I’ve often talked about the problems of running too many plugins. Now it’s time to talk about the best and most essential plugins to use on a WooCommerce site. Here’s the 14 plugins that I run on my own site. I’m definitely more code snippet heavy on my own site since I do quite a bit of custom development.
- AMP
- Code Snippets
- Custom Fonts
- Google XML Sitemaps
- Gutenberg
- Jetpack by WordPress.com
- Lazy Load for Videos
- OneSignal Push Notifications
- Redirection
- SendGrid
- UpdraftPlus – Backup/Restore
- User Switching
- WooCommerce
- WP-Optimize – Clean, Compress, Cache
Within JetPack I use the following modules. JetPack modules can be toggled from this semi-hidden screen:
WP Admin > Jetpack > Settings > Debug > Access the full list of Jetpack modules available on your site
- Contact Form
- Enhanced Distribution
- Infinite Scroll
- Protect
- Publicize
- Sharing
- Subscriptions
- Widget Visibility
On most of the sites I build I’m likely to use a handful of the official WooCommerce.com extensions, particularly the official payment gateways.
Here’s some useful code snippets I use on this site. Browse my full gallery of front-end code snippets, storefront code snippets, back-end code snippets and the official WooCommerce code snippets archives.
- Add-to-cart redirection to checkout
- Calendly modal
- Change variation drop-downs to radio buttons
- Custom products tabs
- Disable Storefront product page zoom
- Empty cart when adding an item
- Font Awesome icons
- Google reviews short-code
- Hide added to cart message
- JetPack sign-up short code
- Load Google Analytics
- My Account contact form
- Notify customer registrations
- QualPay Checkout payment gateway
- Remove additional information field
- Remove items from My Account menu
- Remove product archives sorting
- Remove related products
- Remove storefront handheld navigation bar
- Remove Storefront header cart
- Rename add-to-cart
- Sets
X-Frame-Optionsheader for PCI compliance scanners - Short-code to display a WordPress text widget body
- Stop user enumerations for PCI scanner compliance
- Storefront blog excerpt
- Storefront custom footer links