Extending WordPress with plugins
WordPress is open-source software, and its online community has contributed many free (and paid) plugins that extend the functionality of the standard “out-of-the-box” feature set.
We’ve partnered with the best plugin and theme developers, and resurrected others that have been neglected, to provide you with the best supported, actively maintained plugins for your WordPress website.
Developed In-House
PantryPress
Adds custom post types and taxonomies to WordPress for Products, Aisles, Shelves, Order Forms, and Clients, including full integration and extensions of Ultimate Member (required). PantryPress also includes a co-branded license for MyChoice, available on the web and coming soon to iOS, Android, and Windows.
RentalPress
This plugin adds custom post types and automations to WordPress for listing and managing rental units/items, online reservations and bill-pay, as well as auto-pay via Stripe Subscriptions. User accounts allow for easy management of contracts and agreements, as well as access control based on bill status.
MarketPress
Originally developed by WPMU DEV (now retired), and resurrected with our ongoing development, MarketPress Pro adds custom post types and taxonomies to WordPress for products, product categories, orders, and customers. Extended permissions allow customers to place orders, review order history, and manage payment/personal info without modifying the standard WordPress permissions.
CoursePress
Originally developed by WPMU DEV (now retired), and resurrected with our ongoing development, CoursePress Pro adds custom post types and taxonomies to WordPress for classes, instructors, class categories, venues, organizers, and more. Extended permissions allow students to update profiles, join classes, and view content without modifying the standard WordPress permissions.
Canva Library (coming soon)
Easily import and edit designs using the Canva editor, right inside any post or page! Our Canva Library plugin lets you select any designs from your Canva library, including assets from your brand folder. This plugin is included with our upcoming Canva licenses, available early 2022 on the Hub.
Developed by Our Partners
TL;DR: We’ve partnered with these fantastic developers to get you their plugins at discounted rates.
Forminator Pro
Not your typical form-making plugin, Forminator Pro is the easy-to-use WordPress form builder for every website and situation. Here’s what you can expect:
- Accept payments with Stripe and PayPal integrations [Stripe subscriptions coming soon!]
- Custom user registration and login forms (with Multisite support)
- Advanced forms with eSignature, calculations, conditional logic, dynamic pre-filling, and multi-step options
- Drive more engagement with interactive quizzes and polls
- Spam protection with Honeypot, Akismet, and Google ReCAPTCHA
- Unlimited notifications with email routing and conditional emails
- Integrated submission management with scheduled exporting
Hummingbird Pro
Your website’s speed matters. Get Hummingbird Pro for improved website performance, automated reporting, and fixing your Google PageSpeed with its full WordPress speed optimization suite. You’ll get:
- Automated and white-labeled performance reports
- Complete cache suite to dramatically speed up the load time
- Gzip file compression
- Uptime and server response time monitoring
- Blazing fast UNLIMITED 45 point CDN to serve up to 2x optimized files
- Advanced asset optimization without any coding knowledge
Hustle Pro
Running standout marketing campaigns just got quicker and easier. Create UNLIMITED opt-ins, pop-ups, slide-ins, social shares, and embeds – all designed to drive results and help create a following. With Hustle Pro you get:
- UNLIMITED opt-ins, pop-ups, slide-ins, and embeds
- Beautiful and responsive designer templates
- Easy integration with your favorite email providers
- Intelligent behaviors, triggers, and conditions
- Bypass ad blockers
- Social share across all your pages and posts
- Block spam with Google ReCAPTCHA
GiveWP + Extension Pass
GiveWP is the perfect online fundraising platform to increase your online donations, manage donors, and gain insight on your effort — all from directly within your WordPress website.
- Customizable donation forms and fields
- Powerful and complete donor management system
- Insightful income reporting built-in
- Custom form fields, currencies, fund options
- Flexible recurring donations (daily, weekly, monthly, or annual renewal)
- Easy donation payments with credit, debit, mobile, and ACH
- Configurable fundraising goals, meters
- Credit card fee recovery, per payment method
- All other current and future GiveWP add-ons
Your monthly license from Smashstar Media includes access to all current and future add-ons (extensions) from GiveWP.
Ultimate Member + Extension Pass
Ultimate Member offers a range of features including user profiles, member directories, user registration/login, user role editing, content restriction.
Monthly license from Smashstar Media includes all current and futures add-ons/extensions.
Smush Pro
Get Smush Pro and bulk optimize every image you’ve ever added to your site with one-click and fix your Google PageSpeed with the best image optimizer WordPress has ever known. You’ll get:
- Smush unlimited images with a click
- Super Smush – 2x compression
- Backup original images
- Optimize large images (no size limits)
- Blazing fast 45 point image CDN
- Automatic resize and scale
Advanced Custom Fields Pro + ACF Extensions
Ultimate Member offers a range of features including user profiles, member directories, user registration/login, user role editing, content restriction.
Monthly license from Smashstar Media includes all current and futures add-ons/extensions.
Defender Pro
Hackers, brute forcers, and malicious bots are no match for Defender’s mighty WordPress security shields and cloaking technology. Arm your sites with:
- Scheduled security scans
- Login protection and masking
- Audit Logging
- Two-factor authentication
- Blocklist monitoring
- Vulnerability reports
- Changed file restore and repair
SmartCrawl Pro
SmartCrawl Pro gives you everything you need for fast, powerful WordPress SEO. Start ranking higher with industry-leading features like:
- Automated SEO checkups and reports
- Sitemap auto-generator and search engine notifications
- Titles and meta descriptions
- Full support for default schema.org types
- Site crawls, scans, and reports
- Automatic linking
- 301 Redirects
- Advanced social media sharing
Beehive Pro
Turn on the full power of site analytics. With Beehive Pro you can quickly and easily add Google Analytics statistics, graphs, and user metrics to your sites. Enjoy:
- Quick and easy Google Analytics connection
- Google Tag Manager integration
- Customize data and dashboards to suit
- Multisite analytics reports
- Monitor posts, pages, and referring links
- Track personal data and comply with GDPR
Snapshot Pro
Backing up your sites just got easier and more convenient. Take advantage of Snapshot Pro’s automated site backups, which are stored remotely where only you can access, manage, and restore them. Enjoy:
- Safe and secure Incremental backups
- Automated backups set to your schedule
- 10GB WPMU DEV cloud storage
- Store backups on remote destinations
- Instant email notifications
Snapshot Pro is preconfigured on all MWP Cloud websites, with nightly backups and an option for off-site duplication to Google Drive, Dropbox, or S3-compatible storage destinations.
Coming soon: Duplication to local/remote sFTP
Branda Pro
Backing up your sites just got easier and more convenient. Take advantage of Snapshot Pro’s automated site backups, which are stored remotely where only you can access, manage, and restore them. Enjoy:
- Safe and secure Incremental backups
- Automated backups set to your schedule
- 10GB WPMU DEV cloud storage
- Store backups on remote destinations
- Instant email notifications
Snapshot Pro is preconfigured on all MWP Cloud websites, with nightly backups and an option for off-site duplication to Google Drive, Dropbox, or S3-compatible storage destinations.
Coming soon: Duplication to local/remote sFTP
Shipper Pro
WordPress migration has never been this easy. Shipper Pro is the super transporter that securely moves your entire site to any location in a matter of clicks. Enjoy:
- Safe and secure API Migration
- Fast and convenient Package Migration
- Automatic ‘find and replace’
- Migrate entire multisite network
- Migrate subsite from a network to a single site
- Restore anywhere
Looking at a WordPress plug-in that’s not on this list? Let us know and we’ll reach out to the developer to explore possible partnerships and/or affiliation to get you a discount, as well as ongoing, priority support.
*Smashstar Media participates in the various affiliate programs, included but not limited to GiveWP, GoDaddy Pro. This means that we earn fees by linking to their products or services on our Website. The fact that we participate in these affiliate programs means that we are compensated for the inclusion of links that are clicked on and our reviews. Smashstar Media only promotes or partners with organizations and companies that share ideals as expressed in our Mission Statement.