There are many plug-ins intended solely to help you improve site management OR to help make a woo web developer’s life easier by providing utilities that make it quicker to perform specific WordPress functions. Here is a list of our favorite productivity plug-ins that will make you a WordPress and WooCommerce guru in fast order.
Activity Log by Activity Log Team
This plug-in lets you see exactly what people are doing on your site.
Asset Cleanup by Gabe Livan
“Asset CleanUp” scans your page and detects all the assets that are loaded. All you have to do when editing a page/post is just to select the CSS/JS that are not necessary to load, this way you reduce the bloat and speed up page loads. You can decrease the number of HTTP requests loaded, eliminate render-blocking resources by unloading useless CSS/JS, minify CSS/JS, etc.
Code Profiler by NinTechNet LTD
This plug-in helps you to measure the performance of all your plugins and themes at the PHP level and to quickly find any potential problem in your WordPress installation. It makes it very simple to locate any bottleneck problem in your themes or plugins in order to solve it and speed up your website.
Database Cleaner: Clean, Optimize & Repair by Jordy Meow
Designed to handle the largest of databases, Database Cleaner is built on years of experience and offers a user-friendly interface. You’ll be able to easily navigate everything and the program uses uses asynchronous requests to tackle database clean up slowly and steadily, helping to avoid errors and timeouts.
Google Listings & Ads by WooCommerce
Google Listings & Ads makes it simple to showcase your products to shoppers across Google. Whether you’re brand new to digital advertising or a marketing expert, you can expand your reach and grow your business, for free and with ads. Sync your store with Google to list products for free, run paid ads, and track performance straight from your store dashboard.
Google PageSpeed Insights by Google
Google will give you real page load times for a number of different metrics. If your site is popular enough to have data in the Chrome User Experience report, you’ll also be able to see real-user “field data” (this is the same data that’s available in WebPageTest).
GTmetrix for WordPress by GTmetrix
This WordPress plugin actively keeps track of your site performance and sends you alerts if your site falls below certain criteria. You can schedule analysis reports on a daily, weekly or monthly basis, and receive alerts about the status of your site all from within your WordPress Admin. NOTE: This tool may no longer be supported by its developer and may not work as expected on the latest WP version.
Health Check & Troubleshooting by WordPress.org Community
This plug-in will perform a number of checks on your WordPress installation to detect common configuration errors and known issues, and also allows plugins and themes to add their own checks.
Inactive Logout by Deepen Bajracharya
Use this plugin to automatically terminate idle user sessions to protect your clients from leaving unattended sessions open and possibly exposing sensitive information. You can configure the idle timeout period and can also display a custom message to idle user sessions, alerting them that the session is about to end. Automatically logging out users also helps with server resources and eliminates users leaving their cart open for several days at a time.
Login As User by Web357
This plug-in allows admins to troubleshoot a specific user who is experiencing problems when logged into their respective account or for quickly confirming the user behavior of the ecommerce site. With one click, an admin logs in as the external user and can problem solve or verify web site functionality for different logged in user roles.
Maintenance by WebFactory Ltd
plug-in will add a splash page to your site that lets visitors know your site is down for maintenance or for a coming soon page. Offers many customization options to the maintenance page being displayed.
My Custom Functions by Space X-Chimp
Easily and safely add custom PHP code (e.g. Action Hooks) to your WordPress website, directly out of the WordPress Admin Area, without the need to have an external editor.
OptinMonster by OptinMonster Popup Team
Popular popup builder and marketing plugin that helps you create beautiful popup campaigns, email subscription forms, sticky announcement bars like hello bar, gamified spin-a-wheel opt-n forms, and other types of interactive popups for your site in minutes, not hours!
Query Monitor by John Blackburn
Query Monitor is the developer tools panel for WordPress. It enables debugging of database queries, PHP errors, hooks and actions, block editor blocks, enqueued scripts and stylesheets, HTTP API calls, and more.
Perfmatters by Kinsta
Plug-in increases the speed of your site by reducing HTTP requests, disabling plugins, stripping out code, and optimizing your database.
Kinsta boasts a minimal and easy to use dashboard with one-click toggles (no admin menu clutter). You don’t have to be tech-savvy to use Perfmatters.
Pingdom by SolarWinds
Pingdom offers cost-effective and reliable uptime and performance monitoring for your website. The tests are designed to help make your site faster by identifying what about a webpage is fast, slow, too big, and so on.
reCaptcha by BestWebSoft by BestWebSoft
reCaptcha plugin is an effective security solution that protects your WordPress website forms from spam entries while letting real people pass through with ease. It can be used for login, registration, password recovery, comments, popular contact forms, and other. reCAPTCHA Version 3, Version 2, Invisible are included.
Redirection by John Godley
plug-in manages 301 redirections, keeps track of 404 errors, and tidy up any loose ends your site may have. This can help reduce errors and improve your site ranking.
String Locator by InstaWP
plug-in allows a woo developer to scan through theme and plug-in files looking for text strings in order to identify what plug-in or PHP code is involved.
UpdraftPlus by Updraftplus.com
UpdraftPlus simplifies backups and restoration. Backup your files and database backups onto the cloud and restore with a single click!
Ultimate Member ReCaptcha by Ultimate Member
Protect your website from spam and integrate Google reCAPTCHA into your Ultimate Member forms.
WebPageTest by CatchPoint
An advanced WordPress speed test tool that lets you run up to nine tests at the same time and then analyze the median value, which can help you eliminate single-test variability. This tool provides a variety to webpage tests like DNS, TCP, TLS, and more.
WPIDE – File Manager & Code Editor by XplodedThemes
plug-in provides WordPress with an advanced file manager that lets you copy, move, duplicate, download, upload, edit, delete, and preview files without FTP or cPanel access. WPIDE also provides an advanced code editor / file editor featuring auto-completion of both WordPress and PHP functions with reference, syntax highlighting, line numbers, tabbed editing, automatic backup, image editor & much more!
WP Maintenance Mode by Themeisle
plug-in will add a splash page to your site that lets visitors know your site is down for maintenance or for a coming soon page.
WP Staging Backup by WP-Staging
WP STAGING is a professional all in one backup, staging, and duplicator plugin. Create an exact copy and backup of your website with minimal effort! Perfect for staging, backup, or development purposes. This backup and staging tool creates a clone of your website into a subfolder or subdomain of your main WordPress installation. The cloned site includes an entire copy of your database for pushing & migrating plugins and themes to the live site, creating a backup and uploading a backup to a separate cloud provider.
FileBird – WordPress Media Library Folder & File Manager by NinjaTeam
plug-in that enhances the WordPress media manager by allowing you to create an entire Folder Manager system within WordPress. Organize thousands of images into categories/folders. Drag and Drop to upload/move files into folders and to rearrange folders. Right click mouse options allow you to also quickly create, rename, or delete folders.
Yoast SEO by Yoast BV
plug-in that helps your site perform better in search engines like Google. It also gives you the tools to bring your content to the highest standards of SEO and overall readability.
