Some Helpful WordPress Plugins

THE FOLLOWING ARE SOME REALLY GOOD PLUGINS (Add On Features) I HAVE EXPERIENCE WITH IN SOME OF MY WORDPRESS WEBSITES.
I REALLY ENJOY USING THEM and YOU DON’T NEED ‘A University Degree’ TO USE THEM. HEY?

Advanced Excerpt
For blogs, stops full length posts showing up in Blog list.
You can also adjust it how you wish to.

This plugin adds several improvements to WordPress’ default way of creating excerpts.

Keeps HTML markup in the excerpt (and you get to choose which tags are included)
Trims the excerpt to a given length using either character count or word count
Only the ‘real’ text is counted (HTML is ignored but kept)
Customizes the excerpt length and the ellipsis character that are used
Completes the last word or sentence in an excerpt (no weird cuts)
Adds a read-more link to the text
Ignores custom excerpts and use the generated one instead

Scroll To Top
(appreciated by visitors)

This plugin will automatically enable a custom and flexible Back to Top button to your WordPress website
that allows your visitor to scroll back to the top of your page with one click!

Features Include:
No setup needed.
Unlimited colors.
Async JavaScript.
SVG Icon.
Custom target.
Disable on mobile.
Choose text or icon.
Customizable text.
Position switcher (left or right).
Change animation you like.
You can just simply install it, I did.

Change Background Color
(for Pages, Posts, Widgets)

Change the backgrounds colours globally or for a specific page.

Change the backgrounds colors globally or for a specific page.
Who are we? This plugin was developed by Catering Canada,
as we needed to change the background color for some of our website pages.
After developing the plugin we thought to share it with the community.

Review:
The plugin was so easy to use in addition to that it allows you to change the backgrounds
for the whole website or for specific pages/posts. I had to clear my cache in order to see the changes. Thank you for your effort.

HA Background Color Customizer

Customize Background color of page body, header, footer, nav/nav:hover, button/button:hover, dropdown menu, dropdown tab hover.

Add Custom HA Background Color Customizer Panel in any WP theme customization section. Customize background colors of your hard coded WordPress Theme. Now, separately Customize the color of each type of your HTML Elements
just from Theme customization section with live WP preview pane.

List of HTML Element options:

Body Background Color
Header Background Color
Main Nav Backgrounds Color
Nav tab Background: hover
Dropdown Backgrounds
Dropdown tab/li: Hover
Button Background
Button Background: Hover
Footer Background

Reviews:

Best Plugin: For Colors In Different Places.

Excellent Plugin: It gives control on all important html tags to change/add background colors.

Easiest and Simplest Plugin: Very easy to install and use. I have changed the background colors by myself with this plugin.

Very Easy to Install and Use Color Panel: I am using this plugin to customize my client themes and it is super easy to use. Thank you.

CleanTalk
(Spam protection, AntiSpam, FireWall)

No CAPTCHA, no questions, no animal counting, no puzzles, no math and no spam bots. Universal AntiSpam plugin.

Anti-Spam features
Stops spam comments.
Stops spam registrations.
Stops spam contact emails.
Stops spam orders.
Stops spam bookings.
Stops spam subscriptions.
Stops spam in widgets.
Stops spam in WooCommerce.
Real-time email validation. Is email real or Not.
Checks and removes the existing spam comments and spam users.
Compatible with mobile users and devices.
Compatible with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (EU).
Blocking disposable & temporary emails.
No Spam – No Google Penalties. Give your SEO boost.
Mobile friendly Anti Spam & FireWall.
Stops spam in Search Form.
Disable comments.

Akismet
(Anti-Spam: Spam Protection)

The best anti-spam protection to block spam comments and spam in a contact form. The most trusted antispam solution for WordPress and WooCommerce.

Akismet checks your comments and contact form submissions against our global database of spam
to prevent your site from publishing malicious content. You can review the comment spam it catches on your blog’s “Comments” admin screen.

Major features in Akismet include:

Automatically checks all comments and filters out the ones that look like spam.
Each comment has a status history, so you can easily see which comments were caught or cleared by Akismet and which were spammed or unspammed by a moderator.
URLs are shown in the comment body to reveal hidden or misleading links.
Moderators can see the number of approved comments for each user.
A discard feature that outright blocks the worst spam, saving you disk space and speeding up your site.

Really Simple SSL

Really Simple SSL will automatically configure your website to use SSL to its fullest potential. Use extra security features to protect your website, and use our server health check to keep up-to-date.

Features:
Easy SSL Migration: Takes your website to HTTPS in just one-click.
Let’s Encrypt: Install an SSL Certificate if your hosting provider supports manual installation.
Server Health Check: Your server configuration is every bit as important for your website security.
WordPress Hardening: Tweak your configuration and keep WordPress fortified and safe by tackling its weaknesses.
Vulnerability Detection: Get notified when plugins, themes or core contain vulnerabilities and need appropriate action.

WP Statistics
(Non Invasive Analytics, respecting Privacy)

Do you need a simple tool to know your website statistics? Do you need to represent these statistics? Are you caring about your users’ privacy while analyzing who are interested in your business or website? With WP Statistics you can know your website statistics without any need to send your users’ data anywhere. You can know how many people visit your personal or business website, where they’re coming from, what browsers and search engines they use, and which of your contents, categories, tags and users get more visits.

ACT BETTER BY KNOWING WHAT YOUR USERS ARE LOOKING FOR
Visitor Data Records including IP, Referring Site, Browser, Search Engine, OS, Country and City
Stunning Graphs and Visual Statistics
Visitor’s Country Recognition
Visitor’s City Recognition
The number of Visitors coming from each Search Engine
The number of Referrals from each Referring Site
Top 10 common browsers; Top 10 countries with most visitors; Top 10 most-visited pages; Top 10 referring sites
Hits Time-Based Filtering
Statistics on Contents based on Categories, Tags, and Writers
Widget Support for showing Statistics

Text To Speech TTS

Add functionality to WordPress site to read blogs out loud in more than 20 languages.

English, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indonesian, Polish, Brazilian Etc.

Features:

Add a play button to any post or page.
Unlimited text to speech.
Add more functionality to the website for a range of users including the visually impaired and the Elderly.
Customization of button color, width and button text based on site language through filter.
Live preview of play button during customization.
Add custom CSS and custom class to the button.
Change listening language to any language.
Choose a voice from more than 20 voices.
Customization of button in block editor.

Does not work on some Mobile Phone devices.
Sounds great on my Laptop (Computer).

Reviews:

After installing and activating the plugin, it makes it so easy to listen to all the blog content while closing your eyes.
For me, I spend quite a huge amount of my time on the computer so I just relax, close my eyes and listen to content I post.

I recently had the opportunity to try out a this plugin that caught my attention due to its promising features and positive reviews. This review aims to highlight the key aspects of the plugin, including its free availability, ease of use, simple style control, and flexible display options.

This is the best text-to-speech program available for free. The developer responses quickly and try to help with the problem. Keep up the good work!

Simple SEO

Nonce Security!
Generates META tags automatically.
Works out-of-the-box. Just install!
You can override any title and set any META description
and any META keywords you want!
Google Webmaster Tools!
Bing verification & Yandex verification!
Twitter and Facebook customization!
Quickedit SEO titles and descriptions!
Supports custom post types!
Sitemaps!

Envira Gallery Lite

Envira is highly optimized for web and server performance because we understand the importance of speed when it comes to SEO and conversion.

Justified Gallery

This simple plugin brings the WordPress gallery to a higher level by adding a nice justified image grid and a pretty lightbox.
Just install and activate the plugin. That’s all.

Disable Comments –
Remove Comments & Stop Spam
[Multi-Site Support]