Recommended plugins/apps to help manage your publication
We strongly recommend you set up 1-4:
- User Switching Lets you test subscription access as if you were a subscriber. How to doc
- WP Mail Logging Know which emails your WordPress site sends for troubleshooting purposes. Here's a great setup doc
- Transaction email setup Ensure your welcome and password emails are actually being delivered
- Install our reCAPTCHA addon to prevent spam registrations
- PublishPress has a great suite of plugins specifically for publishers: multiple Authors, Blocks, Series, Checklists, Capabilities, Revisions, Permissions and more.
- Multicollab: Save article publishing time with the collaborative editing features of Google Docs like commenting, reply, email notifications, suggestions, right in WordPress
- NewsletterGlue: Save time and control your output by publishing your newsletters straight from WordPress
- WP MailFrom II This plugin allows you to set the email address and name used for emails sent by WordPress (transactional emails) by setting the From: header
- No Suggested Password remove the strong password required when a subscriber resets their password. Helps keep your password support requests down
- WordPress Social Login - Social Plugin enables social login, social sharing, social comments using social login apps like Google, Facebook, Twitter, Vkontakte, LinkedIn, Windows Live, Instagram, Amazon, Salesforce, Yahoo, more...
- WP Persistent Login - stay logged into WordPress
- Email Templates Send beautiful emails with the WordPress Email Templates plugin. This is great for your welcome, reminder, transactional emails
- User Menus – Nav Menu Visibility The plugin gives you more control over your nav menu by allowing you to apply visibility controls to menu items e.g who can see each menu item (everyone, logged in users, etc). Ex: A logged in subscriber can see their 'My Account' page menu item where a new visitor would see 'Subscribe'
- Peter's Login Redirect - Send Admins, Editors and Authors straight to the WordPress dashboard after logging in (instead of the homeopage)
- FileBird – WordPress Media Library Folders Organize thousands of WordPress media files into folders/ categories at ease
- Loggedin – Limit Active Logins Set a limit for the number of active logins a subscriber/user can have
- WP Hide Admin Bar This plugin will help to hide admin-bar based on selected user roles. Leaky Paywall creates 'Subscriber' roles
- Remove Dashboard Access Limit Dashboard access to admins only, admins + editors, admins + editors + authors, or limit by specific capability
- Simple History Simple History shows recent changes made within WordPress. The plugin works as a log/history/audit log/version history of the most important events that occur in WordPress
- Recently Registered This plugin adds a new, sortable, column to the users lists, which shows the date and time they registered. This is good for showing the original site registration date of a user as the subscription start date will be different
- Post Expirator Allows the user to set expiration dates for posts, pages, Ad Dropper ads and other post types.
- Slack Notifications by dorzki For general WordPress notifications. Light and customizable WordPress plugin to integrate your site with Slack. Want to be notified of new subscriptions and cancellations? Use our Slack extension
- Related Posts by Taxonomy: Want to insert a simple related article link mid content? This plugin great for helping casual visitors stay on your site longer. Works well with Insert Post Ads or our Ad Dropper to auto-insert links or ads
- Frontend reset password - Let subscribers reset their passwords from the front end of your site so they don't see the default WP admin screen
- Popup Anything - Publishers have used this plugin to set up a login box on a pop-up.
- Redirection - A helpful plugin for creating vanity urls. For example: to forward mydomain.com/all-access to mydomain.com/register/?level_id=5
- WP-SmartCrop - WP SmartCrop allows you to set the ‘focal point’ of any image, right from the media library, then crops your images to match your css rules (no more squished aspect ratios), keeping that focal point, not only in view, but as near as possible to a ‘rule of thirds’ position in the image. The results are powerful, composed photos at any screen size, with any constraints.
- Sunshine Photo Cart - A free WordPress e-commerce plugin to sell photos on your own website. Easily create galleries, sell to clients, and make more money than ever.
- Termageddon - Policies for your website that update when the laws change.
- Compress PDF - PDF compression tool (for flipbooks). Target 5-12 MB
- Login Customizer - Customize/brand your login screen
- You can use this plugin to selectively change any translatable string on a site. Ex: For example, you could change Subscribers to Members https://wordpress.org/plugins/say-what/
- Wicked Block Conditions - restrict and allow access to WP blocks based on subscriber role
- Lightweight news theme: https://www.wpzoom.com/themes/prime-news/
- Content No Cache - prevent caching on specific content. Works great with Ad Dropper shortcodes for dynamic messaging and ads
- Responsive Pricing Table - Create custom pricing cards with a pricing toggle switch with this premium plugin ($19)
- AccessiCart - a managed accessability solution for your website
- A/B testing https://www.optimizely.com/
- Affiliate marketing with Leaky Paywall https://www.getambassador.com/affiliate-marketing-software
- Ad networks: Raptive, Publift and ezoic