Plugins - To Consider

https://codecanyon.net/item/fs-poster-wordpress-auto-poster-scheduler/22192139

 

https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicate-post/

 

The free version is fine - makes it easy for content editors to "clone' and create a new page/post etc.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/plugins-garbage-collector/

 

This should be used as needed to clean up plugins that were deleted but the tables still exist.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-asset-clean-up/

Use this for performance testing of important pages and optimization.

Watch the how-to video from Louis @Oxygenbuilder

 

https://wordpress.org/plugins/code-snippets/

Use this instead of modifying functions.php
- easy, clean and organized.

Alternative - Woody ad snippets – Insert Header Footer Code, AdSense Ads
https://wordpress.org/plugins/insert-php/
Has options to add display logic

 

https://wordpress.org/plugins/ultimate-addons-for-gutenberg/
 

Use with Astra theme.
Nice enhancement to the default editor. 

This way you can disable builder like oxygen on pages for content editors.

 

https://wordpress.org/plugins/facebook-conversion-pixel/

Pixel Cat - Pixel Manager

Best part: You can easily manage your 'events' behavior from plugins page.

/wp-admin/admin.php?page=fca_pc_settings_page

https://wordpress.org/plugins/clearfy/

Some important ones in RED. 
OxygenBuilder has some overlap.

MORE THAN 50 CLEARFY PLUGIN FEATURES FOR WORDPRESS OPTIMIZATION

CODE CLEANUP

• Disable RSS Feeds — disables RSS if you're using WordPress for website only, not for blog.
• Disable Rest API — disables Rest API and removes Rest API links. Use this if you don’t need to manage WordPress with third party solutions.
• Disable Emojis — emojis generates extra code and slow down the site, even if you did not put any smiley.
• Remove jQuery Migrate — if you use several popular plugins that are regularly updates, then you can safely delete jQuery Migrate.
• Disable Embeds — if you do not insert videos into the posts or pages, turn embeds off.
• Remove dns-prefetch — may improve image loading in some cases.
• Remove RSD link — if you create posts and pages inside WordPress then you do not need the Real Simple Discovery function.
• Remove wlwmanifest Link — if you publish posts and pages via WordPress interface, 99% this function is not necessary for you.
• Remove Shortlink — if you use permalinks, you do not need the shortlinks.
• Remove Previous/Next Post Link in HEAD — delete previous and next post links if you do not use the blog.
• Remove .recentcomments Styles — remove if you want to change the “Related posts” widget styles.
• Minify Html — compresses the code, speeds up the website loading.
• WordPress Sanitization — removes invalid and malicious characters from the URLs and file names.

WORDPRESS SEO OPTIMIZATION

• Automatically insert the alt attribute — sets the alt attribute for all images in posts and pages, if alt is absent.
• Create the Correct robots.txt — helps to create the perfect Robots.txt to improve the indexing or close that would not be indexed.
• Insert the Last Modified Header Automatically — it helps search engines to understand which posts and pages are modified last and index them first.
• Return If-Modified-Since Header — improves indexing telling to search engines that pages and posts have changed.
• Remove Post Title from Yoast SEO Breadcrumbs — cuts out the title from breadcrumbs at pages or posts.
• Remove image:image tag from the Yoast SEO XML Sitemap — eliminates the site map errors at the Yandex Webmaster.
• Disable Schema JSON-LD — forbids Google to generate advanced search snippet with website page links.
• Disable SEO Yoast’s Structured Data — disables structured company data generated by Yoast SEO.
• Remove Yoast SEO Comments from Head Section — removes data from the code, which tells that your website is optimized by Yoast SEO plugin.

REMOVE WORDPRESS PAGE DUPLICATES

• Remove Date Archives — completely removes the date archives and sets the redirect to front-page.
• Remove Author Archives — completely removes the author archives and sets the redirect to front-page. It is useful if the site’s author is single.
• Remove Tags Archives — removes tag archives and redirects to front-page.
• Remove Attachment’s Pages — by default, each media file has its own page. Clearfy removes them and redirects to the page or post into which this media file was inserted.
• Remove Posts Pagination — page navigation is not needed with a single post. It is better to delete it and make some posts.
• Remove ?replytocom — eliminates the posts comments duplicates.

WORDPRESS PRIVACY SETTINGS

• Remove Generator Meta Tag — version info remove.
• Remove Style Files Version — complicates the process if someone wants to hack your site.
• Remove Javascript Files Version — it is more difficult to determine the version of installed plugins and hack the site.
• Remove Querystrings — helps with the caching of JS and CSS and increase the speed of website load.
• Remove HTML Comments — hacker cannot determine versions of themes and plugins by comments in the code.

WORDPRESS DEFENSE

• Hide Author’s Login — complicates the hacking process. It’s more difficult to find out your login for hacker.
• Hide WordPress Login Error Messages — the attacker does not understand what he entered incorrectly, login or password.
• Disable XML-RPC — disable pingbacks and trackbacks.
• Disable X-Pingback Link — removes the link and the ability to spam with pingbacks.

WORDPRESS WIDGETS

• WP Widgets Disable — removes WordPress widgets, all or selectively (Links, Archives, Meta, Search, etc.)

WORDPRESS UPDATES: CORE, PLUGINS, THEMES

• Automatic Plugins Updates — turn it on and you no longer need to think about plugins updates.
• Disable Plugins Updates — disables plugins updates and updates notices. You can disable updates of all plugins or each individually.
• Automatic Themes Updates — all of your themes will update automatically.
• Disable Themes Updates — all of your themes will stop to update and notify about updates.
• Disable Translation Updates — disables automatic translation updates for themes and plugins.
• WordPress Automatic Updates — your WordPress will be update automatically.
• Disable WordPress Updates — completely disables WordPress updates.
• Disable Update Notifications — users without permissions to update themes, plugins and WordPress will not receive updates notifications.

WORDPRESS COMMENTS

• Disable Comments — allows you to completely disable WordPress comments overall or for selected post types.
• Remove Comments / Delete Comments — completely removes WordPress comments.
• Close Comments — completely closes WordPress comments and removes the “Comments” section from the left menu.
• Remove URL / Website Field from Comment Form — removes a comment author Website field.
• Replace Outbound Links in Comments with Javascript — all external links in comments are reliably closes from search engines indexing.
• Replace Outbound Links of Comment Authors with Javascript — search engines no longer index links to the comment author’s site.

ADMIN NOTICES, WORDPRESS UPDATES NOTIFICATIONS

• Disable Admin Notices — hides all or selected notifications of the WordPress admin.

HEARTBEAT API OPTIMIZATION

• Disable WordPress Heartbeat API — completely disables the Heartbeat API WordPress function.
• Limit WordPress Heartbeat API — limit the frequency of Heartbeat API requests.

WORDPRESS ADMIN BAR OPTIMIZATION

• Remove, Hide or Disable top Admin Bar — completely disables Admin Bar when browsing the website.
• Remove WP Logo from Admin Bar — removes the WordPress logo, eliminates accidentally clicking on it.
• Replace “Howdy” with “Welcome” — changes the text of the greetings WordPress for greater presentability and respectful treatment.

WORDPRESS POSTS OPTIMIZATION

• Disable Revisions — completely disables posts/pages revisions.
• Limit Revisions — limits the number of revisions per post/page.
• Disable Autosave — disables autosaves when editing posts and pages.
• Remove Smart Quotes — disables automatic insertion of “typographic quotes”.
• Remove Auto Paragraph (Wpautop) — disables texts auto-formatting.

WORDPRESS SCRIPTS AND STYLES MANAGER (ASSETS MANAGER)

• Disable Unused Styles of Plugins and Themes — you can selectively disable styles where they are not need and speed up the website.
• Disable Unused Scripts of Plugins and Themes — disable scripts wholly or partly and optimize the loading of your website.

NEW USEFUL TOOLS AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR WORDPRESS OPTIMIZATION

WP Asset CleanUp Manager (Gonzales), Disable Comments and remove comments in database, Heartbeat Control, Disable updates and enable automatic plugins and themes updates

ONE CLICK TO WORDPRESS OPTIMIZATION

As you can see, the Clearfy plugin has a tremendous set of functions for WordPress optimization. In addition, you can turn off any unnecessary function in one click.

You can forget about opening functions.php, insertion kilometers of code and, in the end, getting critical errors on the website. Also, remember that WordPress is regularly updates and at one not the perfect moment, your site will break, because the manually inserted code has not been updated by anyone. Better, use the Clearfy plugin, which is updates and supports by WordPress professionals and, in addition, does not load your site.

Of course, there are many similar solutions, but to replace Clearfy, you will need to install about 30 plugins, each of which performs only a small role in WordPress optimization.

Thus, the Clearfy plugin, amazing with its functions, will be your indispensable assistant to improve:

• security;
• promotion and SEO;
• speed of the website, blog and online store.

Important notice! Clearfy does not replace defense, promotion and acceleration plugins, it’s only complements them.

This plugin should be on every WordPress website. Feel free to install this must-have plugin, share it with friends and colleagues to make their sites better and simplify their life!

Recommended by ThriveThemes 
https://wordpress.org/plugins/capability-manager-enhanced/

Users » Capabilities 

• Add, Create, Delete - Users
• Edit Theme Options = should give menu management perms say to Editors

https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/wordpress-user-roles-and-permissions/

Using Thrive Leads, you can create a user on 'lead form submission' who can now access your free course or lead magnet if course is set with role acess of 'subscriber'

Checkout this video

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https://wordpress.org/plugins/members/

 

https://wordpress.org/plugins/user-role-editor/

Using Paid Membership Pro and the roles add-on (also free), you can assign roles to paid members and then manage content permissions.

https://www.paidmembershipspro.com/add-ons/pmpro-roles/

Paid Membership Pro - Roles add-on will create a new role per membership type...just install the user-role-editor and configure the permissions.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/codepress-admin-columns/

Settings > Admin Columns
Update 'Post' Template with these two fields to improve post list table.

1.  Add featured image
2. Add Slug
3. Anything else you need.

Go Pro to have search, filter and inline edit options.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/header-footer-code-manager/

Works great - centralized place to manage all scripts / conversion events.

- Use this to install GTM in header and 'footer' (ideal is body, but that is not possible with this plugin site wide) - tested working with Oxygen (no theme)

- Fire GA via GTM (inbuilt tag, just create a new variable)

https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/

- auto creates a redirect on slug change.

- Monitor log of 404 to setup proper redirections

- update settings to keep log for 2 months (default is a week)

---> use 404-solution plugin for 'page not found' auto search and redirect or to custom page.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/shortcodes-ultimate/

Use this to create custom codes for items that are repeated on multiple pages.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-nested-pages/

Need this to better organize the pages on the admin dashboard.

Settings > Nested pages - default is for 'pages' only, and should be fine.

Creates a new 'nested pages' view - switch to 'default view' for sort/filter options if using Admin Columns.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails-advanced/

For custom image sizes, use the 'snippet' plugin and code from

This is a nice plugin from makers of ShortPixel, which along with their other two image management plugins make a good 3 plugin combo.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/resize-image-after-upload/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/enable-media-replace/
Ideal when we need to update an image with the same filename.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/shortpixel-image-optimiser/
Free 100 credits monthly for simple set and forget.

 

https://wordpress.org/plugins/resize-image-after-upload/

Set max image size to 1920px wide to keep your media folder size optimal.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/enable-media-replace/

Replace files without having to delete and reupload.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/enhanced-media-library/

- checkbox to help organize files by upload date/month
- WordPress taxonomies to organize (default category, tag or custom)

- Use Clearfy plugin to enhance media SEO.  Eg:  Auto image alt text.

INCOMPATIBILITY

Please notice that you use Enhanced Media Library with other plugins which add media categories, media folders, or manage MIME Types at your own risk. We cannot guarantee their compatibility because of the different approach to the same functionality. 

https://wordpress.org/plugins/my-eyes-are-up-here/

Improve your custom images with:

• automatic face detector
• or if you want even more control, you can manually add hotspots (focal point)
• Check compatibility with current WP, as this one seems to be lagging on updates.

Great new alternative:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/shortpixel-adaptive-images/

• Smart cropping does same. See example

 

https://wordpress.org/plugins/add-search-to-menu/

Ivory Search is a simple to use advanced WordPress search plugin.

It enhances the default WordPress search and also allows you to create new custom search forms.

With Ivory Search, you can create an unlimited number of search forms and configure each search form individually to customize WordPress search and perform different types of searches on site content.

How to set up article - 
https://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-add-a-search-bar-to-wordpress-menu-step-by-step/

Note:
Search in menu did not work with Oxygen
"Navigation menu location is not registered on the site."

https://wordpress.org/plugins/attachment-pages-redirect/

Remove page created per media and redirect to page using the media.

Install - download zip and upload (plugin search does not work)

- don't need this if using SEOpress (it has redirection feature)
- Clearfy plugin also does this

https://wordpress.org/plugins/broken-link-checker/

Improve SEO by making sure that your indexed pages are not broken.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-theme-and-plugin-upgrades/

Allows you to upload the latest zip file of existing plugin on your site. (no more folder already exists issues)

• While upgrading, a backup copy of the old theme or plugin is first created.
• This allows you to install the old version in case of problems with the new version.
• Don't forget to delete the backup from your media manager.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-seopress/

Alternative

https://wordpress.org/plugins/seo-by-rank-math/