Spam is real. Spam attacks us every day if you have a WordPress site. It doesn’t matter if it is from comments or form entries, spam is everywhere. Well, you can get rid of this problem installing the Akismet Anti-Spam plugin.

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.

Significant 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.

The only “disadvantage” that we can call on this plugin is that you need an Akismet API key to use it. The reality of this is not complicated to get, but it just makes the process goes a little bit slower. Hey, but whatever it takes so we can have a secure and less spam website!

Caching plugins have been a boom in the last years because they speed up your website, and let’s be honest, who doesn’t want a faster site. When it comes to page speed and loading times, an improvement of just a single second can have enormous implications for your bottom line. For example, back in 2012, Amazon estimated that if their website loaded just one second slower, it would cost them $1.6 billion in sales; and this number has undoubtedly only increased since then.

WP Rocket is a caching and performance optimization plugin to improve the loading speed of WordPress websites. You can install and configure WP Rocket in less than 3 minutes.

What makes WP-Rocket better than other caching plugins?

WP Rocket integrates all the latest features regarding performance: lazy loading of images, deferred loading of JavaScript, minification of HTML code, concatenation, and minification of CSS and JavaScript files. While being remarkably complete, WP Rocket is also very simple to configure even for beginners. Unlike other plugins, you don’t need to be a rocket scientist to set ours.
We also have our self-hosted crawler bot that will visit your site and generate cached the files so that when human visitors come to your site, they immediately get the fast, cached version of the page. We also have a sitemap preload feature.

Is there even a question that you need to optimize your site for Search Engine Optimization and there is no better plugin to do that than Yoast SEO.

Yoast SEO started as a plugin but quickly now became a university to learn more and more about SEO. The number of excellent courses, recommendations, and documentation makes this plugin a must own.

Taking care of your WordPress SEO

• The most advanced XML Sitemaps functionality at the push of a button.
• Full control over site breadcrumbs: add a piece of code, and you’re good to go.
• Set canonical URLs to avoid duplicate content. Never have to worry about Google penalties again.
• Title and meta description are templating for better branding and consistent snippets in the search results.
• Content & SEO analysis: Invaluable tools to write SEO-friendly texts.
• The snippet preview shows you how your post or page will look in the search results – even on mobile.
• Yoast SEO tunes the engine of your site so you can work on creating great content.
• Our cornerstone content and internal linking features help you optimize your site structure in a breeze.
• Integrates with Google Search Console: See how your site performs in the search engines and fix crawl errors.
• Manage SEO roles: Give your colleagues access to specific sections of the Yoast SEO plugin.
• Bulk editor: Make large-scale edits to your site.

So many times our theme comes with a form already embedded, but we have to say, as far as right now, we haven’t found a better form plugin than Gravity Forms. They still need to work on graphic design and how the plugin looks, but concerning functionality, there is nothing better.

For us what makes the difference is the feature: Conditional Logic

Conditional Logic allows you to configure your form to show or hide fields, sections, pages or even the submit button based on user selections. This allows you to easily control what information your user is asked to provide on your WordPress powered site and tailor the form specifically to their needs.

Packed with tons of time-saving features Gravity Forms is the only WordPress form tool you will ever need.

This is a bonus, just because it has been installed on all of our sites, and usually doesn’t get a lot of attraction, but this is a powerful tool that makes a straightforward thing: allows users to clone posts of any type, or copy them to new drafts for further editing.

How it works:

1. In ‘Edit Posts’/’Edit Pages,’ you can click on ‘Clone’ link below the post/page title: this will immediately create a copy and return to the list.
2. In ‘Edit Posts’/’Edit Pages,’ you can select one or more items, then choose ‘Clone’ in the ‘Bulk Actions’ drop-down to copy them all at once.
3. In ‘Edit Posts’/’Edit Pages,’ you can click on ‘New Draft’ link below the post/page title.
4. On the post edit screen, you can click on ‘Copy to a new draft’ above “Cancel”/”Move to trash” or in the admin bar.
5. While viewing a post as a logged in user, you can click on ‘Copy to a new draft’ in the admin bar.