{"id":4211,"date":"2020-04-06T15:25:11","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T22:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/codedcommerce.com\/?p=4211"},"modified":"2025-04-26T19:04:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T02:04:45","slug":"essential-woocommerce-plugins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/codedcommerce.com\/essential-woocommerce-plugins\/","title":{"rendered":"Essential WooCommerce plugins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’ve often talked about the problems of running too many plugins<\/a>. Now it’s time to talk about the best and most essential plugins to use on a WooCommerce site. Here’s the 14<\/strong> plugins that I run on my own site. I’m definitely more code snippet<\/strong> heavy on my own site since I do quite a bit of custom development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. AMP<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Code Snippets<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Custom Fonts<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Google XML Sitemaps<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Gutenberg<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Jetpack by WordPress.com<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. Lazy Load for Videos<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  8. OneSignal Push Notifications<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  9. Redirection<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  10. SendGrid<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  11. UpdraftPlus – Backup\/Restore<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  12. User Switching<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  13. WooCommerce<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  14. WP-Optimize – Clean, Compress, Cache<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Within JetPack I use the following modules. JetPack modules can be toggled from this semi-hidden screen:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    WP Admin > Jetpack > Settings > Debug > Access the full list of Jetpack modules available on your site<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    1. Contact Form<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    2. Enhanced Distribution<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    3. Infinite Scroll<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    4. Protect<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    5. Publicize<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    6. Sharing<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    7. Subscriptions<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    8. Widget Visibility<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      On most of the sites I build I’m likely to use a handful of the official WooCommerce.com extensions<\/a>, particularly the official payment gateways<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Here’s some useful code snippets I use on this site. Browse my full gallery of code snippets<\/a> and the official WooCommerce code snippets archives<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      1. Add-to-cart redirection to checkout<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
      2. Calendly modal<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
      3. Change variation drop-downs to radio buttons<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
      4. Custom products tabs<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
      5. Disable Storefront product page zoom<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
      6. Empty cart when adding an item<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
      7. Font Awesome icons<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
      8. Google reviews short-code<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
      9. Hide added to cart message<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
      10. JetPack sign-up short code<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
      11. Load Google Analytics<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
      12. My Account contact form<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
      13. Notify customer registrations<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
      14. QualPay Checkout payment gateway<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
      15. Remove additional information field<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
      16. Remove items from My Account menu<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
      17. Remove product archives sorting<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
      18. Remove related products<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
      19. Remove storefront handheld navigation bar<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
      20. Remove Storefront header cart<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
      21. Rename add-to-cart<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
      22. Sets X-Frame-Options<\/code> header for PCI compliance scanners<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
      23. Short-code to display a WordPress text widget body<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
      24. Stop user enumerations for PCI scanner compliance<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
      25. Storefront blog excerpt<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
      26. Storefront custom footer links<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

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