WordPress plugin recommendations

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WP Editor.md (WP-specific Markdown)

WriteblogA must-have, the best Markdown plugin in WordPress platform, no doubt about it.

feature:

① Support basic Markdown syntax
② Support KaTex/Latex mathematical formula syntax (Download Latex syntax document）
③ Support instant screenshot and paste insertion
④ Support generating toc directory (need to installTable of Contents Plus）
⑤ SupportCommentUse Markdown (need to installCompanion plugin WP Product Review Lite）
⑥ Support real-time preview
⑦ Support article paging
⑧ Support code syntax highlighting (this function is not good-looking, and it will be supplemented by CSH plug-in below)

Notice:

The KaTex/Latex functionality of WP Editor.md requires the use ofCDN accelerationDifferent regions need to set up different CDN servers.

When you find that KaTex/Latex formulas cannot be displayed, open the F12 console log and see the 404 exception as shown in the figure below, which means that the CDN server is abnormal.

At this time through WP Editor.md -> General Settings Modify the CDN route until the KaTex/Latex formula can take effect.

Crayon Syntax Highlighter

A must-have for programmers, the best syntax highlighting plugin on the WordPress platform, no doubt about it.

feature:

① Built-in syntax highlighting styles for multiple codes
② Support line number display
③ Support source code viewing
④ Support double-click copy

Notice: The default configuration of this plugin conflicts with WP Editor.md, and will convert HTML in the code into escape characters when displaying the code.

The cause of this problemreasonYes: The text submitted in the background edit box is saved todatabaseIn the code, it will be converted to Markdown when it is displayed on the front end. However, what is done is that Markdown is converted according to the syntax first and then handed over to Crayon Syntax Highlighter for code highlighting. Markdown will escape the special symbols in the code through HTML, while Crayon Syntax Highlighter will display them intact.

The code in the tag, so the escaped code is displayed intact.

forResolving this issue, Crayon Syntax Highlighter must escape the escaped code back when rendering. The setting options are as follows (After modifying the configuration, the affected articles may need to be resubmitted to take effect):

As shown belowCheckThese two options:

As shown belowCancelThese two options:

WP Statistics

The most powerful statistics plugin in the WordPress platform, no doubt about it.

Support statistical content:

◇ Online users
◇ Today's visit
◇ Today's visit
◇ Yesterday's visit
◇ Yesterday's Visitors
◇ Number of visits in the past week
◇ Number of visits in the past month
◇ Number of visits in the past year
◇ Cumulative visits
◇ Total visitors
◇ Total number of page visits
◇ Search EnginesCitations
◇ Total articles
◇ Total page
◇ Total response
◇ Total garbage
◇ Total users
◇ Average article
◇ Average Comments
◇ Average user
◇Last published date

WP-PostViews (article reading count counter)

When the site theme you are using cannotCount the number of reads for each article separatelyThis plugin can complete this function.

This pluginThe webmaster is required to have certain programming skillsBecause it cannot take effect simply by configuring it on the front end, but requires modifying the theme's PHP file code at the same time and embedding the code where you want it to appear.

WP-PostRatings (Post Rating Analyzer)

When the site theme you are using cannotEach article is scored individuallyThis plugin can complete this function.

Enhanced Text Widget

The function of this plugin is similar to the widget [Custom HTML] that comes with WordPress.

However, this pluginSupport PHP code, which gives you more flexibility when writing gadgets.

Pinyin Permalinks

When WordPress creates a new page/article, it will use the title as the inherent link by default. However, if the title contains Chinese or other special characters, the page will become inaccessible.

This plugin willAutomatically convert non-English characters(Can be configured to convert only the first letter instead of the full spelling)

But I personally prefer to useNative custom intrinsic links, it looks better using the article ID:

WP Real Media Library

This plugin canCustomize the uploaded attachments, instead of putting them all in one folder.

WPide (WP online code editor)

This plugin can directly edit themes and plugin codes in the WordPress backend of HTTP frontend.

If you are renting only a website hosting service and notCloud Server, and you cannot log in to the operating system backend, then this plug-in is very suitable (even if you can log in to the operating system backend, this plug-in can also easily modify the theme and plug-in code on the page).

feature:

① Support code highlighting
② Support line number display
③ Support syntax checking
④ Support hierarchical directory structure management

Batch Cat (Batch Editor for Article Categories)

Good news for compulsive people. When you have a lot of articles on your website and need to reorganize and classify them, you will need it. You can disable this plug-in when you don't need it.

This plugin modifies the database directly, which is more powerful than the batch update function that comes with WordPress. However, there is a bug in the native batch update function of WordPress, which can only add batch categories but not delete them.

feature:

① Support batch adding of article categories
② Support batch modification of article categories
③ SupportBatch Delete ArticlesClassification

WP Database Backup

A plugin for automatically backing up WP database, convenient and easy to use.

feature:

① Support periodic backup
② Support control of backup quantity
③ Support online recovery and backup
④ Support backup download
⑤ Support backup notification

Limit Login Attempts Reloaded (Limit Login Retry Plugin)

After your WordPress site has been online for a while, you will find that there are a lot of robots (yes, not a few, but a lot) trying to log in to your WordPress backend through admin, administrator, or your domain name:

Regardless of how strong your site password is, this kind of shameless brute forceCrackingPassword behavior will give the siteserverBring additional burden.

This plugin is very useful at this time. It can set how many times the login password is allowed to be retried. If the number of times is exceeded, the IP will be frozen or even permanently blocked:

Stealth Login Page

Add a verification code to the login page. When the verification code is entered incorrectly, jump to the specified page.

Used together with the previous plugin Limit Login Attempts Reloaded, it can effectively prevent robots from brute-forcing site passwords:

WP Ban (Access Restriction Plugin)

You can easily set up a blacklist for your site to prohibit access by robots and illegal users.

feature:

① Support IP blocking
② Support IP segment blocking
③ Support IP range blocking
④ Support host ban
⑤ Support domain name blocking
⑥ Support User Agent blocking (anti-crawler)

Akismet Anti-Spam

WordPress comes withComment filter plugin, which can prevent robots from spamming and placing external links, is very powerful.

Individual users can use it for free. When obtaining it on the official page, just drag the price bar to the far left, as shown below:

WP Super Cache (static page cache)

This plugin is used to generateStatic Page Caching,CanaccelerateSite Access.

For general sites (such as WordPress blogs), if it is not an urgent need, this plug-in is sufficient for cache acceleration, which is convenient and powerful.

Redis Object Cache

This plugin is used to generateDynamic Object Cache,CanSpeed up site access.

Compared with static cache, it is more complicated to deploy, and is mainly suitable for sites that often need to use database queries (such as WordPress forums). For specific deployment methods, please refer to "Speeding up access to WordPress: Redis deployment notes".

Baidu Sitemap Generator

Every site must have a sitemap. Having a sitemap will make it easier to beSearch engine indexingSite content (of courseRobots.txt protocol file is also important).

There are many plug-ins that can generate sitemaps, but if it is a Chinese site, it is recommended to use Baidu. After all, Baidu is the world's largest Chinese search engine, and using this plug-in makes it easier to be included by Baidu spider.

feature:

① Support generating sitemap in XML format
② Support generating sitemap in HTML format
③ As the site is updated, the site map can be generated synchronously

Baidu Links Submit (Baidu link submission plug-in)

Relative sitemap SitemappassiveIn terms of inclusion, this plugin caninitiativeSubmit new links of your website to Baidu in real time so that it can be included in Baidu search engine in time. Registration is required Baidu Webmaster Platform Use in conjunction with.

The plug-in originally came from the Baidu Webmaster Forum, but because the original moderator stopped updating it in 2015, and later the Baidu Webmaster Platform was upgraded, and the plug-in itself also had several bugs, it eventually became unusable.

Since I like the style of this plugin, I fixed the bug in the 2015 version and re-released this 2018 revised version:

Baidu Links Submit v2.0 (20180704) Download

The principle of this plug-in is actually to encapsulate the "Baidu Webmaster Platform -> Link Submission -> Automatic Submission -> Active Push (Real-time)” function.Therefore, after using this plug-in, other plug-ins or JS codes with similar functions that were originally used to automatically submit to Baidu in real time should be deleted..

WP Content Copy Protection & No Right Click (article protection plugin)

If you don't want others to copy the content of your site at will, then this plug-in is very useful. However, this plug-in is not very friendly to readers and needs to be used with caution.

feature:

① JavaScript protection
② CSS protection
③ Home page protection
④ Static page protection
⑤ Disable right-click function (avoid right-click copy)
⑥ Disable content selection (avoid shortcut key copying)
⑦ Customize prohibition prompts

Auto Add Copyright (Automatically add site copyright plug-in)

This is a plug-in produced by this site. Compared with the previous plug-in (WP Content Copy Protection & No Right Click), this plugin is much gentler and more reader-friendly.

feature:

① When readers try to copy site content, the site copyright information will be automatically appended to the end of the copied content
② You can set the length of content that readers are allowed to copy. If the length is less than this, the append mechanism will not be triggered.
③ You can set the scope of this plugin: the entire site, or only the article page
④ Support most mainstream browsers
⑤ The copied content supports plain text, code, etc., and will not cause the format of the copied content to be deformed

Auto Add Copyright v1.0 (20180707) Download

Insert Post Ads (article in-page advertising plugin)

You can freely customize to insert one or more advertisements at the beginning, end, or after a certain paragraph in the middle of the article, which solves the problem of having to insert advertisements in the middle of the article when writing the article.