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For Everyone Starting a WordPress based site with Elementor

Everyone,

This is a selection of plugins that I use all the time and I try to group them :
1. Elementor
2. Essential Addons for Elementor
3. Flexible Elementor Panel
4. Header, Footer & Blocks for Elementor
5. Premium Addons for Elementor
6. Orbit Fox Companion
CLARIFICATION NOTE: I keep just Elementor and the additional plugin needed for the widget that I
need in that project, all others are not even installed if not needed for that project.

for easy SEO work and fast deployment of content:


1. Duplicate Page and Post (DISABLE/DELETE it once I'm done with high volume work)
2. Yoast SEO
3. Redirection

for Security and SSL:


1. Wordfence Security
2. Webcraftic Hide login page
3. Jetpack by WordPress.com
4. Really Simple SSL
5. SSL Insecure Content Fixer (DISABLE/DELETE it once I'm done with fixes)

for backup and migration from dev to live and anywhere, REMOVED AFTER migration:
1. Duplicator
2. Better Search Replace

for Speed & Optimization:


1. Webcraftic Clearfy – WordPress optimization plugin
2. WP Healthcheck (REMOVED ONCE OPTIMIZATION COMPLETED)
3. WP Fastest Cache OR Autoptimize & Autoclear Autoptimize Cache
4. WP-Optimize (REMOVED ONCE OPTIMIZATION COMPLETED)
5. Imagify (first use Wp SMUSH PRO then Webcraftic Robin image optimizer) (REMOVE
AFTER OPTIMIZATION)
6. Specify Image Dimensions (REMOVED ONCE OPTIMIZATION COMPLETED)
7. WP YouTube Lyte (ONLY IF VIDEO IS TO BE USED FROM YOUTUBE)
8. CAOS for Webfonts (to download and use ONLY the FONTS I need, to avoid extra requests
or JS)
9. CAOS | Host Google Analytics Locally (to avoid extra request or JS delay)

also, I make sure that I add GA code TAGs if needed for conversion tracking, remove images that
are not needed, add ALT to ALL IMAGES meaningful for SEO, remove un-necessary users AND
plugins.

FOR A GOOD SETUP WHEN SITE LIVE I TEND TO HAVE 14-15 PLUGINS ONLY.

Now, if you have your own list, your own recommended plugins, add them as I'm very interested
always to improve.
If on the other hand, you have any questions for design, development and any of the above plugins,
drop me a message.
WARNING: some plugins might break the site if not properly configured, make sure you have access
to the server and make sure you have backups in place.

results are measurable and visible on the sites I build and manage, here is a
proof: http://prntscr.com/n95ioj

PS: Thanks for the feedback, I was able to address some concerns editing the original post to further
clarify my approach.

PS2: Here is something to showcase that Page Load is better in fact, the first screenshot is
monitoring, this is the actual testing based on tweaks on 4 of my websites http://prntscr.com/n9kppt .

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