My brother and I both love WordPress, and between the two of us have over 20 years of experience using it on a daily basis. Because of this, we now have two WordPress plugins we are excited to develop full-time. Both were originally created for our own sites to use, and eventually, we decided to sell them so that everyone could benefit. Sometimes the best products are born out of need.
If you’re a developer or simply curious about what we’ve learned throughout the plugin development process, make sure to check out our post on what we learned from building WordPress plugins and how to handle VAT.
Perfmatters
I have personally worked in the content delivery network (CDN) industry and am now excited to be working in the high-performance WordPress hosting sector. I have been knee-deep in web performance for years and have optimized thousands of sites. I have also published hundreds of articles pertaining to WordPress optimization and performance, on sites such as Smashing Magazine, Moz, and Kinsta.
Our first plugin, Perfmatters, is a lightweight WordPress performance plugin that basically includes all the hacks we’ve used and compiled over the years to gain the extra edge over the competition. Get all the secret sauce from our sites and sleepless coding nights with a few clicks.
Some of its features include:
- Ability to disable scripts, queries, and inline CSS/JS on a per post/page basis (Scripts Manager).
- Defer JavaScript to fix render-blocking resources.
- Delay third-party scripts and pixels (JS) on user interaction along with a timeout.
- Automatically remove unused CSS.
- Lazy load your images, inline and CSS background images, iframes, YouTube videos, and more.
- Automatically preload critical images or utilize fetch priority to help decrease Largest Contentful Paint (LCP).
- Adding missing width and height attributes to fix Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS).
- Preload resources and prefetch links for instantaneous load times.
- Optimize your database (revisions, spam, trash, transients, and more).
- Host your Google Fonts locally.
- Host Google Analytics 4 locally (includes 1.6 KB minimal analytics option).
- CDN rewrite (hook up your favorite CDN provider).
- Change your WordPress login URL (decrease bot traffic and protect your site).
- Disable and or limit WordPress revisions.
- Disable site-wide WooCommerce scripts.
- Disable emojis, self-pingbacks, XML-RPC, embeds, and more.
- Change frequency and or disable Heartbeat API.
- Change the autosave interval.
- Multisite support.
- Support straight from the developers of the plugin.
And much more. Use the discount code: WOORKUP for a limited time to get 15% off!
Novashare
Our second plugin, Novashare, is a fast and lightweight social sharing plugin that won’t slow down your site. Novashare was developed from the ground up with a performance-focused approach to increase your shares.
Some of its features include:
- Share buttons and counts. Supports all post types, including custom post types and archives.
- Under 4 KB on the front-end, inline SVG icons, custom tables, and scripts don’t load where they shouldn’t.
- We take advantage of native WordPress styling for the UI. No wasted time learning new control panels.
- We love the block editor and have blocks for every feature (share buttons, follow buttons, click to tweet) that enable on-the-fly previews and customization. Still using the Classic Editor? No worries; Novashare has also has customizable shortcodes.
- Responsive and works on all devices, from desktops to mobile phones.
- Match your site’s branding in a matter of seconds.
- Analytics and link shortening.
- Multisite support.
- Pinterest hover buttons on your images.
- Share count recovery for HTTPS and domain migrations, URL changes, and new permalink structures.
- Support straight from the developers of the plugin.
And much more. You can see it in action on our blog posts on woorkup. You can also check out the Novashare demo. Use the discount code: WOORKUP for a limited time to get 15% off!