There are some incredibly useful plugins out there, and while I’ve never been one to install a plugin for the sake of it, here are my 10 essential plugins that I install on almost every site I make.
WordPress gives you three different image sizes to set in the media settings of the dashboard, but sometimes it’s handy to add a few more to your theme to use around your website.
By default WordPress will insert /category/ into the URL for all of your category links. With just a quick change in your dashboard settings you can easily remove this.
On occasion you might want to get the content from a specific post and display it on one of your pages. Here’s how it can be done using some of WordPress’ inbuilt functions and PHP.