WordPress’s Extra Helpers
It’s never too late to change, even if you’re looking for a fresh new start with a website. Ecommerce vendors will be evolving virtually on a constant basis as they go forward with adjusting to new technologies and the growth of their business.
By now you’ve either heard of or have been using WordPress as a content management system. Its transformation over the last decade has been astounding, becoming one of the most sophisticated, adaptable, and even user-friendly platforms. At $25 per month for a business site, it’s a phenomenal bargain.
What makes it even better? A boat load of extra options. Plug-ins for WordPress can increase its functionality and convenience to the point where your site is practically running itself. And they offer up handy features that you would otherwise have to search for and install separately.
If you’d like a primer on starting or upgrading your WordPress site, check out this guide.
Once your site is designed, tested, and brought live, these awesome plug-ins are among many that can improve your everyday activities and site management:
Simple Page Tester – Use this tool to test the content on your page. It’s simple, as the name implies. And it will run A/B testing without making you sweat through coding edits. It’s compatible with Google Analytics. (The premium version offers conversion tracking and auto-statistics.)
Listly – In the ever-budding love we have for lists, this plug-in allows the creation of list posts inside a WordPress site. Gather rich content and affiliate links with ease and present them in a layout you choose from among a big selection.
Instagram Feed – Everyone who’s anyone in e-commerce needs to be on Instagram. Now that we’ve established that, make your IG account work with a plug-in to display the photos you put there on your WordPress site without the extra work of uploading them. You can place multiple feeds on the same page, or disperse them on different pages throughout your site.
Zedity – By its nature, visual content is time-consuming in so many ways. Speed it up with this plug-in, an editor that creates visual content faster and offers simple design features without coding.
AddToAny – Along the same lines, this plug-in makes it easy for customers and followers to share your posts and pages to the most popular social networks and apps, including Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and over 100 more.
Disqus – Let your fans be marketers! Disqus involves the community you build by making room for their comments, reviews, photos, votes, etc. It does a whole lot more, too.
Shared Counts - Sharing is good! Let your customers and followers name-drop and share your stuff with this plug-in, which automatically inserts social sharing buttons either before or following post content. The good thing about this plug-in is its GDPR compliance, and the fact that it doesn’t track with cookies or otherwise store user data.
Ask any developer and they’ll tell you WordPress is the gold standard for ease and sophistication without a ton of technical knowledge. App developers are incentivized to make plug-ins for it that make it even more of a sure thing. If you have a WP site, or have decided to make one, these and other add-ons will convince you that you’ve made the right choice.