Best WordPress plugins and services

Performance

W3 Total Cache – We use W3 Total Cache to integrate MaxCDN, do page caching and browser caching to improve site speed. See our W3 Total Cache review.

MaxCDN – We use a Content Delivery Network, MaxCDN, to speed up our site and reduce server load. We use it to serve static content (images, css, javascript). See our MaxCDN review.

Classic Smilies – We use classic smilies to turn off all emoji functionality in WordPress and replace it with older smilies from previous versions of WordPress.

Marketing

Yoast SEO – We use Yoast SEO to improve our on-page SEO by adding Title Tags, XML Sitemaps, Indexation rules and more. See our Yoast SEO review.

OptinMonster – OptinMonster is the best lead generation tool for WordPress. We use it to get more email subscribers. See our OptinMonster review.

WPForms – Hollands web uses WPForms to power all contact forms and form based lead generations (including email opt-ins and payment orders).

MailChimp allows us to design, send, and track beautiful email newsletters to our readers. Every site owner should build an email list.

MonsterInsights – MonsterInsights allow us to connect to Google Analytics for FREE. It shows us who visits our website, where they come from, and how they interact with our content.

RafflePress – RafflePress helps us run viral giveaways and contests to increase our website traffic, social media followers, and email subscribers. We use the pro version, but they also have a free RafflePress version available as well.

Frame Buster – We use Frame Buster to stop content pirates from placing their calls-to-action, ads, affiliate links on top of our content.

Monetization

ThirstyAffiliates – We use ThirstyAffiliates to efficiently manage all of our affiliate links. It allows us to cloak links, automatically replace keywords, and more.

WP-Bitly – We use WP-Bitly plugin to automatically generate short URLs for our posts that look like http://wpbeg.in/.

Styling

Breadcrumb NavXT – We use Breadcrumb NavXT to add breadcrumb navigation showing the visitor’s path to their current location.

Syntax Highlighter – We use Syntax Highlighter Evolved plugin to share code snippets in our posts. It is by far the best solution in our opinion.

Compact Archives – We use Compact Archives plugin to make our archives page prettier. It helps us compress the output of month/year archive.

Comments

Akismet – We use Akismet to combat comment SPAM. Akismet lets us focus on writing quality content rather than moderating SPAM comments.

Subscribe to Comments Reloaded – We use it to allow our users to subscribe to comments. This way users get notification email when there is a new comment on the post.

No Self Pings – We use it to stop WordPress from sending ping back notifications when linking to our own posts.

Behind the Scenes

There are several tools, plugins, and custom code snippets that we use at Hollands Web. Here is the list of our behind the scene plugins, code snippets, etc.

Edit Flow – We use Edit Flow to manage our editorial workflow.

Members – This plugin allows us to add new roles and limit content permissions by users. We use it specifically for role management in Hollandsweb. See our expert comparison of 5 best WordPress membership plugins.

Advanced Custom Fields We use Advanced Custom Fields to add custom fields into WordPress posts and custom post types.

Post Types Order – By default, you can order your posts by ID, author, title, date etc. But there is no easy way to use a custom order. This plugin lets us do that with an easy drag-drop interface. See our Post Types Order review.

Simple Page Ordering – This plugin works the same as the one mentioned above, it allows us to set custom ordering but for pages. See our Simple Page Ordering review

Excerpts for Pages – We use custom code snippet to display excerpts for pages in WordPress.

Random Post Redirect – This custom code snippet allows us to redirect users to a random post in WordPress if they add /random/ at the end of the url.

Title and Nofollow for Links – We use it to add a title and nofollow fields to insert link popup in WordPress. See our Title and NoFollow for Links review.

Restore Image Title – We use it to add title attribute to the images we add into WordPress posts. See our Restore Image Title review.

WP Mail SMTP – We use it to make sure our WordPress emails are getting delivered to the inbox. To learn more, see how to fix WordPress not sending email issue.

That’s all for now. We will update this page when we start using some new plugin or tool on Hollands web.

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