2023
- gravity forms is the best form maker for wordpress, with advanced multi step form capabilities and many available extensions. Comes at a price though, invest only if you have big projects of many small websites design projects
- yoast seo ' s free version is the best tool for writing page meta
- redirect combines well with yoast seo's free version to deal with 404 and redirections
- Elementor is currently the best free visual editor. I used visual composer for 10 years and switched to Elementor when it was published. They have done a great job improving performance which is often a big drawback of advanced editors. While Gutenberg, the now standard advanced editor for wordpress, has been around for years, I have not yet investigated its power. But sure, in 2024 I will have more experience on that guy as my new blog is built on top of that. Mainly because it is really easy to write on that one.
- Advanced Custom Fields is the perfect extension to start with data management on wordpress posts via custom fields. Custom Fields is a default feature of wordpress that is greatly extended with ACF
- Micro Kid’s related post , and old and not updated plugin, lets you select the post you want to relate, works for blogs with a lot of articles via ajax based search and displays related posts. Its very efficient and I still use it in 2023 !!
2011
- Writing
- can you work WordPress without tiny mce advanced ? I cannot
- do you like to write raw HTML in your widget ? I don’t and I use wysiwyg widget
- Working with media
- I tried to use media library categories but this plugin suffers from the absence of category search from the add image screen in edit post
- as a substitute I use Media Tags, which is popular and has the search in the edit post screen media library, implemented as a new tab. Drawback is that it’s not hierarchical
- adding extra fields to tags and categories
- Ultimate Taxonomy Manager
Note : this powerful plugin does some work with rewrite slugs and permalink , might interfere with your installation !! - Query Multiple Taxonomies : very powerful widget that displays taxonomies and allows multiple taxonomy search.
Search Results filter out taxonomies too : check out example here : Entreprises et artisans Bretagne displays all departements (sub taxonomy) of Bretagne region
- Ultimate Taxonomy Manager
- debugging permalinks
- how to print a query : user $wp_query->request