by ExactMetrics on translate.wordpress.org.

Google Analytics Dashboard for WP Dashboard Widget (shown in small mode, can be configured to full size or hidden; can also customize reports shown)
Google Analytics Dashboard for WP Overview Report
Google Analytics Dashboard for WP eCommerce Report
Google Analytics Dashboard for WP Settings Page (super simple to use and configure as needed)

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W3 Total Cache

Authors:

Contributers: Frederick Townes

Charts and Tracking Description >>

W3 Total Cache (W3TC) improves the SEO, Core Web Vitals and overall user experience of your site by increasing website performance and reducing load times by leveraging features like content delivery network (CDN) integration and the latest best practices.

W3TC is the only web host agnostic Web Performance Optimization (WPO) framework for WordPress trusted by millions of publishers, web developers, and web hosts worldwide for more than a decade. It is the total performance solution for optimizing WordPress Websites.

An inside look:

BENEFITS

Improvements in search engine result page rankings, especially for mobile-friendly websites and sites that use SSL
At least 10x improvement in overall site performance (Grade A in WebPagetest or significant Google PageSpeed improvements) when fully configured
Improved conversion rates and “site performance” which affect your site’s rank on Google.com
“Instant” repeat page views: browser caching
Optimized progressive render: pages start rendering quickly and can be interacted with more quickly
Reduced page load time: increased visitor time on site; visitors view more pages
Improved web server performance; sustain high traffic periods
Up to 80% bandwidth savings when you minify HTML, minify CSS and minify JS files.

KEY FEATURES

Compatible with shared hosting, virtual private / dedicated servers and dedicated servers / clusters
Transparent content delivery network (CDN) management with Media Library, theme files and WordPress itself
Mobile support: respective caching of pages by referrer or groups of user agents including theme switching for groups of referrers or user agents
Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) support
Secure Socket Layer (SSL/TLS) support
Caching of (minified and compressed) pages and posts in memory or on disk or on (FSD) CDN (by user agent group)
Caching of (minified and compressed) CSS and JavaScript in memory, on disk or on CDN
Caching of feeds (site, categories, tags, comments, search results) in memory or on disk or on CDN
Caching of search results pages (i.e. URIs with query string variables) in memory or on disk
Caching of database objects in memory or on disk
Caching of objects in memory or on disk
Caching of fragments in memory or on disk
Caching methods include local Disk, Redis, Memcached, APC, APCu, eAccelerator, XCache, and WinCache
Minify CSS, Minify JavaScript and Minify HTML with granular control
Minification of posts and pages and RSS feeds
Minification of inline, embedded or 3rd party JavaScript with automated updates to assets
Minification of inline, embedded or 3rd party CSS with automated updates to assets
Defer non critical CSS and Javascript for rendering pages faster than ever before
Defer offscreen images using Lazy Load to improve the user experience
Browser caching using cache-control, future expire headers and entity tags (ETag) with “cache-busting”
JavaScript grouping by template (home page, post page etc) with embed location control
Non-blocking JavaScript embedding
Import post attachments directly into the Media Library (and CDN)
Leverage our multiple CDN integrations to optimize images
WP-CLI support for cache purging, query string updating and more
Various security features to help ensure website safety
Caching statistics for performance insights of any enabled feature
Extension framework for customization or extensibility for Cloudflare, WPML and much more
Reverse proxy integration via Nginx or Varnish
Image Service API extension provides WebP image format conversion from common image formats (on upload and on demand)

Speed up your site tremendously, improve core web vitals and the overall user experience for your visitors without having to change your WordPress host, theme, plugins or your content production workflow.

What users have to say:

Read testimonials from W3TC users.

Who do I thank for all of this?

It’s quite difficult to recall all of the innovators that have shared their thoughts, code and experiences in the blogosphere over the years, but here are some names to get you started:

Please reach out to all of these people and support their projects if you’re so inclined.

Tags: caching seo cdn cache pagespeed

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1

Duplicator – WordPress Migration & Backup Plugin

Authors:

Contributers: Bob Riley Cory Lamle

Charts and Tracking Description >>

With over 30 million downloads Duplicator successfully gives WordPress users the ability to migrate, copy, move or clone a site from one location to another and also serves as a simple backup utility. Duplicator handles serialized and base64 serialized replacements. Standard WordPress migration and WordPress backups are easily handled by this plugin as are zero downtime migrations.

For complete details visit duplicator.com.

Quick Video Demo

Overview

Duplicator is the most powerful migrator available. It enables you to:

Move, migrate or clone a WordPress site between domains or hosts with zero downtime
Pull down a live site to localhost for development
Transfer a WordPress site from one host to another
Manually backup a WordPress site or parts of a site
Duplicate a live site to a staging area or vice versa
Bundle up an entire WordPress site for easy reuse or distribution
Perform a full WordPress migration without struggling with messy import/export sql scripts

Migrate WordPress and Run WordPress Backups

Duplicator creates a package that bundles all the site’s plugins, themes, content, database and WordPress files into a simple zip file called a package. This package can then be used to easily migrate a WordPress site to any location you wish. Move on the same server, across servers and pretty much any location a WordPress site can be hosted. WordPress is not required for installation since the package contains all site files.

Improve Your Workflow with Pre-Bundled Sites

Duplicator lets you make your own preconfigured sites to eliminate rework. Instead of manually configuring your favorite theme, set of plugins or content over and over, now just configure a single site and bundle it up into a Duplicator package. Once you have the bundled site, you can migrate the WordPress site over and over to different locations to instantly create many preconfigured sites!

Duplicator Pro

Duplicator Pro takes Duplicator to the next level with features you’ll really appreciate, such as:

Drag and Drop installs – just drag an archive to the destination site!
Scheduled backups
Cloud Storage to Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, Amazon S3 and FTP/SFTP
A special 2-step streamlined installer mode for mega-fast installs
Recovery Points added for very fast emergency site restores
Support for Managed hosts such as WordPress.com, WPEngine, GoDaddy Managed, and more
Multi-threaded to support larger web sites & databases
Migrate an entire multisite WordPress network in one shot
Install a multisite subsite as a new standalone website
Database and user creation in the installer with cPanel API
Connect to cPanel directly from installer
Custom plugin hooks for developers
Email notifications
Professional support
… and much more!

Check out Duplicator Pro today!

Please Note

The underlying logic to backup WordPress, move WordPress and transfer WordPress are complex and it’s impossible to know how each system is setup; this is why your feedback is important to us. Thanks for helping us to make WordPress the best blogging platform in the world.

Disclaimer

This plugin does require some technical knowledge. If you plan to migrate WordPress or backup WordPress please use it at your own risk and don’t forget to back up your files and databases beforehand. If you need to move or backup WordPress and would like additional help please visit the Duplicator resources section .

Active Contributors

Andrea Leoni (Development)
Hans-M. Herbrand (German)
Nicolas Richer (French)

Main Interface for all Packages
Create Package Step 1
Create Package Step 2
Build Process
Installer Screen

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4.9 (4,023)

2

SiteOrigin Widgets Bundle

Authors:

Contributers: Braam Genis Greg Priday

Charts and Tracking Description >>

The SiteOrigin Widgets Bundle gives you all the elements you need to build modern, responsive, and engaging website pages. Using the Widgets Bundle, you can quickly and effortlessly add buttons, sliders, heroes, maps, images, carousels, features, icons, and so much more.

SiteOrigin Widgets are ready to be used anywhere, in Page Builder by SiteOrigin, in the Block Editor or your theme’s widget areas. The Widgets Bundle is even compatible with other popular page-building plugins.

Our collection is growing; here’s what we have so far:

Accordion: Squeeze a lot of content into a small space.
Anything Carousel: Display images, text, or any other content in a carousel.
Blog: Display blog posts in a list or grid. Choose a design that suits your content.
Button: A simple button widget with a variety of styling options.
Call To Action: Get users moving in the right direction.
Contact Form: A lightweight contact form builder.
Editor: Rich text editing anywhere.
Features: Displays a block of features with icons.
Google Maps: Help your site find its place and give it some direction.
Headline: A widget to get you noticed.
Hero Image: More than just a large image. Support for headings, text, buttons, slides, and background videos.
Icon: For when only icons will do.
Image: A simple image widget with massive power.
Image Grid: Display a grid of images. Also useful for displaying client logos.
Image Slider: A simple, easy-to-use slider with support for image layering and HTML5 videos.
Layout Slider: Build layouts on slides using SiteOrigin Page Builder.
Lottie Player: Bring your pages to life with Lottie animations.
Post Carousel: Display your posts as a carousel.
Price Table: A simple yet powerful interface for building a price table.
Simple Masonry: A masonry layout for images. Images can link to your posts.
Social Media Buttons: Customizable buttons which link to your social media profiles.
Tabs: Group content into tabbed sections.
Taxonomy: Display the selected taxonomy for the current post.
Testimonials: Share your product or service testimonials in a variety of different layouts.
Video: Play your self or externally hosted videos in a customizable player.

Ready to Be Used Anywhere

Page Builder by SiteOrigin: Insert widgets in Page Builder by SiteOrigin in either the Classic Editor or Page Builder Layout Block in the Block Editor.
Block Editor: The Widgets Bundle is 100% Block Editor compatible. Insert widgets using the SiteOrigin Widgets Block featuring a live widget search form.
Theme and Plugin Widget Areas: Insert widgets in any theme or plugin widget area.
In Other Popular Page Builder Plugins: Insert widgets in Elementor or Beaver Builder.

Built for Speed

We carefully built each widget for the best possible page size and load time. The Widgets Bundle is perfectly compatible with Autoptimize and all other major performance plugins.

SEO Optimized

The Widgets Bundle uses modern SEO best practices and seamlessly integrates with all major SEO plugins.

Accessibility Ready

The Widgets Bundle is accessibility-ready. Tab through all form fields and settings, make changes without using a mouse.

Actively Developed

SiteOrigin has been creating magical tools for your WordPress website since 2011. We actively develop the Widgets Bundle with updates released several times a month, including new features and fixes as required. View our Widgets Bundle work on GitHub.

Create Custom Widgets

Access a huge array of features and save time by developing custom widgets for your theme or plugin on the Widgets Bundle Framework. Read more in our extensive developer documentation.

Documentation

Documentation is available on SiteOrigin.

Support

Free support is available on the SiteOrigin support forums.

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SiteOrigin Premium enhances the Widgets Bundle with a vast array of additional features and settings. Take your layouts to the next level with SiteOrigin Premium addons.

SiteOrigin Premium includes access to our professional email support service, perfect for those times when you need fast and effective technical support. We’re standing by to assist you in any way we can.

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Editing a Hero in SiteOrigin Page Builder.
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Inserting a Contact Form into a theme widget area at Appearance > Widgets.
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MC4WP: Mailchimp for WordPress

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Contributers: Lap Ibericode Harish Chouhan Danny van Kooten

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Allowing your visitors to subscribe to your newsletter should be easy. With this plugin, it finally is.

This plugins helps you grow your email list in Mailchimp. You can use it to create good looking and accessible sign-up forms or integrate with any other existing form on your WordPress site, like your contact, comment or checkout form.

Some (but not all) features

Connect with your Mailchimp account in seconds.
Sign-up forms which are good looking, user-friendly and mobile optimized. You have complete control over the form fields and can build your forms using native HTML.
Seamless integration with the following plugins:
- Default WordPress Comment Form
- Default WordPress Registration Form
- Contact Form 7
- WooCommerce
- Gravity Forms
- Ninja Forms 3
- WPForms
- BuddyPress
- MemberPress
- Events Manager
- Easy Digital Downloads
- Give
- UltimateMember
- HTML Forms
- AffiliateWP
Is the plugin you want to integrate with not listed above? You can probably still use our custom integration feature. Alternatively, the plugin comes with a PHP API to programmatically add a new subscriber to Mailchimp.
Send your WooCommerce orders to Mailchimp so you can see exactly what each subscriber purchased and how much revenue your email campaigns are generating.
A multitude of available add-on plugins and integrations:
Well documented through our knowledge base.
Developer friendly. For some inspiration, check out our repository of example code snippets.

What is Mailchimp?

Mailchimp is a newsletter service that allows you to send out email campaigns to a list of email subscribers. It is free for lists with up to 500 email subscribers, which is why it is the newsletter-service of choice for thousands of small businesses across the globe.

If you are not yet using Mailchimp, creating an account is 100% free and only takes you about 30 seconds.

Support

If you need some help in setting up the plugin, you have various options:

Search through our knowledge base.
Open a topic in the WordPress.org plugin support forums
If you’re a premium user, send am email to the email address listed inside the plugin.

Translations

You can help translate this plugin into your language using your WordPress.org account.

Development

This plugin is being developed on GitHub. If you want to collaborate, please look at ibericode/mailchimp-for-wordpress.

Customizing the plugin

The plugin provides various filter and action hooks that allow you to modify or extend the default behavior. We’re also maintaining a collection of sample code snippets.

Example sign-up form in the TwentyTwenty theme.
Example sign-up integration with a contact form.
Settings page to connect with your Mailchimp account.
Overview of sign-up integrations.
Overview of sign-up forms.
Settings page to configure an integration.
Page where you edit your sign-up forms.
Page where you modify your form messages.

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Really Simple CAPTCHA

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Contributers: Takayuki Miyoshi

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Really Simple CAPTCHA does not work alone and is intended to work with other plugins. It is originally created for Contact Form 7, however, you can use it with your own plugin.

Note: This product is “really simple” as its name suggests, i.e., it is not strongly secure. If you need perfect security, you should try other solutions.

How does it work?

Really Simple CAPTCHA does not use PHP “Sessions” for storing states, unlike many other PHP CAPTCHA solutions, but stores them as temporary files. This allows you to embed it into WordPress without worrying about conflicts.

When you generate a CAPTCHA, Really Simple CAPTCHA creates two files for it; one is an image file of CAPTCHA, and the other is a text file which stores the correct answer to the CAPTCHA.

The two files have the same (random) prefix in their file names, for example, “a7hk3ux8p.png” and “a7hk3ux8p.txt.” In this case, for example, when the respondent answers “K5GF” as an answer to the “a7hk3ux8p.png” image, then Really Simple CAPTCHA calculates hash of “K5GF” and tests it against the hash stored in the “a7hk3ux8p.txt” file. If the two match, the answer is confirmed as correct.

How to use with your plugin

Note: Below are instructions for plugin developers.

First, create an instance of ReallySimpleCaptcha class:

$captcha_instance = new ReallySimpleCaptcha();

You can change the instance variables as you wish.

// Change the background color of CAPTCHA image to black
$captcha_instance->bg = array( 0, 0, 0 );

See really-simple-captcha.php if you are interested in other variables.

Generate a random word for CAPTCHA.

$word = $captcha_instance->generate_random_word();

Generate an image file and a corresponding text file in the temporary directory.

$prefix = mt_rand();
$captcha_instance->generate_image( $prefix, $word );

Then, show the image and get an answer from respondent.

Check the correctness of the answer.

$correct = $captcha_instance->check( $prefix, $the_answer_from_respondent );

If the $correct is true, go ahead. Otherwise, block the respondent — as it would appear not to be human.

And last, remove the temporary image and text files, as they are no longer in use.

$captcha_instance->remove( $prefix );

That’s all.

If you wish to see a live sample of this, you can try Contact Form 7.

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Ninja Forms Contact Form – The Drag and Drop Form Builder for WordPress

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Contributers: jmcelhaney klhall1987 krmoorhouse Kevin Stover wpninjasllc James Laws Kyle B. Johnson Zachary Skaggs

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The Most User Friendly WordPress Contact Form Builder

Use Ninja Forms to create beautiful, user friendly WordPress forms that will make you feel like a professional web developer!

100% Beginner Friendly

Not a tech person? No problem. No coding skills required. You can design beautiful, complex forms like a pro with a dedicated support team at your back. No question is too small- build your forms with a professional team happy to answer any question or address any issue.

Build beautiful WordPress forms without being a designer

Drag and drop fields. Easy row and column layouts. Multi page forms. Conditional forms. You don’t have to be a designer to create forms that will blend beautifully with your WordPress website.

Advanced features you won’t need a developer to build

Let users upload files and make any form an upload form. Send or export submissions as a PDF, Microsoft Excel file, even Google Sheets. Send email from any form to just the people that need it. You don’t need to be (or hire!) a developer.

Accept payments and donations with a payment form or donation form

You can accept PayPal and credit card payments securely and easily from any of your WordPress forms. Single payments or subscriptions, fixed, variable, or user entered amounts. Give your customers or donors all the options, or just one with a PayPal form, Stripe form, and more!

Get more from your signup forms and lead generation forms

Experience the difference a fully customizable email subscription form or lead generation form will make for your business. Grow your mailing lists and bring in new leads like never before. Complete integration with MailChimp, Constant Contact, Campaign Monitor, Salesforce CRM, Zoho CRM, Insightly CRM, and more!

Easy WordPress GDPR compliance

Ninja Forms makes WordPress GDPR compliance simple. We never collect or store personally identifiable information, or any information, from your forms. Easy to use templates are included for Right to Be Forgotten and Data Export requests. Ties into native WordPress GDPR features for automated compliance.

Use pre-built templates to get started fast

Have a form ready to go in literally minutes. Find pre-built templates for a contact form, registration form, application form, MailChimp form, quote request form, PayPal form, Stripe form, and many others!

Mobile responsive & blends beautifully with any well designed theme

Built with accessibility and mobile responsiveness in mind. Ninja Forms adopts the design choices made by your theme to blend perfectly with the look and feel you worked so hard to pick out.

More integrations than any other WordPress form builder

If you can dream it, we’ll do our best to help you build it! There’s so many more ways to use a WordPress form than we can pack into a page. Really need something that you’re not sure you can do with Ninja Forms? Ask us, or check out our full feature list!

Full Ninja Forms Feature List

Core Ninja Forms Features

The core Ninja Forms WordPress form builder is 100% free, always. Build complex forms in minutes with the most modern, user friendly, drag and drop form builder in WordPress! Core Ninja Forms features includes but are not limited to:

Drag and drop form builder
27+ field types
Regular updates
Dedicated support
Customizable form templates
Fully responsive, SEO, & mobile friendly
Beautifully matches your theme’s design decisions
Translated into 16+ languages
Easy WordPress GDPR compliance
Unlimited forms
Unlimited form submissions
Submission exports
Customizable email notifications from any form
Spam protection including Akismet and Google reCaptcha
Export and import forms
Shareable public form links
Developer friendly

Ninja Forms Add-on Features

As your needs grow, Ninja Forms will grow with you. Select just the individual features you need as you need them, or become a member today with a plan that meets your needs and your budget! Take your WordPress forms farther!

Ninja Forms Integrations

Integrate your WordPress forms with the services your business or organization needs to communicate, organize, and grow. Don’t see the service you need listed below? Check out our FAQ for more, or contact us directly!

Don’t see a feature you need for Ninja Forms? Just have a question about your WordPress forms? We strive to be the easiest, most beginner friendly WordPress contact form builder in the WordPress space while still bringing you all the form building features you need to succeed. Your feedback is invaluable to us, so don’t hesitate to reach out and make a request!

Notes

Ninja Forms is a 100% beginner friendly WordPress form builder, appropriate for complete beginners all the way to seasoned WordPress developers. We don’t just say it, we stand by it. Our support team is standing by to help you realize your site’s potential anywhere your forms are concerned.

Not sure if you can build the forms you need? Wondering if forms are the answer to do the thing you or your clients need to make happen? Reach out! Our dedicated, professional support team is happy to help however we can, and answer any questions you might have!

Additional Branding and Trademark Information

Ninja Forms® is a registered trademark of Saturday Drive INC. We are a WordPress forms or WP forms builder, not to be confused with the independent WPForms brand for WordPress. All official Ninja Forms add-ons and memberships can be found on our official website, ninjaforms.com.

The most intuitive and beautiful form building experience
Field Options
Advanced Settings
Beautiful Forms Every Time!

Tags: form-builder forms custom-form email-form contact-form

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