Plugins for #WordPress Websites
One of the most valuable lessons we have learned from working with plugins is this: Before you add any MORE plugins, get to know the ones you have and what they can do. Read more in the praise.
Each word press website functions and operates, and expands by using plugins. Each plugin is developed and functions to get your website to do something – – often something incredible.
The most difficult part is understanding what each plugin does, especially how to use it on your MINISTERING website. Almost everything you can Google and find a YouTube video, but it’s never talking about how a minister would use it on her own website and how we use it on our 25 RMI websites.
What we want to offer you in this course is an understanding of plugins, how easy they are to install, how to use them (and how to give to the developer and why “ our promise to you our give and it WILL BE given to you, press down and overflowing”).
Most importantly, we will share the plugins we use most successfully for various purposes and #Plugins updates posted on RMIOUFT website used by our active ADMinsters for training. Such as cyber security to prevent hacking. Or a plugin to help you form a ministry community. The plugin we use to generate the praise to form your blog. “Enter his gates, with thanksgiving and his courts with praise.” “I inhabit the praises of my people.”
Plugins
Plugins 101
Plugin updates. It’s important to keep your plugins updated. There’s a reason for updating your phone and your computer because it fixes glitches, sometimes hacking issues, and when the developer finds ways of improving the plugin.
Enable auto-update. The Lord led us to set all our 24+ websites to allow for auto updates. Normally these auto updates will show WHEN the update will take place—normally, how many hours in the future it will automatically update. We learned from our Flywheel host (hosted, which means our website is hosted on their servers) that it is better to wait and allow the auto update to do it rather than manually updating it yourself – – which is also an option. It is something that very often we have to do.
Our RMI Web Team, who checks the websites' health, agreed, “It may be safer for us just to update the plugins we see even if they will update themselves in a few hours.
Enabling the automatic plugins is great so the ones can update that we don't see when we are not online, but if we check our websites and some plugins will update in a few hours, I recommend that we update them and get it over with so if there are security issues addressed in that plugin, we are not vulnerable for a few hours more until the plugin updates itself.”
The point is to keep your plugins updated to the newest version so your WordPress website (and all your electronics) function properly. Pay attention to red alerts and take care of them. You often purchase plugins that will continue to try and get you to pay for a higher pro version. Once you determine if you need it, by simply asking your *Husband, which we recommend, that notice should be turned off so you don’t ignore red notices.
Senior Administrative - These will be the plugins and functions of the ADM on WordPress
WPForms is an easy-to-use online form builder for WordPress websites. It’s the most beginner-friendly contact form plugin available because you can create smart forms in minutes without writing any code or hiring a developer.
WordPress currently only allows you to use custom avatars uploaded through Gravatar. One User Avatar enables you to use any photo uploaded into your Media Library as an avatar. This means you use the same uploader and library as your posts. No extra folders or image editing functions are necessary. This plugin is a fork of WP User Avatar v2.2.16.
One User Avatar #Plugins by Adina from South Africa
LoginPress Plugin by LoginPress holds a lot of customization fields to change the layout of the login page of WordPress. You can modify the look and feel of login page completely even the login error messages, forgot error messages, registration error messages, forget password hint message and many more.
LoginPress plugin is built using The Customizer API which is getting popular for live-previewing any changes to the layouts of WordPress. So, with LoginPress you can preview your login page changes instantly. This login customizer plugin is easy enough & required no coding skills. Just have options for each element on the login form and make a new customized login page within seconds.
Translate WordPress with Google Language Translator multilanguage plugin which allows to insert Google Translate widget anywhere on your website.
Other Plugins by Yvonne vd Hoff 
Beaver Builder is a flexible drag and drop page builder that works on the front end of your WordPress website. Whether you’re a beginner or a professional, you’re going to love taking control of your website. Stop writing HTML or wrestling with confusing shortcodes. With Beaver Builder, building beautiful, professional WordPress pages is as easy as dragging and dropping.
Beaver Builder Plugin (Lite Version)
Enable Media Replace is a free, lightweight and easy to use plugin that allows you to seamlessly replace an image or file in your Media Library by uploading a new file in its place. No more deleting, renaming and re-uploading files!
How to Replace Media Image using
WP-Media: Enable Media Replace - Bookcovers
Wordfence Premium customers receive new firewall rules the moment our threat intelligence team releases them. When attackers invent new techniques to exploit WordPress, we deploy firewall rules to protect our Premium customers in real-time. With Wordfence Premium, you are protected from the newest exploits as we discover them.
Wordfence Premium customers also receive new malware detection capabilities in real-time. Our team writes detection signatures for new malware variants and immediately deploys those signatures to your Wordfence installation, giving you the ability to detect even the newest malware. Our malware signatures are used by your firewall to prevent hackers from uploading malware, and they’re used by your Wordfence scanner to detect any malware in your filesystem.
Tutorials made for you:
WP Telegram (Auto Post and Notifications)
Integrate your WordPress site perfectly with Telegram to send new posts, pages or updates to Telegram Groups, Channels, Supergroups or Private Chats.
Tutorials:
WPT1: Installing the WP Telegram Plugin
WPT2: How to deselect a post or page from sending to Telegram
Easy Digital Downloads is a Digital eCommerce Plugin for WordPress.
Features:
- Shopping cart supporting Stripe and PayPal.
- Detailed Reporting.
- Order Management
- Customer Management
For more information, visit: Easy Digital Downloads Features
Stripe is a payment service provider that allows you to accept credit and debit cards or other payments online. It is primarily geared toward online sales.
Stripe allows merchants to accept various credit and debit cards, as well as payments from mobile wallets and buy now, pay later services. Stripe supports payments in a variety of currencies.
Stripe offers lots of additional services, including billing, invoicing and sales tax automation, too.
Stripe can be integrated with your WordPress site with a Stripe Plugin.
To read more, please visit: Stripe | Financial Infrastructure to Grow Your Revenue
How to accept payments using Stripe
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Create a Stripe account with just your name and email address.
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Provide your business details and personal information like your full name and date of birth.
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Link a bank account where you’ll receive payouts from Stripe.
For more information, visit: Get started | Stripe Documentation