Benable — create shareable lists of things you recommend!
E.g., products you love, local businesses, travel recs - you can add anything to a Benable list!
Ultimate WordPress Toolkit: Themes and Plugins to Launch an Amazing Lifestyle Blog
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items This list of WordPress themes, security, speed, SEO, affiliate marketing plugins and more are my go-to resources for building a great looking and robust lifestyle blog or niche website.
Kadence is an easy to use and customizable theme. Kadence AI will help you design a great looking website in no time at all. You can build a reasonable site using just Kadence's free plan.
Kadence WP | Free and Premium WordPress Themes & Plugins
Kadence Blocks makes it easy to insert a done for you aesthetic looking block to your blog posts without needing to code. It gives your site a professional look without needing to code.
Kadence Blocks - Create Stunning WordPress Websites. Free and paid options.
I've bought numerous WordPress themes from Themeforest/Envato for my lifestyle blogs. I'll look at the demos and read the reviews and then buy it, and then customize the theme to suit my niche topic. The themes look great already right out of the box...
WordPress Themes on Themeforest (part of Envato Market)
The WordPress themes on Creative Market are very aesthetic! They're great for lifestyle type blogs.
Creative Market WordPress Themes
Etsy have a wide range of beautiful WordPress themes to buy. Have a look at the screenshots and reviews to find the theme that suits your needs!
Wordpress Themes on Etsy
Provides firewalls, malware scans, and login protection. There's a free version.
Wordfence: WordPress Security Plugin. There's a free version available.
I always create a backup using UpdraftPlus before any major updates, just in case.
UpdraftPlus: The World's Most Trusted WordPress Backup and Migration Plugin
Make your WordPress website faster and boost your Google PageSpeeed score to help maximise user experience.
Speed up Your WordPress Website with WP Rocket
LightSpeed Cache is a great plugin to help speed up your site's performance for free.
LiteSpeed Cache for WordPress - Free
For optimizing content, SEO and readability, helps discoverability of your website.
Yoast SEO: SEO optimize your content
An alternative to Yoast, popular for its user-friendliness
Rank Math - WordPress SEO Made Easy
I often install Google Site Kit on my sites to get stats and insights into my site without leaving the dashboard.
Site Kit by Google – Analytics, Search Console, AdSense, Speed
Easily set up a SSL (secure sockets layer) certificate for your site to secure your site. Your web hosting company may also offer a free SSL for your site/s.
Really Simple Security – Simple and Performant Security (formerly Really Simple SSL)
CookieYes provides a cookie consent solution for GDRP & Compliance for your website. There's a free option available.
CookieYes Cookie Consent Solution
Easily create a contact form on your website.
WPForms Lite – Easy Form Builder for WordPress – Contact Forms, Payment Forms, Surveys, & More
Change the default admin login url from “wp-admin” to a something of your choosing for a bit more security.
WPS Hide Login – WordPress plugin
Compress and optimize your images with ShortPixel to speed up image downloads on your site for a better user experience.
ShortPixel: Optimizes images to improve site speed
Optimize and track your affiliate links and revenue with Lasso. Lasso will also alert you to new affiliate commission opportunities. The displays look great too. I'm using Startup version at the moment.
Lasso - Excellent for affiliate linking and revenue optimization. Free version available.
Affiliatable is technically a cloud-based app rather than a plugin, but you can definitely use Affiliatable on your WordPress websites. You can create nice looking product tables and boxes. You can't bring through prices though, but you can create a ...
Affiliatable - Create Comparison Tables & Boxes That Convert!
I like how you can choose from a number of photos available on a product listing, not just the featured image. Plus you can choose your image size, rather than be limited by a very small image size. It's 100% Amazon compliant. Appsumo have a Lifetime Deal on AMZImage atm for $59 to use across unlimited sites, making it a great deal!
AMZ Image - Add Amazon Images to Your Website Easily using Amazon's API
For those who want a step-by-step tutorial on how to set up a website that makes money with affiliate marketing, then Ferdy has posted up a 3 hour tutorial that is up-to-date and super beginner friendly to follow!
Make $1000 Per Month with Affiliate Marketing for Beginners! Ferdy Korpershoek Tutorial on YouTube