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In this chapter we'll be looking at plug ins premium commercial ones and free plug ins from the Wordpress

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repository at Wordpress dot org.

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This video will cover the plug in offerings at W.P. m u dev dot org.

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A company in Australia that's been developing and updating WordPress plugins for a long time.

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By the end you'll understand some of the reasons for using commercial or premium plugins and get an

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overview of many of the plug ins I trust and use in my business.

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First let's look at the W PMU dev Web site.

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If you just go to W.P. and you dev dot org it redirects to a secure site at age TTP.

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It's called premium the PMU dev dot org and WP and you used to be the insignia for the multi-user WordPress

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extension.

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The way that I'm using WP dev course dot com.

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I'm using a what is now called multi-site to enable more than one Web site in a single WordPress installation.

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Well they started out as experts on WordPress multi-site or at the time it was called WPA and you and

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they were a development company making plugins and extensions for Wordpress multi-site.

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That does mean that they have a lot of plug ins and functionality that they offer for multi-site installations

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but they have a lot of good plugins and themes as well that are part of their membership site that work

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on all kinds of Wordpress sites.

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I've talked about them before a little bit in our earlier chapters in this course but let's take a look

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in detail under their plugins section.

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They have a number of different categories online business SEO Marketing publishing community multi-site

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and Buddy press which is a social networking extension for wordpress.

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But if we scroll down a little bit we can look at some of their best plug ins.

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I'm just going to pick out a few and give you a little bit of review and show you how I use them in

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my business.

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Many of these plug ins are available for you to play with inside of your student sandbox.

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Students W.P. of course dot.com pre-installed inside of your own Web site at WBM udev dot org.

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The plugins list if I scroll down a little bit you can see the number of plugins that they've developed.

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And another thing that I've talked about in the past that's very important for me as I run a WordPress

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based business is that if I'm using these plug ins I want them to be supported by the development team

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meaning as Wordpress comes out with new versions.

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I want these plugins to be updated so they're sure to work into the future.

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And these are one of the plug ins that I use often is called Ultimate branding this plug in lets you

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display your own logos colors.

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It really lets you brand the dashboard to how ever you want it to look.

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You can eliminate all mention of WordPress.

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If that's not important to your client at all you can populate the administration dashboard with your

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own links and things like that and you can do a lot of different branding to your Wordpress installation

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so that your clients know that that's coming from you.

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This plugin is all about branding your Wordpress installation and handing it off to your client.

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You can do easy customisations to the log in page.

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You can put in your logo and different links in the admin bar and there's a lot of different parts to

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the plug in that you can enable or disable as needed.

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I'm using the ultimate branding plug in to brand the dashboard areas at WP of course dot com when you

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get your own site in multi-site ultimate branding works and multi-site.

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I've used it to create some custom links up here at the top to eliminate some of the menu items that

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I don't want you to see over here.

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And putting a link down here to the hosting theme and plug in resources page that I have inside of your

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dashboard.

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Another great plug in that comes with your WPA new dev membership is called their dashboard.

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This one manages the plug ins and themes that you're using from WBM udev within your membership.

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It installs into your dashboard and gives you a lot of different benefits to going in and installing

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this plug in.

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It gives you some up time monitoring.

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It can show you the performance and some different stats about the Web site it's installed on and it

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also gives you access to install activate and configure all of the WPA you def plug ins from one place

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inside your dashboard in addition to those general use plug ins they've also got some very specific

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plug ins that have particular excellent uses defender is one that does security scans and vulnerability

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reports and gets your site hardened for security.

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Humming-Bird is for speed and fast loading and it will check a number of different specific things within

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your Wordpress installation and help you to fix them pop up pro is a very configurable pop up plug in

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that can configure different conditions for whether the users are going to see the pop up message or

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not.

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It's a great place to build an email list and a way to do that on your Web site.

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Membership 2 pro is a plug in we're going to delve deeply in one of our future chapters where we'll

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build a membership site from this plug in and wordpress.

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One of the plugins that I use all the time from WBM udev is their backup and restoration put plug in

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called snapshot pro.

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They built it as kind of a time machine like the backup system on a Mac and it kind of is it's easy

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to take a snapshot of your whole website including files and database or either or if you like and save

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it to an external location or right there on the server downloaded to your own computer.

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And it's easy to restore that version of the Web site.

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It also has scheduled backups that you can incorporate so that every day or every hour or every week

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if you like you can back up yours or your client sites and then if something goes wrong you can always

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go back and restore a backup.

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I use this plug in all the time for web site migrations just like we've used the free all in one.

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I use the snapshot pro plug in to do the same process I would encourage you to go in and explore their

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plugins section at the WBM you dev dot org Web site and check out their offerings.

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There's appointments schedulers there's events schedulers and sign up areas.

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There's all kinds of different functionalities that you can add to WordPress and you can trust that

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all these plug ins are always going to work inside of your dashboard at W.P. dev course come inside

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of your site.

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If you click plug ins you'll notice that a lot of the plug ins that I have preinstalled inside your

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sandbox environment are from WGME death.

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We've got custom press and as we go down Google Maps market press membership to that pop up pro plug

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in that I mentioned a lot of the plug ins that we'll play with for certain sites that we're creating

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in this course will use these plug ins to accomplish what we need.

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WPA you devs membership works on an ongoing basis.

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You pay a monthly or yearly fee to access all of their plugins and themes on an unlimited basis.

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That means you can use them on all your own sites and all your client sites as much as you want.

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I find the fee well worth it.

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As I start to use these plug ins on my sites and my client sites in this video we went over some of

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the plug ins offered by the WPA new dev team when you need a specific function for a web site project

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a premium plug in is often the best way to go.

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In the next video we'll explore another resource for premium plug ins.

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The enviro marketplace in Vado isn't just a single developer but a resource for thousands of developers

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selling their plugins and themes at affordable prices.

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Let's check it out.