I’m practicing to become a WP developer, I’ve been using PHP and a bit CSS and JS to make parent themes in which I use to make child themes for specific sites. But now I’m looking to see which plugins I should make my themes compatible for:
Woocommerce
Stripe payment
Shipping and tax
PayPal payments
Price based on country
Yoast SEO or SEO framework (which one should I use or should I use both)
Jetpack / google analytics (which one do you think is better)
GTranslate (from what I’ve tested it’s the best free translating plugin)
Meta pixel
Google listing
Updraft (back up pluggin)
Do you think this is too many plugins for an optimised website? If so what should I cut? Also am I missing any obvious plugins I should incorporate? Such as a cache plugin.
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I would get rid of jetpack/google analytics and meta pixel. You could have fields in your theme for these using custom post meta or ACF (advanced custom field) fields with a Theme Options page.
Use yoast.
But no, it’s not too many plugins. It only matters if the plugins are helpful. I’ve seen themes that require 20+ plugins.
But I’m of the mindset that less is more!