WordPress Plugins - BruceTambling.com

This is the complete list of plugins installed on brucetambling.com. Summary of what they do and why they are needed. If you add a plugin or remove a plugin, please update this document.

Current Plugins

WordPress Real Media Library

Organize uploaded media in folders: A file manager for WordPress

Summary: Real Media Library helps with media management. Organize thousands of uploaded files into folders, collections and galleries. Allows to manage large amounts of files such as pictures, videos or documents in WordPress.

FooGallery

FooGallery is a simple, intuitive and extensible gallery management tool for WordPress

Summary: FooGallery makes creating and displaying photo galleries easy. There is a carousel add-on available if needed in the future. Currently, the only use of this plugin is on the home page to display a random number of random discography images which when clicked will take a user to the discography page.

Wordfence Security

Wordfence Security - Anti-virus, Firewall and Malware Scan

Summary: The most necessary plugin installed. It protects the WordPress installation from many different types of hacker activity, including the most common, brute force login. Other protection involves plugin security holes patched for outdated plugins and newfound vulnerabilities.

WP Super Cache

Very fast caching plugin for WordPress.

Summary: A caching plugin to improve the speed performance of the website. Lessens the load on the web server by creating HTML files that are served without accessing the database on every page view.

Yoast SEO

The first true all-in-one SEO solution for WordPress, including on-page content analysis, XML sitemaps and much more.

Summary: The best SEO solution for a WordPress installation. It allows a user to create keywords and phrases as well as descriptions for posts and pages used by search engines.

Deleted Plugins

Yoast Duplicate Post

The go-to tool for cloning posts and pages, including the powerful Rewrite & Republish feature.

Summary: Great tool to create a duplicate post or page quickly. The user can then edit the duplicate changing the content and title without losing the formatting or similar content needed on a new page verses duplicated page.

Classic Editor

Enables the WordPress classic editor and the old-style Edit Post screen with TinyMCE, Meta Boxes, etc. Supports the older plugins that extend this screen.

Summary: This is an important plugin. Not used as a default editor on posts or pages because the Divi Editor should be used, it still can and will be used with other plugins requiring some type of editor interface.

Custom Post Type UI

Admin panel for creating custom post types and custom taxonomies in WordPress.

Summary: Used to create specific types of posts and taxonomies for posts that have a specific type of categorization and display. For example, Mentors is a new custom type of post. It is still a post but resides in a silo specific only to posts about mentors.

Divi Carousel

A Carousel For Divi

Summary: Not in use or activated. Discussion about removal is needed.

Smush

Reduce image file sizes, improve performance and boost your SEO using the free WPMU DEV WordPress Smush API.

Summary: Necessary plugin to boost the performance of web pages by reducing image file sizes with a lossless image smaller in size.

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