Sometimes you just want to take a peek behind the scenes to see how things are being done. We get that and that is why we decided to share the “blueprints” to this site; a list of the plugins and tools that we use to make the magic happen. Of course none of this is possible without a solid host at the foundation and we currently use SiteGround as they offer great support, WordPress specific performance enhancements and PCI support for ecommerce sites.
Please bear in mind that we don't necessarily endorse or recommend all of these plugins and there may be better solutions depending on your site. It's also worth pointing out that you definitely don't need this many plugins to make a successful site, we've made much simpler sites that got just as much traffic and revenue, however these are the solutions we have settled on to get this particular site performing.
- AMP – Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) for WordPress.
- Accelerated Mobile Pages – Extends the official plugin with improved optimisation features.
- AMP Email Optins – Adds lead generation functionality to AMP powered pages.
- AffiliateWP – Affiliate Marketing Plugin for WordPress.
- Akismet Anti-Spam – Automatic spam protection network plugin for WordPress.
- Beaver Builder – Drag and drop page builder for WordPress.
- Ultimate Addon for Beaver Builder – Adds extra functionality to Beaver Builder.
- Better Font Awesome – Adds wide range of icon fonts.
- Disqus Conditional Load – Social commenting system for blog posts optimised for faster loading.
- Div Shortcode – Allows use of shortcodes to create HTML div elements and prevent WP filters from breaking custom designs.
- Easy Social Share Buttons – One of the most advanced social media sharing button plugins. Allows you to customise; location, design, and meta data for sharing on popular social platforms.
- Genesis Simple Edits – Provides a dashboard interface for common edits to the Genesis Framework.
- Genesis Title Toggle – Allows you to selectively disable the post title on specific pages.
- Google Analytics Dashboard for WP (GADWP) – View Google Analytics data in your dashboard.
- Google Tag Manager for WordPress – Advanced tool for generating GTM Data Layer variables in WordPress.
- Gravity Forms – Advanced custom form solution for WordPress.
- Gravity Forms ActiveCampaign Add-On
- Gravity Forms Survey Add-On
- Gravity Forms User Registration Add-On
- Gravity Forms Zapier Add-On
- Instant Articles for WP – Enables WordPress integration with Facebook Instant Articles platform.
- Jetpack by WordPress.com – Various WordPress.com cloud functionality.
- Memberium for ActiveCamapign – WordPress membership functionality with deep ActiveCampaign integration.
- Pretty Link Pro – Affiliate link and redirection management plugin with built in tracking.
- Revive Old Post (Former Tweet Old Post) – Regularly publishes older blog posts to Twitter for increased engagement with older content.
- SG Optimizer – Plugin provided by SiteGround (our host) to improve WordPress hosting performance.
- Thrive Leads – Lead generation plugin for WordPress that collects emails.
- Ultimate Branding – Adds login logo and various other features to customise the WordPress UI.
- VaultPress – Automatic updates and backups for WordPress.
- Widget Logic – Customises which widgets display based on certain conditions.
- WooCommerce – E-Commerce plugin for WordPress
- WooCommerce – Active Campaign Integration – Links ecommerce data with ActiveCampaign CRM/Marketing Automation platform.
- WooCommerce Direct Checkout – Skips cart process.
- WooCommerce Helper – Ensures WooCommerce plugins remain up to date.
- WooCommerce PayPal Express Checkout Gateway – Enables PayPal EC Payments.
- WooCommerce Product Feed – Creates product feeds for integration with shopping engines.
- WooCommerce Stripe Gateway -Enables Stripe powered credit card payments.
- WooCommerce Subscriptions – Subscription management solution.
- WooPreneur – In house plugin we have developed to extend WooCommerce functionality.
- WP Clips – Functionality program for WordPress that we used to add customisations.
- WP Rocket – Caching and performance enhancing plugin for WordPress.
- WP Smush Pro – Compresses images as they are uploaded to enhance website performance.
- WooThemes Helper – Ensures WooCommerce plugins remain up to date.
- Yoast SEO Premium – Advanced SEO management plugin for WordPress.
- Yoast SEO: WooCommerce – Adds additional schema data and product markup.
Page Last Updated July 2017